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EVENTS: In 1672 John Bunyan was released from Bedford prison after 12 years’ imprisonment; in 1922 the world’s highest temperature in the shade, 58C (136F), was recorded at al-Aziziyah, Libya; in 1943 Chiang Kai-shek was elected President of China.

BIRTHS: William Cecil (1st Baron Burghley), Queen Elizabeth I’s Lord High Treasurer, born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, 1520; Clara Schumann, pianist and composer, born in Leipzig, Saxony, 1819; Arnold Schoenberg, composer, born in Vienna, 1874; Claudette Colbert, American actress, born in Paris, France, 1903; Roald Dahl, British children’s book writer, born in Llandaff, Glamorganshire, 1916; John Smith, leader of the Labour Party 1992-94, born in Dalmally, Argyllshire, 1938.

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DEATHS: Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter, died in Mantua, 1506; Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher, died in Rechenberg, Germany, 1872; Emmanuel Chabrier, composer, died in Paris, 1894; Leopold Stokowski, conductor and organist, died in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, 1977.