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- 2 January 1931: Future Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson (14) returns from the tuberculosis hospital to his home in Milnsbridge, Huddersfield
- 6 December 1923: Future Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson (7) is recovering well from appendicitis in a private clinic in Huddersfield
- 9 February 1647: Charles I is brought a prisoner to wool merchant Thomas Metcalf’s red-brick mansion in Leeds, and one Mrs Crosby enters legend
- 7 January 1813: In a novelisation of the Luddite murder of Marsden textile manufacturer William Horsfall, a local Baptist minister, Abraham Webster, reports on his execution-eve visit to George Mellor in York Castle
- 11 March 2020: Abigail Marshall Katung, Labour councillor and future Lord Mayor of Leeds, explains to the National Crime Agency how in 2015 she obtained a £360,000 house deposit from Nigeria
- 9 December 1967: Leeds goalkeeper Gary Sprake loses control of the ball on a snowy Anfield pitch
- 21 October 1775: A hare struggles to survive flooding on the River Aire at Leeds
- 11 October 1643: Reinforced, Ferdinando Fairfax’s Parliamentary forces break the will of the Royalist besiegers of Hull
- 15 August 1872: Voters at Knottingley (Pontefract), including newly-enfranchised workers, struggle with the secret ballot introduced in a parliamentary by-election
- 4 September 1804: James Montgomery, editor of the Sheffield Iris, explains newspaper economics to a new Mancunian proprietor
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