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Оглавление1628 Charles Perrault, author of fairytales (Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty), was born in Paris.
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1856 John Singer Sargent, portrait painter, was born in Florence.
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1879 the British declared war on the Zulu leader Cetewayo.
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1948 the London Co-op opened the first supermarket in the capital at Manor Park.
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1950 64 submariners and dockyard workers were killed when the tanker Divina struck Truculent on the Thames.
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1970 a Boeing 747 landed at Heathrow after its first flight from New York.
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1976 Agatha Christie, crime novelist, died aged 85.
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2010 316,000 people died in an earthquake in Haiti.
