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Then & Now: Anniversaries

Sunday 31 January 1993 00:02 GMT
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31 January 1606: Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators are hung, drawn and quartered.

1910: Dr Crippen poisons his wife, Cora.

1929: Leon Trotsky is exiled by Stalin.

1983: Car seat belts are made compulsory in Britain.

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