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1874 Johann Philipp Reis, whose telephone was not a commercial success, died.

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1878 the first demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell’s newly invented telephone given to Queen Victoria on the Isle of Wight.

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1898 Rev Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, died.

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1957 Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca), died of cancer aged 57.

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1977 Anthony Eden, prime minister 1955–57, died.

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1983 Metropolitan Police officers shot and gravely injured film editor Stephen Waldorf, mistakenly believing him to be an escaped convict.

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1989 Muslims in Bradford ritually burnt a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.