Events
In 1912 a search party discovered the bodies of Captain Robert Scott and other members of his expedition, who had died returning from the South Pole.
Births
Auguste Rodin, sculptor, 1840; Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, film actress, 1929.
Deaths
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Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark and Norway, 1035; William Hayley, poet, 1820; Charles Kemble, actor and manager of Covent Garden Theatre, 1854.