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12 January 2002 : `Professor` Stanley Unwin died at Danetre Hospital in Daventry
He is buried in the churchyard at Long Buckby, with Frances, who pre-deceased him. Their gravestone bears the epitaph, "Reunitey in the heavenly-bode – Deep Joy!".
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4th May 1964 - Northampton to Peterborough Railway Closed
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7th May 1857 : First Train leaves Kettering Railway Station
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11th May 1812 : Spencer Perceval, MP for Northampton and Prime Minister, assassinated
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13th May 1905 : Northampton's First Railway Station, Bridge Street
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16th May 1905 : H. E. Bates (Author, The Darling Buds of May etc.) born in Rushden
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20 May 1864 ; John Clare, "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", died Northampton General Lunatic Asylum (now St Andrew`s Hospital)
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23 May 1901 : Edmund Rubbra, composer and nusic critic, born Northampton
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8th June 1607 : The Newton Rebellion and Massacre
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14th June 1645 : Battle of Naseby, English Civil War
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15th June 1605 : Thomas Randolph, poet and dramatist, born at Daventry
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19th June 1608 : Thomas Fuller, Churchman & Historian, born at Aldwinkle
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28th June 1644 : A skirmish at Grimsbury Field, near Towcester, Civil War
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2nd October 1452 : Richard III born at Fotheringhay
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3rd October 1918 : Lieutenant Colonel Bernard William Vann, VC killed at Ramicourt
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8th October 1164 : Thomas Becket on trial for contempt and malfeasance at Northampton Castle
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21 October 1921 : Malcolm Arnold (Composer) born in Northampton
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27th October 1776 : Earthquake across Northamptonshire and surrounding counties
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28th October 1894 : John Askham, "shoemaker poet", died at Clare Cottage, Wellingborough
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