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1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England.

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1759 the British Museum opened at Montague House, London.

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1815 Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, died in poverty at Calais.

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1867 40 skaters drowned when the ice broke on Regent’s Park lake, London.

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1970 the Nigeria-Biafra war concluded with Biafra’s surrender after the deaths of more than one million people.

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1973 President Nixon halted US bombing in North Vietnam after peace talks in Paris.

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2001 the Wikipedia website went online.

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2009 US Airways Flight 1549 safely crash-landed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.