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1582 Pope Gregory XIII published a papal bull that established a new-style (Gregorian) calendar, but it took England almost 200 years to follow suit.

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1848 the last king of France, Louis-Philippe, who had reigned since 1830, was forced to abdicate by revolutionaries who then proclaimed the Second Republic.

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1920 US-born MP Nancy Astor became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons.

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1923 the Flying Scotsman entered service with the London and North Eastern Railway.

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2001 Claude Shannon, mathematician whose work on modern information theory laid the basis for the information age, died.