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30 years ago . . .
On 27 April 1992 Betty Boothroyd became the first woman in the 700- year history of the British House of Commons to be elected Speaker.
150 years ago . . .
On 2 April 1872, the American inventor Samuel Morse died. He is famous for inventing the Morse Code, which uses dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers.
