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It happened today – this day in history – August 31
12AD: Birth of Caligula, third emperor of Rome. 1310: German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia 1422: Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine months on the death of Henry V. 1688: Pilgrim’s Progress author John Bunyan dies …