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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.