25 years ago: A Bradford Council crackdown on Sunday traders started with six stores earmarked for prosecution.
50 years ago: More than 230 poodles worth a total of £10,000 were in Bradford for a championship show.
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1877: The first human cannonball act was performed at London’s Amphitheatre, when acrobatic Lady Zazal was shot by elastic springs into a safety net.
1982: Argentinian forces invaded and occupied the British Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
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