ON THIS DAY
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Scottish hero William Wallace defeated the English at Stirling Bridge.
The British, under General Howe, beat the Americans commanded by George Washington at the battle of Brandywine Creek in the American War of Independence.
The commuter age began for the south-east of England when the London to Brighton commuter express train began a regular service, taking just 105 minutes.
DH Lawrence, poet and novelist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
The FA Cup was stolen from football outfitters William Shillock in Birmingham - 68 years later an 83-year-old man confessed that he had melted it down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.
WC Handy published his St Louis Blues which has since been recorded more than 100 times.
The first Women’s Institute was formed in Anglesey.
The world’s first television play was transmitted live by station WGY in New York. The Queen’s Messenger, a 40-minute transmission had only two
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characters, but there were four actors, as old-fashioned cameras could not be moved around.
The BBC TV quiz programme Mastermind was first transmitted.
Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov was stabbed by a poisoned umbrella point wielded by an unknown secret agent at a London bus-stop. The unidentified poison brought on a coma and Markov died on September 15.
2,977 people - 67 of them British - were killed when passenger jets hijacked by al-Qaida terrorists struck the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. A fourth hijacked plane crashed into a field in
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Pennsylvania.
Andy Murray capped an astonishing year by finally clinching his first Grand Slam title - the US Open - a month after being crowned Olympic champion.
Badger culling was given the go-ahead in 11 new areas of England as part of efforts to tackle tuberculosis in cattle.
2012: ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: BIRTHDAYS:
Brian De Palma, film director, 78; Franz Beckenbauer, former footballer, 73; Roger Uttley, former rugby player/coach, 69; Amy Madigan, actress, 68; Virginia Madsen, actress, 57; Moby, composer and musician, 53; Harry Connick Jr, singer and actor, 51; Richard Ashcroft, rock singer, 47.