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1915 – Charles Barton is starting an 18-month prison sentence for bigamy after Hartford Assizes hears how he fraudulently wed a Miss Clarice Rawkins 1940 – Hollywood star Ginger Rogers
announces that she’s ‘leaving for Reno’ to obtain a speedy divorce from actor husband Lew Ayres 1965 – Tory MPs are likely to ‘treat with contempt’ an allegation by Labour minister Patrick
Duffy that some of them turned up half-drunk for Commons debates 1990 – Sales of Perrier mineral water are halted worldwide as the Ministry of Agriculture confirms traces of cancer-causing
poison benzene have been found in it 2005 – BBC1 Controller Lorraine Heggessey, the woman behind the success of Strictly Come Dancing, is jumping ship to work for Talkback Thames which makes
the X Factor 2010 – Hundreds of petrol stations could be forced to close in the face of Government tax changes leaving motorists facing longer trips to find fuel
