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27th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1822 Louis Pasteur (invented pasteurization)
Died:
2016 Carrie Fisher (actress – Star Wars)
On This Day:
1943 The Scharnhorst (German battleship) sinks in the Barents Sea
Have a good Thursday, 27th December
25th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1642 Isaac Newton (physicist – Gravity & Laws of Motion)
Died:
2016 George Michael (musician – Wham!)
On This Day:
1946 Taiwan accepts its constitution
Have a good Tuesday, 25th December
20th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1946 Uri Geller (magician and psychic – know for bending spoons)
Died:
1996 Carl Sagan (scientist and astronomer)
On This Day:
1812 Grimm’s Fairy Tales is first published (also known as Children’s and Household Tails)
Have a good Thursday, 20th December
10th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1830 Emily Dickinson (poet)
Died:
1896 Alfred Nobel (inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize)
On This Day:
1799 The Metric System is adopted in France – the first country to do this
Have a good Monday, 10th December
7th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1867 Marie Curie (discovered radium, Nobel Prize winner)
Died:
2016 Leonard Cohen (singer & song writer)
On This Day:
1951 Jordan passes its constitution
Have a good Wednesday, 7th November
4th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)
Died:
1934 Marie Curie (first woman to win the Nobel Prize)
On This Day:
1776 United States declares in independence (from Britain)
Have a good Wednesday, 4th July
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24th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1819 Queen Victoria (Queen of England)
Died:
1543 Copernicus (astronomer & mathematician)
On This Day:
1862 Westminster Bridge, London (crossing the Thames) is officially opened
Have a good Thursday, 24th May
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14th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1879 Albert Einstein (physicist & Nobel Laureate)
Died:
1883 Karl Marx (philosopher – Communist Manifesto)
On This Day:
2017 Muirfield Golf Club (world’s oldest golf club) votes to accept women members
2nd February – On This Day In History
Born:
1882 James Joyce (novelist and poet)
Died:
1907 Dmitri Mendeleev (original constructor of the Periodic Table)
On This Day:
1920 Estonia declares independence (from Russia)
Have a good Friday, 2nd February
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25th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1642 Isaac Newton (physicist – Gravity and the Laws of Motion)
Died:
1977 Charlie Chaplin (actor & comedian)
On This Day:
352 Earliest definitive date that Christmas would have been celebrated on the 25th December
Have a good, and blessed, Christmas – Monday 25th December
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