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2nd January |
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Born on this day
1727 James Wolfe 1886 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1895 Count Folke Bernadotte 1897 Jimmy Nervo 1905 Michael Tippett 1913 Anna Lee 1914 Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann 1936 Roger Miller 1938 David Bailey 1946 David Lynch 1963 Keith Gergory 1967 Tia Carrere 1969 Christy Turlington 1973 Lucy Davis 1979 Jonathan Greening Died on this day 1981 David Lynch 2002 Eileen Heckart Music 1966 The Beatles held onto the no. 1 spot with 'Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out' 1971 George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass' triple album reached the top of the US chart while his single 'My Sweet Lord/Isnt it A Pity' was spending its 2nd week at the top of the US singles chart 1979 Sex Pistol's bass player Sid Vicious went on trial in New York accused of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen 1982 Olivia Newton-John began a 3rd month at the top of the US charts with 'Physical', eventually staying there for 10 weeks in total 2005 X Factor's Steve Brookstein went to No.1 with 'Against All Odds' Sport 1988 John Lowe beat Bob Anderson 2-0 to win the final of the British Open darts championship in only 12 minutes 1994 In the Premier Division Blackbrn Rovers beat Aston Villa 1-0. Alan Shearer scored the winning goal People & Showbiz 1979 The murder trial of Sid Vicious accused of killing girlfriend Nancy Spungen began 1996 The BBC was inundated with cassesstes of home made recordings of The Archers, after their plea foe help after the originals had been accidentally thrown away. They came in far as far away as Tokyo and Kentucky General Events 1818 The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded 1953 The first supersonic RAF fighters, 400 American designed Sabres, arrived at RAF Abingdon 1968 In Cape Town, Dr Chritian Barnard performed the world's second heart transplant 1989 Hammersmith and Fulham were expected to become the 8th London borough to introduce wheel clamping 1990 Controversial Judge James Pickles caused a public outcry after he jailed 19 year old supermarket cashier Tracey Scott and her 10 week old baby, because she had become pregnant after being charged with the crime of helping shop-lifters |
