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 SATURDAY, AUGUST 30   ON THIS DAY IN...
                                        
 1991 An Isle of Wight stamp collector  
 who paid £1 for an album at a car boot 
 sale, revealed that hj had sold two of 
 the stamps for £95,000!                
                                        
 1901 The vacuum cleaner was patented   
 by Hubert Cecil Booth.                 
                                        
 1860 The first British tram service    
 began at Birkjnhead.                   
                                        
 BORN ON THIS DAY: Author Mary Shelley  
 (1797-1851) — she wrote the horror     
 classic "Frankenstein".                
                                        
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