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Berkshire
SL4 4BU
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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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Business in Berkshire
01753 852904
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17th April
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Born on this Day
1894 Nikita Krushchev 1918 William Holden 1941 Billy Fury 1929 James Last 1930 Chris Barber 1946 Henry Kelly 1946 Clare Francis 1951 Olivia Hussey 1954 Riccardo Patrese 1958 Sean Bean 1963 Michael Jordan 1974 Victoria Adams Beckham Died on this Day 1790 Benjamin Franklin 1960 Eddie Cochran 1998 Lady Linda McCartney Music 1950 Frank Sinatra's favourite singer Tony Bennett made his first recording, 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams'. 1964 Eddie Cochran's single 'Skinny Jim' was released in the UK on the fourth anniversary of his death. 1970 Johnny Cash gave a performance at the White House in Washington DC. 1973 Pink Floyd received their gold disc for 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. 1982 Paul McCartney became the first composer to simultaneously have two songs on the American 'Black Music' and 'Country Music' charts. 1984 It was announced that Michael Jackson was to undergo scalp surgery at Culver City Hospital in California after being badly burnt by fireworks while filming a Pepsi Cola commercial. Sport 1961 The English League Championship was won by Tottenham Hotspur. 1983 The London Marathon was won by Britain's Michael Gratton, with Grete Waitz of Norway the first woman home, losing out on a new marathon record by only a fraction of a second. 1993 Colombian boxer Ruben Palacio was stripped of his world featherweight title after it was discovered that he had HIV. People & Showbiz 1953 Charlie Chaplin announced that he was never to return to America, having been threatened with proceedings to bar him entry on the grounds of being a Communist. 1983 78 year old stage and screen star Ethel Merman was recovering in a New York hospital from a successful operation to remove a brain tumour. 1984 Terry Wogan and Michael Aspel were named television personalities of the year by the Television and Radio Industries Club at their annual awards ceremony in London. General Events 1963 Twenty CND activists were arrested by Special Branch officers for revealing military information. 1969 The eligible voting age was dropped from 21 to 18, the first change since 1928. 1969 22 year old Bernadette Devlin was elected for Mid Ulster to become the youngest woman MP. 1983 Thailand banned the sale of alcohol for 14 hours before polling in their General Election, to stop the risk of violence. 1989 Nigel Lawson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected plans for European economic and monetary union. 1989 A tanker spilt 2000 gallons of sulphuric acid onto the M25 at Swanley, Kent causing 10 mile traffic jams. 1995 Greenpeace campaigners breached security at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria and blocked roads leading to the site. Greenpeace's ship, The Moby Dick, was anchored close to the discharge pipe which Greenpeace claims pumps high levels of radioactive waste into the Irish Sea. More than 60 people were arrested at the demonstration. 1997 Four months after allowing stewardesses working over the Christmas period to take husbands and boyfriends with them, British Airways were recruiting extra cabin staff to cover the record maternity leave claims they were receiving. |
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