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On this day 4th September |
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Born on this Day
1895 Nigel Bruce 1892 Darius Milhaud 1901 William Lyons 1931 Mitzi Gaynor 1932 Dinsdale Lansden 1937 Dawn Fraser 1945 Bill Kenwright 1949 Tom Watson 1961 Kevin Kennedy Died On This Day 1907 Edvard Grieg 1965 Albert Schweitzer 1989 Georges Simonen Music 1957 Teenage sensation Frankie Lymon had his last American Top 20 entry with 'Goody Goody', before his 15th birthday. 1976 The Sex Pistols made their first TV appearance, on 'So It Goes Pemberton'. 1986 Madness announced they were splitting up. Sport 1983 A gold medal won by Daley Thompson at the Helsinki world championships was stolen from a friend's car in Piccadilly. 1989 Former tennis star Bjorn Borg married Italian pop star Loredana Berte . 1992 The Royal Oak, believed to be the World's oldest racing rowing boat, was to compete in the Thames Rowing Championship. People & Showbiz 1949 The moon was shown through a telescope on BBC television, the first time it was so seen on TV. 1955 Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall became Britain's first newsreaders on television. 1967 It was announced that 17 former pirate DJs including Tony Blackburn and John Peel were to join the BBC. 1997 Bowing to increasing pressure from the British public, the Queen announced that the Union Jack would fly at half-mast for the first time over Buckingham Palace, in respect for Princess Diana. General Events 1682 English astronomer Edmond Haley got his first and only look at the comet that would bear his name. He successfully predicted its return date in 1758, 16 years after his death. 1833 10 year old Barney Flaherty became the world's first paperboy for the New York Sun. 1888 George Eastman of Rochester, New York, received a patent for his hand-held roll-film camera and registered his 'Kodak' trademark. 1909 The first boy scout parade took place at Crystal Palace. 1934 750,000 supporters attended the opening of the Nazi party conference in Nuremburg. |
