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13th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1923 Chuck Yeager (pilot and first man to break the sound barrier)
Died:
1883 Richard Wagner (composer)
On This Day:
1920 The League of Nations recognises the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
Have a good Monday, 13th February
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8th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1828 Jules Verne (considered the father of Science Fiction)
Died:
1990 Del Shannon (musician and songwriter)
On This Day:
1933 First flight of the Boeing 247
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4th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1902 Charles Lindbergh (first person to fly solo across the Atlantic)
Died:
1987 Liberace (flamboyant pianist)
On This Day:
2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook
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27th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)
Died:
1986 L Ron Hubbard (writer and founder of Scientology)
On This Day:
1939 The first flight of the Lockheed Lightning (P-38)
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21st January – On This Day In History
Born:
1924 Benny Hill (comedian)
Died:
1924 Lenin (Revolutionary leader and premier of Russia)
On This Day:
1976 Concorde makes first commercial supersonic flights are made by Britain and France
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9th January – On This Day In History
Born:
1913 Richard Nixon (37th President of the USA)
Died:
1923 Katherine Mansfield (short story writer)
On This Day:
1969 First trial of the Concorde
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26th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1791 Charles Babbage (inventor of the first calculator)
Died:
1971 Harry Truman (33rd US President)
On This Day:
1975 Tupolev 144 is the first supersonic transport plane
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22nd December – On This Day In History
Born:
1949 Robin Gibb (rocker – BeeGees)
Died:
1440 Bluebeard (pirate – executed)
On This Day:
1964 The Blackbird (SR – 71) makes its first flight
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22nd November – On This Day In History
Born:
1921 Rodney Dangerfield (comedian and actor)
Died:
1718 Blackbeard (notorious pirate)
On This Day:
1977 Concorde begins regular flights between Europe and the USA
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The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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