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11th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1897 Enid Blyton (children’s author)
Died:
1919 Andrew Carnegie (industrialist and philanthropist)
On This Day:
1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded
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4th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1821 Louis Vuitton (founder of leather fashion brand)
Died:
1875 Hans Christian Andersen (author – The Ugly Duckling)
On This Day:
1693 Traditional date accredited to the invention of Champagne (by Dom Perignon)
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3rd August – On This Day In History
Born:
1940 Martin Sheen (actor – The West Wing)
Died:
1924 Joseph Conrad (author – Heart Of Darkness)
On This Day:
1798 Battle of the Nile (Nelson forces French fleet to surrender)
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1st August – On This Day In History
Born:
1819 Herman Melville (author – Moby Dick)
Died:
30 BC Mark Anthony (Roman leader)
On This Day:
1793 France becomes the first country to use the metric system
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21st July – On This Day In History
Born:
1899 Ernest Hemingway (Nobel prize winning author)
Died:
1796 Robert Burns (Scottish poet)
On This Day:
1884 First Test Cricket match played at Lords
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18th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1918 Nelson Mandela (statesman)
Died:
1817 Jane Austen (author)
On This Day:
2013 The City of Detroit files for bankruptcy ($18.5 billion!)
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13th July – On This Day In History
Born:
100 BC Julius Caesar (Roman politician and general)
Died:
2014 Nadine Gordimer (author and Nobel laureate)
On This Day:
2016 Theresa May elected PM of Britain by Conservative Part MP’s
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