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1300 Edward I 1563 Robert Cecil 1907 Frank Whittle 1926 Marilyn Monroe 1928 Bob Monkhouse 1930 Edward Woodward 1934 Pat Boone 1936 Joe Doyle 1936 Gerald Scarfe 1923 Henry Kissinger 1944 Robert Powell 1947 Ronnie Wood 1947 Jonathan Pryce 1959 Martin Brundle 1960 Simon Gallup 1968 Jason Donovan 1974 Alanis Morissette Died on this Day 1943 Leslie Howard Music 1956 Doris Day signed a 5 year $1 million deal with Columbia Records. 1967 The Beatles' 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album was released. Sport 1983 The England football team retained the British Championship with a 2-0 win over Scotland. People & Showbiz 1938 Superman made his first appearance in issue 1 of the DC title 'Action Comics', having been created by 2 college students, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegal. 1957 The first Premium bond prize winners were chosen at random by the computer ERNIE. 1958 Charles De Gaulle became Prime Minister of France. General Events 1705 The first pensioners arrived at the Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich. 1880 The first public telephone box in New Haven, Connecticut, went into service 1988 The Reagan-Gorbachev summit came to a close in Moscow. 1995 An audition at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham was held to find the successor to the Milky Bar Kid. Nestle insisted only fair-skinned children would be considered which led to complaints of racism. Nestle said 'Just as Mickey Mouse looks like Mickey Mouse, you cannot go round changing a brand character that has been around for 30 years' 1995 Woolworths announced they were to stop selling vinyl singles. 2005 The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection. 2007 Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places. |
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