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Whether it is major political events like the Boston Tea Party (December 16), or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (November 26), every event in history happened-of course-on one of 365 days.
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365: Your Date With History is a historical encyclopedia, mapping the highs and lows of human existence throughout the year. W.B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick have often deliberately picked stories to surprise - the day Rommel, the Desert Fox, committed suicide, the Duchess of Richmond's ball three days before the Battle of Waterloo, attended by the Duke of Wellington and immortalised in Vanity Fair, Nelson joining the Navy at the age of twelve, and many more. Each day is packed with historical facts and sometimes brief, often more lengthy, stories from a dizzying array of subjects.
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