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1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.

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1836 Samuel Colt was granted a patent for his revolver.

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1862 a paper currency known as Greenbacks was introduced in the US by order of President Abraham Lincoln.

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1868 Andrew Johnson, 17th American president, was impeached, to be acquitted the following May by a single vote.

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1952 the Windscale plutonium plant at Sellafield began operation.

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1964 floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) won the world heavyweight boxing championship when Sonny Liston failed to come out for the seventh round.