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1625 the mayor of Plymouth wrote to inform the privy council that within ten days 27 vessels and 200 men (80 from Looe) had been taken by Barbary pirates into slavery in north Africa.
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#OnThisDay 1978 Joy Division debuted at Pips Disco in Manchester. The band were initially billed as Warsaw - their previous name - to ensure an audience, but changed their name on the night.
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in 1966 an Air India Boeing 707 crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc, France, with 117 deaths. In 2013 a climber came across jewels worth €246,000 in a metal box from the aircraft.
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in 1871, after an eight-month journey, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley met the explorer Dr Livingstone at Ujiji village, Lake Tanganyika, with the greeting: “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”
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1961 the music entrepreneur Brian Epstein met the Beatles for the first time, when the band was performing a lunchtime concert at the Cavern Club, Liverpool.
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1783 John Austin, a highwayman, was the last person to be hanged at Tyburn gallows (near where Marble Arch in London now stands) for “robbery with violence”.
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Eiffel Tower,Champ de Mars, Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Pont de l'Alma, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées, Jardin des Tuileries, Louvre, Seine River, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Île de la Cité, Shakespeare and Company, Luxembourg Gardens & Pantheon.
In 1485 the Yeomen of the Guard, more commonly known as the Beefeaters, made their first official appearance at the coronation of their founder, King Henry VII; in 1888 John J Loud was granted the first.
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in 1963 the National Theatre Company, founded under Laurence Olivier, opened with Peter O’Toole starring in Hamlet at the temporary home of the Old Vic, London. The Times review was headlined: “Routine Performance of Hamlet”. https://t.co/XRFAF6TmmW for travellers.
1962 the novelty song Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Pickett became No 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was banned by the BBC for being “too morbid”, but reached No 3 on re-release in the UK in 1973.
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In 1714 the coronation of George I took place in Westminster Abbey. He had arrived in England from Germany the previous month, barely able to speak English.
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