Tuesday, May 27, 2014
25 years ago: About 3,000 members of Bradford’s Muslim community were set to attend a protest rally in London’s Hyde Park as part of a national day of demonstrations against Salman Rushdie’s controversial book, ‘The Satanic Verses’.
50 years ago: Workmen laying a water main for a new housing estate in Clayton Heights, Bradford, severed two GPO junction cables, cutting off the Queensbury telephone exchange.
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