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    When Edward Berner could not serve his customer flavoured soda water on the Sabbath, he served him up a bowl of ice-cream topped with chocolate ice-cream soda flavouring - the first ice-cream sundae!

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The German ocean liner SS Schiller sank, killing 335 people

On the 7th May, 1875, the German ocean liner SS Schiller sank near the Isles of Scilly, killing 335 people.

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