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Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (died 1946)
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (died 1941)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Noel Clarke, English actor, director, and screenwriter
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Adrian García Arias, Mexican footballer
Deaths (350 years ago today): 1675 – John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and academic (born 1602)
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