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In AD 1126, Rutherglen (now part of Glasgow) became one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
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1127 Squadron is based in Kendal, at the Old TA Centre in Queen Katherine Street.
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The Eleven Twenty-Eight bar, in the Tanglin district of Singapore, is so named because it serves Grimbergen beers from Belgium, which have been brewed since 1128. The Grimbergen Abbey from which they originate was destroyed in three separate fires and rebuilt each time.
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Royal Oak to Bethnal Green in 333 days
Heathrow Terminal 4 to Amersham in 17 hours, 42 minutes and 22 seconds
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The IBM 1130 Computing System was introduced in 1965, and according to the Wikipedia article "holds a place in computing history because it (and its non-IBM clones) gave many people their first direct interaction with a computer". Around 10,000 were produced.
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Some folks encounter the Epson printer utility set up error 1131 when trying to install the Epson XP-305 printer.
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Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132.
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After the storms in October, 1133 homes in Oxfordshire were left without power.
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That's Oxfordshire. Whilst in Cambridgeshire, the A1134 is the Cambridge Ring Road.
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RobbieM wrote:That's Oxfordshire. Whilst in Cambridgeshire, the A1134 is the Cambridge Ring Road.
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On the death of Henry I in AD 1135, there was a succession crisis which led to civil war.
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The year 1774 was 1136 in the Burmese Calendar.
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Published by Breakdown Press in London, Antoine Cossé’s latest short comic J.1137 is the surreal tale of an android actor’s brush with revolutionary terrorists, commenting on cinema, fame, architecture and reality in the process.
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As of 31 December 2003, 1138 was the number of federal provisions in the United States code where marital status was a factor in determining or receiving benefits, rights and privileges
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The Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group is a group of international lawyers that monitor the human rights abuses faced by legal professionals in Colombia. In December, they raised £1139 by climbing the Monument in the City of London.
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1140 AD saw the founding of the first Cistercian monastery in Spain, in Fitero.
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