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On This Day
3:37pm Sunday 5th October 2008
On this day in...
1880 - The earliest ball point pen with its own ink supply and retractable tip, was patented by Alonzo T Cross.
1965 - Dick McInnes remained in flight for almost 12 hours - strapped to a kite.
1967 - The first majority verdict by a British jury was taken in Brighton.
2000 - A slimmed-down Sophie Dahl was unveiled as the new body of Opium perfume.
2001 - Robert Stevens - a picture editor at The Sun magazine in America - died after contracting pulmonary anthrax.
2002 - Italian porn star turned MP, La Cicciolina, offered herself to Saddam Hussein in exchange for world peace. She said: "I would do it holding my nose and closing my eyes. I would do it for peace."
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- CRAYFORD & WOOLWICH: Teenager jailed for stranger rape
- NORTHFLEET: 'Lucky to be alive' after bell tower fall
- CATFORD: Residents fuming over 'ugly' phone mast
- CHISLEHURST: Owner speaks of protected tree struck by lightning
- GREENWICH: Rumours over Jacko memorial gig
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