1917 - World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins, goes on to cause approximately 500,000 casualties
2007- Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
1959 - Cliff Richard and the Shadows have their 1st British No. 1 single with "Living' Doll" (biggest British single of 1959)
1703- Daniel Defoe sentenced to stand three times in a pillory. For writing the anonymous pamphlet called 'The Shortest Way with the Dissenters'.
All that was thrown at him were flowers.
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