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True or False

The Goddess Venus's favorite flower is the red rose?

Fun Fact

In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names to see who their Valentine would be. According to Smithsonian, they would wear the name pinned to their sleeve for one week so that everyone would know their supposed true feelings.

This Day in History

60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta

1720 Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory

1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain

1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo

1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design

1952 India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power