Brit Quote: Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there - George Orwell More Quotes
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1st official street collections for charity - 1891, Harrow Rail crash - 1952, EMI Sign Sex Pistols - 1976, Britain joins the Exchange Rate Mechanism - 1990 More dates from British history
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