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The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year
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1951 Chinese Communist and North Korean troops captured Seoul during the Korean War.
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1967 world speed record breaker Donald Campbell was killed in Bluebird on Coniston Water, Cumbria, during a record attempt.
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1066 Edward the Confessor, King of England since 1042, died.
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1592 Shah Jahan, Mogul emperor of India, who ordered the building of the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife, was born.
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1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of his eponymous safety razor, was born in Wisconsin.
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1941 Amy Johnson, record-breaking aviator, died after her aircraft crashed in the Thames estuary.
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1968 Alexander Dubcek became First Secretary of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, ushering in the Prague Spring.
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1971 international one-day cricket was born when England played Australia in Melbourne, the Test match having been abandoned due to rain.
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1066 Harold Godwinson was crowned King of England in succession to Edward the Confessor, prompting the Normans to invade.
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1412 St Joan of Arc, French heroine, was born into a peasant family at Domrémy, (later called Domrémy-la-Pucelle) in the Vosges.
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1681 the first recorded boxing match in the UK was arranged by the Duke of Albemarle between his butler and his butcher.
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1838 in New Jersey, Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of his electric telegraph system.
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1852 Louis Braille, who invented a reading and writing system for blind people, died in Paris.
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1714 a patent was granted to the English engineer Henry Mill for his typewriter design.
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1785 Blanchard and Jeffries made the first hot-air balloon crossing of the Channel.
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1789 the first nationwide election was held in America, with George Washington elected as president.
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1827 Sandford Fleming, Scottish engineer who divided the world into time zones, was born.
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1955 Marian Anderson was placed under contract by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the first African-American to be so engaged.
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1999 the impeachment trial of President Clinton began in Washington.
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1337 Giotto, painter and architect, died in Florence.
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1642 Galileo Galilei, mathematician and astronomer, died in Arcetri, Tuscany.
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1742 Philip Astley, founder of Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre, a forerunner of the modern circus, was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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1824 Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White, was born.
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1897 Dennis Wheatley, historical novelist and thriller writer (The Devil Rides Out), was born.
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1935 Elvis Presley, singer, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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