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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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22nd December
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Born on this day
1858 Giacomo Puccini 1888 Lord J Arthur Rank 1907 Dame Peggy Ashcroft 1909 Patricia Hayes 1936 James Burke 1948 Noel Edmonds 1949 Robin Gibb 1957 Ricky Ross Music 1962 The Tornado's instrumental single 'Telstar' became the first single by a UK group to top the US charts 1973 Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' stood at the top of the UK album charts 1990 For the second consecutive year, Paula Abdul was voted the Top Female Album Act in the US Sport 1972 Manchester United Football Club appointed Tommy Docherty as their new manager 1991 French footballer Jean-Pierre Papin, captain of Marseilles, won the European footballer of the year. The highest placed British player was Gary Lineker in 6th People & Showbiz 1982 6 month old Prince William took part in his first public photo session, arranged by the Prince and Princess of Wales 1987 Mia Farrow gave birth to Woody Allen's first child, a son 1997 Cookery writer and TV personality Delia Smith bought the majority shareholding of Norwich City football club General Events 1877 Liquid oxygen was created by Geneva scientist Raoul Picket 1894 French artillry officer Alfred Dreyfus was found guilty of selling army secrets to Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island, an incident which sparked off the infamous Dreyfus affair 1965 The motorway speed limit of 70mph was introduced in Britain 1972 16 people were discovered alive some 10,000 feet up in the Andes where their plane had crashed 10 weeks earlier. It was discovered they had only survived by eating the flesh of their dead companions |
