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  1. Strategy Page. com has this interesting history factoid for Nov. 17:
    “1878 Anarchist Giovanni Passannante stabs King Umberto I of Italy, who wounds his attacker in return, using his dress sword, in the last case of a royal engaging in hand-to-hand combat.”

    (The Duke of Sussex, aka Prince Harry, was a ground air support controller in Afghanistan until his presence was revealed on the Internet. That is, he was on the ground directing fire at targets on the ground by aircraft. It’s not exactly hand to hand, but I’m sure he had the ‘odd moment.’ He went back later as helicopter pilot, as I recall.)

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