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Born this day in 1818, Maria Mitchell was the first professional woman astronomer in the United States, noted for her discovery that sunspots are whirling vertical cavities and not, as previously thought, clouds.
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King Henry III of France was stabbed this day in 1589 by Jacques Clément, a Jacobin friar, and died the next day after acknowledging his Bourbon ally, Henry of Navarre (Henry IV), a Huguenot, as his successor.
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1944: The final entry was recorded in the diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who spent two years in hiding during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.
1940: John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept, a critical account of the British military that became a best seller, was published.
1876: Colorado was admitted to the Union, becoming the 38th U.S. state.
1714: Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died.
10 : Roman Emperor Claudius I was born in Lugdunum, Gaul (now Lyon, France).
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