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Peter Squires (1951), Rugby player
Percy Shelley (1792), English poet
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900)
Osbert Lancaster (1908), English cartoonist
Martin Jarvis (1941), Actor
William Hudson (1841), British writer
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1983 Italy elected its first socialist prime minister since 1946
1995 The Queen Mother celebrated her 95th birthday
1972 Ugandan President Amin expelled 40,000 British Asians
1971 The US launched its first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft
1966 Britain appointed its first Ombudsman, Sir Edmund Compton
1923 The BBC began using the 'pips' as a time signal in its broadcasts
1914 Britain declared war on Germany
1921 A famine struck Russia; millions starved/ate grass
1875 Hans Christian Anderson, the fairy tale writer, died