1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1917 - King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
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