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On this day 23rd January
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Born on this day
1832 Edouard Manet 1919 Bob Paisley 1919 Ernie Kovacs 1928 Jeanne Moreau 1944 Rutger Hauer 1957 Princess Caroline of Monaco 1959 Earl Falconer 1961 Paula Hamilton 1972 Harriet Scott Died on this day 1806 William Pitt, The Younger 1944 Edvard Munch 1989 Salvador Dali Music 1974 Alvin Stardust made his first live appearance under that name at the Midem Gala, the annual music business get-together, at the Palais de Festival in Cannes. 1982 Abba spent their last week in the UK Top 20, with 'One of Us' 1984 'The Singles File', a boxed set of all Kate Bush's singles, was released. Sport 1983 Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl beat John McEnroe in straight sets in the final of the Volvo Masters at Madison Square Garden in New York People & Showbiz 1964 Cecil King announced his decision to re-launch The Daily Herald newspaper as The Sun. 1983 The first episode of US adventure series 'The 'A' Team' was broadcast in America. The episode was called 'Mexican Serenade'. General Events 1790 The Bounty mutineers, under the command of Fletcher Christian, landed on Pitcairn Island. 1849 Briton Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman doctor when she graduated from University of Geneva in New York State. 1984 Surgeons from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge carried out a liver transplant on 2 yr old Ben Hardwick. He was suffering from the incurable disease bilitary atresia. 1990 The Soviet Union announced that the Red Army would be withdrawn from Hungary, after a 45-year occupation. 1993 Scientists discovered the oldest existing footprints in Britain, made 100 years before dinosaurs existed. They were found in sandstone layers on the Northumberland coast at Howick. |
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