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On This Day in History ~ December ~ décembre ~ dicembre ~ december
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Dec 8 |
1542 |
Mary, Queen of Scots was born | |
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Dec 9 |
1960 |
The first episode of Coronation Street was shown on television |
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| 1954 | Dr Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, retired from athletics | ||
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Dec10 |
1907 |
Rudyard Kipling became the first Briton to win the Nobel prize for literature |
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| 1845 | Robert Thomson, Scottish civil engineer, patented the pneumatic tyre | ||
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Dec11 |
1282 |
Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales, was killed | |
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Dec12 |
1963 |
The Beatles' single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reached the top of the charts and became the biggest selling single of all time, a record that was not broken until "Mull of Kyntyre" by Paul McCartney in 1977 | |
| 1955 | Christopher Cockerell patented the hovercraft |
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| 1925 | The first 'motel' opened | ||
| 1911 | George V was crowned Emperor of India | ||
| 1901 | Marconi sent the first transatlantic telegraph message |
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1889 |
The poet Robert Browning died | ||
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Dec13 |
1903 |
Italo Marcioni patented the ice cream cone | |
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Dec14 |
1991 |
The cricket commentator John Arlott died |
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| 1977 | Saturday Night Fever opened in New York | ||
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Dec15 |
2002 |
The digital radio station BBC7 launched at 8pm, well 8:02 actually because it launched after the news headlines | |
| 1939 | 'Gone with the Wind' was premiered in Atlanta, Georgia | ||
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