On this day in history...

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2005 - US millionaire Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo, non-stop around the globe without refueling.

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1975 - Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

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1993 - Disgraced Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from athletics for life after failing a drugs test for a second time.

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1961 - One of Britain's most popular entertainers, George Formby, The "Ukulele King", has died after suffering a heart attack.

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1965 - "Goldie" The Golden Eagle which escaped from Regents Park Zoo is still on the loose after outsmarting his keepers' attempts to recapture him.

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1876, a certain mr A G Bell is granted a US patent for a device familiar to many of us that has come to be known as the telephone

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2001 - Divers raise the wreck of Donald Campbell's boat, Bluebird, from the bottom of coniston Water in Cumbria.

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1973 - The people of Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to remain within the United Kingdom.

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1969 - James Earl Ray is jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting to the murder of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

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1955 - Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who first discovered the life-saving drug Penicillin - dies of a heart attack.