My office diary has marked out some decidedly strange historical occurrences that I should apparently be aware of. Take tomorrow, for instance - did you know that on that day in 1945 Hitler and his mistress committed suicide? Or that on this very day in 1922, the first weightlifting championships took place in Estonia? And only last week, on the 22nd, it was the anniversary of the first known cheque, which was written for £10 in the year 1659. No, really. This is the sort of random stuff in my office diary. I'll do one more - hang on, let me open it at random...good grief. OK, did you know that on August 29th 1896, chop suey was invented in New York??

OK, one more and I'll stop. Did you know that on March the 6th in 1971, British postal workers returned to work after 7 weeks on strike? I know, fascinating isn't it...

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