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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

On This Day: 21 Nov

Births:

Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (Drawl, Spy; 1851); D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. chairman Brian Thomson (1918); Martin Aitchison (1919); Rich Johnston (1972)

Deaths:

Harold Underwood Thompson (H. Botterill; 1996)

Notable Events:

The Ally Sloper Manifesto published in 1885, where he set out his plans to stand for parliament as member for Shoe Lane and the Sloperies.
Tich newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1931.
The first day of the Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall in 1958.
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred newspaper strip revived in The Daily Mirror in 1998.
A runaway trailer carrying steel beams crashed into the wall of D.C. Thomson's Guthrie Street printing plant in 2007. Thankfully there were no injuries.

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