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September 15 1649: Birth of Titus Oates, Anglican priest and fabricator of the 'Popish Plot' in 1678.
1830: At the official opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Britain's first railway fatality occurred when MP William Huskisson stepped from a train to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington and was run over. 1859: Death of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, probably the greatest British engineer. He designed the Clifton suspension bridge, the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash and many others, and also designed and built what were then the three largest ships in the world.See the full content of this document
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On This Day
1871: The Army and...
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