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On This Day in History ~ May ~ mai ~ maggio ~ május
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May24 |
1972 |
The Gravelly Hill interchange, better known as Spaghetti Junction, was opened |
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May25 |
735 |
The Venerable Bede died | |
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May26 |
1913 |
The first UK woman magistrate was appointed | |
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May27 |
1674 |
Ashcah Young became the first person in America to be condemned and hung as a witch | |
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1931 |
August Piccard and Charles Kipfer reached a height of 52,462 feet in a balloon - the first men to reach the stratosphere. |
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1907 |
The first Isle of Man TT motorcycle race was held | ||
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May29
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1953 |
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest |
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| 1950 | The Archers was first broadcast | ||
| 1942 | Bing Crosby recorded White Christmas | ||
| 1871 | Britain enjoyed its first bank holiday | ||
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May30 |
1988 |
6,500 people played musical chairs on the beach at Weymouth, Dorset and entered the Guinness Book of Records | |
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May31 |
2002 |
Captain Philippa Tattersall became the first woman to earn the Royal Marines green beret | |
| 1911 | The Titanic was launched | ||
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