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Births: Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, playwright and novelist, 1688; Myles Birket Foster, painter, 1825; Richard d'Ivry (Richard Yrvid), composer, 1829; Valentine Cameron Prinsep, artist, 1838; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, aviator, 1902; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian, 1906; Ida Lupino, film actress, producer and writer, 1918. Deaths: Antonio Pollaiuolo (de Jacobo Benci), Florentine sculptor, 1498; Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, painter, 1787; Karen Carpenter, singer, 1983; Liberace (Wladiziu Valentino), entertainer, 1987. On this day: the Ashanti War ended following the Battle of Kumasi, 1874; the command of the German Army was assumed by Adolf Hitler, 1938; the Yalta Conference opened, when Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met, 1945; Ceylon (later known as Sri Lanka) became an independent state, 1948; sweet rationing ended in Britain, 1953; the Sunday Times issued the first colour supplement in Britain, 1962. Today is the Feast Day of St Andrew Corsini, bishop, St Isidore of Pelusium, St Joan of Valois, St John de Britto, St Joseph of Leonessa, St Modan, St Nicholas Studites, St Phileas, St Rembert and St Theophilus the Penitent.
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