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 IT HAPPENED ON MAY 10...       
                                        
 1996 Chancellor Kenneth Clarke dampened
 hopes of a tax-cutting Budget in the   
 run-up to the General Election.        
                                        
 1941 The worst night of the London     
 Blitz when 550 German bombers dropped  
 100,000 incendiaries. More than 1,400  
 people were killed.                    
                                        
 1938 Travel agent Thomas Cook launched 
 eight-day package holidays from Britain
 to France for £8.7s.6d (£8.37).        
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 IT HAPPENED ON MAY 10...       
                                        
 1915 The first Zeppelin raids on       
 England took place.                    
                                        
 THOUGHT Historians tell the story of   
 the past, novelists the story of the   
 present — Edmond de Goncourt.          
                                        
 BIRTHDAYS Bono (Paul Hewson), rock     
 singer (U2), 37; Donovan, folk singer, 
 51; Jonathan Edwards, triple-jumper,   
 31;Maureen Lipman, actress, 51; Sir    
 Denis Thatcher, 82.                    
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