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In 1996 Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 schoolchildren and their teacher, before turning the gun on himself in Dunblane, Scotland; in 1781 Sir William Herschel discovered that Uranus was a planet, rather than a star; in 1926 the English aviator Alan Cobham landed at Croydon aerodrome, having completed the 16,000-mile flight to Cape Town and back.