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1 April 1999
Dolly the sheep, the first ever mammal successfully cloned from an adult cell with her three lambs at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.
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2 April 1965
Newly crowned light heavyweight champion Jose Torres wears cardboard crown during a press conference after he won the title from Willie Pastrano.
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3 April 1932
Germany's Pigeon Army. A camera attached to pigeon to take aerial reconnaissance photographs.
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4 April 1814
Abdication of Napoleon I subject to the rights of King de Rome and the Empress Regent. Fontainebleau.
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5 April 1902
The terrible disaster when a stand collapsed during an international football match at Ibrox Park, Glasgow.
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6 April 1966
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, shows reporters the black eye he received from a fan during a tour of France.
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7 April 1937
Ahmed Hussain performing firewalk tests at Carshalton.
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8 April 1958
The mile long procession of pacifist anti H-Bomb protest marchers arrive at Aldermaston at the end of their march from London.
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9 April 2005
Prince of Wales and his new bride Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle after their wedding ceremony.
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10 April 1965
Jack Nicklaus holds up 64 - his score on the Augusta National Golf Course in the third round of the Masters Golf Tournament.
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11 April 1984
Zoe, the world's first authenticated frozen embryo baby, born Melbourne, Australia.
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12 April 1961
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on board Vostok 1.
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13 April 1967
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) working in New York on a fashion tour flew over hairdresser, Leonard, from London at a cost of £254.11s. The hairdo cost 3 guineas.
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14 April 1865
The assassination of United States President, Abraham Lincoln, by actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre Washington.
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15 April 1912
A newspaper boy spreads the news of the sinking of the Titanic to bystanders outside Oceanic House, the headquarters of the White Star Line Company.
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16 April 1746
The Battle of Culloden
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17 April 1953
One of three 16 inch guns on the US Battleship Missouri sends a shell speeding towards a communist supply centre located in Wonsan, North Korea.
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18 April 1906
The great earthquake in San Francisco.
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19 April 1956
Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly marry at Monaco Cathedral.
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20 April 1814
Napoleon Ist departs for the island of Elba.
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21 April 1926
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) is born. Pictured here with her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother).
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22 April 1935
Luigi Fagioli in his Mercedes-Benz racing car wins the Monaco Grand Prix.
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23 April 2005
The St George's Day Parade before Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle.
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24 April 1954
Langata Detention Camp. An Anti- Mau Mau tent town set in barbed wire, 8 miles from Nairobi.
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25 April 1934
John Dillinger as he travelled by air under heavy escort en route to Indiana to answer charges of murdering a policeman in a bank hold up.
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26 April 1923
Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) as Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon about to enter the carriage in which she drove to Westminster Abbey for her marriage to King George VI
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27 April 1949
The final of the world snooker championship between Fred Davies (left), the holder and Walter Donaldson. Leicester Square Hall, London.
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28 April 1789
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29 April 1962
Francis Ormsby-Gore, age 8, and British Premier, Mr Harold Macmillan, wait for the arrival of US President, John F Kennedy, on the steps of the British Embassy in Washington, USA.
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30 April 1945
The Red Flag was hoisted by Soviet soldiers over the Reichstag in Berlin
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