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Your support makes all the difference.Births: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1573; Maj-Gen Sir Ralph Abercromby, soldier, 1734; Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, violinist and composer, 1802; Sir Philip Magnus Bt MP, educationist and mathematician, 1842; James Whitcomb Riley, poet, 1849; Niels Henrik David Bohr, physicist, 1885; Heinrich Himmler, Nazi head of the SS, 1900.
Deaths: Margaret, 'The Maid of Norway', Queen of Scotland, at sea 1290; Edgar Allan Poe, novelist, 1849; Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and writer, 1894; Sir Charles Hubert Hubert Hastings Parry, composer, 1918; Marie Lloyd (Matilda Alice Victoria Wood), music hall comedienne, 1922; Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist, 1931; Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, author, 1943; Clarence Birdseye, inventor of quick-freezing, 1956; Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), singer, 1959.
On this day: the British were defeated at the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, 1780; Crete revolted against Turkey and proclaimed its union with Greece, 1908; the Dutch airline KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) was founded, 1919; the Westminster Theatre, London, opened, 1931; the London Philharmonic Orchestra gave its first performance at Queen's Hall, 1932; the German Democratic Republic was set up in Eastern Germany, 1949; the first pictures of the far side of the moon were taken by the Soviet spacecraft Lunik III, 1959; the Independent was first published, 1986.
Today is the Feast Day of St Artaldus or Arthaud, St Helanus, St Justina of Padua, St Mark, pope and St Osyth.
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