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TIL On November 2nd, 1963, Reviewing The Beatles' concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline "BEATLEMANIA! It's happening everywhere ... even in sedate Cheltenham"; effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness.

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