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Born on this Day 1452 King Richard III 1869 Mahatma Ghandi 1890 Grouch Marx 1943 Anna Ford 1945 Don McLean 1948 Trevor Brooking 1948 Donna Karan 1950 Charlie Brown 1951 Sting 1955 Phil Oakey 1968 Jana Novotna Died On This Day 322BC Aristotle 1998 Gene Autry Music 1959 Bobby Daran entered the UK top 20 with 'Mack the Knife', on his way to No.1 position. 1965 Ken Dodd reached No.1 with 'Tears'. 1971 The Who began their British tour at Reading University. Sport 1983 30,000 soccer fans at Whitehart Lane watched Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest in the first televised league match on a Sunday. 1988 The 24th Olympiad came to an end in Seoul, South Korea. People & Showbiz 1946 The first episode of 'Faraway Hill', the first ever soap, was screened in the US. 1961 The first edition of 'Points of View' was broadcast by the BBC. 1971 The first edition of Bruce Forsyth's 'The Generation Game' was televised. General Events 1925 London's first red double-decker buses went into service. 1942 The British cruiser Curacao sank after colliding with the Cunard liner Queen Mary, resulting in the loss of 338 lives. 1950 Legal aid came into force in Britain. 1979 Yorkshire police launched a £1m publicity campaign in an attempt to find the Yorkshire Ripper. 1988 British Airways banned all smoking on short domestic flights.
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