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Happened On This Day
In History? |
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1986 |
Libya expelled a number western diplomats from their embassys in Tripoli |
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1985 |
Prince Andrew opened the new Falklands airport |
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1982 |
The liner QE2 sailed to join the Falklands naval task force |
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1976 |
Jo Grimond took over the leadership of the Liberal party |
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1969 |
The legal age for voting in Britain was lowered from 21 to 18 |
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1967 |
John Masefield, the English poet & former Poet Laurete, died |
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1949 |
The blockade of the city of Berlin, by the USSR, was officially lifted |
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1945 |
Alan Ball, Southampton FC manager |
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1942 |
Susan Hampshire, Film actress |
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1937 |
King George VI was coronated in Westminster Abbey |
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1937 |
Dr Miriam Stoppard, Author & broadcaster |
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1929 |
Burt Bacharach, Composer |
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1881 |
Tunisia became a French protectorate |
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1828 |
Dante Rossetti, English artist and poet |
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1820 |
Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing |
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1803 |
Justus von Liebig, German chemist |
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1567 |
Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer |
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