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Neale Lucas
Feb 11, 20221 min read
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100 years ago.... Reader's Digest is born under a bar Feb 5, 1922 DeWitt Wallace, the son of a US Presbyterian minister, today put out...
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Neale Lucas
Feb 5, 20221 min read
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100 Years ago.... Edith Cowan denies neglect of family Feb 9, 1922 When told by someone ill-disposed to women politicians that he and his...
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Neale Lucas
Feb 1, 20221 min read
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100 Years ago.... Beaurepaire hero of shark attack rescue Feb 4, 1922 A young swimmer punched and kicked a huge shark which mauled him,...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 7, 20221 min read
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100 Years ago.... Shackleton, polar explorer, dies Jan 5, 1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, regarded as many as the finest explorer of his age,...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 2, 20221 min read
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100 Years ago.... Irish Parliament votes to accept treaty Jan 21, 1922 After a debate of fiery words and high drama, the Dail Eireann,...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 29, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... DISCOVERY: Insulin gives diabetics hope Dec 29, 1921 Medical history was made this year with the isolation of insulin,...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 19, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Irish offered Free State Dec 7, 1921 Shortly after midnight yesterday, British and Irish negotiations finally signed an...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 18, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Mussolini becomoes "Il Duce" of Fascists Nov 7, 1921 Benito Mussolini, the blacksmith's son from poverty-stricken...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 7, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Rioting as Gandhi burns foreign cloth Nov 17, 1921 The streets of Bombay were today lined with vast crowds, all...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 22, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Emperor Karl's comeback fails Oct 25, 1921 Undeterred by the utter failure of the theatrical coup last Easter, the...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Females quake at Valentino's Sheik Oct 31, 1921 The new sensation of the cinema is Rudolf Valentino of the flashing...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 8, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... World's most famous tramp comes home Sept 9, 1921 The little tramp returned to the city of his birth today - to be...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Snugglepot and Cuddlepie are keeping the children amused August 1, 1921 The first release of May Gibbs' Snugglepot and...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 2, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Help us, pleads Lenin, as famine worsens August 4, 1921 Russia is in the grip of a terrible famine and its Bolshevik...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 9, 20212 min read
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100 years ago.... Irish truce is declared July 22, 1921 Ireland now has a truce after months of the most savage fighting that the country...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 5, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Hawker crashes to his death in UK July 12, 1921 Harry Hawker died this afternoon doing what he had always done best,...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 15, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Spanish humiliated by Moroccan rebels June 26, 1921 Spain is reeling from a devastating military defeat inflicted in...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 8, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Communist Party formed in China June 30, 1921 The revolution in Russia, the translation of the works of Karl Marx and...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 2, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago.... Race riots in US cause 85 deaths June 1, 1921 More than 85 people have been killed and hundreds injured in race riots...
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Neale Lucas
May 27, 20211 min read
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100 Years ago... Germans accept the Allies' debt terms May 11, 1921 With only a few hours to go before the expiry of the Allied...
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