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23 FEBRUARY
Оглавление1633 Samuel Pepys, diarist, was born in London.
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1820 the Cato Street Conspiracy, a plot to assassinate the entire British cabinet, was uncovered.
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1821 John Keats, poet, died in Rome of tuberculosis aged 25.
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1874 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented his new game of lawn tennis.
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1889 Victor Fleming, director whose films included Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939), was born in California.
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1905 the world’s first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago.
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1997 it was announced that Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep, had been born.
