#OnthisDay

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#OnThisDay in 1900,the first and the only #Cricket match in #Olympics took place over 2 days between Great Britain & France.Some oddities of that match-1. By mutual consent 12 members

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JamesMWilliam18

#OnThisDay 1999 NYPD officers fatally shoot unarmed Amadou Diallo 41 times in front of his home - while reaching for his wallet.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo ". . . Diallo was standing near his

Hemant Brar

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#OnThisDay, Sachin Tendulkar scored his maiden Test hundred at Old Trafford in 1990.Some of the players involved relive that knock, and the Test: https://es.pn/3annzg1 "The biggest thing for me standing

Iseult

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Maud Gonne, born #onThisDay in 1866. I want to honour her as a woman, revolutionary, activist, artist, and philanthropist. She spoke up for people who did not have a voice.

Durham Miners' Gala

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Jack Greenwell, Durham miner and @FCBarcelona player and long-serving manager was born #OnThisDay in 1884.As manager, he won five league titles and the Copa Del Rey twice for #Barca.Born in

Arunabha Sengupta

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Thread: 5 Jan 1971. Garth McKenzie bowled to Geoff Boycott.The general feeling among the players was it was a part of a joke. However became part of epoch-making history.The first

Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum

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#OnThisDay 17 August 1816, the paddle steamer the Rothsay Castle left Liverpool harbour She was a paddle steamer built in 1816 for service on the River Clyde, and was later

Marina Amaral

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#OnThisDay in 1922, The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15.

Marina Amaral

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#OnThisDay in 1960, Ruby Bridges becomes the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.Photo colorized by me, original taken by uncredited DOJ photographer. "The people I

Allan

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#OnThisDay in 1997: WWF Survivor Series PPV: @ShawnMichaels defeated @BretHart by "submission" to the WWF Title. (THREAD). In the hours leading up to the match, Hart, Michaels, and Pat Patterson

Arunabha Sengupta

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Thread: Dilip Doshi was well into his thirties when he finally got the opportunity to play for India. 114 Test wickets at 30.71 - quite an achievement given the late

James Thorne

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@GreatWarGroup @CWGC @HelenR864 #WW1 105 years ago #OnThisDay 28 November 191519503 Private Charles Edward Whitehorn (2 Bn, The Wiltshire Regiment) killed in action, aged 20Charlie is buried in Guards Cemetery,

Yash Mittal 🇮🇳

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December 15, 2003:Its been almost four years since the ignominy of registering 5 in 6 innings for Ajit Agarkar.In the preceeding years, @imAagarkar had redeemed himself multiple times with

Mayukh Ghosh

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This is a thread on a very underrated manA man who wrote on cricket, wrote on British comedy and many other topics.A former president of @ACScricketCo-founder of the University of

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JamesMWilliam18

#OnThisDay 1908 Thurgood Marshall, NAACP LDF leader, one of the greatest attorneys ever, fighter for human rights, was born in Baltimore, MD. THREAD Justice Marshall's birth name was "Thoroughgood," but

Marcus Cribb ⚔️

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General Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lyndoch died #OnThisDay 18 December 1843 aged 95.A fierce scotsman who had served through the Revolutionary & Peninsular Wars, often leading from the front &

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