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July 9, 2026
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Today in History
1691 Charles Perrault's poem "The Marquise of Salusses or the Patience of Griselidis" is read aloud at the French Academy and later attached to his "Tales of Mother Goose" (1697)
1937 General Franco's Nationalist troops conquer Santander during the Spanish Civil War
1956 Yankees announce the purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from Kansas City
1967 Dutch Second Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
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1673 Conrad Michael Schneider, German organist, kapellmeister, and composer, born in Ansbach, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1752)
1792 Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan politician and nationalist, 2nd President of Uruguay (1835-38), born in Montevideo, Río de la Plata (d. 1857)
1921 Ben Bradlee, American editor, journalist, and newspaper executive (Newsweek; Washington Post), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2014)
1928 Yvette Vickers [Vedder], American actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman; Attack of the Giant Leeches), and Playboy playmate (July 1959), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. c. 2010)
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“A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
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