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On this day 15th February |
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Born on this day
1564 Galileo Galilei 1710 King Louis XV of France 1849 Sir Rickman Godlee 1874 Sir Ernest Shackleton 1907 Cesar Romero 1929 Graham Hill 1914 Kevin McCarthy 1927 Frank Dunlop 1927 Harvey Korman 1944 Mick Avory 1945 John Helliwell 1950 John Adams 1951 Jane Seymour 1959 Ali Campbell 1960 Mikey Craig Died on this day 1905 Lew Wallace 1965 Nat King Cole 1984 Ethel Merman Music 1958 Michael Holliday reached No.1 in the Uk with 'The Story of My Life' while Elvis was No.1 in the US with 'Don't / I Beg Of You'. 1969 Amen Corner reached the top of the UK singles chart with '(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice'. 1975 Linda Ronstadt topped the US chart with 'You're No Good'. 1981 The film 'Dance Craze' opened, starring The Beat, Bad Manners and The Specials. Sport 1985 Former world boxing champion Muhammed Ali, set off for Beirut in an attempt to secure the release of 4 Americans after deciding not to go to Tehran first to ask Iran to intercede. 1988 Swiss skier Pirmin Zurbriggen became downhill ski champion in the Winter Olympic. People & Showbiz 1991 According to an NOP poll, John Major was Britain's most popular Prime Minister for 30 years. General Events 1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient. 1906 The British Labour Party is organised. 1993 According to Berlin researchers the Monday morning feeling could be potentially lethal. They claimed that more people were prone to heart attacks on their way to work after the weekend. 1995 A parrot recognised his owner in Kingston upon Thames Crown Court. Barney a key witness in a stolen goods trial, let out a wolf-whistle when he spotted Georgina Morgans, from whom he had allegedly been stolen. A man was accused of handling the stolen bird that he called 'Blue'. 2003 Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world. 2005 YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States. |
