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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20050502
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1519 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and man of science, died at the Chateau Cloux near Amboise.

1670 The Hudson's Bay Company was chartered.

1859 Jerome K Jerome, novelist whose Three Men In A Boat sold more than one million copies, was born in Walsall.

1942 HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea off Norway. Its cargo of gold bars lay in 803 feet of water until salvaged in 19811952 The first jet passenger service began, between London and Johannesburg.

1953 Stanley Matthews, at 38, won his first FA Cup winners medal as Blackpool beat Bolton 4-31969 The Queen ...

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