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October 9 (sorry, need to get ahead, busy weekend coming up)
768. Charlesmagne and his considerably less famous brother, Carloman I, are crowned Kings of the Franks.
1635. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, is banished by the religious nutjobs running the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1701. The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered. It's name is too damn long, so some bright fellow later renames it Yale.
1760. Russian forces occupy Berlin as part of the Seven Years War.
1888. The Washington Monument opens.
1970. The Khmer Rouge are proclaimed in Cambodia. This turns out to be a stunningly bad idea overall.
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