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#On This Day – The Smile
18, 9, 2019 - #OnThisDay English scholar and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, was born on September 18, 1709. .... Read More
#On This Day – Chickens
10, 9, 2019 - #OnThisDay On 10 September 1945 Mike, a Wyandotte Chicken, was selected for dinner by Colorado .... Read More
#On This Day – Trafalgar
4, 9, 2019 - #OnThisDay On the 4 September 1639 the state of Massachusetts banned drinking toasts, calling .... Read More
#On This Day – Dreams
28, 8, 2019 - #OnThisDay Martin Luther King delivered his famous public speech “I Have a Dream” .... Read More
#On This Day – Romans
23, 8, 2019 - #OnThisDay On the 23 August 79AD Mount Vesuvius began to stir! Some eyewitnesses reported early .... Read More
#On This Day – Chairs
16, 8, 2019 - #OnThisDay On August 19 1612 three women, Jennet Bierley, Ellen Bierley, and Jane Southworth, .... Read More
#On This Day – TV history
14, 8, 2019 - #OnThisDay John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and “father” of television, was born .... Read More
#On This Day – The Signature
13, 8, 2019 - #OnThisDay Happy #LeftHandersDay! the 13th August is celebrated as Left Handers Day, a chance .... Read More
#On This Day – Clocks
12, 8, 2019 - #OnThisDay 12 August 1949 Big Ben was unable to chime at 9pm as a flock of starlings had .... Read More
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