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Merry Christmas to all our friends (and everyone else as well!).

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#StormDarragh has been named and is forecast to bring very strong winds and heavy rain to the UK later on Friday and through the weekend #WeatherAware ⚠️

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#StormBert has been named and is forecast to bring heavy rain, strong winds and disruptive snow to parts of the UK through the weekend #WeatherAware ⚠️

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#TodaysBirthdays. Actors Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, #NaokoMori (#Torchwood), #DouglasHenshall (#Primeval & #Shetland), Robert Beltran (Star Trek Voyager - pictured). King #CharlesI. Psychologist #PenelopeLeach. Mathematician #FredDiamond. Conductor #DavidLloydJones

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#TodayInHistory. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured) meet for the first time (1985). The first UK #NationalLottery draw is held (1994). Pelé scores his 1,000th goal (1969).

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#TodayInHistory. The #KingsCross and #StPancras tube station fire kills 31people (1987). A fire occurs on a train traveling through the #ChannelTunnel (1996). Church envoy #TerryWaite (pictured) is freed after 1,763 days in captivity in Beirut (1991).

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#TodaysBirthdays. TV host #AntMcPartlin. Ex #DrWho showrunner #StevenMoffat. Actors Owen Wilson (pictured), #MathewBaynton (#HorribleHistories), & #LucyAkhurst (#ShaunoftheDead). From music #KimWilde, #JohnParr, #WSGilbert (#GilbertandSullivan), & #ChrisRainbow

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#TodaysBirthdays. TV chef #LorrainePascale. Artist #JackVettriano. Fashion designer #DavidEmanuel. Journalist and activist #LesleyAbdela. Writer #AuberonWaugh. Inventor of food canning #NicolasAppert (pictured). Film director #RolandJoffe.

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#TodayInHistory. #QueenMaryI dies and is succeeded by #ElizabethI (1558). #SirWalterRaleigh (pictured) goes on trial for treason (1603). The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, China (2019).

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#TodaysBirthdays. #StoneRoses & #PrimalScream bassist #Mani. Actors #StephenCritchlow, #GriffRhysJones, #AmandaClapham (#Hollyoaks), & 60's Batman actor Burgess Meredith. Boxer #FrankBruno (pictured). Jockey #WillieCarson. #PizzaExpress founder Peter Boizot.

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#TodayInHistory. Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the 'Girl You Know It's True' album (session musicians had provided all vocals). (1990). #HoxneHoard is discovered by metal #detectorists in #Suffolk (1992).

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#TodaysBirthdays. Fashion designers Jimmy Choo & ScottHenshall. Actor #JonnyLeeMiller. From music #PetulaClark, Frida Lyngstad (ABBA), #JoeLeeway (#ThompsonTwins), Tony Thompson (Chic), #RickKemp (#SteeleyeSpan), & #HankWangford (pictured). Author #JGBallard.

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#TodayInHistory. The #AngloIrishAgreement is signed at #HillsboroughCastle by #MargaretThatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald (1985). The #RNLI lifeboat #MaryStanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew (1928).

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#TodaysBirthdays. Actors #GerardButler, Whoopi Goldberg (pictured), #ArtMalik, #HermioneBaddeley, and #AdrienneCorri. Comedian #KevinBridges. Tennis player #EmmaRaducanu. Authors #RobertLouisStevenson and #StephenBaxter. Ex-Archbishop #GeorgeCarey.

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#TodayinHistory. #GreatBritain defeats France in the first ever #RugbyLeague World Cup final (1954). 8 are lost in the #Caister lifeboat disaster (1901). The Royalists are defeated at the Battle of #TurnhamGreen. First #EnglishCivilWar (1642).

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#TodaysBirthdays. Actors Grace Kelly (pictured), Ryan Gosling, & Anne Hathaway. Writer #BenTravers. From music, Folk singer Neil Young, tenor #TudorDavies, #LesMcKeown (#BayCityRoller's). #GrantNicholas (#Feeder). Racing drivers #PaulEmery & #PeterWhitehead.

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#TodayInHistory. The #government announces that the #poundcoin is to replace #poundnote (1984). #GreatTrainRobbery gang member #RonnieBiggs escapes extradition to the UK (1997).

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#TodayInHistory. We won't be doing any On This Day trivia today. Instead we remember the fallen of #Britain and the #Commonwealth in war. #Remembrance2024.