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Post by ARENA on Dec 5, 2014 8:58:43 GMT
5/12/1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 6, 2014 9:02:09 GMT
6/12/1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published in Edinburgh.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 7, 2014 10:30:15 GMT
7/12/1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 8, 2014 9:55:56 GMT
8/12/1980 – John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 9, 2014 9:18:39 GMT
9/12/1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 10, 2014 9:58:17 GMT
10/12/1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 11, 2014 9:30:33 GMT
11/12/ 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 12, 2014 9:18:18 GMT
12/12/1863 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter screamed for the first time.....
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Post by scorp on Dec 12, 2014 21:27:05 GMT
... because everybody pronounced his name wrong...
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Post by ARENA on Dec 13, 2014 9:08:54 GMT
13/12/1944 – Marti Webb, English actress and singer (sang her first note...........WAAAAAAAAH)
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Post by ARENA on Dec 14, 2014 9:13:24 GMT
14/12/1287 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 15, 2014 9:14:19 GMT
15/12/1921 – Bob Todd, English actor born.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 16, 2014 9:24:30 GMT
16/12/1927 – Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 17, 2014 7:51:21 GMT
17/12/1936 – Birth of Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and actor
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Post by ARENA on Dec 18, 2014 9:33:57 GMT
18/12/1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
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