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1642 King Charles I entered Parliament with soldiers in a bid to arrest five MPs, sparking the English Civil War.

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1643 Sir Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician, was born.

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1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier and transport magnate whose steamship service flourished with the 1849 Gold Rush, died.

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1948 after more than 100 years of British rule, Burma became an independent republic.

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1951 Chinese Communist and North Korean troops captured Seoul during the Korean War.

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1967 world speed record breaker Donald Campbell was killed in Bluebird on Coniston Water, Cumbria, during a record attempt.