On This Week – 26th December 2016
26th – The boxing world was horrified when Texan Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight...
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26th – The boxing world was horrified when Texan Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight...
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19th – In London on this day in 1924 the last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was sold. In 1932 the BBC...
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The study of history could be regarded as a journey to find the centre of the mysterious maze that...
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12th – On this day in 1899, American dentist and Harvard graduate George F Grant became the first...
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5th – The first rules of Association Football were published in Bells Life on this day in 1863....
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