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EVENTS: In 1790 Fletcher Christian and The Bounty’s other mutineers landed on Pitcairn Island; in 1924 James Ramsay MacDonald formed the first Labour government; in 1985 the proceedings of the House of Lords were televised for the first time.

BIRTHS: Edouard Manet, painter, born in Paris, 1832; Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist who with Jawaharlal Nehru founded the Indian Independence League in 1928, born in Cuttack, Orissa, 1897; Sergei Eisenstein, film director whose work includes The Battleship Potemkin (1925), born in Riga, Latvia, 1898.

DEATHS: William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister, 1783-1801 and 1804-06, died in London, 1806; Anna Pavlova, Russian prima ballerina, died in The Hague, 1931; Edvard Munch, painter, died in Oslo, 1944; Salvador Dalí, painter, died in Figueras, Spain, 1989.