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Alderney elects its first president |
1st |
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Guille and Alles open their library |
2nd |
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Guernsey bans smoking in public places |
3rd |
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Guernsey Press registers its domain |
4th |
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Guernsey Zoo is sold as a going concern |
5th |
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Guernsey opens its wartime files | |
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Guernsey Police moves to its new headquarters |
6th |
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Guernsey Fisher makes its maiden voyage |
7th |
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Work begins on the Val des Terres |
8th |
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A hotel porter goes on trial for murder |
9th |
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Guernsey Police Service appoints its first inspector |
10th |
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Royal theft inquiry heads to Guernsey |
11th |
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Channel Express Airways plane crashes in Guernsey |
12th |
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Sibyl Hathaway, Dame of Sark, is born |
13th |
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Channel Television disappears |
14th |
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Benefactor Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx dies |
15th |
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MV Prosperity is wrecked at Perelle |
16th |
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Guernsey’s Royal Court sits for the first time |
17th |
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Doctor Who travels to Guernsey |
18th |
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Channel 4 gameshow Treasure Hunt comes to Guernsey |
19th |
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Hanois Lighthouse is cut off by the weather |
20th |
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Guernsey-built prototype plane crashes |
21st |
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Guernsey Steam Tramway stops running |
22nd |
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Radiant Med sinks with loss of life |
23rd |
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Guernsey wins gold at the Commonwealth Games |
24th |
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Sark is awarded Dark-Sky status |
25th |
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Guernsey passengers are battered by storms |
26th |
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Sir Isaac Newton has his say on a mysterious Guernsey invention |
27th |
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Guernsey’s last witch trial takes place |
28th |
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Guernsey poet George Métivier is born |
29th |
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The States of Guernsey proposes a new airport |
30th |
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Guernsey lifeboat performs a chemical tanker rescue |
31st |
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Mail ship wrecked on Black Rock |
1st |
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Oil rig stranded at Grandes Rocques | |
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Birth of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann |
2nd |
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Death of Sir Charles Hayward |
3rd |
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St Martin’s parish church consecrated |
4th |
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Guernsey suffers its worst storm in 35 years |
5th |
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Guernsey watchmaker helps Stone of Scone manhunt |
6th |
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Guernsey Language Commission formed |
7th |
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Queen Mary executed while wearing Guernsey stockings |
8th |
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Guernsey gets its first postbox | |
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Guernsey Society celebrates its 70th anniversary |
9th |
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Guernsey’s last execution didn’t go according to plan |
10th |
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The last issue of GUNS was distributed |
11th |
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Alderney gets its first full-time radio station |
12th |
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Guernsey’s last duel |
13th |
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Specsavers’ Mary Perkins was born |
14th |
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Blue Islands takes to the skies | |
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Guernsey gets its own flag |
15th |
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Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard |
16th |
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HMS Guernsey launched in Aberdeen |
17th |
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Guernsey’s first Methodist minister arrives |
18th |
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Aurigny Air Services founded |
19th |
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Guernsey Railway Company runs its first services |
20th |
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The Channel Islands were cut off from the outside world |
21st |
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St Sampson was ordained a bishop |
22nd |
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Death of Thomas Fiott de Havilland |
23rd |
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Murder inquiry ends with suicide |
24th |
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Death of occupation resister Marie Ozanne |
25th |
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Guernsey’s first banker dies |
26th |
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Release of Reverend Harry Samuel |
27th |
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Plans for St Sampson power station approved |
28th |
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Second World War bomb detonated |
29th |
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Debut of Guernsey-set comedy This is Jinsy |
1st |
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Channel 4 broadcasts Sark-based Mr Pye |
2nd |
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First ever broadcast of Puffin’s Pla(i)ce |
3rd |
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Dead man appointed to run Guernsey Airport |
4th |
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Guernsey’s entire police force is arrested |
5th |
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Isle of Guernsey delivered to its new owners |
6th |
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Guernsey players set darts record | |
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Guernsey heads call for an end to the Eleven-plus |
7th |
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Guernsey’s first governor, Edmund Weston, is appointed |
8th |
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Occupying forces mount a desperate raid on Granville |
