Today is the 318th day of 2020. There are 48 days left in the year.TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT1789: American inventor Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to a friend in which he says, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” OTHER EVENTS1511: Britain’s King Henry VIII joins Holy League and enters European politics.
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This Day in History — November 13
Today is the 316th day of 2018. There are 49 days left in the year.TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT1987: The American Medical Association issues a policy statement saying it is unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person has AIDS or is HIV-positive.OTHER EVENTS1554: Britain’s Parliament re-establishes Roman Catholicism.
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This Day in History – November 12
Today is the 211th day of 2018. There are 154 days left in the year.TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT1945: The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men on board survive in shark-infested waters. OTHER EVENTS
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This Day in History — July 30
Today is the 197th day of 2018. There are 168 days left in the year.TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT1979: Saddam Hussein takes over as president of Iraq. OTHER EVENTS1054: Pope Leo IX delivers an excommunication to the patriarch in Constantinople. The patriarch then excommunicates the pope, resulting in the East-West Schism, where Christianity is split into Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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This Day in History — July 16
