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Keith Richards is evacuated from suburban London to escape German buzz bombs, 1944

Joan of Arc begins to hear voices, 1424

Marie Antoinette is packed off to be married to the heir to the throne of France, 1770. She is stripped naked and carefully inspected at the French border

Allen Stewart Konigsberg changes his name to Woody Allen. He sees his first Bergman film, Summer With Monika, 1952

Kurt Cobain leaves home and finds work as a hotel cleaner but is fired for sleeping in the rooms, 1984

Zsa Zsa Gabor is chosen to be Miss Hungary, 1936

Joan of Arc is burned at the stake, 1431

Clyde Barrow meets Bonnie Parker, 1930

Anne Boleyn marries Henry VIII, 1533

Adolf Hitler grows his famous mustache, 1919

Einstein completes his General Theoryof Relativity, 1915

Marilyn Monroe dies in her Brentwood, California, home of an overdose of barbiturates, 1962

Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car accident in Paris, 1997

Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5 perfume, 1921

Columbus sails the ocean blue, 1492