On This Day

[Altobelli]

15 JANUARY

1759 The opening of the British Museum, at Montague House, London. Access often depended on who you were and who you knew. Permission had to be given by the librarian and only 10 people an hour were allowed in. Its permanent collection numbers some eight million works and is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence. It illustrates and documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present day.

1790 Fletcher Christian, eight fellow mutineers from the ship Bounty, six Tahitian men and 12 women, landed on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn following the mutiny led by Christian. They stripped the Bounty of all that could be floated ashore before setting it on fire.

1797 The first top hat was worn by John Hetherington, a London haberdasher. He was fined £50 the first time he wore his new creation, 'for causing a disturbance'.

1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

1867 Crowds flocked onto the frozen surface of the lake in London’s Regent's Park during a severe frost. The ice broke, and 40 people died.

1870 Britain's first woman doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, passed the final exam of the Medical Faculty of the Sorbonne and became a fully qualified MD. She had connections with Aldeburgh in Suffolk.

1880 The London Telephone Company published the first directory, listing 255 subscribers.

1927 BBC radio broadcast the first live commentary of a rugby match. Captain Teddy Wakelam narrated the match at Twickenham, between Wales and England. The following Saturday Wakelam provided the first football commentary from Highbury, where Arsenal was playing Sheffield United.

1934 While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.

1962 The centigrade, or Celsius, scale was used in the British Meteorological Office weather forecasts for the first time, more than 200 years after the death of the Swedish scientist who invented it.

1965 Rock group Who releases first album "I Can't Explain"

1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"

1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

1987 Police officer who mistakenly shot and paralysed an innocent woman in Brixton, UK, is cleared of all criminal charges

1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

2011 The death of Nathaniel (Nat) Lofthouse, OBE, English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career. He was capped 33 times for the England national football team between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals and having one of the greatest goals per game ratios of any player to represent England at the highest level.

2014 The death, aged 69, of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, who played Trigger in Only Fools And Horses. He appeared in dozens of TV shows and films, including Dr Who, The Vicar Of Dibley, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

2015 The death of Ethel Lang, aged 114. At the time of her death she was the oldest person in Britain and the last living British person to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria. She lived to see six UK monarchs and 22 prime ministers.

2018 The construction giant, Carillion, went into liquidation. The company employed 43,000 people including almost 20,000 in the UK. Carillion also used thousands of smaller companies to help provide its services.

Famous Birthday's



Joan of Arc
(1412 - 1431)



1913 Lloyd Bridges, American comedic actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!), born in San Leandro, California (d. 1998)



Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929 - 1968)

Charo
67th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1930 Businesswoman Estée Lauder (23) weds businessman Joseph Lauder

1953 Cricketer Richie Benaud (22) weds Marcia Lavender at the Wesley Church in Sydney, Australia

1955 Film director Stanley Kubrick (26) weds theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka (29)

2011 PGA golfer Hunter Mahan (28) weds former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Kandi Harris in Dallas, Texas

2013 "Gomer Pyle" actor Jim Nabors (82) weds retired performer Stan Cadwallader (64) at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle

Famous Deaths

Elizabeth Short
(1924 - 1947)

Meyer Lansky
(1902 - 1983)

Seán MacBride
(1904 - 1988)



1990 Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66

1994 Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52

2011 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)

Dolores O'Riordan
(1971 - 2018)

[chalky_ncfc]

1867... Why wasn't we taught stuff like this at school,40 people died when ice broke in Regents Park and I had never heard that before,I love this thread Altobelli

[alfinyalcabo]

Same here Alto,fantastic stuff..

[Altobelli]

I have shortened them a wee bit Chalky/alf as it seems to be taking longer and longer every day to put it together, to give you a clue I'll post after this one list of famous folk who have died on this day, and that's just one web site.

