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| | June 1st |
 | | Henry Dandolo, doge of Venice, 1205, buried in St. Sophia, Constantinople; Jerome of Prague, religious reformer, burnt at Constance, 1416; Christopher Marlowe, dramatist, 1593; James Gillray, caricaturist, 1815, London; Sir David Wilkie, artist, died at sea off Gibraltar 1841; Pope Gregory XVI, 1846. |
 | | On the evening of that day the Earl of Chatham made known the news at the opera; and the audience, roused with excitement, called loudly for 'God save the king' and ‘Rule Britannia,' which was sung by Morichelli, Morelli, and Rovedicco, opera stars of that period. |
 | | It was about the middle of the twelfth century that a Benedictine monk, named Henry of Saltrey, established the wondrous and widespread reputation of an insignificant islet in a dreary lake, among the barren morasses and mountains of Donegal, by giving to the world the Legend of the Knight. |
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