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Anniversaries [embed into YOUR website!]
Events (750 years ago today): 1276 – While in exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for Emperor Duanzong.
Events (100 years ago today): 1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
Births (300 years ago today): 1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh ornithologist and historian (died 1798)[18]
Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player (died 2019)
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Alan Carr, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager
Deaths (1050 years ago today): 976 – Aron, Bulgarian nobleman
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1926 – Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843)
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