9th |
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Guernsey emergency services prepare for a disaster |
10th |
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Birth of Baron James de Saumarez |
11th |
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First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea |
12th |
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Building work starts on Guernsey Airport |
13th |
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Guernsey’s island-wide police force is established |
14th |
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Guernsey exchange student goes missing in Virginia |
15th |
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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is published |
16th |
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BBC Radio Guernsey takes to the air | |
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Guernsey clears up after heaviest snow in years |
17th |
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Torrey Canyon spills oil on Guernsey’s beaches |
18th |
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Guernsey issues banknotes featuring famous locals |
19th |
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Guernsey guidebook pioneer Henry Inglis dies |
20th |
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Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George |
21st |
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Alderney arrest sparks a “riot” |
22nd |
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Guernsey nurse Elizabeth Lincoln elected to the States |
23rd |
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Famed printer Thomas de la Rue born |
24th |
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Guernsey votes for equal age of consent |
25th |
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Guernsey to UK telephone connection inaugurated |
26th |
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Condor Liberation enters service |
27th |
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Guernsey Post Office is established |
28th |
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Enemy at the Door comes to the end of its run |
29th |
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Guernsey adopts Sterling currency |
30th |
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Guernsey and France tackle the Amoco Cadiz oil spill |
31st |
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Guernsey’s first female murderer goes on trial |
1st |
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A French fisherman is arrested and escorted to St Peter Port |
2nd |
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Guernsey’s new population law comes into force |
3rd |
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Guernsey’s oldest resident dies, aged 110 |
4th |
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An occupation-era minefield is discovered at L’Ancresse |
5th |
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Birth of Stone de Croze, the original Guernseyman |
6th |
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The first ever Guernsey stamp is issued |
7th |
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Antiquarian William Collings Lukis was born |
8th |
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Guernsey hosts its first Parkrun at Pembroke |
9th |
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Alderney residents lined the coast to watch Titanic pass |
10th |
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Norfolk pupils spend a week in Guernsey |
11th |
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A plane hit a car while landing at Guernsey Airport |
12th |
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Battery Mirus was test fired for the first time |
13th |
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Royal Guernsey Light Infantry fights at Ypres |
14th |
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Guernsey Mormon Sampson Avard dies in Illinois |
15th |
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Lieutenant Governor, Lord Ruthven, died in Bath |
16th |
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Death of the Vicar General of the Channel Islands |
17th |
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TV’s Jeeves is rushed to hospital on Guernsey |
18th |
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Guernsey Airport’s new terminal opened for business |
19th |
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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie film opened |
20th |
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Death of Guernsey-born footballer Len Duquemin | |
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Three Jewish women are deported from Guernsey |
21st |
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Guernsey bigamist got married for the second time |
22nd |
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Aurigny pilot Ray Bowyer spots a UFO near Alderney |
23rd |
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The States of Guernsey registers the gov.gg domain |
24th |
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Guernsey-set film The Sea Devils hits cinemas |
25th |
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Hydrofoil Condor 1 completed its final sea trials |
26th |
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The first Muratti football match takes place |
27th |
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Guernsey passengers stage a ferry sit-in |
28th |
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Guernsey abolishes the death penalty for murder |
29th |
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Finishing touches put to new hospital |
30th |
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Murder suspects steal visitor’s boat from St Peter Port | |
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Priaulx Library opens for the first time |
1st |
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Horse racing returns to L’Ancresse race course |
2nd |
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Guernsey deportee, nurse Gladys Skillett was born | |
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“Twink” goes missing on its way to Guernsey |
3rd |
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Role of Chief Minister of Guernsey abolished |
4th |
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Guernsey Airport opened for business |
5th |
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Alderney debated in the House of Commons |
6th |
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Songs of Praise comes from Guernsey |
7th |
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Final issue of Deutsche Guernsey-Zeitung was published |
8th |
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Guernsey was liberated from German occupation |
9th |
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A Guernsey retiree’s £1m offer attracts 57,000 requests |
10th |
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A liberation celebration ended in disaster |
11th |
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Guernsey plays Tottenham Hotspur |
12th |
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Guernsey’s telephone wars broke out |
13th |
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British papers reported Dame of Sark’s deportation |
14th |
