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| 1409 |
| | The Council at Pisa elects a new pope, Alexander V, without persuading the other two to resign - bringing the total to an unprecedented three | |
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| 1712 |
| | Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry | |
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| 1789 |
| | Alexander Mackenzie explores by canoe from central Canada through the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean | |
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| 1807 |
| | A Scottish clergyman, Alexander Forsyth, invents the percussion cap to help in his pursuit of wildfowl | |
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| 1857 |
| | Russian exile Alexander Herzen, publishes in London a radical newspaper called Kolokol (The Bell) | |
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| 1928 |
| | Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin | |
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| 1933 |
| | Alexander Korda directs Charles Laughton in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII | |
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| 1936 |
| | Alexander Korda's bleakly visionary film Things to Come is based on the H.G. Wells novel of 1933 | |
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