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22nd January – On This Day In History
Born:
1788 Lord Byron (romantic poet)
Died:
1901 Queen Victoria (Britain’s Queen, 1827 – 1901)
On This Day:
1970 First commercial flight of a Boeing 747 (PanAm New York City to London)
Have a good Monday, 22nd January
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27th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1837 Wild Bill Hickok (American folk hero)
Died:
2013 Bill Pertwee (actor – Dad’s Army)
On This Day:
1977 Two Boeing 747 aircraft (KLM and PanAm) collide on the Canary Islands. 582 people killed.
Have a good Saturday, 27th May
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10th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1825 Paul Kruger (President of The South African Republic in 1883 and Boer leader)
Died:
1875 Alexsey Tolstoy (Russian novelist)
On This Day:
1959 PanAm begins scheduled flights around the world
Have a good Monday, 10th October
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28th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1908 Oskar Schindler (Austrian businessman who saved over 1000 people from Nazi concentration camps etc)
Died:
2005 Percy Heath( (jazz musician)
On This Day:
1937 First commercial flight to cross the Pacific (undertaken by PanAm)
Have a good Thursday, 28th April
8th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1976 Freddie Prinze Jr (actor)
Died:
1862 Nat Gordon (last pirate hanged in New York)
On This Day:
1927 Incorporation of Pan American Airlines (PanAm)
Have a good Tuesday, 5th March
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