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23rd August
Photograph by © Robert Dowling
Birthdays
1912 Gene Kelly
1947 Keith Moon
1970 River Phoenix
1942 Roger Greenaway
1949 Geoff Capes
1949 Shelley Long
1953 Bobby G
1972 Mark Butcher
1979 Ritchie Neville
Music
1962 John Lennon married Cynthia Powell in a secret ceremony in Liverpool with Paul McCartney as best man.
1970 Lou Reed played his last show with Velvet Underground at Max's Kansas City Club in New York.
1973 The first ever Reading Festival took place with performers including Eric Burden and Traffic taking to the stage.
1993 Brit band Duran Duran had a star dedicated to them on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sport
1938 English player Len Hutton scored a record 364 run in 13 hours and 20 minutes in the 5th Test against Australia at the Oval. In celebration, nearby church bells were rung 364 times.
1988 British athletes protested against a plan to give Sebastian Coe a wild card entry into the British Olympic team.
1997 England beat Australia by 19 runs after bowling them all out for 104 in the 6th Test at the Oval, though the series was already lost.
Showbiz
1963 The second James Bond movie, 'From Russia With Love' went on general release in the UK.
1992 Paula Yates angered working mothers by saying in an interview that they were better off staying at home.
1998 'Scary Spice' Melanie Brown announced she was pregnant.
Events
1914 The anniversary of the Battle of Mons in WWI.
1940 The Blitz of London began.
1988 1000 workers in Sunderland were made redundant from the North-East Shpbuilder's yard after the cancellation of a £90 million Dutch order.
1997 A British Airways pilot and co-pilot were suspended after allowing a 5 year old girl to operate the controls of a Boeing 757 airliner on its way to the South of France to Heathrow.
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