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1685 King James II acceded to the throne.

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1919 William Rossetti, writer and brother to Christina and Dante Gabriel, died.

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1945 Bob Marley, singer-songwriter, was born in Nine Mile, Jamaica.

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1952 Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne while visiting Kenya.

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1958 seven members of the Manchester United football team were among those killed in an air crash in Munich.

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1964 France and Britain agreed to build a Channel tunnel.

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1971 astronaut Alan Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon.