Anniversaries.

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Mary lou mcdonald is 55 today, will she be taoiseach before her next birthday? Joanna lumley is 78 today, happy birthday purdey.

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Jimmy White is 62 today. He lost 6 world finals including the 1994 final to stephen hendry by one frame. It was a pity he didnt win at least one. Happy birthday jimmy.

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Rory mcilroy is 35 today. He had 4 major tournaments won when he was 25. When will he win another? Happy birthday rory.

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Aryna sabalenka 26 today, carlos alcaraz 21. Will they win many majors between them this year?

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Bobby Sands 43 years dead today.

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King Charles and Queen Camilla, crowned one year ago

1937, Hindenburg disaster, killing 36 of the 97 persons aboard.

1953, Tony Blair born in Edinburgh.

1856,Sigmund Freud born Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Příbor, Czech Republic]

1954, Roger Bannister becomes first to run a sub-4 minute mile

1915, Orson Welles born

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born 1840
Sony Corporation was founded by Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio in 1946
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite 1867
Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, with loss of 1198 lives, 1915
World War II. Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims, 1945

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1992 champion Puerto Rican jockey Angel Cordero Jr retires after winning 7057 thoroughbred horse races.

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Christy Moore is 79 today. From berlin to san francisco ive gone on before the disco, lashing out the four green fields of athenry, mountbellew was like purgatory but tulsk was just like been in hell, i've recieved my education in the lounges of the nation, after 25 years i am doing well. Happy birthday christy.