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Born on this Day 1656 Edmond Halley 1847 Bram Stoker 1900 Margaret Mitchell 1922 Dr Christian Barnard 1927 Ken Dodd 1939 Liz Dawn 1946 Roy Wood 1963 Paul McKenna 1966 Gordon Ramsey Died On This Day 1986 Vyacheslav Molotov 2000 Eric Morley 2003 Bob Grant Music 1958 The soundtrack album to the film 'South Pacific' hit the top of the LP chart for the first time, a position it was to hold for 69 weeks 1975 David Bowie reached No.1 in the UK charts with 'Space Oddity' 1980 Dennis Waterman entered the charts at No.31 with 'I Could Be So Good For You' 1986 Berlin reached No. 1 with 'Take My Breath Away', from the film Top Gun Sport 1994 According to the Radio 5 Live Sports Year-Book, the comeback of Torvill and Dean at the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer was the most popular sporting event on British TV. 10 million more watched this than watched the World Cup Final between Brazil & Italy 1996 Football hardman Vinnie Jones vowed that he got sent off again, he would retire from football. He had been sent off 12 times in his pro career People & Showbiz 1966 Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California 1968 Bruce Reynolds, the last of the Great Train Robbers, was finally arrested General Events 1793 The anniversary of the opening of the Louvre. 1899 Montana became the 41st US State. 1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovered x-rays, for which he was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901 and which revolutionised modern medecine 1973 The cod war between Britain and Iceland came to an end 1987 In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded, at a ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people. 1996 The RSPCA discovered that a flood of 'sick-looking hedgehogs' in East-Grinstead, Sussex, were due to them eating cider-soaked worms after a local publican had poured away bad 'Scrumpy' onto his lawn
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