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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

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Weird history on September 2

1666 Oddly true
A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.
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1859 Oddly true
The Carrington Event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record.
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1792 Oddly true
During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1921

The Brunswick news (Brunswick, Ga.;[Brunswick, Georgia?]), September 2, 1921

Page 6 · mentions "ghost" · printed on this very day

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