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1790 Fletcher Christian and the Bounty’s other mutineers landed on Pitcairn Island.

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1806 William Pitt the Younger, prime minister 1783–1801 and 1804–06, died aged 46.

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1837 John Field, Irish composer who created the piano nocturne, died in Moscow.

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1883 Gustave Doré, graphic artist who illustrated such works as Dante’s Divine Comedy, died.

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1943 Tripoli was captured by British forces under Field Marshal Montgomery.

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1985 the proceedings of the House of Lords were televised for the first time.

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1989 surrealist painter Salvador Dalí died in Figueres, Spain, aged 84.