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#OnThisDay 1900: Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by the British

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#OnThisDay 1661: English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London, England.

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#OnThisDay 1540: King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves.

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#OnThisDay 1066: Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) was crowned King of England.

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#OnThisDay 1412: Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint, burnt at the stake for witchcraft, was born.

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#OnThisDay 1367: Richard II of England, King from 1377-1399, was born.

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#OnThisDay 1919: Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and 26th President of the United States, died.

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#OnThisDay 1913: Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient at the Battle of Rorke's Drift 1879, died.

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#OnThisDay 1852: Louis Braille, French educator, invented braille, died.

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#OnThisDay 1919: The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, was founded.

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#OnThisDay 1895: Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus was stripped of his rank & sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

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#OnThisDay 1875: The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, was inaugurated in Paris.

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#OnThisDay 1781: American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, was burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.

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#OnThisDay 1757: Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France.

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#OnThisDay 1938: Juan Carlos I of Spain, King from 1975-2014 when he abdicated, first King after the Franco dictatorship, was born.

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#OnThisDay 1933: Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, died.

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#OnThisDay 1589: Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France, died.

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#OnThisDay 1066: Edward the Confessor, English king, died.

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#OnThisDay 1948: Burma gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

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#OnThisDay 1649: English Civil War: The Rump Parliament voted to put Charles I on trial.