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24th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1934 Shirley MacLaine (actress)
Died:
1731 Daniel Defoe (author – Robinson Crusoe)
On This Day:
1970 Gambia becomes a republic (and part of the Commonwealth)
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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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20th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1957 Ray Winston (actor)
Died:
2016 Harper Lee (author – To Kill A Mockingbird)
On This Day:
1962 First American (John Glenn) orbits the Earth aboard Friendship 7
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7th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1812 Charles Dickens (author – Oliver Twist)
Died:
2005 Bob Turner (ice hockey player, Canada)
On This Day:
1831 Belgium adopts its constitution
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1st February – On This Day In History
Born:
1981 Graeme Smith (South African cricketer)
Died:
1851 Mary Shelly (author – Frankenstein)
On This Day:
1991 FW de Klerk (South African President) commits to repeal all apartheid laws
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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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28th January – On This Day In History
Born:
Jackson Pollock (expressionist painter – Lavender Mist)
Died:
814 Charlemagne (Roman / German emperor)
On This Day:
1813 Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin) is published
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22nd January – On This Day In History
Born:
1788 Lord Byron (romantic poet)
Died:
1901 Queen Victoria (Britain’s Queen, 1827 – 1901)
On This Day:
1970 First commercial flight of a Boeing 747 (PanAm New York City to London)
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19th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1809 Edgar Allan Poe (writer, poet & critic)
Died:
2006 Wilson Pickett (R&B singer)
On This Day:
1955 The board game “Scrabble” arrives on the market
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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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