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The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year
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1824 Théodore Géricault, painter who used corpses in the morgue as models for The Raft of the Medusa, died.
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1855 Gérard de Nerval, French Romantic poet who kept a lobster as a pet, died.
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1885 General Charles Gordon was killed at Khartoum during the rising led by the Mahdi.
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1905 the largest diamond in the world, the Cullinan, was mined at Pretoria, South Africa.
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1950 India became a republic within the Commonwealth.
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1998 President Bill Clinton denied having had sexual relations with intern Monica Lewinsky.
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1302 Dante Alighieri was expelled from Florence for his political activities, and while in exile wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.
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1880 the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was granted a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
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1944 Leningrad (now St Petersburg) was relieved after a 28-month siege.
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1945 the Soviet army liberated 5,000 inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
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1967 Virgil Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee, astronauts, died after an electrical fault ignited pure oxygen in their Apollo 1 spacecraft.
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1972 Mahalia Jackson, the “Queen of Gospel”, died.
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814 Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor since 800, died aged 71.
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1547 King Henry VIII, who had reigned since 1509, died aged 55.
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1596 Sir Francis Drake, English admiral and circumnavigator of the globe, died aged 55 at Portobelo, Panama.
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1807 London’s Pall Mall became the first street in the world illuminated by gaslight.
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1896 the first speeding fine was imposed on a British motorist for exceeding 2mph in a built-up area.
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1986 the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift-off and its crew of five men and two women were killed.
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1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore, with it becoming a British colony five years later.
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1820 King George III, who had reigned since 1760, died aged 81.
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1856 the Victoria Cross was established by royal warrant to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War.
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1860 Anton Chekhov, playwright, was born in Taganrog, Russia.
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1886 Karl Benz patented the first automobile.
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1942 Desert Island Discs was first broadcast by the BBC.
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1996 Venice’s opera house, fatefully named La Fenice (The Phoenix), was completely destroyed by fire, suspected to be arson.
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