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- 30 June 1828: A toddler encounters her father’s opium in their home on Chapel Lane, Hull
- 13 March 1853: Army veteran John Sykes takes a blunderbuss to Hiram Yeadon during a feud between Wesleyan and Reformer Methodists at Yeadon
- 22 November 1884: The railway will not revive lead mining at Grassington, but may bring tourism to the Dales
- 30 October 1914: Joseph Colgrave of Sheffield and the 5th Royal Irish Lancers wins a DCM rallying leaderless Punjabi Muslims at Hollebeke (Ypres)
- 2 February 1188: Pilgrim-soldier Margaret of Beverley is freed after 15 months of slavery following the siege of Jerusalem
- 5 December 1911: Thomas Stewart, analytical chemist, and John Gott, author of Rib-ticklers for Parsons, are jailed for blasphemy at Leeds
- 3 December 1816: A revolutionary bread riot is averted at Sheffield
- 10 November 1653: Thomas Baynes (allegedly) compares Parliament’s sequestrators to an agricultural pest
- 10 November 1817: Though organised Luddism is in decline, a gig-mill burns on Hunslet Lane, Leeds
- 8 November 1852: Commander John R. Ward, R.N., rescues Ann Millanby from the Tees at Stockton
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