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1606 Guy Fawkes and his fellow Gunpowder Plot conspirators were executed.

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1788 Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), leader of the Jacobite rebellion, died in Rome aged 68.

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1858 the Great Eastern steamship, the largest vessel in the world, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched.

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1929 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union.

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1983 the wearing of front seatbelts in cars was made compulsory in Britain.

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1990 the first McDonald’s restaurant in Russia opened in Pushkin Square, Moscow.

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2010 Avatar became the first film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide.