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The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year
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1355 the St Scholastica’s Day riot began in Oxford, with opposing forces of town and gown on the rampage for three days.
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1837 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer, died following a duel with his wife’s admirer.
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1931 ceremonies began to inaugurate New Delhi as the capital of India (in place of Delhi).
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1962 Gary Powers, the US pilot of a U2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, was exchanged in Berlin for a KGB agent.
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1964 the Great St Bernard Tunnel under the Alps between Switzerland and Italy was opened to traffic.
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1852 the first flushing public lavatory for women opened in Bedford Street, London.
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1858 a 14-year-old French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed that a beautiful lady, later identified as the Virgin Mary, appeared to her near Lourdes.
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1878 the first weekly weather report was issued by the Meteorological Office.
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1975 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman leader of a British political party.
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1977 the heaviest recorded crustacean, a lobster weighing 44lb 6oz, was caught off Nova Scotia in Canada.
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1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years in captivity.
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1554 Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days, was executed aged 16.
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1809 Charles Darwin, naturalist, was born in Shrewsbury.
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1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
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1818 Chile proclaimed its independence from Spain.
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1912 Hsuan-t’ung (Pu-Yi), the last emperor of China, was forced to abdicate.
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1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first US president to deliver a political speech on radio.
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1986 the Channel Tunnel treaty was signed between United Kingdom and France.
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2001 NEAR Shoemaker touched down on 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, was executed for adultery.
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1601 John Lancaster led the first East India Company voyage from London.
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1689 William III and Mary II acceded to the throne of England.
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1692 the MacDonalds were massacred by the Campbells at Glencoe.
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1917 the spy Mata Hari was arrested by the French.
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1945 Dresden was devastated when RAF bombers attacked the city.
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