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Photograph by © Erin Kunkel
Born on this Day 1862 Joseph Merrick 1906 John Huston 1908 The Hon. Miriam Rothschild 1930 Prof.Neil Armstrong 1942 Rick Huxley 1946 Loni Anderson 1948 Barbara Flynn 1951 Jan Francis 1955 John Whitaker Died On This Day 1955 Carmen Miranda 1962 Marilyn Monroe 1984 Richard Burton 2001 Sir Alec Guiness Music 1965 Sonny and Cher made their UK debut at London's 100 club. 1980 The Osmonds disbanded. 1981 Olivia Newton-John received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sport 1970 Penalty kicks were used as a tiebreaker in a first-class English football match for the first time during the game between Hull City and Manchester United. 1986 Princess Anne recorded her first victory in her 13th ride as an amateur jockey, riding Gulfland at Redcar 1992 Sally Gunnell won an Olympic gold in the hurdles at Barcelona 1994 England stood at 477-9 on the second day of the Headingley Test against South Africa. People & Showbiz 1962 ANC leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the South African government.. 1994 American comedian Bill Cosby was ordered to pay damages of 20 cents for assaulting a photographer. The photographer had attempted to sue the star for $20 million. 1997 A survey for The Times by Opinion Leader Research showed that the general public were overwhelmingly behind Prince Charles over whether he should be free to marry after his divorce from Diana, Princess of Wales. General Events 1993 57 students had to retake their exams for banking qualifications at Sutton Colfield of FE, West Midlands after the Royal Mail's Parcelforce lost their papers. 1994 Former dental nurse Julie Kelly accused of abducting baby Abbie Humphries, was freed on bail to a secret location on condition she did not try to contact the baby's parents. 1994 NATO warplanes destroyed one of the guns reclaimed by Bosnian Serbs that violated the heavy-weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo. 1995 A new invention developed by Southampton University picks up offending sounds and bounces them back in the same direction. 1996 A new hotline was introduced to allow neighbours to report anyone they know to be making fraudulent benefit claims. 1997 The estimated 28,000 students who were expecting to have a year off after college before going to university were warned they could lose their places as some 50,000 people rushed to grab the remaining free university places before new education charges came into effect.
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