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Then & Now: Anniversaries

Saturday 21 August 1993 23:02 BST
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22 August 1485: Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

1642: The English civil war began.

1788: The British settlement in Sierra Leone was founded to provide a home in Africa for freed slaves.

1864: Red Cross founded.

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