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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
View map
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Jon Davey
Social Media Director
Business in Berkshire
01753 852904
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5th September
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Photograph by © Robert Dowling
Born on this Day 1735 Johann Christian Bach 1847 Jesse James 1875 Ferdinand Porsche 1946 Freddie Mercury 1935 Johnny Briggs 1937 Dick Clement 1945 Al Stewart 1946 Loudon Wainwright III 1962 Tracy Edwards Died On This Day 1970 Jochen Rindt 1997 Sir George Solti 1997 Mother Teresa of Calcutta Music 1969 James Brown announced he was retiring from live shows. 1981 Bananarama's first single 'Aie A Mwana' was released, but failed to chart . 1986 Dire Straits won the MTV Best Video award 'Money For Nothing'. 1990 BB King received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1998 Aerosmith scored their first US No.1 single with the Diane Warren written song 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing'. 1998 Boyzone went back to No.1 on the UK album chart with their album 'Where We Belong'. Sport 1951 16 year old Maureen Connolly, known as 'Little Mo' became the youngest ever winner of the US Tennis Championship. 1972 Members of the Palestinian movement Black September broke into the Olympic village in Munich and opened fire on the building occupied by the Israeli team with sub-machine guns, killing a coach and one athlete and taking a further nine hostages. 1992 Ferrari moved to Britain in an attempt to design a car fast enough to challenge Nigel Mansell's team for the Formula One championship. People & Showbiz 1963 Christine Keeler, central figure in the Profumo affair, was arrested and charged with perjury. 1969 ITV began broadcasting in colour. 1987 'No Sex Please - We're British', the world's longest running comedy, closed after 6,671 performances spanning 16 years. 1997 Princes' William and Harry made their first public appearance after Diana's death before the grieving crowds at Kensington Palace. General Events 1664 After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, surrendered to the British, who would later rename it New York. 1800 French troops occupying Malta surrendered to the British. 1945 French troops landed in Singapore without any opposition and on September 12th the Allied Commander, Lord Louis Mountabatten accepted the surrender of Singapore, by the Japanese. 1958 Martin Luther King was fined $14 for refusing to obey a police officer. 1993 The Swiss army revealed they were to be issued with a new armed bicycle, built to carry a machine gun, a bazooka and mortar.
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