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Anniversaries

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EVENTS: In 1911 the first aircraft to land on a ship touched down on the cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbour.

BIRTHS: A. A. Milne, children’s writer and dramatist, born in London, 1882; Arthur Ransome, journalist and author, born in Leeds, 1884; Sir Thomas Sopwith, aviation pioneer, born in London, 1888; Oliver Hardy, comedian, born in Harlem, Georgia, 1892; Cary Grant, actor, born in Bristol, 1904; Danny Kaye, actor, born in Brooklyn, 1913.

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DEATHS: Rudyard Kipling, first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907), died in London, 1936; Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party (1955-63), died in London, 1963; Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer, died in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, 1980.