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9th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1920 Richard Adams (author – Watership Down)
Died:
1986 Tenzing Norgay (first to summit Everest with Edmund Hillary)
On This Day:
1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
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3rd May – On This Day In History
Born:
1903 Bing Crosby (actor & singer)
Died:
1994 Richard Scarry (author & illustrator)
On This Day:
2006 Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea. 113 people killed.
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28th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1926 Harper Lee (author – To Kill A Mockingbird)
Died:
1980 Tommy Caldwell (rocker – Marshall Tucker Band)
On This Day:
1988 The roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off in flight
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25th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1599 Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England)
Died:
1878 Anne Sewell (author – Black Beauty)
On This Day:
1859 Ground is broken for the construction of the Suez Canal
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12th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1942 Jacob Zuma (ex-President of South Africa)
Died:
1988 Alan Paton (South African author – “Cry The Beloved Country”, and anti-apartheid activist)
On This Day:
1946 Syria gains independence (from France)
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8th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1943 James Herbert (author of horror stories)
Died:
1973 Pablo Picasso (painter)
On This Day:
1990 Norwegian ferry “Scandinavian Star” catches fire, killing 159 people
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3rd April – On This Day In History
Born:
1783 Washington Irving (author – The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow)
Died:
1882 Jesse James (outlaw)
On This Day:
1657 Oliver Cromwell, England, refuses the Crown
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28th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1868 Maxim Gorky (playwright & author)
Died:
2004 Peter Ustinov (actor – Death On This Nile)
Events:
2017 Britain introduces the new £1 coin
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19th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1813 David Livingstone (explorer)
Died:
2008 Arthur C Clarke (sci-fi author – 2001 A Space Odyssey)
On This Day:
1932 Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
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14th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1879 Albert Einstein (physicist & Nobel Laureate)
Died:
1883 Karl Marx (philosopher – Communist Manifesto)
On This Day:
2017 Muirfield Golf Club (world’s oldest golf club) votes to accept women members
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