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Then & Now: Anniversaries

Saturday 05 September 1992 23:02 BST
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6 September, 1522: Ferdinand Magellan becomes the first to circumnavigate the earth.

1880: England play Australia in first Test match in England.

1948: Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands after her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, abdicates.

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