🗓 11 days lost overnight with the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752 (00:39) 

🗡 ✍️ Agatha Christie, the World’s most successful fiction writer, is born in 1890 (02:45) 

💣  Tanks go into battle for the first time in 1916 and make a less than impressive impression (03:49) 

👶 👑 Arthur Tudor is born at Winchester in 1486 (05:52)

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Sources and Further Reading

A must have for any Tudor Fan’s bookshelf - On This Day in Tudor History by Claire Ridgway, published by Made Global Publishing

The Gregorian Calendar

A fabulous article on a website of very interesting articles about time and calendars.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html

Tanks at the Battle of Flers-Coucelette

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_flers_courcelette.html

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