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People around the world are today taking to Twitter to put a historical spin on popular reality television shows - with amusing results...

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945). President of the United States (1933-1945); developed government reforms known as the New Deal; secured establishment of Securities and Exchange Commission (1934), Social Security system (1935). Met with Winston Churchill (1941) to drawup Atlantic Charter, called for declaration of war on Japan (Dec. 1941).
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Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). On the evening of Wednesday 10 June 1840 Victoria and Prince Albert were travelling in a carriage along Constitution Hill near Buckingham Palace, London, when Edward Oxford fired a pistol at the Queen
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