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Date: 06 August 2008 12:48:42
History Today:
1623: Anne Hathaway, a celebrated WAGP, Wife & Girlfriend of Playwrights, dies.
1806: The Holy Roman Empire is dissolved after Francis II renounces the title and becomes Emperor of Austria.
1809: Alfred Tennyson is born. He once spent a night in Caerleon and wrote a poem about it.
1881: Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin and Nobel laureate is born. I'm allergic to penicillin so's he's no use to me.
1889: The Savoy opens its doors in London.
1890: William Kemmler, a murderer becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
1945: Enola Gay enters history by dropping the first Atom Bomb onto Hiroshima. Later she is immortalised by Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark (OMD).