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Born on this Day
42 BC Tiberius 1873 W.C. Handy 1896 Oswald Mosley 1905 Eddie Condon 1908 Burgess Meredeith 1897 Aneurin Bevan 1905 Mantovani 1925 Paul Raymond 1924 James Bond 1935 Prof. Sir Magdi Yacoub 1942 Willie Carson 1953 Griff Rhys Jones 1961 Frank Bruno 1967 Lisa Bonet 1974 Paul Scholes Died On This Day 1272 King Henry III 1957 Tyrone Power 1960 Clark Gable Music 1956 Elvis Presley's film 'Love Me Tender' had an advance UK press showing in London 1957 Jackie Wilson entered the charts with 'Reet Petite' peaking at no. 17 but returning to the fore in 1986 when the single reached the top of the charts 1968 Hugh Montenegro reached No. 1 with 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' 1974 David Essex topped the charts with his single 'Gonna Make You A Star' 1985 Feargal Sharkey reached No.1 with his single 'A Good Heart', while entering the chart at No.60 was Whitney Houston with 'Saving All My Love For You', destimed for the top of the charts Sport 1987 Police raided a hospital in Naples and arrested 39 employees who had clocked on for work but then abandoned patients to watch a football match between Italy and Sweden 1992 During practice for their European Championship match against Greece, the England football team was booed and pelted with stones by Greek youths People & Showbiz 1665 The 'London Gazette' (originally the Oxford Gazette) was published for the first time 1994 Sales of National Lottery tickets had risen to £20 million in the first week General Events 1982 The space shuttle Columbia returned from its first commercial mission, landing in California after a 5 day mission to deploy 2 commercial communications satellites 1988 A young boy from Wigston Magna, Leicestershire was given a mortgage to buy a home for his pet mice, Pinky and Perky, after writing to the Halifax Building Society. He applied for a £28 home loan because his mice were…'expecting baby mice and they need a bigger house' 1990 MPs were told that passengers in the back seat of cars will have to wear seat belts from July 1991, and that the provisions would include taxis 1993 A yard-long wasp's nest thought to be the largest in Britain was discovered in the roof of a Gloucester shop
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