On This Day (From News Shopper)

On This Day

8:42am Tuesday 26th August 2008 in

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55BC - Julius Caesar landed in Britain.

1973 - The first university belly dancing course was offered at the University of Texas.

1980 - Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin was born.

1995 - At the height of the rivalry between Blur and Oasis, Blur's Country House entered the chart at number one, beating Roll With It by Oasis to the top spot.

1998 - It emerged that prisoners who could not cope with life behind bars were being offered acupuncture.

2002 - It was calculated that the Ikea catalogue had an annual circulation four times greater than that of the Bible.

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