1900: Happy birthday to the Queen Mum, born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Glamis, Scotland.
1979: Roy Plomley's fifteen hundredth Desert Island Discs was broadcast today.
1875: The great Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen died. Although Hans became world famous for his fairytales, he remained a lonely bachelor to the end.
1922: Today marked the end of the line for telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell who was buried in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
1816: America's meanest millionaire Russell Sage was born in Oneida County, New York. Through shrewd investment and large scale money-lending, he amassed a $70,000,000 fortune. Yet he still wore $4 second-hand suits and hosted business lunches where only apples were served.
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