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On this day 26th November
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Picture: The last Concorde to take off from Heathrow taken by Jon Davey
Born on this Day 1898 Karl Ziegler 1908 Charles Forte 1910 Cyril Cusack 1922 Charles Schulz 1923 Pat Phoenix 1933 Robert Goulet 1938 Tina Turner 1945 Jim Mullen 1945 Daniel Davis 1945 John McVie 1981 Natasha Bedingfield 1983 Chris Hughes Died On This Day 399 Pope Siricius 1836 John McAdam 1996 Michael Bentine 2002 Stanley Black Music 1968 Cream played their farewell concert at the Albert Hall in a show recorded on film for posterity. 1971 Tickets for the Faces sold out Madison Square Garden faster than anyone else on record. 1976 Kevin Godley and Lol Creme left 10CC to form Godley & Creme. 1983 In New Zealand, 80,000 turned out to see david Bowie perform in Auckland, breaking the attendance record for a concert in the Southern Hemisphere. Sport 1983 Kenny Dalglish scored his 100th Football League goal for Liverpool. People & Showbiz 1789 The first national Thanksgiving Day in the USA. 1990 Model Jerry Hall announced she had married Mick Jagger in a secret cerermony. General Events 1778 In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. 1789 A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. 1867 Lily Maxwell became the first woman to cast her vote...she'd been placed on the electoral register by mistake!. 1922 Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun... he and Lord Carnarvon were the first people to see inside for 3000 years. 1972 The Race Relations Act came into force in the UK, stating that employers could no longer discriminate on the grounds of colour. 1982 Shirley Williams became the first SDP MP to be elected, with a 5289 majority in the Crosby by-election. 1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. 2003 Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England. |
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