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66 years ago today, Tony Benn won a by-election in Bristol, to become an MP for the 1st time.

Million Dollar Quartet was a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title "Million Dollar Quartet". The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks. A few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley - The Million Dollar Quartet. This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll history.

The coronation of King Cnut The Great(also known as King Canute) on the 6th of January 1017 in London.

This is the chair that Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.