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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Londoners go about daily life in Fleet Street as smoke rises after the explosion of a German V1 flying bomb (1944). đź“· google images
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USA No.1 on this day in 1970: The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road youtu.be/yDP3dwpoVTo?si=rXq3… via @YouTube
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UK No.1 on this day in 1970: Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime youtu.be/wvUQcnfwUUM?si=1tlg… via @YouTube
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13 June 2023. 3 people (left to right: Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley Kumar) were murdered in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham. The murders shocked the nation.
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13 June 2000. A court in Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali AÄźca, the Turkish gunman who had tried to kill Pope John Paul II in May 1981. He had spent 19 years in prison for the crime. John Paul II forgave Agca and even visited him in prison in 1983 (pictured).
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13 June 1983. US space probe, Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Neptune at that time the outermost planet and so became the 1st human-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
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13 June 1982. Men’s FIFA World Cup opened in Spain. The tournament was won by Italy who beat West Germany 3–1 in the final. It was Italy's 3rd World Cup win. England appeared for the 1st time since 1970, but were eliminated at the 2nd group stage.
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13 June 1977. Matthew Garber died (aged 21) from Pancreatitis complications. He was best known for playing Michael Banks in Mary Poppins. Other films include The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Gnome-Mobile.
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13 June 1975. Last national TV appearance by former Beatle John Lennon was broadcast in the USA. He performed his classic song Imagine during a TV tribute to the British media mogul Lew Grade. The show was actually recorded on 18 April 1975 and later shown in the UK on ITV.
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13 June 1974. Men’s FIFA World Cup opened in West Germany with a 0-0 draw between Brazil and Yugoslavia. The tournament saw the introduction of the new FIFA World Cup Trophy which replaced the Jules Rimet Trophy which Brazil won outright in 1970.
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13 June 1970. The Long and Winding Road became The Beatles’ 20th and final US No 1 single. It was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon & McCartney. By this time, the group had already split up. It was one of the most widely covered Beatles songs by other artists.
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13 June 1969. Mick Taylor joined The Rolling Stones as a replacement for the recently sacked group member Brian Jones. He only stayed in the group as a guitarist until 1974, but played on 3 of their most acclaimed albums: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street.
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13 June 1955. Alan Hansen was born in Sauchie, Scotland. He played 620 games for Liverpool FC, winning the league title 8 times and the European Cup 3 times. He also gained 26 Scotland caps. He then became football pundit for BBC 1’s Match of The Day, before retirement in 2014.
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13 June 1944. Germany launched 1st V1 Flying Bomb attack (also known as the “doodlebug”) on Britain. Only 4 of the 11 bombs landed. At peak more than 100 V-1s a day were fired at the southeast of England numbering 9,521 in total until October 1944.
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13 June 1943. British actor Malcolm McDowell (Malcolm John Taylor) was born in Horsforth. Best known for his role as Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, the title character in Caligula and Mick Travis in If. He’s also appeared in numerous TV dramas.
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13 June 1922. US citizen Charlie Osborne began a bout of hiccups. He hiccuped continuously from that day until 1990. According to the Guinness Book of World Records this is the longest bout of the hiccups ever recorded.
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13 June 1920. US Post Office Department ruled that children could no longer be sent by parcel post. Before that time, provided a child weighed less than 50 lbs you could simply affix stamps to their clothing and send them off from a post office to a nominated address.
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13 June 1917. Deadliest German air raid on London during World War I was mounted by 20 Gotha G bombers and 162 were civilians killed. Less than a month later, on 7 July 1917, a further raid killed 57 more people and raised anti-German sentiments to fever pitch in Britain.
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13 June 1910. Mary Whitehouse was born in Nuneaton. She was a staunch campaigner in the 1960s and 1970s against sex and violence being shown on TV or broadcast on radio via her National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association.
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