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1471 – Wars of the Roses: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales at which battle ?
Battle of Bosworth Field
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Battle of Mortimer's Cross
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1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland aboard the See Meeuw. What is New Netherland called today ?
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1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to which King ?
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1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on which island ?
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1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England and spanning which river ?
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1904 – The United States begins construction of what ?
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1932 – Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion in which prison ?
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1949 – The entire football team of which Italian city is killed in a plane crash ?
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1959 – Which annual awards ceremony is held for the first time ?
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1972 – The "Don't Make A Wave Committee", a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to what ?
World Wide Fund for Nature
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Marine Conservation Society
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1982 – Twenty sailors from which British ship are killed when it is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War ?
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2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of which city ?
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1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress, is born. Which character did she mostly voice ?
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2012 – Adam Yauch, American rapper and director, dies. What band was he a founding member of ?
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Today is a commemorative day observed by fans of which film franchise ?