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Events (800 years ago today): 1225 – Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of Dominican friars to Morocco.[1]
Births (200 years ago today): 1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (died 1897)[14]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2013)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Nat Hentoff, American historian, author, and journalist (died 2017)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (died 2015)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
Deaths (950 years ago today): 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (born 1027)
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