28th September 1985: The shooting of Cherry Groce in her own home during a mishandled police raid, leads to clashes between the police and the black community in Brixton.

28th September 48 BC: Pompey the Great is assassinated on the order of King Ptolemy of Egypt.

28th September 1865: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson becomes the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain.

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23rd September 1846: Through applying maths and physics, the planet Neptune is officially observed and identified by the German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. 

22nd September 1735: The man regarded as the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, moves into Number 10 Downing Street.

26th September 1968: Theatre censorship is abolished in the UK, ending restrictions which had existed for over 200 years.

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19th September 1991: Two tourists stumble onto the mummified body of a man who lived around 3;500 years ago - Ötzi the Iceman

16th September 1400: Owain Glyndŵr begins a fierce but ultimately unsuccessful Welsh revolt against English rule.

14th September 1752:  The British Empire adopts the Gregorian Calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13.

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7th Sept 1978: Georgi Markov is assassinated in London by a poison umbrella.

13th Sept 1814: Francis Scott Key writes 'The Star Spangled Banner'.

Sept 12th 1878: Cleopatra's needle is erected in London.

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1st September 1939: Budding journalist Clare Hollingworth reports on the outbreak of World War Two in Europe.

2nd September 1666: The Great Fire of London begins in Pudding Lane.

4th September 1893: Beatrix Potter writes the story of Peter Rabbit.

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29th August 1882: English cricketers lose to Australia at The Oval. A mock obituary is published, leading to the creation of The Ashes series.

27th August 1939: The first test flight of a jet powered engine takes to the sky in Germany

24th August 1516: Ottoman forces defeat the Mamluk Sultanate at the Battle of Marj Dabiq

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17th August 1998: President Bill Clinton admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.

23rd August 1305: Scottish national hero William Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered for treason, after resisting King Edward I of England's rule in Scotland.

20th August 1882: Tchaikovsky's famous 1812 Overture was given its official premiere in the centre of Moscow.

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13th August 1521: The Aztec capital Tenochtitlan fell to the Spanish conquistadors.

11th August 1971: Edward Heath becomes the first UK Prime Minister to win an international sporting event while in office.

10th August 1895: The first Proms concert was held at the Queen's Hall in Langham Place, London.

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5th August 1975: Dutch Elm disease spreads to Yorkshire. Millions of elm trees perished across the UK in the outbreak.

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29th July 1921: Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist Party of German Workers.

2nd August 1880: Greenwich Mean Time is officially adopted across the UK, thanks in part to the evolving train industry.

2nd August 1100: King William the 2nd of England, the son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest.