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Charilaos Vasilakos (center) training for the marathon

106 – The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.
1896 – Charilaos Vasilakos (pictured) won the first modern marathon in preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics.
1913 – Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
1984 – Teachers at a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren, leading to the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history.
1995 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.

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Fabián Cháirez in April 2023

... that a painting by Fabián Cháirez (pictured) depicting a nude, effeminate Emiliano Zapata caused violent protests at the Palacio de Bellas Artes?
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