Dawson's Creek is an hour-long American television drama aimed at and mostly about teenagers, which aired from 1998 to 2003. The show is semi-autobiographical, based on the small-town childhood of creator Kevin Williamson, writer of the slasher film Scream: Dawson Leery, the lead character, shares Williamson's interests and background. The show was set in a small Massachusetts seaside town and focused on four friends who began their sophomore year of high school as the show began. The program, part of a craze for teen-themed movies and television shows in America in the late 1990s, made stars of its leads and was a defining show for its network, The WB. It was the first series bold enough to pick up the mantle of Beverly Hills, 90210 and an inspiration for many variations on the teenage angst theme, including The O.C. on Fox."
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1431: Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouen)
1434: Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Wars)
1536: Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two queen consorts. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour)
1911: The first Indianapolis 500 open-wheel automobile race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_500)
1967: Chief Emeka Ojukwu took office as the first President of Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuemeka_Odumegwu_Ojukwu)
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"The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual." -- Mikhail Bakunin (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin)