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September 19

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  1. 86 CEGraeco-Roman · born

    The emperor Antoninus Pius was born near Lanuvium; his settled reign spanned the years when Ptolemy, Galen and the Greek orators of the Second Sophistic were at work.

  2. 1868 CEEgyptian · born

    The French Egyptologist Alexandre Moret, a student of ancient Egyptian kingship and religion, was born in Aix-les-Bains.

  3. 2010 CEChristian

    Pope Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Oxford scholar and convert theologian, at Cofton Park in Birmingham, England.

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