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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20080124
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AD41 The mad Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated.

AD76 The Roman Emperor Hadrian was born.

1670 William Congreve, English playwright, was born.

1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's sawmill in California to spark the great Gold Rush.

1916 Conscription was introduced in Britain.

1965 Sir Winston Churchill died, aged 90. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had died on the same date 70 years earlier.

1976 Margaret Thatcher was dubbed The Iron Lady in the Soviet newspaper Red Star, after a speech about the Communist threat.

1997 The Archers ...

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