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1533 Michel de Montaigne, philosopher who popularised the essay form, was born.

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1900 after a four-month siege during the Boer War, the 20,000-strong British garrison in Ladysmith was relieved.

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1922 Lord Allenby, high commissioner in Egypt, announced the termination of the British protectorate and the inception of Egyptian independence.

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1956 Jay Forrester patented random-access coincident-current magnetic storage, which would become the standard memory device for computers.

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1975 a London Underground train crashed at Moorgate station, killing 35 people.

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1986 the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated while walking home in Stockholm, a crime that remains unsolved.