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1864 The Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was finally opened in Bristol, England, 5 years after his death
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2014 The Archbishop of Canterbury claims that he is more shocked by the plight of UK's hunger-stricken poor than the suffering in African refugee camps. He has now resigned over covering up child abuse.
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1990 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination
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1791 The Observer was first published, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world
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Rowland Hill was born 03/12/1795
English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840), born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
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1682 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam following the failure of his plots to prevent a Catholic succession should King Charles II die
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1919 Lady Nancy Astor was sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament. She was antisemitic, xenophobic and regarded Nazism as good. She held her seat until her retirement in 1945.
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1530 Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London.
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1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
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1826 John Walker invented the friction match. Wooden splints or sticks of cardboard coated with sulphur and tipped with a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash and gum.
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1477 First English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton is printed at his press in London
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1969 The 1st ever colour television commercial in the UK, for Birds Eye peas, airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
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