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Today is Pay a Compliment Day.

On this day in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II succeeded King George VI to the British throne and was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Born on this day in 1833 in Patrick County, Virginia, Confederate General in the American Civil War, James Ewell Brown Stuart, commonly known as JEB Stuart.