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13th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1950 Stevie Wonder (singer & songwriter)
Died:
2001 RK Narayan (Indian novelist)
On This Day:
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded
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9th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1920 Richard Adams (author – Watership Down)
Died:
1986 Tenzing Norgay (first to summit Everest with Edmund Hillary)
On This Day:
1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
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3rd May – On This Day In History
Born:
1903 Bing Crosby (actor & singer)
Died:
1994 Richard Scarry (author & illustrator)
On This Day:
2006 Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea. 113 people killed.
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28th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1926 Harper Lee (author – To Kill A Mockingbird)
Died:
1980 Tommy Caldwell (rocker – Marshall Tucker Band)
On This Day:
1988 The roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off in flight
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25th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1599 Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England)
Died:
1878 Anne Sewell (author – Black Beauty)
On This Day:
1859 Ground is broken for the construction of the Suez Canal
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12th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1942 Jacob Zuma (ex-President of South Africa)
Died:
1988 Alan Paton (South African author – “Cry The Beloved Country”, and anti-apartheid activist)
On This Day:
1946 Syria gains independence (from France)
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8th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1943 James Herbert (author of horror stories)
Died:
1973 Pablo Picasso (painter)
On This Day:
1990 Norwegian ferry “Scandinavian Star” catches fire, killing 159 people
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