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Dec16
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1962 |
William "The Fridge" Perry born, now working as a brick layer apparently |
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| 1901 | Beatrix Potter first published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, privately | ||
| 1809 | Napoleon divorced Josephine | ||
| 1773 | The Boston Tea Party | ||
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of England | ||
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Dec17 |
1903 |
Orville Wright made the first flight in a powered aircraft. | |
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Dec18 |
1919 |
 Sir John
Alcock, the aviator who first flew the Atlantic with Arthur
Brown, died |
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Dec19 |
1981 |
All 8 crew members of the Penlee lifeboat died attempting a rescue in hurricane force winds off the Cornish coast | |
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Dec20 |
1560 |
The first general assembly of the Church of Scotland was held | |
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Dec21 |
1988 |
All 259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground were killed when a Pan Am Boeing 747 crashed onto Lockerbie, Scotland | |
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Dec22 |
2000 |
Steve Norton left B&W |
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| 1808 | Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was first performed, in Vienna | ||
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Dec23 |
1986 |
 The US aircraft Voyager piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager
landed after having flown round the world without refuelling |
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