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It happened today – this day in history – September 8
1157: Birth of Richard I in Oxford. 1276: John XXI, the only Portuguese pope is elected. 1380: Moscow’s great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars at the Battle of Kulikovo. 1504: Michelangelo’s statue of David is …