🎂 Storyteller Roald Dahl is born (1916)
Where: Llandaff, Cardiff
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📅 On This Day: September 13
September 13, 1916: Storyteller Roald Dahl is born. On 13 September 1916, Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff, in Wales. He wrote wildly imaginative stories such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda. At the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, you can see his little writing hut and his old armchair, moved there just as they were.
✨ More events on this day
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- 1899 🧭 Halford Mackinder, César Ollier and Joseph Brocherel made the first ascent of Batian in 1899, the highest peak of Mount Kenya at 5,199 metres. Mount Kenya →
- 1906 💡 Alberto Santos-Dumont's 14-bis made a short hop into the air in 1906, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
🧠 Question of the day
Which story did Roald Dahl write?
- Alice in Wonderland
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Harry Potter
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Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Questions
What happened on September 13?
September 13, 1916: Storyteller Roald Dahl is born. It happened in Llandaff, Cardiff.
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