On This Day

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Thanks Acido, Much appreciated

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January 18th 2004.

FA Cup 3rd Round

Burnley 1 Liverpool 0.

Thank you Djimi

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Nice Find 59_60

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19 JANUARY

1736 The birth, in Greenock, of James Watt, the Scottish inventor who developed Newcomen's steam engine and gave his name to a unit of power. On 29th May 2009 the Bank of England announced that Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton would appear on a new £50 note.

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupied Stirling.

1813 Sir Henry Bessemer, who gave his name to a process for converting cast iron into steel, was born, in Charlton - Hertfordshire.

1848 The birth of Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel - (25th August 1875, in a time of 21 hours & 45 minutes). This memorial to him is erected in Dawley - Telford, close to his birthplace, now demolished)

1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England

1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced

1915 More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.

1917 The Silvertown explosion in West Ham. 73 people were killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant . The plant was destroyed instantly, as were many nearby buildings, including the Silvertown Fire Station and a gasometer.

1923 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of Britain's $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years

1937 The first play written for British television, The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas, was broadcast by the BBC.

1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market

1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide

1988 Christopher Nolan, a 22-year-old Irish writer, won the £20,000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his autobiography, Under the Eye of the Clock. Completely paralysed, Nolan used a ‘unicorn’ attachment on his forehead to write the novel at a painfully slow speed.

1990 Police in Johannesburg, armed with batons and dogs, broke up a demonstration against English cricketers who had defied a ban on playing in segregated South Africa.

2004 Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he would survive his toughest week as he faced the university top-up fees vote and the Hutton enquiry into the death of David Kelly, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and ........ he was right!

2013 Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories

2014 The death of former British athlete Sir Chris Chataway, at the age of 82. Chataway, who broke the 5,000m world record in 1954, is also remembered as the man who helped pace Sir Roger Bannister to break the four-minute mile barrier in the same year. Chataway was named the first-ever BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1954.

2015 The death of Anne Kirkbride, known for her long-running role as Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap Coronation Street, which she played for 42 years from 1972 to 2014. In January 2014 the soap left its long established Quay Street site in Manchester city centre and moved to this purpose built set at MediaCityUK

Famous Birthday's



Robert E. Lee
(1807 - 1870)



Edgar Allan Poe
(1809 - 1849)

1878 Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)

1938 Phil Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie) (d. 2014)



Janis Joplin
(1943 - 1970)

Michael Crawford
76th Birthday

Dolly Parton
72nd Birthday

Rod Evans, rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band)
70th Birthday

Dennis Taylor
69th Birthday

Jenson Button
38th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1872 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

1884 Painter Thomas Eakins (39) weds painter and photographer Susan Macdowell (32) in a Quaker ceremony

1957 Golfer Gary Player (21) weds Bobby Verwey's sister Vivienne Verwey

2012 Indian bollywood actress Deepshikha Nagpal (34) weds Indian actor Kaishav Arora in Mumbai

2013 "Big Brother" Daniele Donato (26) weds Dominic Briones at the Newland House Museum in Huntington Beach, California

Famous Divorces

1977 Director Martin Scorsese (34) divorces Julia Cameron (28) after 1 year of marriage

Famous Deaths

Hedy Lamarr
(1914 - 2000)



Wilson Pickett
(1941 - 2006)

Stan Musial
(1920 - 2013)

2004 David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)

2014 Bert Williams, English footballer (Wolverhampton, 30 caps), dies at 93

2015 Anne Kirkbride, English Actress (Deirdre in Coronation Street), dies of breast cancer at 60

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20 JANUARY

1783 Great Britain signed a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).

1850 The opening of the Penny Savings Bank, to encourage thrift amongst the poor.

1936 George V died and was succeeded by Edward VIII who abdicated 325 days later because of his insistence on marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1983 American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car trunk after disappearing a few days earlier

1986 Mrs. Pauline Williams of Luton won her three year fight to prosecute the man who injected her drug addict son with a fatal painkiller. She was the first person to bring a private prosecution for manslaughter to a Crown Court trial.

1986 France and Britain finally decided to undertake the Channel Tunnel project, promising that trains would run under the Channel by 1993. When it eventually opened, on 6th May 1994, it left Eurotunnel with debts of £925m a year later.

1987 The Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy to Lebanon, Terry Waite, was kidnapped in Beirut whilst attempting to win freedom for Western hostages.

