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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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8th October
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Photograph by © Viviana Niemann
Born on this Day 1585 Heinrich Schutz 1857 Will Thorne 1895 Juan Peron 1929 Baroness (Betty) Boothroyd 1932 Ray Reardon 1935 Albert Roux 1940 Paul Hogan 1943 Chevy Chase 1948 Sigourney Weaver 1950 Robert 'Kool' Bell 1965 Ardel O'Hanlon 1970 Matt Damon Died On This Day 1967 Earl (Clement) Attlee 2002 Phyllis Calvert Music 1955 Jimmy Young reached No.1 with 'The Man From Laramie'. 1960 Johnny Mathis entered the Top 20 with 'My Love For You'. 1969 The Beatles' album 'Abbey Road' entered the UK charts at No.1. 1980 Bob Marley and the Wailers played their final show. Sport 1938 The BBC's coverage of the Imperial Trophy Heats at Crystal Palace was the first televised motor racing in the UK. People & Showbiz 1988 Actress Robin Givens filed for divorce after 8 month's marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. 1989 A Morris Oxford car once owned by Winston Churchill was sold for £11,110 at Sotherby's auction. General Events 1965 The Post Office Tower in Maple Street, standing 580 feet tall, was opened. 1967 Britain's first breathalyser test took place, administered to a motorist at Flax Bourton in Somerset. 1980 The Mini Metro was launched by British Leyland. 1991 The Croatian parliament unanimously declared full independence, announcing that it would cut all ties with the Yugoslav federation. 1993 People in Spurn Head, Humberside were asked to stay indoors and close all doors and windows after a toxic cloud was spotted drifting towards the coast from the Panamanian ship the 'Sava Star'. 1998 Canada and Netherlands were voted into the UN Security Council
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