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Events (150 years ago today): 1876 - The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
Births (200 years ago today): 1826 - Dinah Craik, English author and poet (died 1887)
Deaths (850 years ago today): 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (born 1130)
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