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1632 Thomas Osborne (1st Duke of Leeds), statesman and leader of the Tories who was imprisoned twice on charges of bribery, was born.

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1811 Austria declared itself bankrupt because of the cost of fighting Napoleon.

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1816 the opening night of Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville was a fiasco, with one performer singing an aria with a bleeding nose after tripping on a trapdoor, and a cat attacking another during the finale to the first act.

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1947 Viscount Mountbatten of Burma was appointed last viceroy of India.

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1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.