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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20061204
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1154 : Nicholas Breakspear became the only English Pope - as Adrian IV.

1791: The Observer, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom, was first published.

1865 : Edith Cavell, the nurse shot by the Germans in 1915 for helping refugees, was born in Norfolk.

1875: Thriller writer Edgar Wallace was born. He was one of the most prolific writers with some 175 books and 15 plays to his credit.

1935: The game of Monopoly was born - the brainchild of unemployed engineer Charles Darrow.

1937: The Dandy comic was first published by DC Thomson, featuring ...

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