25 years ago: Bradford’s historic Ivegate was to become traffic-free. Councillors decided to ban cars from the road on Saturdays and restrict it to delivery vehicles for the rest of the week.
50 years ago: A Salvation Army hall was reopened in West Bowling, Bradford by Brigadier Frederick Munn, who had recently returned from 25 years’ missionary work in Africa.
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1981: Englishman Mike Hailwood, nine times world motor cycling champion, died two days after a car crash in which his nine-year-old daughter was also killed.
1989: A 1,000ft diameter asteroid missed the Earth by a mere 400,000 miles.
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