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The States of Guernsey bought Aurigny |
15th |
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Alderney was liberated at the end of the second world war |
16th |
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Herm goes back on the market |
17th |
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A mainland murder with a Guernsey connection |
18th |
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Guernsey declared a State of Emergency |
19th |
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Wartime diplomat Wilfred Gallienne born in Guernsey |
20th |
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Hauteville House is bequeathed to the City of Paris |
21st |
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Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet was born |
22nd |
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John Doyle was appointed Lieutenant-Governor |
23rd |
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The Imperial Hotel opened for the first time |
24th |
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Elizabeth College is founded in St Peter Port |
25th |
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Game of Thrones actor Roy Dotrice was born |
26th |
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Head of Guernsey CID is shot in St Peter Port |
27th |
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Work started on the Victoria Tower | |
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Guernsey’s first paid constables were hired |
28th |
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Guernsey woman advised to leave for her safety |
29th |
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Occupation stories occupy the mainland papers |
30th |
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“Overdose” verdict in Guernsey farmer’s death inquiry |
31st |
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Cricketer Charles Grieve died in Shropshire |
1st |
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St Johns undertook its first Guernsey rescue |
2nd |
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Bailiff John Guille died in Plymouth |
3rd |
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GUNS writer Joseph John Gillingham was deported |
4th |
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First arrests were made at Guernsey Airport |
5th |
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Jethou was put on the market |
6th |
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The king and queen celebrated Guernsey’s liberation |
7th |
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Occupying forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios |
8th |
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Guernsey Railway company ceased operations |
9th |
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Guernsey welcomed its first steam ship |
10th |
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Laura Kennington kicks off Channel Islands triathlon |
11th |
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Dame Sibyl became a dame again |
12th |
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Guernsey voted to legalise local abortions |
13th |
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Victor Hugo’s house is opened to the public |
14th |
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The Channel Islands were demilitarised |
15th |
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Guernsey was invaded by Colorado beetles |
16th |
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States Telephone Department was established |
17th |
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Pollet guest house fire claimed its third victim |
18th |
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Aurigny founder Derrick Bailey died |
19th |
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Guernsey joined the Football Association |
20th |
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Guernsey’s school children were evacuated |
21st |
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Guernsey celebrated Queen Victoria’s jubilee |
22nd |
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Princess Elizabeth opened Guernsey’s hospital |
23rd |
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Guernsey chose England over France |
24th |
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First meeting of Guernsey’s Controlling Committee |
25th |
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Guernsey bought Fort Grey from the War Office |
26th |
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Guernsey coffee trader William Le Lacheur died |
27th |
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G-JOEY completes his last flight |
28th |
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Guernsey suffered its first and only air raid | |
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The Star was published for the first time |
29th |
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Two deserters were shot after landing on Guernsey |
30th |
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Guernseyman Edward Tupper killed by cannibals |
1st |
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Alderney is occupied by German forces |
2nd |
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Seigneur of Sark, Michael Beaumont, dies aged 88 |
3rd |
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Guernsey hosted the Island Games 2003 closing ceremony |
4th |
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New coins are minted for Guernsey |
5th |
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Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum opens |
6th |
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Victor Hugo statue is unveiled in Candie Gardens |
7th |
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First Commando raid of the Second World War |
8th |
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Birth of Sark-based writer Mervyn Peake |
9th |
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Guernsey nurses go on hunger strike |
10th |
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ITV broadcasts first episode of Island at War |
11th |
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A Guernsey man posted himself to Sark |
12th |
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Murderer Peter Robin sentenced to death |
13th |
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Victor Hugo plants his United States of Europe oak |
14th |
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Point Law runs aground off Alderney |
15th |
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Racing yacht Westward is blown up off Guernsey | |
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BBC made its first ever Channel Islands broadcast |
16th |
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The Star received some “grave” news |
17th |
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The Guernsey Martyrs were burned at the stake |
18th |
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Prince Charles and Camilla visit Guernsey |
19th |
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President Garcia is re-floated in Saints Bay |
20th |
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Typhoid suspect holidaymaker flies home |
21st |
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Guernsey Controlling Committee’s Sir John Leale died |
