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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Today in History - 5/19
- 715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
- 1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
- 1517 Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
- 1547 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
- 1568 English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
- 1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines