On this day in...
1940 - Politician Frank Dobson was born. He ran against Ken Livingstone in an effort to become Lord Mayor.
2003 - Last of the Summer Wine actress Thora Hird died.
1949 - Clothes rationing ended in Britain.
1962 - The Liberal Democrats seize Orpington from the Tories in their first by-election victory for four years.
1976 - A London Underground driver as shot dead after chasing a man who is believed to have detonated a bomb on his train.
1999 - A report revealed one in three nine year olds were failing to come up to scratch in the three Rs.
2002 - Plans to stop teaching the works of Shakespeare to GCSE students were thrown out.
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