On this day in history
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Source: Historynet.com
1525: The Catholic princes of Germany form the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
1545: King Henry VIII of England watches his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize as it leaves to battle the French.
1799: The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, is found in Egypt.
1870: France declares war on Prussia.
1975: Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit.
