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| | |  | 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, marries her third husband, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, who was acquitted of complicity in her former husband's murder. Learn more about Mary, Queen of Scots.
 1940: Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States. Learn more about Nylon.
 1957: Great Britain drops a hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific, becoming the third nation, after the United States and the Soviet Union, with thermonuclear capabilities. Learn more about Nuclear Weapons.
 1988: The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan nearly a decade after invading the country. Learn more about Afghanistan.
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| | |  | Who am I? Born on this day in 1856, I wrote a series of books about a magical fairyland called Oz.
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