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Classic headlineBritish Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
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OddlyTrue News Stand — January 28
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Weird history on January 28
1547 First everNine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.
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1896 First everWalter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
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1878 First everYale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
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Vintage clipping · 1904
The citizen-Republican (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.), January 28, 1904
Page 4 · mentions "monster" · printed on this very day
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