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9th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1828 Leo Tolstoy (author – War & Peace)
Died:
1969 Sharon Tate (actress, murdered by Manson’s gang)
On This Day:
1945 US drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
Have a good Thursday, 9th August
24th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1802 Alexander Dumas (author – The Three Musketeers)
Died:
1980 Peter Sellers (actor & comedian – The Pink Panther)
On This Day:
1927 The Menin Gate is unveiled in Ypres (memorial to those who are missing in the battlefields of Flanders in World War 1)
Have a good Tuesday, 24th July
7th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1940 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey, Beatles drummer)
Died:
1930 Arthur Conan Doyle (author – Sherlock Holmes)
On This Day:
1930 Construction begin on the Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Have a good Saturday, 7th July
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)
Have a good Saturday, 9th June
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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
Have a good Saturday, 2nd June
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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
Have a good Wednesday, 9th May
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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
Have a good Saturday, 28th April
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