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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: March 2

537: King Vitiges and his Ostrogoths begin the year-long Siege of Rome.
1657: More than 100,000 people die in a fire in Edo, now modern Tokyo, Japan.
1791: English theologian John Wesley dies.
1930: English novelist D.H. Lawrence dies.
1939: English archaeologist Howard Carter dies.

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