Happened today

• 1373 - England and Portugal sign an alliance treaty that has never been broken.
• 1774 - Rhode Island is the first of the thirteen American colonies to outlaw the importation of slaves.
• 1878 - The Congress of Berlin begins.
• 1995 - President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in Polynesia.
• 2005 - Michael Jackson is declared not guilty for all the accusations concerning pedophilia.
  
  

Born Today

Thomas Young (1773)	Harry Shannon (1890)

Died Today

Matthew Garber (1977)	Jimmy Dean (2010)

Today's quote

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

~Thomas Young

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