Moon shines on

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Teenage Hague lights up conferenceOn this day in 1977, at the age of 16, William Hague made his first speech at the Conservative Party Conference and achieved national notoriety as the archetypal ‘Tory Boy’.

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Blue PeterBlue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s television programme, was first broadcast on this day in 1958.

Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side Of The Moon was released on this day in 1973, and its themes of greed, death and madness proved no barrier to success. Read on...