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- 11 June 1681: A recent grainstorm near Leeds
- 5 February 1643: Rioting locals reïnundate Hatfield Chase in protest at flooding and a loss of fishing and fowling caused by Netherlandish colonists and Cornelius Vermuyden’s land reclamation scheme
- 20 March 1649: Judge and Yorkshireman Francis Thorpe justifies to the grand jury at York the recent execution of Charles I
- 29 April 1969: Jimmy Savile sexually assaults a 15-year-old girl at Staincliffe Hospital (later Dewsbury and District Hospital), to the amusement of bystanders
- 18 January 1966: Barbara Castle (Lab.) swings the crucial Hull North by-election by promising a bridge over the Humber
- 23 May 1793: The 14th Foot, predecessor of the West Yorkshire Regiment, chant a French Revolutionary song as they storm enemy trenches at Famars (Valenciennes)
- 1 August 1813: The 51st Foot wear bay leaves, not white roses, on Minden (now Yorkshire) Day, as they drive the French back over the Pyrenees
- 1 October 2010: A Lancastrian libertarian travels to Leeds to learn
- 24 December 1938: The Christmas Eve dream of Douglas Holmes, 10, in Seacroft Hospital, Leeds
- 31 July 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a ca. 1725 kg free-trade plum pudding
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