22nd |
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Alderney to Guernsey radio connection established |
23rd |
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Val des Terres was first opened for traffic |
24th |
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The BBC broadcasts from Sark for the first time |
25th |
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Guernsey court escapee was caught again |
26th |
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Braye du Valle was gifted by the crown |
27th |
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Murderer sentenced to death in three hours |
28th |
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Guernsey bought Herm from the mainland |
29th |
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Albert Lamy appointed Guernsey Police Chief Officer |
30th |
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Guernsey to Jersey plane crashed into the sea |
31st |
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The Saumarez Memorial foundation stone was laid |
1st |
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Guernsey won double-silver at the Commonwealth Games |
2nd |
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Earl Grey was appointed Governor of Guernsey |
3rd |
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A boy scout fell 250ft over a Torteval Cliff |
4th |
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Jethou tenant was rescued from an up-turned boat |
5th |
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A tomato ship and a tanker collided |
6th |
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Human remains were found on Lihou |
7th |
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The Beatles played at Candie Gardens |
8th |
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The RAF bombed Guernsey Airport |
9th |
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Guernesiais linguist Marie de Garis died |
10th |
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Alderney experienced a total eclipse of the sun |
11th |
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A minister was found dead at Icart Point |
12th |
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Guernsey steam tramway is granted its concession |
13th |
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Police found a bomb in Bluebell Wood |
14th |
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Hanois Lighthouse’s foundation stone was laid |
15th |
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Charlie Chaplin played in St Peter Port |
16th |
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St Peter Port inundated with fish |
17th |
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A royal visit… of sorts | |
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The Rolling Stones played St Peter Port |
18th |
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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was published |
19th |
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Archaeologist Crystal Bennet was born |
20th |
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Mapmaking geologist John MacCulloch died |
21st |
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St Sampson pensioner was buried in a landslide |
22nd |
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Trident VI ran aground on its return from Herm |
23rd |
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Queen Victoria visited Guernsey |
24th |
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The post-Occupation military government was disbanded |
25th |
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Wesleyans celebrated 100 years on Guernsey |
26th |
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Oliver Reed was jailed in Guernsey |
27th |
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Guernsey’s Reform Law was enacted |
28th |
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Winston Churchill visited Guernsey with his wife |
29th |
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Philip de Saumarez was discharged as a Jurat |
30th |
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Jersey swimmers set a round-Guernsey record |
31st |
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Channel Television took to the air |
1st |
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A Guernseyman cycled to Herm |
2nd |
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Brecqhou was put up for sale |
3rd |
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Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint |
4th |
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Ship sinks in St Sampson harbour |
5th |
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The melon king died… long live the melon king |
6th |
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Coronavirus returns to Guernsey |
7th |
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HD Ferries makes its last crossing | |
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6th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment fought at the Somme |
8th |
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Guernsey number plate sold for £240,000 |
9th |
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Guernsey hosted the second Island Games |
10th |
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Major Guernsey employer Tektronix went public |
11th |
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Guernsey was struck by a hurricane |
12th |
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Schoolboys and teacher went missing off Sark |
13th |
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Guernsey holidaymakers head home itching |
14th |
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The title Baron de Saumarez was created |
15th |
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Missing girl, Jetta, was found on Guernsey |
16th |
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Archaeologists found a porpoise grave |
17th |
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An Islander aircraft crashed in Guernsey |
18th |
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Guernsey commando Hubert Nicolle died |
19th |
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Guernsey and Jersey considered merging |
20th |
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Occupation resister Winifred Green was deported |
21st |
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The Devil’s Rock had its opening night |
22nd |
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The Duke of Connaught visited Guernsey |
23rd |
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Former bailiff Daniel de Lisle Brock died |
24th |
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Occupation president Ambrose Sherwill died |
25th |
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Trudy, Guernsey’s biggest ever import, was installed |
26th |
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“Let em starve,” said Churchill |
27th |
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A Guernsey planning dispute headed to Europe |
28th |
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Herm tenant Major Peter Wood died |
29th |
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Spotlight was broadcast for the first time |
30th |
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Guernsey Post Office was established |
