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The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.
Year 1028
Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
Year 1330
Battle of Posada: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
Year 1555
The Second Statute of Repeal re-establishes Roman Catholicism in England under Queen Mary I.
Year 1892
William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Year 1893
Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
Year 1905
Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly-independent country.
Year 1912
King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
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