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rockylizard


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Gday...

583  -     Today is the feast day of Brendan the Navigator, one of the early Irish monastic saints. 

1770  -   Marie Antoinette marries Louis Auguste, who later becomes King Louis XVI of France. 

1891  -   Henry Lawson's iconic poem, "Freedom On the Wallaby", is published for the first time.

1943  -   The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which the Jews mounted a concerted resistance against the Nazis, ends. 

1990  -   Jim Henson, creator of the 'Muppets', dies.

Cheers - John



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Keep up the good work John. Love the info you put up here. Perhaps you could put more each day. It always amazes me what happened on this day.

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