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On this day 21st January
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Born on this day
1905 Christian Dior 1924 Telly Savalas 1925 Benny Hill 1940 Jack Nicklaus 1941 Placido Domingo 1945 Martin Shaw 1950 Billy Ocean 1957 Geena Davis 1975 Nicky Butt 1976 Emma Bunton 1977 Phil Neville 1980 Dave Kitson Died on this day 1924 Lenin 1950 George Orwell 1984 Jackie Wilson Music 1966 George Harrison married Patti Boyd who he met in the Beatles' film 'A Hard Day's Night'. 1982 Blues singer and former disc jockey BB King donated his prodigious record collection to the University of Minnesota for their Southern Culture Studies Center. Sport 1911 The first Monte Carlo rally began. 1988 Briton Brian Milton completed his record- breaking microlight flight from London to Darwin in 36 days, beating the only other attempt, by compatriot Eve Jackson, of 15 months. People & Showbiz 1992 A selection of 'castaways' of Desert Island Discs, including Jeffrey Archer, Terry Wogan, Edward Heath and Denis Healey, celebrated 50 years of the show with a reception at the Reform Club in London. 1997 It was reported that Ex-England soccer boss Terry Venables was planning to launch a sportswear brand 'El Tel'. General Events 1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally. 1976 Two Concordes took off simultaneously from London and Paris destined for Bahrain and Rio de Janeiro on the aircraft's first commercial flights. 1983 It was announced that Hever Castle, home of the Astor family for 80 years, had been sold for around £9m to the Scarborough based Broadland Properties. 1993 Special branch detectives Richard Allen and John Hague won undisclosed libel damages over allegations in a book claiming that they were removed from the Lockerbie enquiry team for being 'idle and arrogant'. 2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%. |
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