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On this day 30th November |
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Born on this Day
1667 Jonathan Swift 1719 Augusta of Saxe-Gotha 1781 Alexander Berry 1835 Mark Twain 1874 Sir Winston Churchill 1930 Robert Guillaume 1937 Sir Ridley Scott 1956 Billy Idol 1959 Lorraine Kelly 1960 Gary Lineker 1968 Des'Ree 1975 Ben Thatcher 1980 Jamie Ashdown 1983 Andy Akinwolere 1987 Dougie Poynter 1994 William Melling Died On This Day 1900 Oscar Wilde 1977 Sir Terence Rattigan 1979 Joyce Grenfell Music 1960 Holding onto the No.1 position on the UK charts for the 4th of a total of 8 weeks was Elvis Presley with 'Its Now Or Never' 1962 Pat Boone chalked up his 21st and final UK Top 20 hit with the title song from his film 'The Main Attraction' 1977 David Bowie appeared on Bing Crosby's Xmas show duetting with him on 'Little Drummer Boy' and 'Peace On Earth' released together in the UK as a single in 1982 1986 Holding onto the No.1 position on the UK charts for the 4th and final week were Berlin with their single 'Take My Breath Away' Sport 1872 The first international football match was played, Scotland vs. England (it was a 0-0 draw) 1991 John Parrot beat Jimmy White by 16 frames to 13 in the final of the UK Open in Preston, moving him up to 2nd place in the provisional world rankings People & Showbiz 1844 Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' appeared unabridged in 'Chambers Edinburgh Journal' and became the first detective story published in the UK 1913 Charlie Chaplin made his film debut, minus the cane and the moustache, in 'Making A Living' General Events 1936 Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire. THe structure had been constructed for the Great Exhibition. 1982 Braille menus and wine lists were introduced in all public restaurants in Heathrow's 3 terminals 1992 Thieves stole 230,000 Mars bars worth £36,000 from a factory in Slough, Berkshire 1996 In Amsterdam 2 burglars, aged 83 and 85 were arrested because one was too deaf to hear the police arrive and the other too slow on his walikng stick to make a getaway 1997 German and Austrian motoring experts visting UK concluded that, for the clarity of warnings, courtesy to motorists, clarity of warnings and sheer efficiency, British roadworks were the best organised in Europe 1999 British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. |
