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January 23rd – On This Day

2005 - Former Happy Mondays dancer Bez, won the £50,000 Celebrity Big Brother prize after gaining 54% of the final viewer vote. The "Madchester" pop legend danced his way to becoming the sixth member of the indie-dance band in the late-1980s.

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January 22nd – On This Day

1901 - Queen Victoria died after being diagnosed with ‘cerebral exhaustion’, aged 81 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. At the time, her reign was the longest in British history, spanning 63 years.

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January 21st – On This Day

1990 - John McEnroe becomes the first player ever to be expelled from the Australian Open tennis event.

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January 20th – On This Day

1982 - While playing a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat thrown on stage thinking it’s a rubber toy. After the show he was rushed to hospital for rabies shots.

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January 19th – On This Day

1955 - The popular board game Scrabble went on sale in the UK. Originally called Criss Cross in 1931, it was redesigned, renamed as Scrabble, and marketed in the US by James Brunot in 1948.

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January 18th – On This Day

1888 - Birth of Sir Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer. It was a Sopwith Camel that shot down Von Richthofen, the Red Baron. On Sopwith’s 100th birthday, a Sopwith Pup built after World War I, led a fly-past over his home in Hampshire.

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January 17th – On This Day

1994 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale devastates Los Angeles. The earthquake was felt as far south as San Diego 200km away and as far north as Las Vegas, 440km to the north east.

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January 16th – On This Day

1979 - The natural history series “Life on Earth,” presented by David Attenborough, aired on BBC One in the UK for the first time.

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January 15th – On This Day

2009 - Pilot Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport in New York. All passengers and crew members survive.

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