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Wednesday 23 July 1997 00:02 BST

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Anniversaries

Births: Alan Francis Brooke, first Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, 1883; Raymond Thornton Chandler, novelist, 1888; Ras Tafari Makonnen, Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892; Elspeth Josceline Huxley (Grant), writer, 1907; . Deaths: Domenico Scarlatti, composer, 1757; Rosemary Sutcliff, historical novelist, 1992. On this day: Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, landed at Eriskay Island in the Hebrides, 1745; the Duke of York married Sarah Ferguson, 1986. Today is the Feast Day of St Anne or Susanna, St Apollinaris of Ravenna, St Bridget of Sweden, St John Cassian, St Liborius, St Romula and her Companions, The Three Wise Men.

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