1991 The death of Alfred Wainwright, whose books for walkers did much to popularise the Lake District. His ashes are scattered on Haystacks, Cumbria and there is a memorial plaque in nearby Buttermere Church. Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk, starts here at St. Bees in Cumbria and ends here at Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire

1997 Her Majesty's Royal Yacht Britannia began her final voyage, to Hong Kong, before being decommissioned. She is now based in Edinburgh, as a visitor attraction.

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president

2014 Dr. Michael Ramscar and a team of scientists suggested that the brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive. “The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”

2015 A six-day-old baby became Britain's youngest organ donor when her kidneys were transplanted into a patient with renal failure, and liver cells were transfused into a second recipient.

2017 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President

Famous Birthday's

Joy Adamson
(1910 - 1980)

Patricia Neal
(1926 - 2010)



Buzz Aldrin
88th Birthday

Gary Barlow
47th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1382 King Richard II of England marries Anne of Bohemia and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor at Westminster Abbey. Anne died of plague in 1394.

1800 Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples

1968 Actress Sharon Tate (24) weds actor/director Roman Polanski (34) in Chelsea, London

2001 "Fast Lane" actor Peter Facinelli (27) weds actress and director Jennie Garth (28) at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Montecito, California

Famous Deaths

1900 John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81



George V
(1865 - 1936)



1990 Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82



Audrey Hepburn
(1929 - 1993)

1994 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United), dies at 84

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21 JANUARY

1807 Streets in London were first illuminated by gaslight when Pall Mall was lit up.

1846 The publication of the first edition of the Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens. It merged with the Daily Chronicle to form the News Chronicle in 1930, and was ultimately absorbed by the Daily Mail in 1960.

1903 Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam

1908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public

1919 The birth, in Leith, of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew more types of aircraft than anyone else in history. He is also the Fleet Air Arm’s most decorated pilot and holds the world record for aircraft carrier landings - around 1,500 deck landings on 22 different aircraft carriers.

1925 The birth of the comedian Benny Hill, in Southampton, Hampshire. One of his biggest fans was the silent film star, Charlie Chaplin.

1941 The British communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, was suppressed in wartime London.

1944 447 German bombers attack London

1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg

1950 The British writer George Orwell died after a three year battle against tuberculosis. His books included 1984 and Animal Farm. They were controversial and 1984, like Animal Farm, was widely viewed as an attack on the Communist system.

1966 The Monte Carlo rally ended in uproar over the disqualification of the British cars expected to fill the first four places. They were all ruled out of the prizes, along with six other British cars, for alleged infringements of regulations about the way their headlights dipped.

1966 'Beatle', George Harrison, married Patti Boyd who he met in the film 'A Hard Day's Night'.

1976 The first Concorde jets carrying commercial passengers simultaneously took off, at 11:40 a.m. from Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris. The London flight was to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris flight was to Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 3 hours was knocked off the normal flying time to Bahrain by the British Concorde but the Air France Concorde arrived 38 minutes late.

1987 B.B. King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi

1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane when she cut off her husband's *****

1997 More than 80 people were named as child abusers in statements to a North Wales inquiry into claims of abuse of children in care in Clwyd and Gwynedd over20 years.

2008 Black Monday on the world's stock markets saw the FTSE 100 have its biggest ever one-day fall. European stocks closed with their worst result since 11th September 2001, and Asian stocks dropped as much as 14%.

2008 The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies

2014 Pub chain JD Wetherspoon opened a new £1m pub, at junction 2 of the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in spite of fierce criticism from road safety and alcohol campaigners. The Hope and Champion became Britain's first pub ever to be opened at a motorway service area.

2017 More than 2 million people protest worldwide in the 'Women's March' against Donald Trump, with 500,000 marching in Washington D.C.

