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Born on this Day 1757 Lafayette 1899 Billy Rose 1932 Bernie Winters 1932 Bernie Winters 1943 Britt Ekland 1947 Roger Waters 1958 Buster Bloodvessel 1973 Greg Rusedski 1974 Tim Henman Died On This Day 1952 Gertrude Lawrence 1959 Edmund Gwenn Music 1953 The Studio 51 Club , Britain's first Rock n Roll Club, opened in London . 1993 Duran Duran were forced to cancel their first British tour for 5 years after Simon Le Bon lost his voice . Sport 1880 The first cricket Test match took place between England and Australia at the Oval in London over 3 days . 1988 11 year old Thomas Gregory became the youngest person to swim the English channel, taking nearly 12 hours . 1997 Greg Rusedski celebrated his 24th birthday by reaching the final of the US Open tennis championship with a hard fougt 6-1, 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman. . People & Showbiz 1969 The Pink Panther cartoon series made its debut on US TV . 1976 The first episode of 'George and Mildred' was broadcast . 1997 The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales took place at Westminster Abbey . General Events 1859 The Great Eastern left the Thames. 1666 The Great Fire of London was finally put out . 1873 Regular cable car services began on Clay Street in San Francisco . 1941 The wearing of the yellow Star of David became compulsory for all Jewish citizens over the age of 6 in Nazi Germany and all German held territories . 1960 10 skeletons were discovered in a series of 3,800 year old graves at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain . 1996 An American Cray computer research team found the highest prime number ever. Simply take the number 2, multiply it by itself 1,257,787 times and subtract 1. The number , at 378,632 digits would fill up 12 newspaper pages in standard type.
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