On December 10, 1520, Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication.
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On this day in 1942, my great uncle Lt. Robert I. Kinsella was killed when his B-24 bomber (part of the 90th Bombardment Group, Heavy, 320th Bomber Squadron), flying from the Iron Range Airfield in Northern Queensland, Australia mysteriously went down in the South Pacific.
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