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26th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1910 Mother Teresa (nun, Nobel Peace Prize winner)
Died:
1974 Charles Lindbergh (aviator)
On This Day:
1974 Guinea – Bissau declares independence (from Portugal)
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23rd August – On This Day In History
Born:
1946 Keith Moon (drummer – The Who)
Died:
1305 William Wallace (Scottish patriot – hung, drawn and quartered)
On This Day:
1954 First flight of the C-130 cargo plane
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19th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1871 Orville Wright (aviator)
Died:
1977 Groucho Marx (comedian)
On This Day:
1919 Afghanistan declares its independence (from Britain)
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24th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1897 Amelia Earhart (first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic)
Died:
1980 Peter Sellers (actor & comedian)
On This Day:
1927 The Menin Gate is unveiled in Ypres
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29th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1930 Robert Evans (director – The Godfather)
Died:
1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet)
On This Day:
1916 The first Boeing aircraft flies
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25th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1889 Igor Sikorsky (aviation pioneer)
Died:
1849 Benjamin d’Urban (British general, city of Durban, South Africa, named after him)
On This Day:
1927 The announcement is made that Ford will no longer produce the Model T
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22nd May – On This Day In History
Born:
1813 Richard Wagner (composer)
Died:
1885 Victor Hugo (writer – Les Miserables)
On This Day:
1906 The Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane
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21st May – On This Day In History
Born:
1688 Alexander Pope (poet)
Died:
2000 Sir John Gielgud (screen and stage actor)
On This Day:
1927 Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in an aeroplane
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27th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1863 Henry Royce (co-founder of Rolls-Royce)
Died:
2002 Dudley Moore (actor and comedian)
On This Day:
1994 The Eurofighter takes its first flight
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25th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1947 Elton John (musician)
Died:
2006 Buck Owens (TV star and singer)
On This Day:
1970 Concorde makes its first supersonic flight
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