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1533 King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn in secret.

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1640 Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, died.

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1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet whose popularity is reaffirmed in the Burns Night celebrations, was born in Alloway, Ayr.

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1919 the League of Nations was founded to resolve international disputes.

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1924 the first Winter Olympics began in Chamonix, France.

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1947 gangster Al Capone died at home of a heart attack.

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1971 Idi Amin deposed the Ugandan president Milton Obote.

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1990 Benazir Bhutto, the prime minister of Pakistan, became the first head of government to give birth.