On This Day... the first edition of the King James Bible was published in 1611, the Victa Lawn Mower patent was lodged by Mervyn Victor Richardson in 1955, Alan Bond's Swan Airship made its first commercial flight over Sydney in 1987, Oliver Reed, the English actor, died aged 61 in 1999, President George W Bush declared an end to the war with Iraq in 2002, Lynn Redgrave, the British actress, died aged 67 in 2012, and Osama Bin Laden, the 54-year-old head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan by a United States special forces military unit in 2011.

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