|
Apr1
|
1980 |
The nudists' beach
in Brighton opened |
| 1973 |
Value Added Tax came into force in the UK |
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Apr2
|
1967 |
Adrian Mole - secret
diarist - was born |
|
Apr3

|
1882 |
Jesse James was shot in the back by a member of his own gang |
 |
|
1721 |
Horace
Walpole became Britain's first Prime Minister |
|
Apr4
|
1984 |
Winston Smith begin his diary with the words "Down with Big Brother"
repeated again and again
|
| 1981 |
Oxford
won the University Boat Race with the first woman cox - Susan Brown |
|
Apr5
|
1794 |
The
French revolutionary Georges Danton was guillotined |
 |
| 1614 |
Pocahontas
- daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan - married John Rolfe,
an English settler |
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Apr6
|
1896 |
The Olympic games were revived by Pierre de Coubertin |
Apr7
|
1739 |
The highwayman Dick Turpin was hanged for murder |