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13th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1911 L.Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology)
Died:
1994 Danny Barker (banjo and guitar player)
On This Day:
1852 “Uncle Sam” figure makes its debut
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26th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1802 Victor Hugo (author – “Les Miserables”)
Died:
2014 Frank Reed (singer – soul music)
On This Day:
1993 World Trade Center, New York, is bombed (truck bomb in the parking garage)
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25th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1917 Anthony Burgess (author – “A Clockwork Orange”)
Died:
1723 Christopher Wren (architect – St Paul’s Cathedral)
On This Day:
1988 South Korea adopts its constitution
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10th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1950 Mark Spitz (Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer)
Died:
2005 Arthur Miller (playwright)
On This Day:
1940 Tom and Jerry cartoon debuts
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2nd February – On This Day In History
Born:
1882 James Joyce (novelist and poet)
Died:
1907 Dmitri Mendeleev (original constructor of the Periodic Table)
On This Day:
1920 Estonia declares independence (from Russia)
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30th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1930 Gene Hackman (actor – The French Connection)
Died:
1948 Mahatma Ghandi (Indian pacifist and leader)
On This Day:
1873 Around The Word In 80 Days (Jules Verne) is published
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18th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1882 AA Milne (author of Winnie – the – Pooh)
Died:
1677 Jan Van Riebeek (founder of Dutch Cape Colony at Cape Town)
On This Day:
2005 The A380, the world’s largest commercial airliner, is unveiled by Airbus in France
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14th January – On This Day In History
Born:
83 BC Mark Anthony (Roman General and leader)
Died:
1898 Lewis Carroll (author – Alice In Wonderland)
On This Day:
1690 The clarinet is invented (in Nurnberg, Germany)
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12th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1876 Jack London (author – Call Of The Wild)
Died:
1976 Agatha Christie (crime writer)
On This Day:
2010 Earthquake in Haiti kills approximately 160 000 people
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2nd January – On This Day In History
Born:
1920 Isaac Asimov (scientist and sci-fi author – I Robot)
Died:
1977 Erroll Garner (jazz pianist – Misty)
On This Day:
1919 Lithuania gains independence
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