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1452 ~ Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.

1802 ~ William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

1912 ~ The RMS Titanic sank.

1912 ~ Birthday of Kim Il-sung, "Great Leader" & President of North Korea .

1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor.

1945 ~ British & Canadian troops liberate Bergen-Belsen

1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke MLB baseball's color barrier when he started for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1985 ~ Birthday of Amy Reid, Porn actress.

1994 ~ Representatives of 124 countries signed the Marrakesh Agreements which replaced the GATT with the WTO.

1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator.