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On this day in history.

2015 The death of Geoff Duke, aged 92. Six World Championships and six Isle of Man Senior TT races.

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1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (Kent) was opened. Sometimes referred to colloquially as the Crab and Winkle Line, it was the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets. It used cable haulage by stationary steam engines over much of its length, with steam locomotives restricted to the level stretch.
 
1952 Newcastle United became the first team since 1891 to win two FA Cups in succession by beating Arsenal 1-0.
 
1968 The first heart transplant in Britain was carried out at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London.
 
1471 The Battle of Tewkesbury, a significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian Army and killed Edward, Prince of Wales.
 
1675 King Charles II ordered the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
 
1945 World War II: The North Germany Army surrendered to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
 
1982 Twenty sailors were killed when the destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile
 
1904 The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal
 
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Stock market tumble on May 5, 1893, triggers Panic of 1893, sending K

On May 5, 1893, the New York stock market tumbles, setting off a panic that sweeps across the United States and crashes onto the Pacific Northwest. King County and the Puget Sound region plunge into
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Stock market tumble on May 5, 1893, triggers Panic of 1893, sending King County and the Puget Sound region into a four-year depression.​

 
1760 The first public hanging took place at Tyburn in London.
Earl Ferrers was executed after being convicted of murdering his valet.
He was the first to be hanged by the new 'drop' which had just been introduced in the place of the cart, ladder and three-cornered gibbet.
 
1967 The first ever all-British designed and built satellite, Ariel 3, was successfully launched into orbit from the United States
 
1980 The SAS stormed the terrorist-occupied Iranian Embassy at Knightsbridge in London.
 
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