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1799 income tax was introduced by prime minister William Pitt the Younger to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.

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1806 Horatio Nelson was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.

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1816 Sir Humphry Davy’s safety lamp was first used in a mine.

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1873 Napoleon III, French Emperor, died in exile in England.

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1913 Richard Nixon, president of the United States 1969–74, was born in Yorba Linda, California.

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1960 work began on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt and would take ten years to complete.

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1972 the liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour.