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1521: The Diet of Worms, during which Martin Luther would be asked to recant his heresies, begins.
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| Aloysius is actually eating worms. I was going to tell him, but I couldn't stop laughing. | |
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1820: Russian explorers discover Antarctica.
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| It reminds me so much of home! | |
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1896: Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding, for driving at a rate of 8 miles per hour.
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| If I was speeding, then you must have had to speed faster to catch me! | |
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| Yes; I had to walk rather more briskly than I should have liked! | |
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