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1189
Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey.
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1658
Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector of England, died.
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1783
The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
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1967
Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.
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1974
Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.
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1976
The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.
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1978
Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
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