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9:53am Sunday 7th September 2008

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1908 - Professor Harold Wager claimed plants had eyes.

1910 - Marie Curie announced that she had isolated pure radium.

1973 - The crew of a Royal Navy frigate were accused of throwing carrots at an Icelandic gunboat.

1998 - The terrorist group calling themselves the Real IRA called a ceasefire.

1998 - Teaching leaders warned that the Spice Girls babies could start a school craze in pregnancy.

2005 - Ronan Keating became a dad for the third time, his wife Yvonne giving birth to a baby girl called Ali.

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