'ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
... 'ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1858: Ottawa was chosen by Queen Victoria to be the capital of Canada. 1957: Oliver Norvell Hardy, partner of Stan Laurel, died. ...
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Watercolours sold
... Watercolours sold More than 60 watercolours from an album which once belonged to Queen Victoria have been sold by Sothebys for £138,325. ...
ON THIS DAY LR[O4
... ON THIS DAY LR[O4 1788: Lord , English poet, was bommng:rhdon in London. 1901: Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, aged 81. ...
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... - 1381 Wa er led English tory's first Peasants against taxes 1842 Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by train - journeying from Slough to Paddington. ...
ON THIS DAY (LR IM (4
... 1840 Parliament passed an Act prohibiting the employment of climbing boys as chimney sweeps. 1858 Ottawa was chosen by Queen Victoria to be the capital of Canada. ...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
... 1820: George 111, longest-lived and longest-reigning King of England, died aged 81. 1856: Queen Victoria instituted Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross. ...
Royal waiting room
... attended a one-day exhibition of a canteen at London's Paddington Station after it was discovered that it was used by Queen Victoria as a waiting room. ...
TR A IN HISTORY
... TR A IN HISTORY 1819: Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria. 1936: The BBC transmitted the first high definition television pictures. 1996: Alan Ball quit as manager of Manchester City. ...
ON THIS DAY LM
... ON THIS DAY LM 1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. 1913: The bodies of Antarctic explorer Robert Scott and his party were found. 1944: Pay As You Earn income tax was introduced. ...
T TG
... T TG 1878: Queen Victoria was given a demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell's new invention, the telephone. 1989: British Muslims held public bumm?s of Salman Rushdie's he Satanic Verses. ...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
... DAY IN HISTORY 1844: The first press telegram in Britain was sent to The Times, announcing the birth of Prince Alfred to Queen Victoria. 1945: The first atomic bomb was dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan, from a 829 bomber Enola Gay. ...
Nancy’s 106
... Nancy’s 106 Mrs Nancy Townsend — who remembers the night Queen Victoria died — celebrated her 106th birthday this week with son Alex (83), and daughter Joyce (81), in Bishopswood, near Ross-on-Wye. ...