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Born this day:
  1567Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer
  1803Justus von Liebig, German chemist
  1820Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing
  1828Dante Rossetti, English artist and poet
  1929Burt Bacharach, Composer
  1937Dr Miriam Stoppard, Author & broadcaster
  1942Susan Hampshire, Film actress
  1945Alan Ball, Southampton FC manager

It happened this day:
  1881Tunisia became a French protectorate
  1937King George VI was coronated in Westminster Abbey
  1949The blockade of the city of Berlin, by the USSR, was officially lifted
  1967John Masefield, the English poet & former Poet Laurete, died
  1969The legal age for voting in Britain was lowered from 21 to 18
  1976Jo Grimond took over the leadership of the Liberal party
  1982The liner QE2 sailed to join the Falklands naval task force
  1985Prince Andrew opened the new Falklands airport
  1986Libya expelled a number western diplomats from their embassys in Tripoli

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