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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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28th October
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Born on this Day
1902 Elsa Lanchester 1903 Evelyn Waugh 1909 Francis Bacon 1927 Dame Cleo Laine 1929 Joan Plowright 1930 Bernie Ecclestone 1938 David Dimbleby 1941 Hank Marvin 1948 Dennis Taylor 1955 Bill Gates 1967 Julia Roberts 1981 Milan Baros Died On This Day 1975 Georges Carpentier 1996 Morey Amstredam 1998 Ted Hughes Music 1961 Ray Charles entered the charts with 'Hit The Road Jack'. 1972 The Who's 'Join Together' was adopted by the US Council for World Affairs as its anthem. 1983 The recently reformed Animals opened for The Police at Miami. 1983 Holding onto the No.1 position were Culture Club with 'Karma Chameleon'. Sport 1982 Former British and European heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner returned to the ring for a 3rd round win over Winston Allen of Wales. 1996 Steve MacDonald, aged 24, completed his round-the-country canoe trip, becoming the first blind man to do so, having started out on May 15 and raised money for charity. People & Showbiz 1886 The Statue of Liberty was unveiled by President Grover Cleveland having taken more than 9 years to complete and given to the US by France to mark the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 1958 The state opening of Parliament was televised for the first time. General Events 1636 Harvard University, America's oldest was founded at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1940 During WWII, Italy invaded Greece. 1959 Britain's first car phones were introduced by the GPO via the Manchester Peterloo exchange to 25 subscribers at a cost of £200 for the phone, a quartely licence of £7 10s and a 3 minute call charge of 2s.6d. 1982 Felipe Gonzalez became Spain's first socialist Prime Minister, with a sweeping electoral victory. 1988 2 runaway trains crashed through buffers and fell onto London's North Circular Road during the night causing traffic chaos. British Rail investigated whether vandals had let off the brakes of the diesels.
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