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On this day 19th January
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Born on this day
1839 Paul Cezanne 1943 Janis Joplin 1931 Tippi Hendren 1939 Phil Everly 1942 Michael Crawford 1946 Dolly Parton 1949 Denis Taylor 1966 Stefan Edberg 1970 Tim Foster 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 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. |
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