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- 13 August 1821: The laments of the adulterous poisoner Ann Barber on the scaffold at York
- 3 July 1837: The Swan, a Hull whaler, returns from the dead (the ice of the Davis Strait) bearing three whales
- 19 October 1775: Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull’s first dock and customs quay, dooming the town’s walls and commencing its great expansion
- 11 May 1985: A fire at the Bradford City stadium kills 56
- 30 September 1859: A popular village brass band contest at the Golden Lion, Loftus (near Saltburn)
- 29 February 1824: Prophet John Wroe is baptised on the Leap Day in the Aire near Apperley Bridge before an audience of 30,000
- 31 October 1684: Mrs Taylor of Brighouse, a Quaker, is buried upright next to her husband and daughter in their garden
- 15 September 1679: The election at York for the Exclusion Bill Parliament is devolved to more convenient locations
- 8 June 1679: At death’s door, Brian Bentley, the Halifax Poet, refuses a cap unless it be a barley-cap
- 3 May 1804: Settlement of an absurdly modest legal bill from Joseph Bentley of Bradford
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