On this day on 2nd June
On this day in 1840 novelist Thomas Hardy is born.
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On this day in 1855 Caroline Norton writes a letter to Queen Victoria about women's rights. (9)
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On this day in 1888 Alfred Harmsworth publishes the first edition of Answers to Correspondent
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On this day in 1915 Emma Goldman writes to Anna Strunsky about the First World War. (5)
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On this day in 1916 Captain Alexander Stewart writes in his diary about trench rats.
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On this day in 1940 Winston Churchill appeals to the newspaper editors not to present Dunkirk as a major defeat.
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Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Leo Amery, Neville Chamberlain,
Arthur Greenwood, Lord Halifax, Duff Cooper and Anthony Eden.
On this day in 1945 Freda Kirchwey defends the Nation reporting of the Soviet Union. (17)
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On this day in 1962 Vita Sackville-West died.
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