Famous Birthday's

Stonewall Jackson
(1824 - 1863)

Christian Dior
(1905 - 1957)



1922 Telly Savalas, American actor (Kojak), born in Garden City New Jersey, (d. 1994)



1924 Benny Hill [Alfred Hawthorn Hill], British comedian (The Benny Hill Show), born in Southampton, Hampshire, England (d. 1992)

Jack Nicklaus
78th Birthday

Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
67th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd

1973 Actress Jane Fonda weds activist Tom Hayden

1975 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (57) weds toy inventor Jack Ryan (48) (div. 1976)

1989 "Falcon Crest" actor Lorenzo Lamas (31) weds actress Kathleen Kinmont (23) at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

2015 "One Tree Hill" star Chad Michael Murray (33) weds actress Sarah Roemer (30)

Famous Divorces

2011 Actress Jaime Pressly (35) divorces entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 1 year of marriage

Famous Deaths

Louis XVI
(1754 - 1793)



Vladimir Lenin
(1870 - 1924)



George Orwell
(1903 - 1950)

1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah), dies of heart failure at 77

1984 Jackie Wilson, American soul singer-songwriter and performer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49

1997 Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87

1998 Jack Lord, American actor (Hawaii FIVE-O), dies at 77

2008 Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)

2013 Michael Winner, English film director and producer (Death Wish), dies at 77

2015 Pauline Yates, English actress (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies at 85

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22 JANUARY

1788 The birth, in London, of the poet George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron.

1879 The Zulus massacred British troops at Isandlwana, the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War. Later, at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, two British officers and 150 British and colonial troops defended their garrison from the attacks of between 3,000 and 4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours. The battle was immortalized in the 1964 film Zulu, starring Michael Caine. In 1923 the Havard Chapel at Brecon Cathedral became a War Memorial to the South Wales Borderers (the 24th Regiment of Foot) as they served with such distinction and the regiment's colours have been preserved for posterity in purpose built Perspex cases.

1901 Queen Victoria died, aged 81, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. At the time, her reign was the longest in British history, spanned 63 years and saw the growth of 'an empire on which the sun never set'. St. Mildred's Church at Whippingham had connections with Queen Victoria, as it was the centre of a royal estate supporting Osborne House and Barton Manor.

1920 The birth of Sir Alf Ramsey, football manager of England when they won the 1966 World Cup. He was knighted in 1967 in recognition of England's World Cup win the previous year.

1924 Stanley Baldwin resigned as British Prime Minister at the end of an unsuccessful election and the new Labour Party had their first Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

1927 The first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United, at Highbury.

1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops captured Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.

1955 Joe Davis recorded the first official maximum snooker break of 147 in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall

1959 Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion died, aged 29, in a road accident on the A3 bypass near Guildford driving his British Racing Green Jaguar 3.4-litre car. What happened on that day is still unknown.

1962 The ‘A6 Murder’ trial began, the longest murder trial in British legal history. James Hanratty was accused of murdering Michael Gregston at a lay-by near Bedford. The trial finally ended on 17th February 1962 with Hanratty sentenced to hang, despite his protests of innocence and disquiet amongst some observers of the trial.

1972 The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic and Denmark joined the Common Market.

2015 Survival expert Ray Mears, who was due to make at least £10,000 as a speaker at the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show was sacked after he chose caravans as one of his pet hates on the TV show 'Room 101'.

Famous Birthday's

William Kidd
(1645 - 1701)

1788 Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron], English romantic poet (Don Juan), born in London (d. 1824)

1869 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, born in Pokrovskoye, Sibera, Russian Empire (d. 1916)

1907 Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)

1931 Sam Cooke, soul singer (You Send Me), born in Clarksdale Mississippi (d. 1964)

Bill BixbyBill Bixby
(1934 - 1993)



1940 John Hurt, English actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express), born in Chesterfield (d. 2017)

1960 Michael Hutchence, Australian rock vocalist/actor (INXS, Dogs in Space), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1997)

Famous Weddings

1942 Novelist Anthony Burgess (25) weds Llewela Jones

1960 Comedic actor Bob Denver (25) weds Maggie Ryan in California

1985 Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides

2005 Businessman and "The Apprentice" host Donald Trump (58) weds former model melania knauss (34) at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida

2006 Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley (37) weds American guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood (44) at Kyoto, Japan

Famous Deaths

Victoria
(1819 - 1901)


Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908 - 1973)

1994 Telly Savalas, American actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 72



1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104

Heath Ledger
(1979 - 2008)



2010 Jean Simmons, English actress (b. 1929)



Jimmy Armfield
(1935 - 2018)

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23 JANUARY

1571 Queen Elizabeth I opened the Royal Exchange, London, as a bankers’ meeting house. It was founded by the financier Sir Thomas Gresham .

1713 The signing of the Treaty of Utrecht redrew the map of Europe. The treaty signalled the end of the long and bloody War of Spanish Succession. As part of the agreement Gibraltar and Minorca become British.

