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Happy Birthday to Dr. Bettany Hughes, historian and research fellow at King’s College London.
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2022-05-14

May 2, 1726: Voltaire was released from the Bastille and sent into exile in England.
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2022-05-02

April 14, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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2022-04-14

March 31, 1901: Edgar Cayce gave his first psychic reading and diagnosis (of himself).
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2022-03-31

Happy Birthday to Stephen Salisbury III, Founder of the Worcester Art Museum, born on this day in 1835.
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2022-03-31

March 26, 1892: Walt Whitman, American poet, died at the age of 72 at is home in Camden, New Jersey.
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2022-03-26

March 20, 1853: Albert Pike joined the Scottish Rite when he received the degrees from Albert G. Mackey.
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2022-03-20

March 17, 1959: The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet. They travelled for two weeks without stopping, before finding asylum in India.
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2022-03-17