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13th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1916 Roald Dahl (author – Charlie And The Chocolate Factory)

Died:
1996 Tupac Shakur (rapper & actor)

On This Day:
1979 Venda is granted independence by South Africa (but not recognised outside of South Africa)

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6th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1974 Tim Henman (tennis champion)

Died:
2007 Luciano Pavarotti (singer – tenor)

On This Day:
1620 The Mayflower leaves Plymouth carrying pilgrims and settlers to the New World

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9th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1828 Leo Tolstoy (author – War & Peace)

Died:
1969 Sharon Tate (actress, murdered by Manson’s gang)

On This Day:
1945 US drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

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24th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1802 Alexander Dumas (author – The Three Musketeers)

Died:
1980 Peter Sellers (actor & comedian – The Pink Panther)

On This Day:
1927 The Menin Gate is unveiled in Ypres (memorial to those who are missing in the battlefields of Flanders in World War 1)

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7th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1940 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey, Beatles drummer)

Died:
1930 Arthur Conan Doyle (author – Sherlock Holmes)

On This Day:
1930 Construction begin on the Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

Have a good Saturday, 7th July
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9th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1781 George Stephenson (engineer known as the Father of Railways)

Died:
1870 Charles Dickens (author – Oliver Twist, Tales of Two Cities etc)

On This Day:
1934 Donald Duck makes his first appearance (in The Wise Little Hen)

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2nd June – On This Day In History
Born:
1840 Thomas Hardy (author & poet)

Died:
2017 Peter Sallis (actor – Last Of The Summer Wine)

On This Day:
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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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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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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