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Born on this Day
1713 John Stuart 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1878 Bill Robinson (Mr. Bojangles)1913 Richard Dimbleby 1939 Sir Ian McKellen 1945 Dave Lee Travis 1958 Paul Weller 1959 Julian Clary 1961 Anthea Turner 1963 Mike Myers 1979 Jonny Wilkinson 1986 Lauren Crace Died on this Day 1934 Gustav Holst 1965 Sonny Boy Williamson Music 1974 Mungo Jerry spent their final week in the top 20 with 'Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black'. Sport 1983 Hamburg beat favourites Juventus in their final of the European Cup. 1997 The England cricket team completed a clean-sweep of the Texaco Trophy international series against Australia with a 4 wicket victory at Lords. The game also saw the debut of 19 year old Ben Hollioak, the youngest England cricketer for almost half a century, who is hotly tipped to become a new cricket hero and role model. People & Showbiz 1977 'Star Wars' went on general release in America, 7 years after its creator George Lucas first wrote the story. 1983 The third movie in the Star Wars series 'Return of the Jedi' was released nationwide in America. 1995 Explosive experts made safe a letter bomb in a brown envelope addressed to Terry Wogan at the BBC And Camelot Group, backed by Cadbury Schweppes, won the National Lottery contract. General Events 1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England. 1833 Organised by the Horticultural Society, the first recorded Flower Show to be held in Britain opened in Chiswick. 1859 Keel of the famous battle ship the HMS Warrior was laid down at Blackwall... 1984 The American satellite Solar Max, which had been repaired by space shuttle astronauts, recorded one of the 6 largest flare eruptions ever seen on the sun. 1989 British Aerospace was fined £4,000 by Bolton magistrates after the company admitted their failure to ensure the safety of their employees after 30 people were seriously affected by Legionnaires disease at the BAe missiles component factory. 1990 As Labour swept to victory at the Bootle by-election, the SDP suffered the embarassment of winning less votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party. 1995 Britain's oldest churchwarden, Mr William Curtis, retired aged 98. |
