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On this day 23rd August |
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Born on this Day
1852 Arnold Toynbee 1875 William Eccles 1905 Constant Lambert 1909 Syd Buller 1912 Gene Kelly 1921 Sam Cook 1923 Edgar F. Codd 1942 Roger Greenaway 1947 Keith Moon 1947 Willy Russell 1947 David Robb 1949 Geoff Capes 1949 Shelley Long 1953 Bobby G 1961 Gary Mabbutt 1962 Shaun Ryder 1963 Richard Illingworth 1969 Keith Tyson 1970 River Phoenix 1972 Martin Grainger 1972 Mark Butcher 1974 Ray Park 1975 Eliza Carthy 1979 Ritchie Neville 1984 Glen Johnson Music 1962 John Lennon married Cynthia Powell in a secret ceremony in Liverpool with Paul McCartney as best man. 1970 Lou Reed played his last show with Velvet Underground at Max's Kansas City Club in New York. 1973 The first ever Reading Festival took place with performers including Eric Burden and Traffic taking to the stage. 1993 Brit band Duran Duran had a star dedicated to them on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sport 1938 English player Len Hutton scored a record 364 run in 13 hours and 20 minutes in the 5th Test against Australia at the Oval. In celebration, nearby church bells were rung 364 times. 1988 British athletes protested against a plan to give Sebastian Coe a wild card entry into the British Olympic team. 1997 England beat Australia by 19 runs after bowling them all out for 104 in the 6th Test at the Oval, though the series was already lost. Showbiz 1963 The second James Bond movie, 'From Russia With Love' went on general release in the UK. 1992 Paula Yates angered working mothers by saying in an interview that they were better off staying at home. 1998 'Scary Spice' Melanie Brown announced she was pregnant. Events 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England. 1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War. 1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened. 1914 The anniversary of the Battle of Mons in WWI. 1940 The Blitz of London began. 1988 1000 workers in Sunderland were made redundant from the North-East Shpbuilder's yard after the cancellation of a £90 million Dutch order. 1989 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. 1997 A British Airways pilot and co-pilot were suspended after allowing a 5 year old girl to operate the controls of a Boeing 757 airliner on its way to the South of France to Heathrow. |
