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Somerset


1988 Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes

1987 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England

1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run

1973 Shane Lee, cricket all-rounder, NSW and Somerset, Australian ODI 1995-

1972 Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler, Somerset and Holland

1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres

1968 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Pam[ela] Bustin, born in Somerset, Massachusetts, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics

1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset

1965 William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91

1965 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

1959 Tammie Green, Somerset, Ohio, LPGA golfer, 1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic

1959 Heidi Bohay, Somerset, New Jersey, actress, Megan-Hotel

1956 Peter Roebuck, cricketer, Somerset opening batsman and SMH writer

1944 Patti Boyd, born in Somerset, England, Mrs. George Harrison and Mrs. Eric Clapton

1938 Bradman scores 202 Australia vs. Somerset, 225 minutes, 32 fours

1935 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset

1935 Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset

1928 David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago

1927 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)

1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in New York City

1923 Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* vs. Somerset at Bath

1920 W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London

1919 Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset

1917 Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey'

1915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

1914 Harold Gimblett, cricketer, legendary Somerset and England batsman

1907 Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx vs. Somerset

1902 Arthur Wellard, cricketer, big hitting Somerset and England batsman

1895 Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs vs. Somerset at Taunton

1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs. Somerset at Bristol

1891 J C "Farmer" White, cricketer, Somerset slow lefty 1909-37

1874 [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage

1874 William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

1874 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

1873 Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31

1871 Archie MacLaren, cricketer, 424 Lancashire vs. Somerset 1895

1866 Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor

1851 Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader

1645 Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists

1552 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason

1551 English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested

1550 English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed

1549 Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned


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