After a crush killed 33 at the Bolton Wanderers' football ground in 1946, the bodies were lined up against the touchline and the game restarted, next to the bodies, within 30 minutes.
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"I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises
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~ Arthur Balfour on Winston Churchill
On This Day
1604 Shakespeare's 'Othello' was first performed, at Banqueting House.
1755 Lisbon was hit by an earthquake, tsunami and conflagration that destroyed 85% of the city.
1880 Alfred Wegener, the architect of the theory of continental drift, was born in Berlin.
1894 Nicholas II became the last Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, died an early death from kidney disease. He was forced to abdicate in 1917 and was then taken prisoner and executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 during the Russian Revolution.
1950 Two Puerto Rican independence activists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to shoot US President Harry S. Truman. One was killed and the other shot and arrested in what has been described as the biggest shoot-out in Secret Service history.