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1841 Britain and China signed the Convention of Chuanbi, which ceded Hong Kong to the British.

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1900 RD Blackmore, novelist (Lorna Doone), died.

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1900 John Ruskin, art critic, died.

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1942 Reinhard Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, which established the framework for the final solution to the Jewish question.

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1972 unemployment in the UK rose above one million for the first time since the 1930s.

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1987 Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy in Lebanon, was kidnapped in Beirut.

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1993 Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady), died aged 63.