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15th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor)

Died:
Will Rogers (humorist & actor)

On This Day:
1248 Construction of the Cologne Cathedral begins

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28th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1866 Beatrix Potter (children’s author)

Died:
1750 Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)

On This Day:
1821 Peru declares independence (from Spain)

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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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29th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1899 Duke Ellington (musician)

Died:
1980 Alfred Hitchcock (film director)

On This Day:
1945 Terms of Surrender of the German Army in Italy are signed

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14th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1879 Albert Einstein (theory of relativity)

Died:
1883 Karl Marx (philosopher – Marxism)

On This Day:
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City after the Iraqi army has left

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6th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1476 Michelangelo (sculptor, painter, poet)

Died:
1836 Davy Crockett (frontiersman, killed at The Alamo)

On This Day:
1899 Aspirin patented (by Bayer)

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16th February – On This Day In History
Born:
Johan Strauss (composer)

Died:
2012 Gary Carter (Baseball catcher, American Hall of Fame)

On This Day:
1918 Lithuania declares independence (from Germany & Russia)

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30th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1835 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) author of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn etc

Died:
1900 Oscar Wilde (playwright)

On This Day:
1487 German Beer Purity Law published in Bavaria (beer should only be brewed from water, malt and hops)

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9th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1934 Karl Sagan (astronomer and TV personality – Cosmos)

Died:
2004 Stieg Larsson (author – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

On This Day:
1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic

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15th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1920 Mario Puzo (author of The Godfather)

Died:
2011 Betty Driver (actress)

On This Day:
1880 Koln Cathedral finally finished (begun 633 years previously)

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