Events
- Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) is taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Catholic Church's list of prohibited books.
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“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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