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22 JANUARY
Оглавление1440 Ivan III, the Great, whose conquests created a consolidated Russian state, was born.
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1666 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India, died.
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1788 George Gordon Byron (6th Baron Byron), poet, was born.
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1901 Queen Victoria, Britain’s monarch since 1837, died.
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1905 Russian troops fired on marching workers in St Petersburg, killing more than 500 in the first Bloody Sunday.
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1924 Ramsay MacDonald became Britain’s first Labour prime minister.
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1944 the Allied landings began in Anzio, Italy.
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1946 President Truman established the Central Intelligence Group, from which, two years later, the CIA was created.
