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Events
1485: Morte D'Arthur printed by William Caxton.
1498: Christopher Columbus arrives in Trinidad.
1910: Doctor Crippin, British murderer, arrested.
1917: The Third Battle of Ypres begins.
1923: Britain bans the sale of alcohol to under-18s.

Births
1526: Elector Augustus I of Saxony.
1527: Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II.
1720: Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, French statesman.

Deaths
1556: Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish Jesuit founder.
1800: Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist.
1867: Benoît Fourneyron, French engineer.
1886: Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer.

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