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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48794)	8/1/2005 11:12:03 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

August 1 Henry III of France stabbed by an assassin Henry III, drawing by F. Quesnel, 1588; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 1589: On this day King Henry III of France was stabbed by Jacques Clément, a Jacobin friar, at his headquarters in Saint-Cloud. The wound proved to be fatal; Henry died the following day and left no heir, ending the Valois dynasty. Before he expired, though, Henry acknowledged his Bourbon ally, Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot, as his successor. (He ruled as Henry IV.) Throughout Henry III's reign (1574–89), he was embroiled in the French Wars of Religion (1562–98). 1944: The final entry was recorded this day in the diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who spent two years in hiding during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands; her diary became a classic of Holocaust literature. 1940: Why England Slept, written by John F. Kennedy, was published this day. This best-selling book, which was critical of the British military, was an expanded version of his senior thesis. 1876: Colorado was admitted to the Union, becoming the 38th state in the United States. 1714: Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died; she was succeeded by George I. 10 : Roman Emperor Claudius I was born in Lugdunum, Gaul (now Lyon, France).