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636
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Arabs took control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire | |
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1148
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Crusaders began siege of Damascus during Second Crusade only to abandon it a couple weeks later on July 28 | |
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1215
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Frederick II was crowned King of the Romans aka King of the Germans in Aachen | |
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1579
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Francis Drake departed San Francisco to cross the Pacific Ocean | |
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1798
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Napoleon Bonaparte captured Alexandria, Egypt | |
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1827
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The first swimming pool in the United States opened in Boston, Massachusetts | |
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1829
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William Austin Burt patented the first typewriter in America | |
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1937
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Yale University announced the isolation of pituitary hormone | |
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