In 1828, the Bank of England issued a one penny banknote.
In 1946, the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place in London.
In 2000, figures showed that despite worries about the Millennium Bug, there had been only 67 major computer failures across the world in the first week of the new millennium.
25 years ago
Taken from the Telegraph & Argus of January 10, 1983...
Keighley Parish Church, badly in need of cash to repair its rotten roof, has been left about £3,000 by Keighley spinster, the late Miss Margaret Matilda Sharpe.
50 years ago
Taken from the Telegraph & Argus of January 10, 1958...
Doctors who take part in the polio vaccination scheme are today advised by Dr G H Cooper, of Baildon, to stop being "like mice" and ask for adequate payment for their work.
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