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    May 05, 2022 3 minutes

    100 years ago AUGUST 1922

    • Poet and author Philip Larkin was born in Coventry.

    90 years ago AUGUST 1932

    • The first Mars Bar was manufactured in Slough by Forrest Mars.• The BBC began its own television programming from a basement in Broadcasting House.• The first Venice Film Festival took place, with the first film to be screened.• Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart became the second person, and the first woman, to fly solo• Stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole was born in Leeds.• Abstract painter Howard Hodgkin was born in London.• Booker Prize-winning author VS. Naipaul was born in British Trinidad and Tobago. He died in 2018.• Actor, film director, novelist, playwright and composer Melvin Van Peebles was born in Chicago.• Novelist and biographer Antonia Fraser was born in London.

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