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• Year 1336 — Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.

• Year 1478 — The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High...

• Year 1564 — Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,...

• Year 1943 — The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.

• Year 1944 — Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

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