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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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25th December
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Born on this day
1642 Sir Isaac Newton 1887 Conrad Hilton 1899 Humphrey Bogart 1944 Kenny Everett 1932 Little Richard 1936 HRH Princess Alexandra 1949 Sissy Spacek 1954 Annie Lennox 1957 Shane McGowan Music 1956 Pat Boone arrived in the UK for the first time 1967 Paul McCartney announced his engagement to actress Jane Asher 1978 Public Image Limited played their first live performance at the Rainbow theatre, London Sport 1866 The American yacht Henrietta sailed into Cowes harbour, to win the first transatlantic yacht race People & Showbiz 1800 The first Christmas tree in Britain was erected at Queen's lodge, Windsor by Queen Charlotte, German wife of George III who brought the idea over from her home country. 1932 King George V made the first Royal broadcast to the Empire 1939 King George VI made his first wartime broadcast, beginning…'I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year…' 1957 The Queen made her first televised broadcast General Events 1741 The Centigrade temperature scale was devised by Anders Celsius 1990 Much of Britain was lashed by storms, with up to 100,000 homes on south and western England left without electricity 1991 An ambulance station at The Oval, London was ransacked while crews were out on Emergency calls 1992 A masked man who broke into the home of a 70 year old woman in Newcastle upon Tyne and stole £4 returned a few hours later and handed back the money and gave her a cuddle |