1806 Death of William Pitt ‘The Younger’ at the age of 46. He was Britain's youngest Prime Minister (aged 24) and served twice, from 19th December 1783 to 14th March 1801 and again from 10th May 1804 until his death 'on this day'.

1875 The death of Charles Kingsley, the English clergyman who wrote The Water Babies.

1900 Second Boer War: The defeat of the British at the Battle of Spion Kop, 24 miles west-south-west of Ladysmith on a steep terraced hilltop. Many football grounds in the English Premier League and Football League, have one terrace or stand 'Spion Kop' or 'Kop' because of the steep nature of their terracing.

1901 Marconi carried out his first radio transmission experiments, receiving a Morse code signal across the water from St. Catherine’s on the Isle of Wight to the Lizard in Cornwall. Lizard Point is the most southerly point of the British mainland.

1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, Africa Korp vs British 8th army

1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli

1955 Four**** people died and dozens were injured when an express train travelling from York to Bristol derailed at Sutton Coldfield station.

1963 At 7.30 pm in Beirut, the American Eleanor Philby was waiting for her husband Kim, a Middle East correspondent for two London journals, to collect her. Instead, he was on his way to Moscow - ‘the most damaging double agent in British history’.

1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"

1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

1985 PC George Hammond was viciously stabbed while on the beat in London, and it took 120 pints of blood to save his life. He never fully recovered, and two years later he committed suicide.

1989 Legislation came into force which permitted garages to display fuel prices by litre only, not by the gallon.

2015 The owner of the mobile network 'Three' confirmed that it was in exclusive negotiations to acquire O2 UK from Spanish telco Telefonica for £10.25bn. It would have made the combined Three and O2 operator the biggest in the UK, with a 41% share of the market but the deal was blocked in May 2016 by the European Commission.

2017 Most expensive house in the US worth $250 million goes on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles

Famous Birthday's

John Hancock
(1737 - 1793)

Edouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)



1919 Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool (d. 1996)

Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
73rd Birthday

Anita Pointer, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy), born in Oakland, California
69th Birthday

1954 Rick Finch, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
63rd Birthday

Mariska Hargitay
54th Birthday

Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
34th Birthday

Steven Taylor, English footballer
32nd Birthday

Famous Weddings

1906 Composer Igor Stravinsky (23) weds Yekaterina Nosenko



1976 Actor Sidney Poitier (48) weds actress Joanna Shimkus

1999 Princess of Monaco Caroline (42) weds dynastic head of the House of Hanover and Britain's King George I descendant Prince Ernst August (45) in Monaco

Famous Deaths

1803 Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)

William Pitt the Younger
(1759 - 1806)



Edvard Munch
(1863 - 1944)

1973 Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)



Salvador Dali
(1904 - 1989)

2005 Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)

2017 Gorden Kaye, British actor (Allo Allo), dies at 75

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24 JANUARY

1899 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan

1901 The birth of Edward Turner, English motorcycle designer. He sold his 4 cylinder engine to Aerial motorcycles when BSA rejected it. And thus it became the legendary 'Ariel Square Four'.

1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.

1915 The First World War sea battle of Dogger Bank ended with a British victory when the superior speed and gunnery of the British fleet sank the German armoured cruiser Blucher. If it had not been for a British signalling mixup that enabled the German fleet to flee safely to port, German losses would have been considerably higher.

1927 Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film as director - The Pleasure Garden, in England

1928 The birth of Desmond Morris, British anthropologist. He first came to the public's attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme Zoo Time, but he achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape.

1930 The birth, in Norfolk, of Bernard Matthews, the poultry industry figure. He won a scholarship to the City of Norwich School, but found it difficult to settle, regularly failed his exams and left school with no qualifications. Nevertheless, when he died, aged 80, in November 2010 he had amassed a fortune estimated at over £300m and a motor yacht, a Cessna private jet and a Rolls-Royce motor car.

1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.

1942 World War II: The Allies bombarded Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and the United Kingdom.

1965 Death of Sir Winston Churchill, aged 90, world famous soldier, politician, historian and Prime Minister of Britain. He was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of the battle of Dogger Bank (see above). He had correctly predicted that he would die on the same date as his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, who had died exactly 70 years previously. The graves of Winston Churchill and his father are in St Martin's Churchyard at Bladon, Oxfordshire

1969 Students protesting at the installation of steel security gates at the London School of Economics went on the rampage, with crowbars, pickaxes and sledgehammers.

