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| 1746 |
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Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender, defeats the government forces at the battle of Falkirk in Scotland. |
| 1773 |
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Captain James Cook becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle. |
| 1819 |
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Simon Bolivar the “liberator” proclaims Columbia a republic. |
| 1893 |
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Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, is overthrown by a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Ballard Dole. |
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| 1912 |
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Robert Scott reaches the South Pole only a month after Roald Amundsen. |
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| 1706 |
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Benjamin Franklin, statesman, diplomat, scientist and inventor who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac. |
| 1860 |
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Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer famous for The Seagull and Three Sisters. |
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