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On this day

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1477: William Caxton issued the first dated, printed book from his printing press in Westminste­r - it was Dictes or Sayengis of The Philosophr­es.

1626: St Peter’s in Rome (right) was consecrate­d.

1910: There were more than 100 arrests when suffragett­es tried to storm the House of Commons. 1916: The first battle of the Somme ended.

1926: George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to him a year earlier. He said: “I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”

1928: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was shown.

1933: BBC Radio’s In Town Tonight was first broadcast. 1987: The worst fire in the history of the London Undergroun­d killed 31 people at King’s Cross.

1991: Beirut hostage Terry Waite and American Thomas Sutherland were released by their pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad captors.

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