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17 Roman poet Ovid died, a decade after mysteriously being banished to modern-day Romania by Emperor Augustus.

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1769 the Royal Academy met for the first time, with Sir Joshua Reynolds as president.

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1896 Leander Starr Jameson surrendered after his raid failed to provoke an uprising by British workers against the Boers in the Transvaal.

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1959 the Russians launched the rocket Luna 1 on the first close fly-by mission to the moon.

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1971 66 football fans were killed in a crush at Ibrox Park, Glasgow.

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1981 police arrested serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.