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21st November – On This Day In History
Born:
1694 Voltaire (French writer & philosopher)
Died:
1953 Larry Shields (jazz clarinet player)
On This Day:
1789 North Carolina ratifies and Constitution and becomes the 12th State of the US
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20th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1923 Nadine Gordimer (best selling South African author, Nobel Prize winner)
Died:
1910 Leo Tolstoy (author – “War and Peace”)
On This Day:
1917 Ukraine declares itself a republic
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13th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island)
Died:
2007 John Doherty (footballer)
On This Day:
1982 Vietnam War Memorial (Washington) dedicated
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10th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1483 Martin Luther (major contributor to the Protestant Reformation)
Died:
2007 Norman Mailer (author)
On This Day:
1965 Manneke Pis statue stolen (in Brussels)
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8th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1847 Bram Stoker (author – Dracula)
Died:
1674 John Milton (poet)
On This Day:
1889 Montana becomes the 41st State of the USA
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4th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1916 Walter Cronkite (broadcaster & journalist)
Died:
2008 Michael Crichton (author)
On This Day:
1875 Tonga adopts its constitution
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2nd November – On This Day In History
Born:
1987 Danny Cipriani (rugby player – England)
Died:
1950 George Bernard Shaw (author)
On This Day:
1889 North & South Dakota become the 39th and 40th States of the USA
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19th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1940 Michael Gambon (actor – Dumbledore)
Died:
1745 Jonathan Swift (author – Gulliver’s Travels)
On This Day:
1872 Largest gold nugget ever found discovered in Australia (Holtermann Nugget, 270 kg)
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16th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1854 Oscar Wilde (author)
Died:
1793 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (“let them eat cake”)
On This Day:
1950 “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” (CS Lewis) is released
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8th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1920 Frank Herbert (sci-fi author – Dune)
Died:
1793 John Hancock (first to sign the American Declaration of Independence)
On This Day:
1600 San Marino adopts its constitution
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