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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20060424
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1743: Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.
1792: "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Roget de Lisle.
1815: Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.
1889: Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after World War Two, was born.
1916: The Easter rebellion began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland (ended on April 29).
1950: President Truman denies there are communists in the US government.
1965: The Pennine Way - 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the ...
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