It happened today – this day in history – December 29
1170: Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket is assassinated before the high alter of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights. 1778: British
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It happened today – this day in history – November 13
1002: Ethlered The Unready of England launches a massacre of Danish settlers. 1312: Birth of Edward III. 1553: Lady Jane
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It happened today – on this day in history – November 12
1793: Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. 1847: Sir James Young Simpson is the first to use
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It happened today – this day in history – October 24
1537: Jane Seymore, third wife of Henry VIII dies of post childbirth complications. 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia ends The
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It happened today – this day in history – October 12
1216: King John loses the crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons. 1492: Christopher Columbus
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