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DATE OF DESTINY

On 3 September 1650, Oliver Cromwell won the battle of Dunbar; exactly a year later, 3 September 1651, he won at Worcester. If that date didn’t already have enough significance, the lord protector then died on 3 September 1658.

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I GOT YOU, BABE

In 1931, two of baseball’s best-ever players, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, were struck out by a 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell. Days later, her contract was torn up and women declared unfit to play.

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QE… WHO?

The luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 (or QE2) was not named after the monarch who launched it in 1967, but an earlier Cunard liner. The Queen christened it “the second” in the ceremony, and the name stuck.

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DISMAL EXISTENCE

Not every day for Charles Darwin was about changing the world with his theories on evolution. In 1861, he wrote to a friend: “I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.”