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On This Day, Premium Essentials

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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May 16th – On This Day

1943 - The famous ‘Dam Busters’ raid by the 617 Squadron of Lancaster bombers led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson breached the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany using the ‘bouncing’ bombs developed by Dr Barnes Wallis.

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May 15th – On This Day

1921 - The formation of the British Legion by Earl Haig (known as 'Butcher of the Somme').. It brought together four National Organisations of ex-Service men that had established themselves after the Great War.

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May 14th – On This Day

1894 - Blackpool Tower first opened to the public who paid a 6d (six pence) entrance fee, six pence more for a ride in the lifts to the top, and a further six pence for the circus.

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May 13th – On This Day

1949 - Britain’s first jet bomber, the Canberra, was given its first test flight at Warton in Lancashire and was flown by Wing Cdr. RP Beaumont.

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