May 05

1821 Napoleon Bonaparte (51), outstanding military leader and emperor of the French (1804–14), died from cancer as a prisoner of the British on the island of St Helena. 1980 The Iranian Embassy siege in London ended after five days when the SAS stormed the building, killing all but one of the six members of an ... Read more

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