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| 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known. |
| 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders. |
| 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. |
| 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| 1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union. |
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