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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20060126
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1828 The Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister.

1841 Hong Kong was proclaimed British sovereign territory.

1871 The Rugby Football Union was founded.

1885 General Gordon, British commander and Governor of the Sudan, was killed by a spear while besieged at Khartoum.

1905 The world's largest diamond was found at the Premier Mines in Pretoria, South Africa. The Cullinan Diamond weighed more than one and a quarter pounds.

1907 "Foul language" caused a riot in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on the first night of J M Synge's Playboy Of The Western World.

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