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Today in history

6 February 1685 - Death of King Charles II

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Secret messages from Mary Queen of Scots’ prison letters finally decoded​

Experts said the codebreakers’ work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years​




Secret letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I have finally been decoded.

According to the codebreakers, the letters, which were feared to be lost for centuries, reveal fascinating insights into her captivity.


Experts said the decoders’ work was the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago today – February 8th 1587.

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Key themes in the correspondence include complaints about her poor health and conditions in captivity, and her negotiations with Queen Elizabeth I for her release, which she believed were not conducted in good faith.

The 57 letters also express her distress when her son James (future King James I of England) is abducted in August 1582, her feeling they have been abandoned by France and her distrust of the queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, as well as her animosity towards Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and a favourite of Elizabeth.
 
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Shortly before her execution she embroidered the following words, the motto of her mother, Mary of Guise:

“En ma Fin gît mon Commencement”

"In my End is my Beginning"
 
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays, 1st nobel price winner physics,
died 100 years ago yesterday.
What was a revolution for modern medicine and science, had severe side effects,
in the eary days it was unknown how dangerous x-rays were, hundreds of medics and scientists
died of irradiation.

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Arthur Priest died today in 1937. He survived the sinkings of the Titanic, the Asturias, the Alcantara, Britannic and the Donegal. He ended up ashore in Southhampton as he claimed, "no one wished to sail with him after these disasters."

He died of pneumonia.

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1790: The Society of Friends (Quakers) presents a petition to Congress calling for the abolition of slavery.

1929: The Lateran Treaty is signed by Mussolini and the Holy See, recognizing Vatican City as a sovereign state. At a mere 109 acres, it became the smallest nation in the world.
 
On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden
reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing at least 25,000 people.
Despite the horrendous scale of destruction, it arguably accomplished little strategically,
since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender.

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1633: Called to trial by the Inquisition, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome ready to explain his belief that the earth revolves around the sun. He was compelled to recant the view, and was placed under house arrest until his death in 1642.

1826: The American Temperance Society (later renamed the American Temperance Union) is founded in Boston to promote total (but voluntary) abstinence from distilled liquor. Among the 16 founders were Protestant clergymen.
 
1876 - inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The U. S. Supreme Court eventually ruled that Bell was the rightful inventor
1924 - in New York, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was formally renamed the International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM
1929 - the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in a Chicago garage as 7 rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down
1967 - Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" at Atlantic Records in New York
 
270: According to tradition, Valentine, a priest in Rome during the reign of Claudius II, is beheaded along the Flaminian Way. One explanation for Valentine's subsequent relationship to the romantic holiday is this: Claudius, seeking to more easily recruit soldiers, removed family ties by forbidding marriage. Valentine ignored the order and performed secret marriages—an act that led to his arrest and execution.

869: Cyril, "apostle to the Slavs," dies. Creator of the Cyrillic alphabet (still used in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and elsewhere), translator of the Scriptures into Slavonic, and bishop, he worked with his brother, Methodius, who carried on the missionary work for another 15 years.
 
1801: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church receives its charter. Five years earlier, black members of New York City's John's Street Methodist Episcopal Zion Church left the church over racist limitations imposed on them. They had not been allowed to preach or vote until Bishop Francis Asbury allowed them to hold their own meetings apart from the John's Street church.
 
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