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1477 John Paston received the first recorded valentine letter in English, from Margery Brews.

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1838 Margaret Knight, inventor of the square-bottom paper bag, was born in York, Maine.

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1852 the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, fitted with ten beds, admitted its first patient, George Parr, who was suffering from catarrh and diarrhoea.

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1895 Oscar Wilde’s final play, The Importance of Being Earnest, opened in London.

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1922 Marconi began regular broadcasting transmissions from Writtle in Essex.

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1939 the German battleship Bismarck was launched at Hamburg.

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2005 three PayPal workers started a video-sharing website, calling it YouTube.