1845. William Ramsay died in Boone county, Mo., aged 104. Early a pioneer and Indian fighter in Kentucky.
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535 B. C. The foundations of the second temple at Jerusalem, laid by the children of the captivity, by permission of Cyrus, on the twenty-fifth of Sivan.
67 B. C. Titus Vespasian took the city of Joppa, in Galilee, by assault, on the 25th of the month Dæsius.
337. Constantine the Great died, having divided the empire among his children and nephews.
709. Aldhem, an English divine, died; said to have been the first Englishman who cultivated poetry.
1261. Alexander IV, pope, died. He bestowed the crown of Sicily on Edmund, son of the king of England, and attempted to unite the Greek and Latin churches.
1315. Edward Bruce invaded Ireland with 6000 men. "He fought many battles and gained them all," and was for a brief period king of the country.
1427. Alexander, lord of the isles, performed penance of submission to king James in his shirt and drawers, before the congregation of Holyrood church.