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Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo helmet

1540 – King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy.
1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
1911 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London.
1939 – During the excavation of a 7th-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archaeologists discovered a helmet (reconstruction pictured) that is widely associated with King Rædwald of East Anglia.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced the formal end of its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland and create a united Ireland.

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