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- 12 October 0709: St Wilfrid of York’s soul departs with the birds at Oundle (Northants)
- 18 April 1969: David Oluwale, a mentally ill Nigerian rough sleeper, drowns in the Aire while fleeing from two Leeds policemen who had beaten and abused him
- 16 May 1881: J. Gill (72) of Sugden & Briggs, wool spinners, Bradford, dies of pulmonary anthrax, and his successor, J.R. Baker (58), is fatally infected with cutaneous anthrax
- 18 October 1966: The charter converting the Bradford Institute of Technology into the University of Bradford defines its secondary object as “the application of knowledge to human welfare”
- 18 April 1906: Easter trippers to Shipley Glen cause fires on Ilkley Moor, imperilling grouse shooting later in the year
- 9 December 1932: The Jewish Chronicle mulls the Yorkshire Fascist Table Tennis Club’s decision to leave the Leeds league
- 24 June 1981: Leeds City Council declares its opposition to nuclear weapons and resolves to inform the world thereof
- 7 January 1397: On the longest of the 42 days of his carnivalesque reign, boy-bishop John de Cave of York goes on a 200-mile begging spree
- 17 May 1321: Isabella Dayvill, apostate nun, is banished to suffer silence, hunger and punishment at Handale Priory (North Riding)
- 15 November 1444: A survey of the boundaries of York
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