Glad you are still enjoying it

[Altobelli]

69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
570 Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
936 King Rudolph of France (923-936), dies at 45 or 46
1208 Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
1345 Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1684 Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
1765 Carlmann Kolb, German composer and priest, dies at 61
1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
1781 Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1783 William Alexander, Lord Stirling, American general (American Revolutionary War leader), dies at 57
1788 Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
1790 John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1812 Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
1815 Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1816 Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
1833 Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (Waxhaws Massacre), dies at 78
1844 Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
1864 Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1866 M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies


1876 Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, British Shakespearian actress (Juliet) and author, dies at 83
1896 Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
1909 Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1909 Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1911 Wilhelm Berger, German composer, pianist and conductor, dies at 49
1915 Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
1915 Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure and author dies aged 57
1916 Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, murdered by the Freikorps at 47
1922 John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 Geza Zichy, Hungarian composer and one-armed pianist, dies at 74
1926 Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
1932 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic gold 08, 12), dies at 58
1949 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, dies at 63
1950 Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)



1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
1955 Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
1962 Kenneth MacKenna, American actor and director (Judgment at Nuremberg, Those We Love), dies of cancer at 62
1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1967 Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
1967 David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during a game (Jan 13), dies
1968 John Davidson, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat), dies at 80
1968 Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1968 Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1969 Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
1971 John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1972 Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1973 Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1974 Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
1987 Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (The Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
1989 Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1992 Dee Murray, British bassist (Elton John's Band), dies of skin cancer at 45
1993 Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 Huub Jacobse [Hendrik Hubert Jacobse], Dutch politician (VVD), dies at 68
1993 Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
1993 Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 Les Baxter, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 Richard Cobb, British historian, dies at 78
1997 Jose Ignacio Domecq, Spanish wine maker, dies at 82
1997 Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
1998 Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist. temporary Prime Minster of India (1964, 1966), dies at 99
1998 Junior Wells, American blues musician, dies at 63
1999 Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (Citizen Kane, All My Children), dies of complications from pneumonia at 88
2006 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), dies at 91
2007 David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2008 Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
2011 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)
2012 Edward Derwinski, Chicago congressman 1959-83 and first Secretary of Veteran Affairs, dies of cancer at 85
2013 Chucho Castillo, Mexican bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), dies from a heart attack at 68
2013 Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director and screen writer, dies at 80
2015 Kim Fowley, US record producer (the Runaways), dies at 75
2016 Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams), dies of cancer at 73
2016 Noreen Corcoran, American actress (Bachelor Father), dies at 72

[chalky_ncfc]

****ing hell,I see what you mean

If you feel that its becoming more of a chore and something that you feel that you have to do rather than doing it for pleasure then give it a rest for a while Altobelli, this forum should be something that you should enjoy

[Altobelli]

16 JANUARY

1769 One of the worst riots in theatre history occurred at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Crowds had packed out the venue to see a conjuror who claimed he would get himself into a quart tavern bottle. The conjuror never arrived, and the crowd erupted.

1908 The first issue of the magazine Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship; the first book on the Scout Movement. It was written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell, its founder. It is reputedly the fourth best selling book of the 20th century, estimated at 100 to 150 million copies, in 87 languages.

1909 Ernest Shackleton’s British expedition reached the area of the South Magnetic Pole.

1924 The BBC broadcast Danger by Richard Hughes, the first play written for radio.

1930 Frank Whittle submitted his first patent for a jet engine ( British Patent No. 347,206 - granted in 1932). He had his first engine running by April 1937. Whittle was born at Earlsdon, a suburb of Coventry This statue of Sir Frank Whittle is outside Coventry's Transport Museum. and this replica of Britain's first jet propelled aircraft, the Gloster-Whittle E.28/39 stands on the Whittle Roundabout, at the junction of A426 and A4303 in .Lutterworth.

1945 Adolf Hitler moved into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. It was located beneath Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin and was the last of the Führer Headquarters to be used by Hitler. It became the epicentre of the Nazi regime and it was here during the last week of April 1945 that Hitler married Eva Braun shortly before they committed suicide.

1957 The Cavern Club opened in Liverpool. It provided a showcase for many young rock ‘n’ roll musicians, among them the Beatles.

1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No" the first James Bond film

1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"

1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession

1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth

1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK

1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis

2005 At 66 years old, Romanian university lecturer Adriana Illiescu becomes the oldest birth mother in the world

2015 Nursey and Son, who had been manufacturing sheepskin coats for 169 years, including sheepskin coats for David Jason ('Del Boy') in TV's Only Fools and Horses, closed its doors for the last time.

