20th January

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1265 England's first ever Parliament meet at Westminster Hall.

1568 Miles Coverdale dies aged 80. He was translator and publisher of the first complete English Bible (1535).

1649 Charles I went on trial for treason and was beheaded ten days later.

1936 George V died. He was succeeded by Edward VIII who abdicated 325 days later to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1986 Mrs. Pauline Williams won a 3 year fight to prosecute the man who injected her drug addict son with a fatal painkiller. She was the first person to bring a private prosecution for manslaughter to a Crown Court trial.

1987 Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy to Lebanon, was kidnapped in Beirut.

1997 Her Majesty's Royal Yacht Britannia began her final voyage, to Hong Kong, before being decommissioned. She is now based in Leith in Edinburgh, as a visitor attraction.

1997 Three sisters, Phoebe, Faith and Alice Julian were among 17 girls who were the first to be admitted to the choir of York Minster, ending a 400 year old tradition of men only.

2014 Dr. Michael Ramscar and a team of scientists suggested that the brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive. “The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”

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