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A second bomb at The Times newspaper offices in Queen Victoria Street, London does not explode.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370347185#Events", "title": "1883 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1370347185, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 7", "text": "7 March–18 April – The Times publishes a series of articles on \"Parnellism and Crime\" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discredit Charles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334564016#Events", "title": "1887 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1334564016, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives the report of the Austro-Hungarian investigation into the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo. The Times of London publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as \"pestilent rats\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#July", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 9", "text": "9 April – The Times publishes a special \"Belgian number\" (pages 33-54) with contributions by many prominent Belgians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338036444#Events", "title": "1920 in Belgium", "revid": 1338036444, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – The Times newspaper in London begins a series of articles, written by its Constantinople correspondent Philip Graves, exposing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#August", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#January", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › January"}}]}