Paris society was rocked by scandal in 1787, when Madame Vigée Le Brun painted herself with a wide smile on her face.
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"It's ever been the British way, that we are powerless to expel foreigners, but puissant and bold when it comes to making civil war.
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~ Gildas (6th century)
On This Day
330 Constantinople - formerly Byzantium - officially became the new capital of the Roman Empire.
973 Ælfthryth, wife of King Edgar of England, was crowned Queen consort.
1812 The only British PM to be assassinated whilst in office, Spencer Perceval, was shot by John Bellingham.
1960 Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, was captured.
1985 A small fire that started in litter under wooden stands at Bradford City football stadium rapidly got out of control. Fifty-six people were killed, either trapped in their seats or at locked turnstiles.