On this day - April 8
FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:
On this day a year ago the Argus reported how villagers had turned a disused red phone box into a tourist information point for visitors.
Five years ago today we reported how the family of an Abergavenny soldier, Private Richard Hunt, who was killed after serving in Afghanistan, were to be presented with the Elizabeth Cross.
The stories from history on this day - April 8
217: Roman emperor Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) was assassinated.
1838: Brunel's 236ft steamship Great Western left Bristol for New York on her maiden voyage.
1904: Britain and France signed a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests.
1908: Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith became Prime Minister.
1925: The Australian government and the British Colonial Office offered low-interest loans to enable Britons to emigrate to Australia.
1950: Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky died in London.
1967: Bare-foot Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK with Puppet On A String.
1973: Death of Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor who pioneered Cubism, aged 91.
1986: Clint Eastwood was elected Mayor of Carmel in California.
2005: More than four million people attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
2013: Former prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87 following a stroke.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Tributes to Peaches Geldof began to pour in after news of her death emerged.
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