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Born on this Day 1844 Robert Bridges 1893 Gummo Marx 1906 Gertrude Ederle 1931 Diana Dors 1925 Johnny Carson 1939 George Cohen 1940 Pele 1942 Michael Crichton 1942 Anita Roddick Died On This Day 42 BC Marcus Junius Brutus 1915 W.G. Grace 1921 John Boyd Dunlop 1950 Al Jolson 1979 Merle Oberon Music 1962 Stevie Wonder recorded 'Thank You For Loving Me All The Way', his first track for Motown. 1965 Ken Dodd began his fourth week at No.1 with 'Tears'. 1978 Sex Pistol Sid Vicious attempted suicide while in custody at the Riker's Island Detention Centre in New York. 1987 Madonna's film 'Who's That Girl' opened in London. Sport 1973 The entire Derby County football team demonstrated in support of their sacked manager Brian Clough. 1974 Moscow was awarded the venue for the 1980 Olympic Games. People & Showbiz 1911 In Manchester, the first Model T Ford made outside the US rolled off the production line. 1941 Walt Disney film 'Dumbo' premiered in New York. General Events 1642 The Cavaliers of King Charles I clashed with Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads at the Battle of Edgehill. 1814 The first plastic surgery operation to be carried out in Britain was by Doctor Joseph Constantine Carpue at New York Hospital, Chelsea. 1978 The government published plans to replace GCE O' levels and CSE with a single GCSE examination. 1983 It was reported that Lord Craven had been found dead at an East Sussex mansion. His family were said to have been cursed hundreds of years ago when an ancestor made a village girl pregnant. 1988 Two military helicopters and an 11 tonne ice-breaking machine rescued a pair of Californian grey whales who were trapped under ice near Washington. 1991 A House of Lords ruling broke with 250 year tradition to rule that marital rape is a criminal offence.
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