R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970) was a British Army officer, author and journalist. After studying at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Bodley was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He served with them during the First World War, where he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel and command of a battalion. After witnessing the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, he grew disillusioned with the military and went to live in the Sahara as a nomad for seven years, at the suggestion of T. E. Lawrence. In 1927 he wrote a successful book on his travels, Algeria

From Within, the first of his 18 books. After leaving the Sahara he

traveled Asia, and was one of few Westerners allowed access to Japan's South Pacific Mandates during the 1930s. Bodley moved to the United States in 1935, where he worked as a screenwriter, and was hired by Charlie Chaplin in 1936. He re-enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of the Second World War and was sent to Paris to work for the Ministry of Information. He later returned to the United States, where he was an advisor to the Arabic desk of the United States Office of War Information.

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1805:

Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort- de-France, from the British. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Rock

1924:

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

1953:

Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II

1967:

German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a protest in West Berlin against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant group 2 June Movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_Movement

1994:

The Royal Air Force suffered its worst peacetime disaster when a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all 29 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash

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Cinquecentist: Of or pertaining to the art of Italy in the sixteenth century. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cinquecentist

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