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- 17 September 1963: As RAF Fylingdales’ early warning systems go live, Tory minister (and Czech communist spy) Ray Mawby claims that carrier pigeons will not be confused
- 25 May 1870: An Ascension Eve performance for tourists of the Whitby Penny Hedge ritual
- 13 July 1858: A visit to an alum works near Whitby
- 25 June 1753: The Moravian Brethren of Fulneck, Pudsey, refuse to participate in the toll-bar riots
- 26 May 1808: The first Ascension Day on which is generally contemplated the notion that ammonites found on Whitby beach are snakes petrified by Saint Hilda, and that seabirds dip their wings in her honour when over-flying
- 29 September 1513: Black humour in a report to Venice regarding the arrival at York of the body of James IV of Scotland after Flodden
- 27 July 1612: Jennet Preston, the only Yorkshirewoman among the Pendle witches, is found guilty at York of the murder of Thomas Lister of Westby Hall, Gisburn (Ribble Valley)
- 26 May 1941: Headingley’s Shire Oak falls, legendary site of Anglo-Saxon local government between Aire and Wharfe
- 27 July 1822: An inquest at York finds that John Furnel of the Queen’s Regiment of Foot died of flogging and resulting illness
- 23 January 1640: Andrew Marvell’s father drowns in the Humber at Hull
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