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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
View map
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Jon Davey
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Business in Berkshire
01753 852904
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26th May
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Born on this Day
1650 John Churchill 1689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1867 Queen Mary 1886 Al Jolson 1904 George Formby 1907 John Wayne 1909 Sir Matt Busby 1913 Peter Cushing 1915 Antonia Forest 1941 Reg Bundy 1946 Mick Ronson 1948 Stevie Nicks 1953 Michael Portillo 1964 Lenny Kravitz 1965 Hazel Irvine 1966 Helena Bonham-Carter 1968 Steve Sedgley 1972 Patsy Palmer Died on this Day 1703Samuel Pepys 1943 Edsel Ford Music 1953 Elvis Presley came second in a talent show held at a Jimmie Rogers memorial show. Sport 1923 The first 24 hour Le Mans race took place, won by French drivers Lagache and Leonard. 1975 American stuntman Evel Knievel suffered serious spinal injuries when his bike crashed during an attempt to jump 13 buses in England. 1999 Manchester United secured the treble of the Premiership, FA Cup and European Cup after a spectacular 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich in the final of the latter in Barcelona. United scored their 2 goals in stoppage time after being 1-0 down from 6 minutes into the game. People & Showbiz 1990 Britain and France were competing to provide the site for a movie theme park which would create over 20,000 jobs. 1991 27 year old Helen Sharman, Britain's first woman astronaut, returned to earth after a successful 8 day mission. 1994 Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. They divorced in January 1996. General Events 1868 The last public execution took place in England, outside Newgate Prison in London, when Irish national Michael Barratt was hanged. 1889 Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public. 1896 Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. 1896 Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1928 The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece. 1938 The first Volkswagen came off the assembly line in Germany. 1950 Petrol rationing in Britain ended. 1986 The European Community adopts the European flag. 1994 A house at 8 Hyde Park Gardens, London on the market for £10 million was reduced in price to £5 million after being on the market for a year. This is believed to be the biggest recorded price cut for a London house. 1997 Britain basked in the warmest Spring Bank Holiday weekend for 5 years as temperatures reached 21C (70F) 2003 Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year. |
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