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Sep16
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1908 |
General
Motors was formed from the amalgamation of Buick and Oldsmobile |
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Sep17
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1939 |
 HMS
Courageous was torpedoed and became the first British warship to be
sunk in the Second World War |
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Sep18
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1981 |
France abolished capital punishment |
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Sep19
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1975 |
Fawlty Towers was first shown on tv
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1876 |
Melville
Bissell patented a carpet-sweeper
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1783 |
A sheep, a duck and a rooster made an
ascent in a hot-air balloon over Versailles, France |
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1356 |
Edward the Black Prince defeated the
King of France at the Battle of Poitiers |
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Sep20
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1967 |
The QE2 was launched at Clydebank |
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1955 |
Phil Silvers first appeared on tv as Sergeant Bilko |
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1946 |
The first Cannes Film Festival opened |
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1839 |
Charles Dickens finished writing Nicholas Nickleby |
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Sep21
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1936 |
Frank Hornby, the inventor of Meccano, died |
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Sep22
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1955 |
The UK's first commercial
tv station went on air |
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Sep23
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1974 |
Ceefax went live on BBC television to
become the world's first teletext system |
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