Today in History
1547 – England’s King Henry VIII dies, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.
1689 – Britain’s Parliament declares that James II has abdicated.
1807 – Pall Mall, in London, becomes the first street lit by gaslight.
1813 – Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, right, is published.
1827 – French explorer Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d’Urville sails through the narrow French Pass into the Marlborough Sounds.
1871 – Paris falls following a four-month siege during the Franco-German War.
1881 – Russian novelist and short-story writer 1887
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