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On this day 31st August |
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Birthdays on this day
1889 Bombardier Billy Wells 1897 Frederic March 1932 Roy Castle 1916 Robert Hanbury Brown 1938 Martin Bell 1944 Clive Lloyd 1949 Richard Gere 1962 Todd Carty 1970 Debbie Gibson 1975 Daniel Harding Deaths 1969 Rocky Marciano 1973 John Ford 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales Music 1965 In their 10th & final concert of their North American tour, the Beatles returned to the first venue San Francisco's Cow Palace 1973 The Rolling Stones' album 'Goat's Headed Soup' was released 1986 Bob Geldof married Paula Yates in Las Vegas. The witnesses at the wedding were Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox 1998 Titanic became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600m Sport 1976 Crowds cheered when rain stopped play at Lords, ending the country's worst drought in 250 years 1988 A trainer was blamed for the death of a Brazilian swimmer who drowned 3 miles off the French coast. Eyewitnesses said the trainer pushed the swimmer to far and refused to let her give up Showbiz 1848 Charles Dickens' 'Daily News' became the first newspaper to print daily weather forecasts 1989 Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Anne was to be separated from Captain Mark Phillips Events 1422 King Henry V died from dysentry whilst in France, with 9 month old Henry V succeeding him to the throne 1535 Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated Henry VIII 1900 Coca-cola went on sale in the UK for the first time 1994 The IRA called a halt to 25 years of violence with a cease-fire 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. |
