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3rd October – On This Day In History
Born:
1900 Thomas Wolfe (author & playwright)
Died:
1967 Woody Guthrie (musician)
On This Day:
1932 Iraq gains independence (from Britain)
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1st October – On This Day In History
Born:
1910 Bonnie Parker (outlaw – Bonnie and Clyde)
Died:
2013 Tom Clancy (author – Hunt For Red October)
On This Day:
1888 National Geographic publishes for the first time
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28th September – On This Day In History
Born:
551 BC Confucius (Chinese philosopher)
Died:
1891 Herman Melville (author – Moby Dick)
On This Day:
1950 Indonesia joins the United Nations (becomes the 50th member)
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24th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1896 F Scott Fitzgerald (author – The Great Gatsby)
Died:
1991 Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss)
On This Day:
1948 Honda Motor Company formed
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21st September – On This Day In History
Born:
1866 HG wells (author – War Of The Worlds)
Died:
1998 Florence Griffith Joyner (athlete)
On This Day:
1937 “The Hobbit” (JRR Tolkien) is published
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19th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1796 Hartley Coleridge (poet)
Died:
2015 Jackie Collins (author)
On This Day:
1893 New Zealand grants women the right to vote (first country to do this)
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6th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1943 Roger Waters (musician – Pink Floyd)
Died:
1994 James Clavell (author – Shogun)
On This Day:
1620 The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England heading for the New World
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30th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1797 Mary Shelly (author of Frankenstein)
Died:
2003 Charles Bronson (actor)
On This Day:
1918 Czechoslovakia forms an independent republic
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11th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1897 Enid Blyton (children’s author)
Died:
1919 Andrew Carnegie (industrialist and philanthropist)
On This Day:
1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded
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4th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1821 Louis Vuitton (founder of leather fashion brand)
Died:
1875 Hans Christian Andersen (author – The Ugly Duckling)
On This Day:
1693 Traditional date accredited to the invention of Champagne (by Dom Perignon)
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