David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
The Stone of Scone is taken away from King Edward's Chair in Westminster Abbey, its location since 1296, and returned to Scotland.
In a deliberate act of political propaganda, the Stone of Scone was removed from Scotland by Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307) who made it a part of the English Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey. The stone was finally returned to Scotland in 1996 and now resides in Edinburgh Castle.
In the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election, Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton decisively defeated Republican challenger Bob Dole, securing his second consecutive term in office.
This election solidified Clinton's political legacy and continued the Democratic Party's hold on the White House
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the influential Archbishop of Chicago, known for his advocacy of social justice, died at 68, as I was having to discontinue Mr & Mrs Holt-Wilson's Duck & Free Range Eggs at Redgrave
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Italian immigrant parents, who moved to the predominantly Protestant South as his father sought work as a stonecutter and granite quarry worker.
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Saudi Arabian Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide in mid-air over Charkhi Dadri in India, killing 349 people, the third-deadliest aviation disaster in history.
This was a catastrophic mid-air collision occurred between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, India. This as I was writing to Carole Button with a written warning about her performance as Redgarve Deputy Manager
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A devastating terrorist bombing occurred during a memorial service for Afghanistan war veterans in a Moscow cemetery, resulting in 13 fatalities and 70 injuries.
This, highlighted the ongoing tensions and violence in post-Soviet Russia.
Marjorie Proops, British journalist and advice columnist for the Daily Mirror dies aged 85
Rebecca Marjorie Proops OBE was a journalist and agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaper.
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