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14th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1974 David Mitchell (comedian and actor)

Died:
1881 Billy The Kid (outlaw in the Wild West)

On This Day:
1789 Bastille Day (the start of the French Revolution)

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2nd July – On This Day In History
Born:
1929 Imelda Marcos (Filipino politician and infamous for her enormous collection of shoes)

Died:
1566 Nostradamus (astrologist, credited with predicting future events)

On This Day:
2015 Kim Nirvana ferry capsizes off the coast of the Philippines, killing 62

1st July – On This Day In History
Born:
1934 Sydney Pollack (actor and director)

Died:
1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

On This Day:
1903 The start of the first Tour De France

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30th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1975 Andy Farrell (England rugby union and league player)

Died:
1431 Joan of Arc (burned at the stake)

On This Day:
1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated

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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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16th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1905 Henry Fonda (actor)

Died:
1957 Eliot Ness (federal agent who jailed Al Capone)

On This Day:
1920 Joan of Arc canonized (becomes a saint)
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5th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1818 Karl Marx (German philosopher – Communist Manifesto)

Died:
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte (French general and emperor)

On This Day:
1955 West Germany is given full sovereignty

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25th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1599 Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England)

Died:
1995 Ginger Rogers (actress)

1792 First use of the guillotine in France (used to execute highwayman Nicolas Pelletier)

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31st March – On This Day In History
Born:
1596 Rene Descartes (French Philosopher)

Died:
1727 Sir Isaac Newton (physicist)

On This Day:
1889 The official opening of the Eiffel Tower (Paris)

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28th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1868 Maxim Gorky (Russian author and play-write)

Died:
1941 Virginia Woolfe (British author)

On This Day:
1854 Britain & France declare war on Russia – the start of the Crimean War

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