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On this day 30th September |
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Born on this Day
1861 William Wrigley Jr 1947 Marc Bolan 1921 Deborah Kerr 1931 Angie Dickinson 1937 Johnny Mathis 1941 Stephanie Cole 1943 Ian Ogilvy 1947 Rula Lenska 1950 Victoria Tennant 1952 Jack Wild 1980 Martina Hingis 1982 Michelle Marsh Died On This Day 1772 James Brindley 1955 James Dean 1985 Charles Richter Music 1960 Sam Cooke entered the UK charts with 'Chain Gang'. 1967 Tony Blackburn presented BBC 1's first broasdcast. 1978 'Summer Nights' by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John topped the UK singles chart for the first of 7 weeks. 1978 The Police were at No.1 with 'Message in a Bottle'. 1995 Simply Red scored their first UK No.1 with 'Fairground'. Sport 1975 Muhammed Ali retained his world heavyweight title beating Joe Frazier. 1988 Linford Christie was cleared of taking banned substances at the Seoul Olympics after it was revealed he had been drinking Ginseng tea. 1991 British boxer Lennox Lewis knocked out Glenn McCrory after 1 min 30 secs of the round to retain his British and European title. People & Showbiz 1936 The Pinewood Film Studios opened in Iver, Buckinghamshire. 1955 Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident at age 24. 1982 The first episode of 'Cheers' was broadcast in the US. General Events 1399 Richard II abdicated, to be replaced by Henry IV, the first time an English monarch had relinquished the throne. 1860 Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside. 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told a crowd at Heston Airport, London, on his return from Germany:'I believe it is peace in our time'. 1946 An international military tribunal in Nuremburg, Germany found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. 11 were sentenced to death. 1949 The Berlin airlift ended. 1949 Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung was elected chairman of the People's Republic. 1980 Israel issued their new currency. The shekel replaced the pound. 1997 The first conference speech in 19 years by a Labour Prime Minister was made by Tony Blair. |
