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1650 Nell Gwyn, comic actress and mistress of King Charles II, was born.

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1709 Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, was rescued after being marooned for four years on an island off Chile.

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1901 the state funeral of Queen Victoria took place at Windsor.

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1972 the British embassy in Dublin was burnt down by demonstrators protesting the killings on Bloody Sunday two days previously in Londonderry.

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1977 the Pompidou Centre opened in Paris.

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1979 Sid Vicious (Simon John Ritchie), bass guitarist of the Sex Pistols, died in New York aged 21.