On This Day in History |
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 | The Winchester Round Table bears the names of various knights of King Arthur's court around the edge such as Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristan |
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1290 Round Table tournament held near Winchester, England, in imitation of King Arthur, to commemorate betrothal of daughter of Edward I, and attended by the king. |
1862 First pasteurization test is completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. |
1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride. |
1968 British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. |
1980 Climax of the Berber Spring in Algeria sees hundreds of Berber political activists arrested. |
2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster. |
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Also Adolf Hitler, Don Mattingly (63) and Carmen Electra (52). |
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Also Bram Stoker and Tom Lester. |
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It was hardly the stuff of today's adrenalin-pumping Formula 1 match ups, but on this day two men climbed aboard their machine for "the world’s first motor race”. |
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