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On this day February 1
From the Bolton Evening News, first published Tuesday 1st Feb 2005.
1865: The Bill to abolish slavery in the US was signed.
1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, was published.
1896: Mimi's tiny hand was frozen for the first time as Puccini's opera, La Boheme, opened in Turin.
1901: Actor Clark Gable was born in Ohio. One studio turned him down for having "big ears and the looks of an ape".
1949: Clothes rationing ended in Britain.
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years exile in France.
1990: Bulgaria's Communist Government resigned.
LAST YEAR: More than 240 worshippers died in a stampede at the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
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