Famous Birthday's



André Michelin
(1853 - 1931)

Fulgencio Batista
(1901 - 1973)

A. J. FoytA.
83rd Birthday


John Carpenter, American film director (Halloween, The Thing), born in Carthage, New York
70th Birthday

Sade Adu
59th Birthday

Bobby Zamora
37th Birthday

Nicklas Bendtner
30th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1325 Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade

1864 White chapel murder victims Mary Ann Nichols (18) weds printer's machinist William Nichols

1865 Confederate Brigadier-General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary (US Civil War)

1921 Politician Elpidio Quirino (30) weds girlfriend Alicia Syquia

1954 Painter Marcel Duchamp (66) weds Alexina Duchamp (48) in New York City

Famous Deaths

Hiram R. Revels
(1817 - 1901)



1935 Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)

George Dewey
(1837 - 1917)

1979 Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46



1996 Harry Potts, footballer/manager, dies at 75

[Altobelli]

17 JANUARY

1773 Captain Cook's ship and his crew, aboard 'Resolution', became the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. Cook also surveyed, mapped and took possession for Britain of South Georgia. He almost encountered the mainland of Antarctica, but turned back north towards Tahiti to resupply his ship, then resumed his southward course in a second fruitless attempt to find the continent.

1784 The birth, in Todmorden - West Yorkshire of John Fielden British industrialist and Radical Member of Parliament for Oldham. John Fielden despaired that the concerns of the poor would never be given adequate attention and he and Lord Ashley passed 'The Ten Hours Act' to ensure that women and children only worked up to 10 hours a day in factories.

1820 The birth, at this house in Thornton, West Yorkshire of the poet and novelist Anne Brontë. She was the youngest of six children of Patrick and Maria Brontë. The Brontës moved to Haworth, West Yorkshire on 20th April 1820. The Brontë Museum is in the former parsonage at Haworth. Anne wrote two novels. Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She died from pulmonary tuberculosis when she was just 29 years old.



1863 The birth, in Chorlton-on-Medlock, near Manchester, of David Lloyd George, Welsh politician. In 1909 he introduced old-age pensions, followed in 1911 by health and unemployment insurance. In 1916 he became Prime Minister of a coalition government. After the First World War he was re-elected with a huge majority, and held office until 1922. The tiny village of Llanystumdwy was his childhood home. This building, in Llanystumdwy, is one of the very few museums in Britain which celebrates the life of a former Prime Minister.

1896 The Daimler Motor Company (Coventry) was registered as the first British car manufacturer.

1899 The birth of the author Nevil Shute. Before becoming famous as an author, he was part of the aeronautical engineering team that created the R100 airship. He worked at RNAS Howden, East Yorkshire, under Barnes Wallis and lived at this house on 78 Hailgate, Howden. A plaque is now fixed to the house to commemorate this.

1907 Alfred Wainwright, whose books for walkers did much to popularise the Lake District, was born, in Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1952, he began the task of walking every fell in Lakeland and recording his walks with pen and ink drawings. It took him 13 years to climb the 214 fells, travelling on foot or by public transport from his Kendal home, as he never learnt to drive. His ashes are scattered on Haystacks, Cumbria.

1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him by one month.

1945 The Nazis began the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces closed in. Nearly one and a half thousand British prisoners of war were sent to the Auschwitz death camps.

1968 The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed; from the merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd.

1986 The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britons and other foreign nationals from Aden during their civil war.

1994 Actress Elizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

2008 British Airways Flight 38 crash landed just short of London Heathrow Airport with no fatalities. It was the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777, the world's largest twin jet aircraft.

2014 Cambridge City Council said that apostrophes on new street signs would be abolished, a decision that was condemned by language traditionalists. The naming policy also banned street names which would be "difficult to pronounce or awkward to spell" and any that "could give offence" or would "encourage defacing of nameplates". After an intervention by cabinet minister Eric Pickles, local people in Cambridge started to edit street signs, adding apostrophes if they were necessary.

