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On This Day during Dickens’s lifetime.

1833 The newly rebuilt Hungerford Market, between London’s Strand and the River Thames, is ceremonially opened. Huge crowds attend the event, which features a balloon ascent, an evening ball and fireworks. The market was built over the site of Warren’s blacking factory, where Charles Dickens was made to work as a boy.
1850 Death of Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, twice former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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