Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:
1432: Charges of witchcraft dismissed against Margery Jourdemain, John Virley, and John Ashwell, in England. They're executed for littering instead.
1933: First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany.
1967: Muhammed Ali stripped of world heavyweight boxing title for refusing military draft.
1974: Congress begins impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon.
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