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1302 Dante Alighieri was expelled from Florence for his political activities, and while in exile wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

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1880 the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was granted a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

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1944 Leningrad (now St Petersburg) was relieved after a 28-month siege.

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1945 the Soviet army liberated 5,000 inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

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1967 Virgil Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee, astronauts, died after an electrical fault ignited pure oxygen in their Apollo 1 spacecraft.

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1972 Mahalia Jackson, the “Queen of Gospel”, died.