25 years ago: A Shipley parachute instructor saved the life of one of his students in a dramatic mid-air rescue.
50 years ago: The housing problem in Oakenshaw was so acute that young people had to leave the village when they married, it was said at a public inquiry at Spenborough Town Hall, Cleckheaton.
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1967: Muhammad Ali refused induction into the US army and was stripped of boxing title.
2009: A 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck Ulverston in Cumbria.
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