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EVENTS: In 1977 the heaviest recorded crustacean, a lobster weighing 44lb 6oz, was caught off Nova Scotia in Canada; in 1990 Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of captivity in South Africa.

BIRTHS: Thomas Alva Edison, scientist and inventor, born in Milan, Ohio, 1847; Farouk I (King of Egypt 1936-52), born in Cairo, 1920; Sir Vivian Fuchs, polar explorer and director of the British Antarctic Survey, 1958-73, born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1908.

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DEATHS: René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician and scientist, died in Stockholm, Sweden, 1650; Sergei Eisenstein, director of films including The Battleship Potemkin, died in Moscow, 1948.

TOMORROW

EVENTS: In 1818 Chile proclaimed its independence; in 1912 Hsuan-T’ung, the last Emperor of China, was forced to abdicate; in 1986 the Channel Tunnel treaty was signed between England and France.

BIRTHS: Charles Darwin, naturalist, born in Shrewsbury, 1809; Abraham Lincoln, 16th American President, 1861-65, born in LaRue County, Kentucky, 1809; Anna Pavlova, prima ballerina, born in St Petersburg, 1881.

DEATHS: Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days in July 1553, executed in London, 1554; Immanuel Kant, philosopher, died in Königsberg, Germany, 1804; Charles Schulz, cartoonist and creator of Peanuts, died in Santa Rosa, California, 2000.