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A bit of January 6th history…
1649 - The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other “high crimes”
1838 - Samuel Morse and Alfred Vast demonstrate their telegraph machine
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st school (Montessori)
1912 - Geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener presents his controversial theory of continental drift in Frankfurt (pictured)
1929 - Mother Theresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work with India’s poorest
1941 - US President FDR makes his “Four Freedoms” speech - freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear
1987 - Astronomers at U of California see 1st sight of birth of galaxy
2016 - “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” breaks North American box office record, passing the $760.5 million taken by “Avatar”
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