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On this day 28th September |
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Born on this Day
1573 Michelangelo Merisi da Caraveggio 1836 Thomas Crapper 1902 Ed Sullivan 1943 J.T Walsh 1934 Brigitte Bardot 1946 Helen Shapiro 1946 Peter Egan 1947 Jon Snow 1968 Mika Hakkinen 1972 Gwyneth Paltrow 1989 Mark Randall Died On This Day 929 Wenceslas 1895 Louis Pasteur 1965 Harpo Marx Music 1963 The Springfields recently voted Britain's Top Group announced they were splitting and that Dusty was going solo 1963 New York DJ 'Murray the K' received a copy of the Beatles' 'She Loves You' and played it on his show. It was the first ever Beatles song played in the US 1992 Duran Duran member Nick Rhodes and his model wife Julie Anne announced they were to divorce Sport 490 BC The Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon and a Greek soldier ran 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory 1948 The first British motor racing Grand Prix to be held at Silverstone took place 1986 British welterweight boxer Lloyd Honeyghan beat US boxwe Donald Curry in the 6th round of their fight in Atlantic City to become world champion People & Showbiz 1981 The first episode of cult cartoon 'Danger Mouse' was broadcast, voiced by David Jason and Terry Scott 1983 Sarah Brightman announced she was divorcing Andrew Lloyd Webber 1987 The first episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was premiered on US TV General Events 1066 The Norman Conquest of England began when William the Conqueror of Normandy and his troops invaded England by landing at Pevensey, Sussex and claiming the throne. 1785 16 year old Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from his military college in Paris, rated 42nd out of his class of 51 1894 Simon Marks, a Polish immigrant and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Manchester, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain 1924 The first circumnavigation of the earth by air is completed by 2 US Army Douglas DWC amphibians from Seattle to Seattle in 175 days. 1939 Ireland announced its neutrality in World War II |
