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1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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27th December
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Born on this day
1822 Louis Pasteur 1901 Irene Handl 1901 Marlene Dietrich 1931 Scotty Moore 1944 Mick Jones 1946 Janet Street-Porter 1948 Gerard Depardieu 1974 Vanessa Paradis 1952 David Knopfler Music 1963 The Animals made their radio debut on 'Saturday Club' 1967 The Beatles held Nos 1 and 2 with 'Hello Goodbye' and 'The Magical Mystery Tour'. 1980 St. Winifred's Choir reached No.1 in the UK with the clasc 'There's Noone Quite Like Grandma'. Sport General Events 1831 HMS Beagle set out on its famous scientific voyage around the world with Charles Darwin on board. It was during the voyage that Darwin wrote 'Origin of the Species'. 1918 For the first time a British sovereign welcomed an American President to Britain. King George V and Queen Mary met President and Mrs Wilson. 1927 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. 1975 The Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay acts came into force in Britain, making it an offence to discriminate in employment, training and education on grounds of sex. 1996 In Moscow, Andrei Maslich who was on death row for cannibalism was sentenced to death a scond time after attemptingto eat his cellmate while awaiting news of a possible presidential pardon . |
