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1154 Henry II became King of England.

1848 Emily Bronte, English novelist who wrote

Wuthering Heights, died aged 30 from tuberculosis.

1905 London County Council set up the first motorised ambulance service for traffic accident victims.

1906 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet President 1977-1982, was born in the Ukraine.

1915 Legendary singer Edith Piaf, "the little sparrow" who began singing in the streets when she was a teenager, was born in Paris.

1981 The Penlee lifeboat, Solomon Browne, was lost with her crew of eight, attempting to rescue the crew of the ...

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