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A bit of February 8th history…
1587 - Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle, aged 44, after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot (pictured)
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper in London
1887 - The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the US to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments; those who accepted allotments and lived seperately from the tribe were granted US citizenship
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William Boyce
1942 - Congress advises FDR that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn’t oppose the US war effort
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