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British prime minister Harold Wilson, March 1967. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Hamida Djandoubi, 28, being led down a tunnel by a police official ahead of his execution in October 1977.
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Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

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