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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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11th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1815 John A Macdonald (1st Prime Minister of Canada)
Died:
1928 Thomas Hardy (author & poet – Far From The Madding Crowd)
On This Day:
1864 Charing Cross Station opens (London)
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3rd January – On This Day In History
Born:
1892 JRR Tolkien (author – Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit)
Died:
2008 Natasha Collins (actress and TV personality)
On This Day:
1959 Alaska admitted at the 49th State of the USA
Have a good Wednesday, 3rd January
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1st January – On This Day In History
Born:
1919 JD Salinger (author – Catcher In The Rye)
Died:
1953 Hank Williams (country singer)
On This Day:
1804 Haiti gains independence (from France)
Have a happy and prosperous New Year!
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30th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1865 Rudyard Kipling (author – Jungle Book)
Died:
2006 Saddam Hussein (dictator of Iraq, hanged)
On This Day:
1947 Romanian Republic proclaimed
Have a good Saturday, 30th December
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19th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1961 Reggie White (Green Bay Packers)
Died:
1848 Emily Bronte (writer)
On This Day:
1973 Grenada adopts its constitution
Have a good Tuesday, 19th December
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16th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1770 Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)
Died:
1980 Colonel Harland Sanders (founder – Kentucky Fried Chicken)
On This Day:
1773 Boston Tea Party (Sons of Liberty throw tea off ships into Boston Harbour to protest the British Tea Tax)
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3rd December – On This Day In History
Born:
1857 Joseph Conrad (author – Heart Of Darkness)
Died:
1991 Alex Graham (cartoonist – Fred Basset)
On This Day:
1818 Illinois becomes the 21st State of the USA
Have a good Sunday, 3rd December
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30th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1835 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) author of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn.
Died:
1900 Oscar Wilde (playwright & novelist)
1782 Britain signs the agreement to recognize the independence of the USA
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