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1863: Opening of the first underground rail link in London, the Metropolitan Railway

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It happened today – this day in history – January 10

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49BC: Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war which would lead

1959: Guggenheim Museum, New York

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It happened today – this day in history – October 21

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1520: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific

1870: Richard Wagner

It happened today – this day in history – June 26

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1284: According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away. 1483: The Duke of Gloucester becomes