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1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming the first known European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope. |
1791 US Bill of Rights is ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution. |
1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death. |
 | Anzac Cove where Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli |
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1915 ANZAC forces begin their withdrawal from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople during World War I. |
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness. |
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The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of France and twice managed to upstage Adolf Hitler. The man who built it, Gustave Eiffel was born on this day. |
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