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Former taoiseach Albert Reynolds was born on this day in 1932. Also Unai Emery is 52 today.
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1862: Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun.
1884: Harry Ferguson born Dromore, County Down.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, co-recipient with Shimon Peres and Yāsir ʿArafāt of the Nobel Prize, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally.
2008: Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected president of the United States.
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1605. Gunpowder Plot. Celebrated with fireworks as Guy Fawkes Day, this English holiday marks Robert Catesby’s attempt, along with seven others, to blow up Parliament, the king, and his family
1911. Roy Rogers—who starred in films and television shows, often alongside his wife, Dale Evans—was born
1913. Vivien Leigh—who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature's most-celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois—was born in India
1935. Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
1959 Bryan Adams was born
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One of my all-time favourite bands released this belter 43 years ago today!
At the tender age of 10 I was addicted. Got the bus into Dublin city centre
With me pals… headed Straight for Freebird records and bought my first single!
Couldn’t wait to get home… played it on repeat!
“On this day in 1980 a seminal moment in rock n’roll history was released! All hail, the Ace Of Spades”
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Lou Ferigno 72 today. Probably better known as the incredible hulk. When david banner got mad he turned into him. Dont make me angry mr magee, you wouldn't like me when im angry.
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Jon Rahm is 29 today. Hope he gets a few birdies on his birthday.
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On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the First World War officially came to an end in 1918.
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1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky born on this day
1885 - George Patton born on this day
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut born on this day
2004 - Yasser Arafat died on this day
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Cnut the Great [King Canute] died 1035
Percival Lowell, astronomer, died aged 61 in 1916
Grace Kelly, born 1929,
Charles Manson, born 1934,
Neil Young, born 1945
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, first proposed The World Wide Web 1990
Stan Lee—who helped create the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the X-Men for Marvel Comics—died aged 95 in 2018.
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King Charles III is seventy-five today.
Happy birthday, your majesty, from us peasants.
[Poor bloke. Waits all his life to get his job, gets it at an age when most people have long retired, now has to work til he dies, with no hope of retirement.]
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