It happened today – this day in history – April 24

1184BC: The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse 1731: Death of novelist Daniel Defoe. 1793: French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat

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It happened today – this day in history – March 5

1133: Birth of Henry II. 1496: Henry VII grants John Cabot a commission to explore for new lands. 1558: Smoking

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It happened today – this day in history – April 24

1731: Death of novelist Daniel Defoe. 1801: First performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten”. 1872: Mt Vesuvius erupts in

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