534 BC - Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage (Source)
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"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins, and that ye share not in her plagues."
1174 - Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain (Source)
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1644 - John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship (Source)
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John Milton: Christians and Classical Learning, by Pastor Kevin Boling
1733 - The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies (Source)
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Reparations for Slavery, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Exposing and Opposing Slavery Today, by Dr. Peter Hammond
The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn't - zerohedge.com