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Jon Davey
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Business in Berkshire
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27th May
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Born on this Day
1837 'Wild Bill' Hickok 1878 Isadora Duncan 1894 Dashiell Hammett 1922 Christopher Lee 1923 Henry Kissinger 1939 Don Williams 1943 Cilla Black 1946 Lewis Collins 1965 Pat Cash 1967 Paul Gascoigne 1970 Joseph Fiennes 1974 Denise Van Outen Died on this Day 1910 Robert Koch 2001 Victor Kiam 2002 Pat Coombs Music 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis cut short his UK tour when a storm broke out over his marriage to his 13 year old cousin. 1989 For the first time 2 Swedish born acts were simultaneously in the UK Top 10: Roxette and Neneh Cherry. Sport 1984 Cathy Foster became the first woman to be selected for Britain's Olympic yachting team after she won the 470-class trial race at Weymouth. 1990 Peter Elliott ran the world's fastest mile of the year, in a time of 3 minutes, 51.08 seconds. People & Showbiz 1984 Comedian Eric Morecambe was taken to Cheltenham General Hospital in Glucester after collapsing at a performance at the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury. 1984 Margaret Harris who was a deputy head teacher of a Southampton school won the BBC quiz 'Mastermind' with a record 38 points. 1993 45 Coronation Street fans from Kidderminster launched the Reg Holdsworth appreciation society. General Events 1937 The 4200 ft Golden Gate Bridge was opened in San Francisco. 1984 The stocks which had stood in Alford, Lincolnshire for over 100 years were restored with English oak by teenagers Steven Boulton and Richard Brown as part of their CSE studies.. 1992 32 year old William McGowan saved the life of a 4 yr old boy in London by a catching him when his mother dropped him 70ft from the balcony of her burning fifth floor flat. 1995 The Prime Minister, John Major, denounced 'down-and-outs' as an eyesore and said '...there was no need for people to beg. It is not acceptable to be out on the street. There is no justification for it'. 1999 President Slobodan Milosevic was officially named a war criminal by the International War Crimes Tribunal. Charged with multiple murders, he could be arrested and put on trial if he left Yugoslavia. |
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