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1355 the St Scholastica’s Day riot began in Oxford, with opposing forces of town and gown on the rampage for three days.

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1837 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer, died following a duel with his wife’s admirer.

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1931 ceremonies began to inaugurate New Delhi as the capital of India (in place of Delhi).

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1962 Gary Powers, the US pilot of a U2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, was exchanged in Berlin for a KGB agent.

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1964 the Great St Bernard Tunnel under the Alps between Switzerland and Italy was opened to traffic.