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1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on Saint Helena at age 51. His three invasions of Portugal (1807–1811) devastated the country but also catalysed the Liberal Revolution and the eventual independence of Brazil.
1536: The Portuguese Inquisition holds its first auto-da-fé in Lisbon, beginning a centuries-long campaign of religious persecution that would profoundly shape Portuguese society and drive thousands of New Christians into exile.

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1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Freedom 7, making a 15-minute suborbital flight that launches the U.S. human spaceflight programme.

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