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19th January |
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Born on this day
1736 James Watt 1813 Sir Henry Bessemer 1839 Paul Cezanne 1848 Matthew Webb 1925 Nina Bawden 1931 Tippi Hendren 1932 Russ Hamilton 1932 Richard Lester 1939 Phil Everly 1940 Mike Reid 1941 Tony Anholt 1942 Michael Crawford 1943 Janis Joplin 1944 Laurie London 1946 Dolly Parton 1947 Rod Evans 1949 Robert Palmer 1949 Denis Taylor 1953 Linda Hayden 1955 Simon Rattle 1963 Caron Wheeler 1966 Stefan Edberg 1970 Tim Foster 1979 Wiley 1980 Jenson Button 1984 Felicity Jones 1993 Gus Lewis Died on this day 1729 William Congreve Music 1970 The soundtrack to 'Easyrider' reached gold status, the album included music from The Byrds, Steppenwolf and The Band. 1978 Johnny Rotton announced The Sex Pistols were finished, blaming manager Malcolm McClaren's hype as the main reason for his departure. 1980 Kate Bush topped the NME charts for best female artist and Michael Jackson received his first solo gold album for 'Off The Wall'. Sport 1990 A team of English cricketers led by Mike Gatting, arrived in South Africa to begin their unofficial tour. Police were later forced to break up protests against the tour. 1992 Northern Ireland golfer Ronan Rafferty won Australia's riches golf tournament, the Palm Meadows Cup, with a first prize of $1 million People & Showbiz 1988 22 year old Irish poet Christopher Nolan from Dublin, who could not move, hear or speak and typed his work with a stick attached to his forehead, was presented with the Whitbread Book of the Year prize, worth £20,000 for his autobiographical book 'Under The Eye Of The Clock'. General Events 1935 Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs. 1983 The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1966 Indira Ghandi became Prime Minister of India. 1989 The London Weather Centre claimed that air pollution in the capital had exceeded public health limits recommended by the World Health Organisation. 1991 A peace movement staged protests against war in the Gulf in several cities in the UK. 1999 British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. |
