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235 - Saint Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

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496 - Saint Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.

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1495 - Birth of John Bale England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan).

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1555 - Georgius Agricola mineralogist, dies in Germany at age 61.

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1620 - Myles Standish leads a party of Pilgrims ashore (at Provincetown).

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1624 - Jakob Bohme German philosophical mystic, dies.

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1654 - Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia.

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1694 - Birth of Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] in France; thinker, author.

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1783 - Pilstre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make first free balloon flight.

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1785 - Birth of William Beaumont surgeon (studied digestion).

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