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24th June 1374: Dancing Plague breaks out in the German city of Aachen and continues for many weeks
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Known variously as St John's Dance, St Vitus' Dance, or the ‘dancing plague’, the occurrence in Aachen was neither the first nor the last outbreak but is one of the best ...
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