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- 18 February 1889: An effigy of Jack Nelson, wife-beater, is paraded with rough music through Hedon (Holderness) by a furious crowd
- 21 October 1536: Henry VIII’s herald encounters part of the Pilgrimage of Grace at Pontefract
- 21 February 1718: Elizabeth Hodgson and William Reeston are excommunicated in St. Augustine’s, Hedon for having an illegitimate child
- 10 July 1869: Bridlington sees the first prosecution under the Sea Birds Preservation Act
- 8 July 1940: Amidst rumours of German parachutists, Evelyn Cardwell of Aldborough disarms and arrests an enemy airman
- 6 July 1381: John de Erghom and others in service of the Beverley oligarchy murder William Haldane and throw him in a pit on Walker Lane
- 10 January 1761: Jane Delamoth dies and is remembered in shorthand at St Mary’s, Sculcoates (Hull)
- 9 January 1935: Returning from Bear Island, the trawler Edgar Wallace capsizes in the Humber at Hull, killing 15
- 4 May 1643: The Royalists take Rotherham and begin a search for the preacher John Shawe
- 25 March 1831: Esther Dyson of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), charged with decapitating her infant daughter, is judged insane because she is deaf-mute
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