December 29 1170 – Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of Henry II, on orders of the king 1607 – John Smith’s life is spared because of the pleas of Pocahontas to her father Indian Chief Powhatan 1721 – Madam Jeanne Poisson de Pompadour, mistress of Louis […]

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