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Viking Leader Canute the Great Died.
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The Eighth and final crusade occurs on this date.
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Edward I crowned King of England.
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Pope Boniface VIII decrees the Unam Sanctum, declaring that there is only one holy person on earth, the pope.
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Christopher Columbus notes on tobacco growing on the Carribean Islands.
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Martin Luther nails 95 theses on Castle Church door in Wittenburg, Germany.
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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England after her sister, Queen Mary, dies.
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King James of England learns of gunpowder plot to kill him.
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Samuel Depys reports on first blood transfusion.
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US President Woodrow Wilson says the United States will never attack another country.
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Stock Market Crashes, plunging US into the Great Depression
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Nazis Launch Kristallnacht, a raid on Jewish shops to demean them.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt re-elected to 4th term in office.
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Piltdown Man hoax discovered.
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UN condemns aparthied in South Africa, but refuses to get involved.
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President John F. Kennedy Assasinated in Dallas, TX as he rode in his motorcade. The President was just 46 years old and was succeded by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Emperor Theodisius bans all pagan worship throughout the Roman Empire.