Peterborough UK - Today in History

Born this day:
  1819 Sir Henry Tate, Founder of London's Tate Gallery
  1885 Sir Malcolm Campbell, Racing driver who held the land speed record
  1898 Dorothy Gish, Silent screen star
  1916 Lord (Harold) Wilson, Former Labour Prime Minister
  1923 Louise Brough, American tennis champion
  1932 Nigel Lawson, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
  1961 Bruce Watson, Of the Pop group 'Big Country'

It happened this day:
  1682 The Royal Chelsea Hospital (and site of the flower show) was founded
  1702 The 'Daily Courant', the first successful English newspaper, was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet
  1955 Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, died
  1957 Richard Byrd, the American Polar explorer, died
  1983 Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, was buried in Moscow
  1988 Alison Johns, a 17 year old golfer from Lincolnshire, became the youngest person to win the Roehampton Gold Cup
  1990 The Republic of Lithuania declared its independence from the USSR

Check back for more "Today in History" tomorrow. If you have any historic facts or birthdays related to Peterborough and the Greater Peterborough area we'd be interested to here so that they can be added to the the database.

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