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EVENTS: In 1606 Guy Fawkes and his fellow Gunpowder Plot conspirators were executed; in 1858 the Great Eastern steamship, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched at Millwall, London; in 1929 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union; in 1971 the US spacecraft Apollo 14, the third mission to land on the Moon, was launched with a three-man crew; in 1990 the first McDonald’s restaurant in Russia opened in Pushkin Square, Moscow.

BIRTHS: Franz Schubert, composer, born in Vienna, 1797; Zane Grey, author of western novels, born in Zanesville, Ohio, 1872; Irving Langmuir, physicist, chemist and Nobel laureate, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1881; Tallulah Bankhead, husky-voiced actress, born in Huntsville, Alabama, 1902.

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DEATHS: Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), leader of the Jacobite rebellion, died in Rome, 1788; Charles Haddon Spurgeon, English Baptist minister and preacher of popular sermons, died in Menton, France, 1892; Jean Giraudoux, novelist and dramatist, died in Paris, 1944; A. A. Milne, author of the Pooh books, died in Hartfield, Sussex, 1956; Samuel Goldwyn, film producer who put the G in MGM (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer), died in Los Angeles, 1974.