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- 15 April 1779: The actor John Kemble asks a society girl to be quiet during a death scene at York and is hounded by the North Riding Militia
- 11 November 1918: George Ellison of Richmond Hill, Leeds, is the last British soldier to be killed in action in the First World War
- 20 August 1915: The final letter to his father of Private Charles Langrick, 1st/5th Bn., The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment
- 4 November 1992: Glasgow Rangers seal victory in the Champions League’s Battle of Britain in the return at Elland Road
- 28 June 1995: The real Siegfred Farnon calls it a day
- 30 January 1978: A Cumbrian Evensong is rescheduled to accommodate All Creatures Great and Small
- 24 July 1771: Actor-manager Tate Wilkinson opens Puritan Leeds’ first proper theatre with comic impressions of leading Methodists
- 11 June 1682: Let your charity be as great as your county, Yorkshiremen are told by one of their own at a Yorkshire Feast sermon in London
- 23 April 1642: Having promised parliament to safeguard for it Hull’s crucial arsenal, John Hotham tells it how today he shut the gates of Hull to Charles I
- 6 April 1821: At the opening of the hall of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, the surgeon Charles Turner Thackrah bids the town repay its debt to knowledge
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