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29th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1899 Duke Ellington (musician)

Died:
1980 Alfred Hitchcock (film director)

On This Day:
1945 Terms of Surrender of the German Army in Italy are signed

Have a good Saturday, 29th April
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18th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1933 Yoko Ono (singer, artist and wife of John Lennon)

Died:
1564 Michelangelo (artist, sculptor)

On This Day:
1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published (by Mark Twain)

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3rd February – On This Day In History
Born:
1894 Norman Rockwell (painter and illustrator)

Died:
1924 Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the USA
On This Day:
1809 Territory of Illinois is organised

Have a good Friday, 3rd February
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23rd January – On This Day In History
Born:
1737 John Hancock (1st to sign the US Declaration of Independence)

Died:
1989 Salvador Dali (artist)

On This Day:
1961 Venezuela adopts its constitution

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3rd December – On This Day In History
Born:
1857 Joseph Conrad (author – Heart Of Darkness)

Died:
1919 Pierre A Renoir (painter and sculptor)

On This Day:
1818 Illinois becomes the 21st State of the USA

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14th November – On This Day In History
Born:
Claude Monet (artist – impressionist)

Died:
1915 Booker T Washington (educator)

On This Day:
1851 Moby Dick First published

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25th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1881 Pablo Picasso (artist)

Died:
1400 Geoffrey Chaucer (author – Canterbury Tales)

On This Day:
1415 Battle of Agincourt (English defeat the French, showing the effectiveness of the longbow against the armoured knight)

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4th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1923 Charlton Heston (actor)

Died:
1669 Rembrandt van Rijn (artist)

On This Day:
1910 Portugal becomes a republic

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15th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1606 Rembrandt van Rijn (painter)

Died:
1997 Gianni Versace (fashion designer)

On This Day:
1799 The discovery of the Rosetta Stone (significant tool for interpreting ancient Egyptian writings)

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2nd May – On This Day In History
Born:
1729 Catherine The Great (Empress of Russia)

Died:
1519 Leonardo da Vinci (inventor, artist, scientist)

On This Day:
1890 Territory of Oklahoma created

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