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456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeated Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and became master of the Western Roman Empire.
1834 – Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire.
1923 – Roy and Walt Disney (pictured) founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood that eventually grew to become one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world.
Otto Braun led 130,000 Red Army soldiers and civilians on a "Long March" from Jiangxi
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1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.

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A crashed Hannover CL.III, shot down by American machine gunners in the First World War. The successor to the CL.II, the CL.III was a two-seat multi-role aircraft, primarily used as a ground-attack machine, that first flew in 1917.

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