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Events (350 years ago today): 1675 – Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.[9]
Events (100 years ago today): 1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
Births (550 years ago today): 1475 – Pope Leo X (died 1521)[21]
Births (300 years ago today): 1725 – George Mason, American lawyer and politician (died 1792)
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (died 1962)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2021)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – James Sullivan, American politician (died 2012)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Lee Wiley, American singer (born 1908)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Nihal Ats?z, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1905)
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