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#onthisday 14 October 1975 – An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground. #lestweforget #britishhistory

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 66 people in the station were killed – although some sources report 64 shelterers & 4 railway staff were killed, & more than 70 injured. #lestweforget #britishhistory

The northbound platform tunnel partially collapsed & filled with earth & water from the fractured water mains & sewers above, which also flowed through the cross-passages into the southbound platform tunnel, with the flooding & debris reaching to within 91 metres of Clapham South

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#onthisday 14 October 1940 – WWII The Blitz: The Balham underground station disaster A German 1,400 kg semi-armour piercing fragmentation bomb fell on the road above the northern end of the platform tunnels, creating a large crater into which an out-of-service bus then crashed.

#onthisday 14 October 1939 – WWII: The German submarine U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. Of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men & boys, 835 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. #lestweforget #royalnavy

#onthisday 14 October 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. #britishhistory

#onthisday 14 October 1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106. #britishhistory

#onthisday 14 October 1872 – Reginald Doherty was born (d.1910) He was a tennis player & the older brother of tennis player Laurence Doherty. He was a four-time Wimbledon singles champion & a triple Olympic Gold medalist in doubles & mixed doubles.

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#onthisday 14 October 1726 – Charles Middleton was born (died 1813) Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham was a Royal Navy officer. He saw action during the 7 Years' War & American War of Independence. He went on to be 1st Naval Lord & then First Lord of the Admiralty.

#onthisday 14 October 1712 – George Grenville was born (died 1770) He served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1763 - 1765, during the early reign of the young George III. #britishhistory

#onthisday 14 October 1633 – James VII & II was born (d.1701) He was the 2nd surviving son of Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France. He was King of England & Ireland as James II & King of Scotland as James VII from 1685 to 1688, when he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution.

#onthisday 14 October 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. #royalhistory

#onthisday 14 October 1066 - Harold Godwinson died at Battle of Hastings.  Harold Godwinson (c. 1022 – 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king. #royalhistory

#onthisday 14 October 1066 - The Battle of Hastings. #battleofhastings

Remembering Second Lieutenant Christopher Hal Lawrence 🇬🇧 4th Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 13 October 1914, Western Front. Commemorated on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial. #lestweforget #britishhistory #britisharmy

Remembering Second Lieutenant Arved Waterhouse 🇬🇧 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, The Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 13 October 1914. Killed in Action (aged 23) near Hazebrouck, struck by a fragment of shell. Western Front. #lestweforget #britisharmy

Remembering Lieutenant Arthur Conway Osborne Morgan MID 🇬🇧 4th Battery, 3rd North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Attached to 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment as Smoke Bomb Officer. Death: 13 October 1915. Wounded & m.i.a at the Hohenzollern Redoubt near Hulluch.

#onthisday 13 October 1925 – Margaret Thatcher was born (died 2013) Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts), served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 & Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. #britishhistory

#onthisday 13 October 1756 – James Gambier was born (died 1833) Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier was a Royal Navy officer & colonial administrator. #britishhistory #royalnavy