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22nd May – On This Day In History
Born:
1813 Richard Wagner (composer)
Died:
1885 Victor Hugo (writer – Les Miserables)
On This Day:
1906 The Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane
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16th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1905 Henry Fonda (actor)
Died:
1957 Eliot Ness (federal agent who jailed Al Capone)
On This Day:
1920 Joan of Arc canonized (becomes a saint)
Have a good Tuesday, 16th May
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5th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1818 Karl Marx (German philosopher – Communist Manifesto)
Died:
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte (French general and emperor)
On This Day:
1955 West Germany is given full sovereignty
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25th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1599 Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England)
Died:
1995 Ginger Rogers (actress)
1792 First use of the guillotine in France (used to execute highwayman Nicolas Pelletier)
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31st March – On This Day In History
Born:
1596 Rene Descartes (French Philosopher)
Died:
1727 Sir Isaac Newton (physicist)
On This Day:
1889 The official opening of the Eiffel Tower (Paris)
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28th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1868 Maxim Gorky (Russian author and play-write)
Died:
1941 Virginia Woolfe (British author)
On This Day:
1854 Britain & France declare war on Russia – the start of the Crimean War
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25th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1947 Elton John (musician)
Died:
2006 Buck Owens (TV star and singer)
On This Day:
1970 Concorde makes its first supersonic flight
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