It happened today – this day in history – December 2
1547: Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, who defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico, dies of pleurisy. 1697:
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It happened today – this day in history – July 22
1099: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem during the
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It happened today – this day in history – July 2
1566: Death of astrologist Nostradamus (Michel de Nostre-Dam) aged 62 (wonder if he saw that one coming). 1578: Martin Frobisher
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It happened today – this day in history – June 19
987: Louis IV is crowned king of France. 1306: The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Robert Bruce’s Scottish army at
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It happened today – this day in history – December 2
1697: St Paul’s Cathedral, designed by Christopher Wren after the previous one was destroyed in the Great Fire of London,
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