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2 September 1945: Japan formally surrendered to the Allies...

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2 September 1945

Japan formally surrendered to the Allies.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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Preston, Peter. “The convenience of forgetting”. Guardian Weekly, 16–22 Mar. 2007, p. 25.
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By 1 November 1890: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,...

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By 1 November 1890

William Booth , founder of the Salvation Army , published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, a call for active Christianity and social reform.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
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Higginbotham, Ann R. “Respectable Sinners: Salvation Army Rescue Work with Unmarried Mothers, 1884-1914”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 216-33.
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Begbie, Harold. Life of William Booth. Macmillan, 1920.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
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4 April 1924: The BBC began its national radio broadcasts...

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4 April 1924

The BBC began its national radio broadcasts to schools, with an item by Sir Walford Davies .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1900: Bertha Thomas published her last novel, The...

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1900

Bertha Thomas published her last novel, The Son of the House. Her last book, a volume of stories, came twelve years later.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1905: Vaccines against typhus became available...

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1905

Vaccines against typhus became available.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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1868: The Anglican Sisters of Charity was founded...

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1868

The Anglican Sisters of Charity was founded in Knowle, Somerset.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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10 September 1943: The German occupation of Rome began in response...

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10 September 1943

The German occupation of Rome began in response to the Italian government's surrender to the Allies on 3 September.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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By June 1806: Poems Written on Different Occasions by the...

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By June 1806

Poems Written on Different Occasions by the domestic servant Charlotte Richardson were selected, edited, and published with some account of the author by the middle-class activist and social reformer Catharine Cappe .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 8 (1806): 217

15-22 July 1933: Wiley Post made the first solo flight around...

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15-22 July 1933

Wiley Post made the first solo flight around the world.
Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard. Aviation: An Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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16 December 1653: Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector...

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16 December 1653

Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector of Great Britain and Ireland.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1903: Rosa Newmarch published the earlier of her...

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1903

Rosa Newmarch published the earlier of her two volumes of verse: Horae Amoris: songs and sonnets.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

22 June 1921: George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament...

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22 June 1921

George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament with a conciliatory speech as the British government initiated negotiations on the relations between Ireland proper and Ulster (the Six Counties in the North).
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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1959: The High Court in London found for the US...

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1959

The High Court in London found for the US musical entertainer Liberace in his libel case against William Connor (Cassandra of the Daily Mirror), in which the unnamed question at issue was that of homophobia.
Bailey, Paul. “Hokum writ large”. Times Literary Supplement, 5 Mar. 2004, p. 20.
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14 June 1800: In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon...

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14 June 1800

In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon (recently appointed First Consul of France) defeated the Austrian Empire at the battle of Marengo in Northern Italy.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

1925: Alain Locke wrote: Harlem has the same role...

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1925

Alain Locke wrote: Harlem has the same role to play for the New Negro that Dublin has had for the New Ireland or Prague for the New Czechoslovakia.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.
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Mary Martha Sherwood

MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Mary Martha Sherwood Head-and-shoulders print of Mary Martha Sherwood in profile by M. Maskall. She rests her head on a hand. Only her face and her frilled and ribboned cap are rendered in detail.

1899: Mary Lucy Pendered published her novel An...

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1899

Mary Lucy Pendered published her novel An Englishman: A Romance of a Shop. It appeared in a revised edition thirteen years later.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

About 1806: Several sources, including some close to...

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About 1806

Several sources, including some close to the event, claim that Joan Watts , mother of the writer Susanna Watts , was driven mad by her fear of the new institution of income tax.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

1869: The British Museum opened its mineral collection...

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1869

The British Museum opened its mineral collection to the public.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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1926: Beatrice Kean Seymour published her novel,...

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1926

Beatrice Kean Seymour published her novel, The Last Day, which would be reissued in the Modern Library series ten years hence.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

July 1977: Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt...

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July 1977

Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Book News. British Council.
(1977): June insert

December 1713: Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies;...

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December 1713

Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies; it included poems by Pope , Anne Finch , and himself (including praise of the unnamed and only recently identified young Elizabeth Tollet ).
Londry, Michael. Thomas Parnell’s Poem ’To a Young Lady’ as Addressed to Elizabeth Tollet. 1998.

1823: William Huskisson, as MP for Liverpool and...

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1823

William Huskisson , as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade , secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Gertrude Thimelby

GT was a Roman Catholic poet of the mid seventeenth century with a powerful individual voice, dealing with the themes of family love, bereavement, and religious devotion. Her surviving poems number only nineteen.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

9 May 1918: Lytton Strachey published his irreverent...

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9 May 1918

Lytton Strachey published his irreverent biographies entitled Eminent Victorians. He claimed to be breaking with two traditions: that of admiration for the Victorians and that of reverential biography.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
9 May 2008
“4 June 1918. Victorians before a just court”. The Guardian, 5 June 2009, p. 22.
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