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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
View map
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Jon Davey
Social Media Director
Business in Berkshire
01753 852904
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On this day 17th July
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Born on this Day
1674 Isaac Watts 1889 Earle Stanley Gardner 1899 James Cagney 1917 Phyllis Diller 1920 Kenneth Wolstenholme D.F.C. 1923 John Cooper 1934 Donald Sutherland 1935 Diahann Carroll 1939 Spencer Davis 1940 Tim Brooke-Taylor 1941 Bob Taylor 1942 Peter Sissons 1946 Alun Armstrong 1947 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall 1948 Wayne Sleep 1949 Terence "Geezer" Butler 1952 David Hasselhoff 1957 Fern Britton 1960 Mark Burnett 1965 Alex Winter 1970 Mandy Smith 1975 Konnie Huq 1982 Natasha Hamilton 1983 Brooke Kinsella 1985 Tom Fletcher Died 1995 Juan Fangio Music 1965 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' celebrated its 200th show with appearances from Billy Fury, Helen Shapiro, Dusty Springfield and The Searchers. 1972 A bomb exploded at a Rolling Stones gig in Montreal. Sport 1964 Donald Campbell set a new land-speed world record as he passed the 403 mph mark in his 'Bluebird' car on the salt flats of Lake Eyre in South Australia. 1994 More than 2 billion people worldwide watched the television coverage of Brazil beating Italy in the final of the World Cup. People & Showbiz 1841 The first edition of English magazine Punch was published in London. 1917 King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor. 1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. 1981 'Arthur' starring Dudley Moore opened in cinemas across the US. 1995 Sir James Spencer, aged 69, the Tory MP for Dorset West, swam across the Thames to raise money for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund and Water Aid. 1997 Almost a week after his mystery disappearance, Humphrey the Downing Street cat was returned to No.10 by the woman who had taken him home, thinking he was a stray. General Events 1955 Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community to receive all its light and power from atomic energy. 1975 An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind as 3 American and 2 Soviet spacemen exchanged handshakes 140 miles above the Earth. 1989 The result of 10 years work, the Stealth bomber, the world's most revolutionary warplane made its maiden flight after 18 months delay. 1992 Security procedures at Buckingham Palace were again in doubt after an intruder was caught just 50 yards from the Queen's bedroom. 1993 According to a MORI survey fort he Health Education Authority, over half the population wanted smoking in restaurants. 1995 As a heatwave raged across the central and eastern parts of the United States, there were 256 confirmed deaths from the heat across America. The worst-hit city was Chicago, where at least 144 were known to have died from the heat. 1997 Tens of millions of e-mail messages failed to reach their destinations around the world as the system crashed for the first time. Business messages and idle chit-chat alike were returned to sender when the master computer operated by Internic in Virginia, America sent out faulty data. Computer experts reported that the failure was unprecedented and may have cost businesses billions of dollars around the world. |
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