August 7, 2009

  • ante diem vii ius sextiles 480 B.C. — Death of Leonidas at Thermopylae (according to one reckoning; not sure of where they got it) 44 A.D. — Death of Herod Agrippa (according to one reckoning; ditto) 117 A.D. — the emperor Trajan dies at Selinus (in Asia Minor) as a result of a stroke (some…

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