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Your support makes all the difference.HERE are some important anniversaries that you might otherwise overlook in the forthcoming week.
26 April:
1921: First police motorcycles seen in London.
1926: One-way traffic introduced, and proclaimed a success, in Trafalgar Square.
1956: The Archbishop of Canterbury says that Premium Bonds 'debase the nation's spiritual currency'.
1989: The first annual pig race in Naas, County Kildare, is won by Porky's Revenge.
27 April:
1908: The First International Congress of Psychoanalysis opens in Salzburg.
1931: A twopence rise in duty in the budget puts the price of petrol up to one and fourpence halfpenny a gallon.
1968: Abortion legalised in Britain.
1981: James Goldsmith's NOW] magazine aborted after less than two years.
28 April:
1789: William Bligh, captain of the Bounty, is cast adrift.
1965: Harold Wilson becomes the first Labour prime minister to meet a Pope.
29 April:
1913: The modern zipper is patented by Gideon Sundback, of Sweden. His version improves on the earlier design of Whitcomb L Judson by actually working properly.
1935: Cat's-eyes, invented by Percy Shaw, first appear on British roads.
30 April:
1901: A new game called table- tennis or 'ping-pong' is launched by James Gibb.
1962: Metropolitan Police set up their first frogman unit.
1979: Jubilee line opened on London underground.
1 May:
1907: Death of Neil Brodie, reputedly Canada's dirtiest man, who only bathed when ordered by law to do so.
1927: Imperial Airways serves first hot meals on London-Paris flight.
1939: Edition 17 of Detective Comics sees the first appearance of Bob Kane's invention, The Batman.
2 May:
Feast day of St Gennys, patron of St Gennys, Cornwall, about whom nothing certain seems to be known.
1923: First transmission of Woman's Hour on BBC Home Service.
1982: General Belgrano sunk in the Falklands War.
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