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Born on this day
1905 Baroness Maria Von Trapp
1922 Michael Bentine
1945 Marti Caine
1925 Paul Newman
1928 Eartha Kitt
1946 Christopher Hampton
1957 Eddie Van Halen
1958 Norman Hassan
1963 Andrew Ridgley

Died on this day
1824 Edward Jenner
1973 Edward G Robinson
1985 James Cameron


Music

1974 Shortly after his death, Jim Croce held the top 2 places on the US album charts and had 3 separate singles in the top 100.

1979 Bob Dylan launched his own record label, Accomplice Records.

1985 Foreigner were at the top of the singles chart with ' I Want To Know What Love is'.

1989 Bobby Brown was arrested in Georgia for alleged lewdness on stage.


Sport

1988 British boxer Nigel Benn, popularly known as 'The Dark Destroyer' was released by his manager Burt McCarthy leaving him free to join new manager, Frank Warren.

1997 16 year old Martina Hingis of Switzerland won the Australian Open tennis championship to become the youngest winner of a modern Grand Slam tournament.


People & Showbiz

1988 Australia celebrated its 200th birthday with a bicentenary party in Sydney attended by 2 million people where the Prince and Princess of Wales appeared as guests of honour.

1993 Italian clothes company Benetton was to use photos of its chairman naked in adverts to urge shoppers to donate cast-offs to charity


General Events

1982 It was announced that unemployment in Britain had risen to above 3 million for the first time since the 1930's, a rise of 130,000 in a month.

1989 The British Medical Journal reported that during the coming years people would be able to shop in 'genetic supermarkets' for laboratory engineered genes to change their looks, increase their intelligence and make them feel happier.

1989 A report by the School of Education at Manchester Polytechnic disclosed that boys needed more help with learning to write than girls. They believed that writing was something that mothers did, not fathers.

1993 Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham was to take newborn babies' thumbprints to stop them from being given to the wrong parents. If the pilot scheme was successful, it would be used in other maternity units.


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