1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. He was among the last three Japanese hold-outs to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945, almost 28 years after the island had been liberated by allied forces in 1944.

1976 Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, was dubbed 'The Iron Lady' in the Soviet newspaper 'Red Star' after her speech on the threat of Communism.

1986 The beginning of the end for London's Fleet Street, home to most of Britain's national newspapers, when staff of the 'Sun' and 'News of the World' were told that they were moving to new premises at Wapping, in London's Docklands.

2014 Somerset County Council and Sedgemoor DC declared a major incident throughout much of the Somerset Levels. The village of Muchelney was cut off by flood water from the River Parrett for almost 10 weeks.

2015 A racehorse named Sir Winston Churchill netted a win, on the 50th anniversary of the wartime leader's death, in the 3:25pm race at Uttoxeter racecourse.

Famous Birthday's

Hadrian
(76 - 138)

Frederick the Great
(1712 - 1786)



1917 Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale's Navy, Marty), (d. 2012), born in Hamden, Connecticut (d. 2012)

1930 Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire (d. 2010)



Sharon Tate
(1943 - 1969)



Desmond Morris, English zoologist (Human Ape, Body Language)
90th Birthday

Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter, born in Brooklyn, New York
77th Birthday

Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
61st Birthday

Jools Holland, British musician and TV presenter, born in Blackheath, London
60th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen (Hainault)

1884 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass marries his second wife suffragist Helen Pitts

1978 Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

1981 Singer Davy Jones (35) weds Anita Pollinger

2004 "Married ... With Children" actor David Faustino (33) weds actress Andrea Elmer (31) at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Famous Deaths

Caligula
(12 - 41)



Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

Ted Bundy
(1946 - 1989)

50 YEARS AGO SINGLE AND ALBUM # 1's

THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE - GEORGIE FAME

VAL DOONICAN ROCKS BUT GENTLY - VAL DOONICAN


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25 JANUARY

1759 The birth in this cottage at Alloway of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet. He lived at this house in Dumfries from 1793 until his death. His birthday is celebrated as ‘Burns Night’ by Scotsmen all over the world. Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung on New Year's Eve, or Hogmanay, as it's known in Scotland.

1874 The birth of William Somerset Maugham, English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

1899 The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company began manufacture of the first radio sets, at Chelmsford.

1911 The Daily Herald was launched. It was the first newspaper to sell two million copies.

1919 The founding of The League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

1972 The world's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant was carried out in London

1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported

1981 ‘The Gang of Four’ (Roy Jenkins, Dr. David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers) split from the British Labour party to form the Social Democrats.

1989 Actor John Cleese won damages for libel at the High Court over an article in the Daily Mirror, which claimed he had become like Basil Fawlty in his comedy series Fawlty Towers

1990 The so called Burns' Day Storm occurred on this day over north-western Europe, and was one of the strongest storms on record. It started on the birthday of poet Robert Burns, lasted for two days, caused widespread damage and was responsible for 97 deaths.

2003 During the Iraq invasion, a group of people left London for Baghdad, to serve as human shields and thus prevent the U.S. led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.

2013 Thorpe Park ordered experts to redesign its £20m new rollercoaster 'The Swarm', due to open on 15th March, after dummies lost limbs during dry run tests.

2014 Six**** schoolgirls made history by ending a tradition of male-only choral singing at Canterbury Cathedral stretching back more than a thousand years. The girls' choir had their first public performance 'On This Day', at evensong. "The girls will initially only be singing at services when boy choristers, boarders at St Edmund's school, take their twice-termly breaks. There are no women in the cathedral's adult choir."

Famous Birthday's



1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), born in Alloway, Scotland (d. 1796)



Virginia Woolf
(1882 - 1941)

Corazon Aquino
(1933 - 2009)

Alicia Keys
37th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1533 England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, his 2nd wife

1871 US President William McKinley (27) weds Ida Saxton (23) at the First Presbyterian Church in Canton

1964 Comedian and actor Bill Cosby marries Camille Olivia Hanks

1964 MLB outfielder Pete Rose (22) weds first wife Karolyn Englehardt

1981 Actor Bill Murray (30) weds Margaret Kelly on Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas

Famous Deaths



Al Capone
(1899 - 1947)



Ava Gardner
(1922 - 1990)

Mary Tyler Moore
(1936 - 2017)

2017 John Hurt, English actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express), dies at 77