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Born on this Day
1748 Admiral Lord Collingwood 1930 The Big Bopper 1936 Bill Wyman 1940 Barry Davies 1947 Kevin Kline 1957 Stephen Fry 1971 Caprice Bourret 1972 Dervla Kirwan 1985 Wayne Rooney Died On This Day 1537 Jane Seymour 1922 George Cadbury 1957 Christian Dior Music 1963 The Beatles began their first tour outside the UK in Sweden. 1964 The Rolling Stones made their first appearance on the top-rated 'Ed Sullivan Show' followed by so many complaints Ed vowed never to have them back. 1967 Pink Floyd arrived in the US for their first American tour, beginning at the Filmore West in San Francisco. 1983 Yoko Ono announced her decision to give part of her vast amounts of wealth away as she believed it was what John Lennon would have wanted . Sport 1857 The first football club was formed a by a group of Cambridge University old boys meeting in Sheffield. 1976 British motor racing driver James Hunt won the Japanese Grand Prix to secure the world championship. 1987 Frank Bruno stopped Joe Bugner in the 8th round of their fight at White Hart Lane. At the end of the fight Bugner announced he was retiring to continue his acting career. People & Showbiz 1700 England's first weekly magazine 'The Weekly Entertainment' went on sale. 1996 HRH Duke of Edinburgh resigned as President of the animal welfare charity WWF after 15 years. General Events 1604 King James VI of Scotland, became King James I of England, Scotland Ireland and Wales. 1908 Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Chrstabel were sentenced to jail in London for 'conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace'. 1945 The United Nations was formally established. 1964 Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia, with Kenneth Kaunda installed as its first President. 1964 Dr Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his 'leadership in the fight for civil rights and his persistent advocation of non-violent principles'. 1983 Soviet journalist Oleg Bitov who defected while in Italy was granted political asylum in Britain. Bitov was believed to have links with the KGB. 1995 A total eclipse of the sun was visible from India and Vietnam. 2003 Concorde made its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to a close.
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