Historical Events
1529 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested on charges of treason
1839 The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain
1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1890 Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London
1893 British South Africa Company troops under Dr Jamesons occupy Bulawayo, Matabeleland
Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber Found
1922 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
PM Stanley Baldwin
1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes Britain's Prime Minister for a second time after a landslide victory over Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour Party
T. S. Eliot Wins Nobel
1948 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for litera

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