1st |
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Guernsey switched to Reichsmarks |
2nd |
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Sark was the target of Operation Basalt |
3rd |
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Sark voted for democracy |
4th |
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Guernsey lifeboat saved a Swedish schooner |
5th |
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Jeeves actor died in Guernsey |
6th |
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Sarnia Theatre celebrated its most successful year |
7th |
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The Story of Adele H opened in cinemas |
8th |
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Howards’ Way came to Guernsey |
9th |
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Guernsey Ladies’ College opened |
10th |
|
A Trislander ate itself between Jersey and Guernsey |
11th |
|
The Channel Islands’ king set sail for England |
12th |
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Major General Sir Isaac Brock died |
13th |
|
Footballer Matt Le Tissier was born |
14th |
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Island FM brings commercial radio to Guernsey |
15th |
|
Channel Television saw off a rival broadcaster |
16th |
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The first mines were dug on Sark |
17th |
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Sark’s Stocks Hotel was damaged by fire |
18th |
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Elizabeth College’s foundation stone was laid |
19th |
|
Hitler ordered the Channel Islands’ fortification |
20th |
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Guernsey’s stone crackers demanded a pay rise |
21st |
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The desalination plant opened |
22nd |
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Sir Charles Hayward buys Jethou for £91,000 |
23rd |
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Guernsey Monopoly board game went on sale |
24th |
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Dame Sibyl Hathaway chose her Desert Island Discs |
25th |
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GUNS founder Charles Machon died |
26th |
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Bailiff Sir Peter de Havilland was born |
27th |
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A man “disappeared” from a Guernsey ferry |
28th |
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Express & Star bought Guernsey Press |
29th |
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The first lighthouses were built on the Casquets |
30th |
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States of Guernsey voted to lower the voting age |
31st |
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Car plane air crash caused airport fireball |
1st |
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A hospital worker stood accused of murder |
2nd |
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Sark’s vineyards were vandalised |
3rd |
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The original Torteval church was consecrated |
4th |
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Sibyl Beaumont married Robert Hathaway |
5th |
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The papers were excited by a Guernsey execution |
6th |
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The States agrees to pay the Bailiff |
7th |
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States of Guernsey hired its first independent vet | |
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The Little Theatre was reprieved… for a while |
8th |
|
Guernsey was declared free of cholera |
9th |
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Guernsey optician Specsavers was founded |
10th |
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The court considered a Guernsey porn dealer’s testimony |
11th |
|
Guernsey Yacht Club was founded |
12th |
|
Guernsey aimed for equal adoption rights |
13th |
|
Jethou’s tenant fell off his own cliff |
14th |
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Dad’s Army actor John le Mesurier died |
15th |
|
A Guernsey recruit regretted signing up |
16th |
|
Horticultural painter William Caparne was born |
17th |
|
German forces confiscated Guernsey’s radios |
18th |
|
A plane crashed on Crevichon |
19th |
|
Sark featured in the music charts |
20th |
|
Guernsey recruits caused concern in Parliament |
21st |
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First Guernsey competitor took part in Miss World |
22nd |
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A Lancaster bomber crashed on Sark |
23rd |
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Sark women get the right to inherit |
24th |
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Spanish flu arrived on Guernsey |
25th |
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Guernsey held its first full marathon |
26th |
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Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin died |
27th |
|
HMS Boreas sank at Hanois |
28th |
|
Radio station Contact 94 went off the air |
29th |
|
Royal Guernsey Light Infantry memorial was unveiled |
30th |
|
French fishing boats prepare to invade |
1st |
|
Two cargo ships collide on their way to Guernsey |
2nd |
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Guernseyman Herbert Le Patourel wrongly thought killed |
3rd |
|
A Guernsey funeral takes place in Cornwall |
4th |
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Guernsey steamship SS Rossgull is wrecked |
5th |
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The Guernsey Tapestry is completed |
6th |
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Air UK Fokker overshoots Guernsey runway |
7th |
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Naftel’s paintings go on display |
8th |
|
Guernsey and Jersey newspapers agree to merge |
9th |
|
Sark holds its first election |
10th |
|
Beau Sejour opens for business |
11th |
|
Victor Hugo flees France and Napoleon |
12th |
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Explorer Edmund Kennedy is speared to death |
13th |
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Author Mary Ann Shaffer is born | |
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Herm bribery case comes to court |
14th |
|
Alderney’s evacuees return to their island |
15th |
|
Guillaume de Beauvoir appointed dean of English Church in Geneva |
16th |
|
Castle Cornet surrenders to Guernsey |
17th |
|
Telex, phones and telegram cables go quiet |
18th |
|
Guernsey shipwreck results in starvation |
19th |
|
Channel Islands Securities Exchange founded |
20th |
|
G-COBO has a bumpy flight |
21st |
|
Guernsey struck by an earthquake |
22nd |
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William Hedley Cliff buys Jethou |
23rd |
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Wombles author Liza Beresford dies |
24th |
|
Asterix is discovered in St Peter Port harbour |
25th |
|
Guille and Alles lease the Assembly Rooms |
26th |
|
The Red Cross saves Guernsey from starvation |
27th |
|
Operation Hardtack targets the Channel Islands |
28th |
|
Ebenezer Le Page author GB Edwards dies |
29th |
|
Castle Cornet is struck by lightning |
30th |
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Guernsey Police makes the world’s first underwater arrest |
31st |
