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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20061207
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1732: The original Covent Garden Opera House opened with Way Of The World, by William Congreve.

1783: William Pitt the Younger became the youngest of Britain's Prime Ministers - he was 24.

1815: Marshal Ney, Napoleon's most famous general, was executed for supporting Napoleon at Waterloo when he was ordered by the Allies to arrest him.

19 41: The Japanese attacked the US fleet in Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.

1982: Charles Brooks Jnr, a prisoner at Fort Worth, was executed by a lethal injection, the first to die by this method in the US.

198 8: Peter Langan, ...

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