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2011: Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

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It happened today – this day in history – February 13

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1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine