On this day …

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  • In 1541, the city of Santiago was founded in Chile by Pedro de Valdivia.
  • In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, after claiming the throne of England for nine days, was beheaded for treason.
  • In 1733, James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia.
  • In 1855, Michigan State University was founded.
  • In 1909, the NAACP was founded.
  • In 1915, the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place.
  • In 1974, Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • In 1994, thieves stole Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream” from the National Gallery of Norway.