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On this day 19th April |
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Born on this Day
1903 Eliot Ness 1905 Jim Mollison 1935 Dudley Moore 1931 Garfield Morgan 1946 Tim Curry 1949 Paloma Picasso 1953 Ruby Wax 1954 Trevor Francis 1956 Sue Barker 1970 Kelly Holmes 1975 Jason Gillespie 1987 Joe Hart Died on this Day 1824 Lord Byron 1881 Benjamin Disraeli 1989 Daphne Du Maurier Music 1962 Jackie Wilson topped the bill at the famed New York night club The Copacabana. 1978 'Because The Night', co-written by Bruce Springsteen, was released by Patti Smith in the US. 1980 For the first time, the Top 5 artists on the US country chart were all females. 1986 For the 3rd time, Prince did the triple when his recording of 'Kiss' simultaneously topped the pop, dance and R&B charts in America. Sport 1983 Aberdeen went through to the final of the European Cup Winners Cup despite losing 1-0 to Belgian club Waterschei in the second leg of their sei-final match, holding onto a 5-2 aggregate to win. 1988 Ian Botham arrived in Turin having completed his charity trek across the Alps in the footsteps of Hannibal. 1992 In one of the biggest first round upsets seen at the world snooker championships, first season professional Peter Ebdon, ranked 68th in the world, knocked out 6 times champion Steve Davis by 10 frames to 4. People & Showbiz 1983 Both Angela Rippon and Anna Ford were dropped as presenters by TV-am. General Events 1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London. 1587 Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor. 1770 Captain James Cook sights Australia. 1775 The opening battle in the American War of Independence, the Battle of Lexington, took place near Boston when General Gage fired into a crowd. 1966 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley went on trial at the Old Bailey for the Moors Murders. 1971 Figures showed that unemployment in the UK was at 814,189, the highest since 1940. 1983 The Automobile Association claimed that the speed limit on Britain's motorway's should be raised to 80 or 85 mph. 1989 A London conference on health in industry was told that 21 people in Britain died every hour from heart disease and 70 million working days a year are lost through related illness. 1995 Dozens of 'twitchers' visiting the waterfowl park in Fakenham, Norfolk, to see a rare Slavonian grebe making its first appearance at the centre, were disappointed to learn that it was killed by a pike which had snared the 10 inch bird by the leg earlier in the day. |
