On This Day

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03 JANUARY

1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

1842 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia

1911Police, with the army in attendance, stormed a house in London's East End where it was thought a gang of wanted anarchists were hiding. Newspapers dubbed the incident 'The Siege of Sidney Street'. When the fugitives shot at police, the Scots Guards were summoned from the Tower of London, and Winston Churchill, who was then Home Secretary, arrived on the scene to find the house in flames. No firefighters were sent in to put out the blaze, and the house eventually collapsed, burning the anarchists to death.

1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator



1942 The birth, in Gorton, Manchester of actor John Thaw, who starred in the TV dramas The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC. A heavy drinker, and a smoker from the age of 12, Thaw was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in June 2001. In early January 2002 he was told that the cancer had spread and he died on 21st February 2002, seven weeks after his 60th birthday.

1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was hanged for treason, in London. The Irishman had broadcast propaganda from Nazi Germany during the Second World War to both Britain and the United States. The broadcasts started on 18th September 1939 and continued until 30th April 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army.

1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

1961 The production of the millionth Morris Minor, designed by the Greek born Sir Alec Issigonis. He considered the Morris Minor to be a vehicle that combined many of the luxuries and conveniences of a good motor car, but at a price suitable for the working classes.

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared ****ographic in NJ

2013 Data released by the Met. Office showed that the previous 12 months had been the second wettest on record in the UK, with England recording its wettest year ever since records began in 1910.

2015 A 51,000 tonne car carrier ship (Hoegh Osaka) became stranded on Bramble Bank in the Solent between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. The ship was carrying 1,200 Jaguar sports cars, Land Rover 4x4s, 65 BMW Minis, 105 JCB diggers and a single Rolls-Royce Wraith – worth an estimated £260,000 – all destined for the Middle East. The vessel was eventually righted and towed to Southampton on 22nd January

Famous Birthday's

1883 Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister (L-1945-51), born in Putney, London (d. 1967)



J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892 - 1973)



1905 Ray Milland, Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales (d. 1986)



1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Danish-American comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2000)

1936 David Vine, British sport commentator (d. 2009)

1942 John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)

1945 Stephen Stills, songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash), born in Dallas, Texas
73rd Birthday

1946 John Paul Jones [John Baldwin], English rock bassist and songwriter (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven), born in Sidcup London
72nd Birthday

Mel Gibson
62nd Birthday

Michael Schumacher
49th Birthday

Famous Deaths

1903 Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)

Jack Ruby
(1911 - 1967)

Joy Adamson
(1910 - 1980)

Edward W. Brooke
(1919 - 2015)

1946 William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason

Famous Weddings

1783 US Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall (27) weds Mary Willis Ambler in Hanover County, Virginia

1923 German politician Hermann Goering (30) weds Carin Hulda (34)

1939 MLB catcher Roy Campanella (18) weds Bernice Ray

1986 British golfer Nick Faldo (28) weds manager's secretary Gill Bennett

1987 Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC

Famous Divorces

1990 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (41) divorces singer/dancer Sarah Brightman (29) after almost 7 years of marriage.

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

No Changes


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