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Born on this Day 1911 Lee Patrick 1913 Lord (Benjamin) Britten 1932 Robert Vaughan 1936 John Bird 1940 Terry Gilliam 1942 Guion S. Bluford Jnr 1943 Billie Jean King 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis 1967 Boris Becker Died On This Day 1963 C.S. Lewis 1963 John F. Kennedy 1997 Michael Hutchence Music 1955 Elvis signed to RCA for $35000 1968 The Beatles 'White Album' was released Sport 1956 The 16th Olympic Games opened in Melbourne 1986 At 20, Mike Tyson became the youngest ever World heavyweight boxing champion People & Showbiz 1888 The first recording of a British Prime Minister was made on wax by Thomas Edison at the request of William Gladstone 1993 Teen idols Take That admitted in The Face magazine that they had taken drugs. Howard confessed to taking half a tab of acid. General Events 1830 The world's first container transport service was introduced in the UK by Pickfords in agreement with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company 1869 Cutty Sark was launched at Dumbarton on the Clyde. She is now at Greenwich. 1963 46 year old President John F Kennedy was shot while driving through Dallas, Texas, in an open car on his way to a political festival and died 25 minutes later 1990 Margaret Thatcher era came to an end when she announced she would not fight for the Tory leadership 1997 John Major as appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry in an attempt to resolve a legal wrangle over the £21 million estate left by Diana, Princess of Wales 1997 Hundreds of British soldiers executed for desertion during the First World War were granted posthumous pardons by the government
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