21st January 1542 The Bill of Attainder against Catherine Howard, the former queen, was introduced into Parliament. 1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens Daily News. 1919 The birth, in Leith, of Captain Eric Winkle Brown, former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew more types of aircraft than anyone else in history. 1919 Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence. 1950 Author George Orwell dies. 1966 The Monte Carlo rally ended in uproar over the disqualification of the British cars expected to fill the first four places. They were all ruled out of the prizes, along with six other British cars, for alleged infringements of regulations about the way their headlights dipped. 1971 The current Emley Moor transmitting station, situated in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, began transmitting UHF broadcasts for Yorkshire Television. 1997 More than 80 people were named as child abusers in statements to a North Wales inquiry into claims of abuse of children in care in Clwyd and Gwynedd over 20 years.
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