This Week in History

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17th August 1998: President Bill Clinton admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
23rd August 1305: Scottish national hero William Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered for treason, after resisting King Edward I of England's rule in Scotland.
20th August 1882: Tchaikovsky's famous 1812 Overture was given its official premiere in the centre of Moscow.

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13th August 1521: The Aztec capital Tenochtitlan fell to the Spanish conquistadors.
11th August 1971: Edward Heath becomes the first UK Prime Minister to win an international sporting event while in office.
10th August 1895: The first Proms concert was held at the Queen's Hall in Langham Place, London.

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5th August 1975: Dutch Elm disease spreads to Yorkshire. Millions of elm trees perished across the UK in the outbreak.
6th August 1890: In New York, a convicted axe murderer; William Kemmler; became the first person to be executed by electric chair.
9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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29th July 1921: Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist Party of German Workers.
2nd August 1880: Greenwich Mean Time is officially adopted across the UK, thanks in part to the evolving train industry.
2nd August 1100: King William the 2nd of England, the son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest.

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25th July 1978: Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful IVF baby, is born at Oldham General Hospital.
24th July 1851: The Window Tax, based on the number of windows on a house, is abolished in the UK.
21st July 365 AD: A tsunami devastates the Egyptian city of Alexandria.