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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
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Jon Davey
Social Media Director
Business in Berkshire
01753 852904
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10th September
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Photograph by © Robert Dowling
Born on this Day 1753 Sir John Soane 1771 Mungo Park 1914 Robert Wise 1927 Gwen Watford 1929 Arnold Palmer 1938 Karl Lagerfeld 1938 David Hamilton 1939 Cynthia Lennon 1950 Don Powell 1957 Siobham Fahey 1960 Colin Firth 1968 Guy Ritchie Died On This Day 1990 Samuel Doe 2000 Bill Waddington Mrs Bandaranaike Music 1955 Jimmy Young's 'The Man From Laramie' entered the chart at No.10. 1956 Elvis Presley sang on US TV's 'Ed Sullivan Show', watched by an estimated television audience of 44 million, 82% of the entire otential television audience. 1983 Neil Diamond's 'Red Red Wine', as sung by UB40, began its second week at No.1 spot in the UK chart. 1988 Phil Collins had his 2nd UK No.1 with 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' also a hit for the Mindbenders in 1966. 1995 Barbra Sreisand won her first Emmy Awards in 30 years for the television special 'Barbra Streisand: The Concert'. Sport 1960 Bolton Wanderers played Blackpool in the first English Football League match to be televised. 1988 19 year old Steffi Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini in the US Open to become only the 5th person to win the Grand Slam- the 4 major tennis titles in the same calendar year. People & Showbiz 1966 'Oliver!' the West End's longest running musical, ended its run of 6 years 3 months. 1967 The first episode of the US western adventure series 'The High Chaparral' was broadcast in America. 1975 The first episode of the US cop drama 'Starsky and Hutch' was broadcast on US television. The episode was called 'Savage Sunday'. 1990 The first episode of sitcom 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air', starring Wil Smith, was broadcast in the US. 1993 The first episode of 'The X-Files' starring unknowns David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, was broadcast on US television. General Events 1897 Londoner George Smith became the world's first convicted drunk driver after drinking 3 pints of beer and driving his taxicab into a building entrance. 1940 Buckingham Palace was hit by a German bomb during the Blitz. 1942 The RAF dropped 100,000 bombs in a single raid on Dusseldorf. 1963 American Express launched its credit card in Britain. 1965 Representatives of Yale University announced that a map dating from 1440 appered to prove that North America was discovered by the Vikings. 1991 Talks began in Moscow on the sale to America of the Soviet Union's space station Mir-2, offered for $700 million.
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