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Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says

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Headline 11 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on May 24

1595 First ever
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
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1830 First ever
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
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1689 Oddly true
The Act of Toleration became law, granting freedom of worship to English nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics.
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