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1554 Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days, was executed aged 16.

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1809 Charles Darwin, naturalist, was born in Shrewsbury.

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1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

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1818 Chile proclaimed its independence from Spain.

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1912 Hsuan-t’ung (Pu-Yi), the last emperor of China, was forced to abdicate.

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1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first US president to deliver a political speech on radio.

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1986 the Channel Tunnel treaty was signed between United Kingdom and France.

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2001 NEAR Shoemaker touched down on 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.