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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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LiaiseOnline Limited
1 Clewer Hill Road
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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On this day 3rd December
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1795 Rowland Hill 1857 Joseph Conrad 1895 Anna Freud 1930 Andy Williams 1944 Ralph McTell 1945 Paul Nicholas 1948 Ozzy Osbourne 1952 Mel Smith 1953 Franz Klammer 1953 Eamonn Holmes 1960 Daryl Hannah 1979 Daniel Bedingfield 1999 Charles Davey Music 1965 The Beatles began their final UK tour. 1977 The Carpenters spent their last week on the UK Top 20 with 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft'. 1977 Paul McCartney's 'Mull of Kintyre' hit No. 1 and stayed there for nine weeks!. Sport 1983 East German rugby player Burt Weiss escaped to West Berlin by swimming underwater using a home made snorkel. 1984 George Best was released on bail for drink driving, assaulting a police officer and failing to answer bail General Events 1989 The Sony Playstation went on sale, initially in Japan. 1991 Brian May, appearing on TV-am, said Freddie Mercury had known he was suffering from Aids five years before his death. 1993 The Princess of Wales announced she was retiring from public life to spend more time with her children. 1591 The first recorded example of a Fire-Insurance was dated today. Originating in Hamburg, the document was signed by 101 persons who were property owners of the city. 1954 A Commons Committee agreed the minimum age for receiving a state pension should be 68 for men and 63 for women. 1963 Nelson Mandela went on trial in South Africa, charged with treason. 1967 At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky). 1967 The English language mass was introduced in Roman Catholic churches across the UK. 1971 Pakistan went to war with India. 1976 An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later 1984 Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000-600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. 1997 The government banned British beef on the bone because of the 'very small risk' it could cause Creutzfeldz-Jacob Disease |
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