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Born on this Day 1632 Sir Christopher Wren 1822 Thomas Hughes 1884 Bela Lugosi 1889 Margaret Dumont 1925 Robert Kennedy 1925 Art Buchwald 1926 Lord Montague of Beaulieu 1934 Timothy West 1963 Anatoliy Khrapatiy Died On This Day 1982 Peter Dudley 1988 Sheila Scott 2003 Peter Morgan Music 1956 Frankie Laine reached the No.1 in the UK charts with 'Woman In Love', while the Four Tops entered the charts at No.20 with another version of the same track. 1960 'GI Blues', Elvis Presley's first film since coming out of the army, was released in the US. 1967 Standing at No.1 on the UK charts were the Bee Gee with 'Massachussetts'. 1984 Wham! reached no. 1 with 'Freedom'. Sport 1965 Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, at age 45, notched his 174th and final victory, a 3rd round knockout of Rudolph Bent. 1991 Nigel Mansell's brakes failed on the 10th lap of the Japanese Grand Prix, sending him off the track to end his hopes of winning the World Motor Racing Championship. People & Showbiz 1855 Britain's first symphony orchestra, The Crystal Palace Orchestra, played their first concert. 1946 The first episode of 'Muffin the Mule' was broadcast. 1957 Children's favourites 'Pinky and Perky' were televised for the first time. General Events 1818 The boundary between Canada and the United States was established as the 49th parallel. 1822 The Sunday Times began publication. 1879 The Reading Room of the British Museum became the world's first library to be lit with electricity. 1988 The Equal Opportunities Commission found 6 schools guilty of sex discrimination where girls were discouraged from taking subjects such as woodwork and metalwork and boys were not allowed to take cookery or needlework. 1993 9000 year old chewing gum was discovered by archaeologists digging at a Stone Age village in Sweden. 2000 Human rights activist James Mawdsley was released from prison in Burma where he had been held since 1999
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