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9th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1781 George Stephenson (engineer known as the Father of Railways)
Died:
1870 Charles Dickens (author – Oliver Twist, Tales of Two Cities etc)
On This Day:
1934 Donald Duck makes his first appearance (in The Wise Little Hen)
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2nd June – On This Day In History
Born:
1840 Thomas Hardy (author & poet)
Died:
2017 Peter Sallis (actor – Last Of The Summer Wine)
On This Day:
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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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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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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24th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1934 Shirley MacLaine (actress)
Died:
1731 Daniel Defoe (author – Robinson Crusoe)
On This Day:
1970 Gambia becomes a republic (and part of the Commonwealth)
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3rd April – On This Day In History
Born:
1783 Washington Irving (author – The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow)
Died:
1882 Jesse James (outlaw)
On This Day:
1657 Oliver Cromwell, England, refuses the Crown
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