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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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Jon Davey
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Business in Berkshire
01753 852904
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29th April
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Born on this Day
1899 Duke Ellington 1908 Tom Ewell 1931 Lonnie Donegan 1941 Jonah Barrington 1949 Anita Dobson 1949 Francis Rossi 1954 Jerry Seinfeld 1957 Daniel Day Lewis 1957 Michelle Pfeiffer 1966 Phil Tufnell 1970 Andre Agassi 1970 Uma Thurman Died on this Day 1967 J.B. Lenoir 1988 Andrew Cruickshank Music 1962 Jerry Lee Lewis began his second UK tour. 1986 Spanda Ballet's Steve Norman and Gary & Martin Kemp were involved in a car crash in Berlin, but all escaped without injury. Sport 1983 A death threat to Steve Davis caused a 35 minute delay to his semi-final match against Alex Higgins in the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield as police searched spectators and the Crucible Theatre. 1984 Italian racing driver Michele Alboreto won the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder in a Ferrari. 1990 21 year old Scottish snooker player Stephen Hendry became the youngest ever winner of the World Snooker Championship, beating Jimmy White by 18 frames to 12. People & Showbiz 1988 McDonalds announced the opening of 20 hamburger restaurants in the Soviet Union. 1992 Patti Davis, the daughter of Nancy Reagan alleged that her mother had regularly beaten her as a child and that she had been a frequent drug user. General Events 1376 Sir Peter de la Mare took office as the first Speaker of the House of Commons. 1661 Ming Dynasty loyalist Cheng Cheng Kung landed in Taiwan and ousted the Dutch colonists who had occupied the country for 37 years. The day is now remembered with festivals, especially in the Tainan, South Taiwan where the Dutch had their headquarters. 1913 The modern-day zipper was patented by Swedish born engineer Gideon Sundback from New Jersey, USA. 1935 The first cats eyes were laid in British roads. They had been invented by Percy Shaw of Yorkshire a year earlier. 1985 American Space Shuttle Challenger took off from Kennedy Space Centre for 111 orbits of the earth with its crew of 7 and rats & dogs. The shuttle landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base on May 6th. 1990 British Satellite Broadcasting launched its satellite television service. 1991 South East Bangladesh was struck by a cyclone killing around 140,000 people. 1995 It was reported that MI5's secret telephone number, used by agents to contact their controllers, had been published on the Internet. |
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