Famous Birthday's

1863 David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1916-22), born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Lancashire, England (d. 1945)



Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)



Al Capone
(1899 - 1947)

1927 Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman), born in North, South Carolina (d. 2008)

1928 Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist/CEO (Vidal Sasson), born in London, England (d. 2012)



Muhammad Ali
(1942 - 2016)

Mick Taylor, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
69th Birthday

Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
62nd Birthday

Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumb & Dumber, The Mask), born in Ontario Canada
56th Birthday

Famous Weddings

38 BC Roman Republican Leader Octavian, later Augustus 1st Roman Emperor, marries Livia Drusilla.

1827 Religious leader Joseph Smith Jr (21) weds church group movement leader Emma Smith (22) in South Bainbridge, New York

1926 Comedian George Burns marries comedienne Gracie Allen

1946 Actor John Wayne (38) weds actress Esperanza Baur in Long Beach, California

1955 Murderer Charles Manson (20) weds waitress Rosalie Jean Willis (17)

Famous Divorces

1990 NFL coach Jimmy Johnson (46) divorces Linda Kay Cooper after 26 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Rutherford B. Hayes
(1822 - 1893)

Juliette Gordon Low
(1860 - 1927)

Bobby Fischer
(1943 - 2008)

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

NO CHANGE:

VAL DOONICAN ROCKS BUT GENTLY - VAL DOONICAN

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

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[Altobelli]

18 JANUARY

1779 The birth of Peter Mark Roget, English doctor and lexicographer, who produced his Roget's Thesaurus in 1852 after 47 years’ work. It was originally called 'Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.'

1788 A British fleet of eleven ships and 800 convicts landed at Botany Bay, Australia. They created the first British penal colony, in Port Jackson - Sydney.

1879 The first edition of Boy’s Own Paper was published. The editor was S.O. Beeton, the husband of Mrs. Beeton, the cookery book writer.

1919 Bentley Motors Limited was founded by Walter Owen Bentley, but the manufacturer did not make a complete car for 27 years, only engines and chassis. Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I. He also designed and made production cars that won the Le Mans 24 hours in the 1920s. Bentley was purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1931, which itself was purchased by the Volkswagen Group of Germany in 1998, although the business is still based in Crewe.

1934 The first arrest was made in Britain as a result of issuing pocket radios to police. A Brighton shoplifter was arrested just 15 minutes after stealing three coats.

1944 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

1958 Bunty was launched by publishers D.C. Thompson. It was the first comic aimed at a young female readership.

1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV

1976 British Labour MPs Jim Sillars and John Robertson launched the Scottish Labour Party (SLP) to campaign for greater devolution for Scotland.

1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pakistan at Karachi

1980 Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" hits #1

2005 The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France

2014 UKIP councillor David Silvester blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

2014 Lewis Clarke, a 16-year-old boy from Bristol set a new record by becoming the youngest person to trek to the South Pole. He spent 48 days at temperatures as low as -50C (-58F) and winds of up to 120 mph (193 kmh), covering a distance of 702 miles.

Famous Birthday's

Daniel Williams
(1858 - 1931)



A. A. Milne
(1882 - 1956)



1892 Oliver Hardy, American comic actor (Laurel & Hardy), born in Harlem, Georgia (d. 1957)

1904 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest), born in Horfield, Bristol, England (d. 1986)

1913 Danny Kaye, American comedian and actor (Danny Kaye Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)

1941 David Ruffin, Whynot Mississippi, early lead singer for The Temptations ("My Girl") (d. 1991)

David Bellamy
84th Birthday

Bob Latchford
66th Birthday

Kevin Costner
63rd Birthday

Peter Beardsley
57th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV

1893 British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London

1949 South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer

1974 Author Maya Angelou (45) weds Paul Bernard Du Feu

1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey

Famous Divorces

1996 Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

Famous Deaths

John Tyler
(1790 - 1862)



Rudyard Kipling
(1865 - 1936)



1954 Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (Casablanca, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74

1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76

2009 Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)

[Acido]

Really interesting thread this Alto, I cant understand why Ive never noticed it on here before. I must pay more attention!.