The Olympic torch begins unforgettable journey to Calgary Today in history

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On this date, Nov. 17, in history: In 1558, Queen Mary I, known as Bloody Mary, who tried to return Protestant Britain to Catholicism, died. She was succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth I, who ended the religious persecutions of the English Counter-Reformation. In 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed […]

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