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On This Day, Premium Essentials

May 25th – On This Day

1967 - Glasgow Celtic Football Club, under the leadership of manager Jock Stein became the first British football club to win the European Cup beating Internacionale of Milan 2-1 at the Estadio Nacionale in Lisbon.

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May 24th – On This Day

1819 - Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in London, the only daughter of the Duke of Kent. Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in January 1901. Her reign lasted 63 years and 216 days.

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May 23rd – On This Day

1931 - The official opening of Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable, in Bedfordshire. Animals began arriving at Whipsnade in 1928, with pheasants, llama, wombats and skunks among the first to arrive.

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May 22nd – On This Day

1981 - Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was sentenced to life imprisonment after the judge described him as ‘an unusually dangerous man’. He was found guilty of killing 13 women and the attempted murder of 7 others.

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May 21st – On This Day

1932 - American Amelia Earhart landed in Derry, Ireland, after taking off from Newfoundland the previous day. It was the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot.

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May 20th – On This Day

1913 - The first Chelsea Flower Show was held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, attracting around 200,000 visitors.

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May 19th – On This Day

2013 - At 1:00 p.m. BST the aircraft carrier Ark Royal left Portsmouth Harbour for the final time, to be towed to Turkey for scrap. The Royal Navy’s former flagship had been decommissioned early following the 2010 defence review.

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May 18th – On This Day

1991 - Chemist Helen Sharman from Sheffield in South Yorkshire was the first Briton to go into space as a participant in a Soviet space mission. Sharman was selected from over 13,000 applicants through Project Juno.

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May 17th – On This Day

1899 - Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the newly named Victoria & Albert Museum, and proclaimed, “I trust it will remain for ages a monument of discerning liberty and a source of refinement and progress”.

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