middle east
19th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1871 Orville Wright (aviator)
Died:
1977 Groucho Marx (comedian)
On This Day:
1919 Afghanistan declares its independence (from Britain)
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16th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1888 TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia, British soldier and diplomat)
Died:
1948 Babe Ruth (legendary baseball player)
On This Day:
1896 Gold first discovered in the Klondike
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14th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1851 Doc Holliday (dentist, gambler and gunfighter)
Died:
1996 Camilla Horn (actress)
On This Day:
1971 Bahrain proclaims its independence (from Britain)
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2nd August – On This Day In History
Born:
1923 Shimon Peres (Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner)
Died:
1876 Wild Bill Hickok (frontiersman – shot from behind)
On This Day:
1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence
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23rd July – On This Day In History
Born:
1949 Clive Rice (South African all – round cricketer)
Died:
2011 Amy Winehouse (singer)
On This Day:
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
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30th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1941 Peter Pollock (South African cricketer)
Died:
2012 Yitzhak Shamir (Israeli Prime Minister)
On This Day:
1894 Tower Bridge (London) opens
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18th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1942 Paul McCartney (musician – The Beatles)
Died:
1928 Roald Amundsen (led the first expedition to the South Pole)
On This Day:
1953 Egypt proclaimed as a republic
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