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6th December |
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Born on this day
1892 Sir Osbert Sitwell 1896 Ira Gershwin 1908 'Babyface' Nelson 1944 Jonathan King 1959 Nick Park 1961 Eugene Wilde Music 1975 Hot Chocolate peaked at No 2 with 'You Sexy Thing' 1984 The Jesus and Mary Chain released their first single, 'Upside Down'. Sport 1987 Ian Woosnam won the Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City and became the first golfer to win more than £1,000,000 in a single year. People & Showbiz 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone with a recording of him reciting 'Mary had a little lamb'. 1991 25 year old Satish Dhenekar from India set a world record by climbing down 7000 stairs on his head. General Events 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered Haiti 1990 President Saddam Hussein announced that all 3400 foreign hostages held since the invasion of Kuwait were free to leave 1992 A survey showed the French were Europe's meanest when it came to buying Christmas cards. Britons bought the most cards. |
