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1913
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1924
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1963
Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
2005
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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