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12th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1820 Florence Nightingale (British nurse during the Crimean War – Lady of the Lamp)

Died:
1992 Robert Reed (actor – The Brady Bunch)

On This Day:
1870 Manitoba becomes a Canadian province

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10th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1899 Fred Astaire (dancer & actor)

Died:
1977 Joan Crawford (actress)

On This Day:
1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa’s first black president

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20th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1937 George Takei (actor – Star Trek)

Died:
1912 Bram Stoker (author of Dracula)

On This Day:
1611 First recorded performance of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”

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18th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1947 James Woods (actor)

Died:
1955 Albert Einstein (theory of relativity)

On This Day:
1980 Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) declares its independence from Britain

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16th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1918 Spike Milligan (actor, writer and poet)

Died:
2002 Robert Urich (actor)

On This Day:
2014 South Korean ferry MV Sewol sinks (304 drown)

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14th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1961 Robert Carlyle (actor – The Full Monty)

Died:
1995 Brian Coffey (Irish poet)

On This Day:
1865 Abraham Lincoln is shot (by John Wilkes Booth)

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11th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1960 Jeremy Clarkson (British motoring journalist and presenter)

Died:
2001 Harry Secombe (actor and comedian)

On This Day:
1976 The Apple 1 computer is launched

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6th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1961 Rory Bremner (comedian and impressionist)

Died:
1199 Richard The Lionheart (Richard the First, King of England)

On This Day:
1652 The Cape Colony officially established by the Dutch East India Company, under Jan Van Riebeek

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30th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1853 Vincent van Gogh (painter)

Died:
1986 James Cagney (actor)

On This Day:
1867 USA buys Alaska from Russia for $7 200 000

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29th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1941 Terence Hill (actor)

Died:
2016 Patty Duke (actress)

On This Day:
1798 Switzerland forms as a republic

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