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What Happened in December 1668

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Historical Events

Britannicus

Dec 13 Jean Racine's tragic play "Britannicus" premieres in Paris

Dramatist Jean Racine

Famous Birthdays

  • Dec 3 Casimir Schweizelsperg, German composer, born in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria (d. sometime after 1722)
  • Dec 31 Hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician, born in Voorhout, Netherlands (d. 1738)
Born in 1668

Famous Deaths

  • Dec 22 Stephen Day, English-born colonial printer (The Psalms in Meter - 1st book printed in American colonies), dies at about 58

Famous Living People by Age

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