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On this day 21st June |
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Born on this Day
1694 Jean Francois Voltaire 1750 Thomas Spence 1764 Sir William Sidney Smith 1786 Charles Edward Horn 1791 Robert Napier 1825 William Stubbs 1868 Edwin Stephen Goodrich 1880 Josiah Charles Stamp 1884 Claude Auchinleck 1894 Milward Kennedy 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre 1916 Joseph Cyril Bamford 1918 James Clyde Mitchell 1929 Alexandre Lagoya 1921 Jane Russell 1930 Sir Gerald Kaufman 1944 Ray Davies 1946 Brenda Holloway 1947 Joey Molland 1948 Ian McEwan 1950 Enn Reitel 1953 Benazir Bhutto 1954 Anne Kirkbride 1959 Marcella Detroit 1964 Sammi Davis 1964 David Morrissey 1968 Sonique 1973 Juliette Lewis 1974 Natasha Desborough 1982 HRH Prince William of Wales Died on this Day 1377 King Edward III 1529 John Skelton 1631 John Smith 2001 John Carroll O'Connor Music 1948 The Long Playing Record was introduced by Columbia Records. 1980 The Stranglers were arrested in France for allegedly inciting a riot during a concert in Nice. 'Invisible Touch' gave Genesis their 4th No.1 album. Sport 1988 In the first semi-final of the European Football Championships, Holland beat West Germany by 2 goals to 1. 1990 England beat Egypt by 1 goal to 0 in the World Cup to qualify for the second round. Ireland also went through after drawing 1-1 with Holland. People & Showbiz 1994 The new Disney cartoon 'The Lion King' had broken ticket office records in New York and Los Angeles. 1996 'Eraser' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' both went on general release in America. General Events 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. 1843 The Royal College of Surgeons was founded in London. 1854 The first Victoria Cross was awarded, to 20 year old Irishman Charles Lucas for his bravery aboard HMS Hecla in the Baltic, where he had thrown an unexploded Russian bomb overboard. 1990 A nuisance call bureau was opened by British Telecom as an experiment. 1995 A 2.4 million pedestrianisation scheme made it safer for tourists to view the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. In 3 years before the scheme, more than 60 people were injured oin traffic accidents. 1997 The government announced that under a new broad paper, women soldiers would soon be able to fight on the front lines with their male counterparts. 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra. |
