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- 18 January 1966: Barbara Castle (Lab.) swings the Hull North by-election with a bridge over the Humber, convincing Harold Wilson that he has the momentum to win a general election
- 23 May 1793: The 14th Foot, predecessors of the West Yorkshire Regiment, chant a French Revolutionary song as they storm enemy trenches at Famars (Valenciennes)
- 1 August 1813: The Leeds-based 51st Foot wear bay leaves, not white roses, on Minden (now Yorkshire) Day, as they drive Napoleon’s troops 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 1.725 tonne free-trade plum pudding
- 25 December 1923: Winifred Stansfield of Balby (Doncaster) gets her doll
- 3 March 1913: Winifred Stansfield is born unable to suckle at Balby (Doncaster)
- 20 April 1835: A teetotallers’ tea-party at the first, great, Wilsden Temperance Festival
- 2 May 1844: The Bradford Observer reports a 10% increase in the borough’s population in two years
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