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Оглавление1337 Giotto, painter and architect, died in Florence.
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1642 Galileo Galilei, mathematician and astronomer, died in Arcetri, Tuscany.
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1742 Philip Astley, founder of Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre, a forerunner of the modern circus, was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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1824 Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White, was born.
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1897 Dennis Wheatley, historical novelist and thriller writer (The Devil Rides Out), was born.
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1935 Elvis Presley, singer, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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1940 wartime rationing of butter, bacon and sugar began in the UK.
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1959 Charles de Gaulle was proclaimed president of the French Republic.
