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ON THIS DAY 8 JULY ; TRAIN ROBBER BIGGS FLEES JAIL
From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20080708
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1497 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on the first direct European voyage to India.
1776 Inaugural ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia for a public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
1822 Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley dies in a boating accident in Italy, aged 29.
1884 The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is founded in London by Benjamin Waugh.
1965 Ronnie Biggs, serving a 30-year sentence for the great train robbery, escapes Wandsworth jail.
1996 Horrett Irving Campbell injures three children and four adults in a machete attack at a nursery school ...
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