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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20040708
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1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, was drowned in Italy while sailing his small schooner Ariel to his home on the Gulf of Spezia. .

1884 The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children wasfounded.

1918 National Savings stamps went on sale in Britain.

1961 The first all-England women's singles final took place at Wimbledon between Christine Truman and Angela Mortimer, who won in three sets.

1965 Ronald Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbers, scaled the wall of Wandsworth Prison with a rope ladder and escaped. He eventually settled in Brazil.

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