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in 31 May 1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys (1633 Feb 23–1703 May 26) makes his final diary entry.
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14 May 1761: The Halifax Gazette () ran the 1st advertisement of bookseller James Rivington (1724–1802) of London, UK, who had opened ’s 1st retail bookshop in Halifax “next Door to Mr. Manning nigh the [Grand] Parade”.
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in 6 May 1236: Death of Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk & 1st of a series of important chroniclers at St Albans. His best-known chronicle, Flores historiarum, survives in 2 —including the 1 shown in the 📷—& an edition in Matthew Paris’ (c.1200–1259) Chronica majora.
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Detail of the upper left corner of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 1 recto in Bodleian Library, manuscript Douce 207. 12 lines of handwritten Latin text copied in brown ink. The first 7 lines are indented to accommodate a decorative initial painted in blue and orange paint atop a background square of pink bordered with gold leaf. Within the initial sits a grey-haired, bearded scholar depicted side-on, gazing upwards. Clad in pink robes and cap, he grasps a stack of books with his left hand. Raising his right hand towards the heavens he points out a cluster of 7 blue stars twinkling just beyond the bounds of the initial in which he sits.
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    in : Happy birthday to the French publisher Louis Christophe François Hachette (1800 May 05–1864 Jul 31), founder of @HachetteLivre (estab. 1826). Initially called Brédif, the company became L. Hachette et Compagnie on 01 Jan 1846.

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