On This Day

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09 JANUARY

1799 Income tax was introduced into Britain by William Pitt the Younger, to raise funds for the Napoleonic War. The rate was two shillings in the pound.

1806 Lord Nelson, naval commander and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, was buried beneath the dome of St Paul's cathedral, in London, after a grand and solemn procession along the river to Whitehall and thence to the City. Nelson was born on this site - a former rectory :. A plaque on the wall on Creake Road.

1816 Sir Humphry Davy tested his Davy safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. In January 1819, Davy was awarded a baronetcy, at the time the highest honour ever conferred on a man of science in Britain. A year later he became President of the Royal Society.

1854 Birth of Jenny, Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of Lord Randolph and mother of Winston.

1854 The first free lending Library opened, on Marylebone Road, London.

1888 The London Financial Guide was launched. It became The Financial Times on 13th February.

1898 The birth, in Rochdale, Lancashire, of Dame Gracie Fields, internationally famous singer. This statue of her was unveiled in her home town of Rochdale. on 18th September 2016 by Roy Hudd, President of the British Music Hall Society.

1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, planted the British flag 112 miles from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.

1929 Alexander Fleming successfully treated his assistant Stuart Craddick’s infection with a penicillin broth, at St Mary’s, Paddington.

1947 Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the black dahlia, is last seen alive.

1972 British miners began their first strike since 1926, campaigning for improved pay and conditions. A season of power cuts followed.

1997 The lone yachtsman, Tony Bullimore, feared drowned after his boat, (Exide Challenger) capsized in the Southern Ocean five days previously, was found safe and well.

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

2015 A New York judge sentenced the extradited radical preacher Abu Hamza to life in prison for supporting terrorist organisations. The Muslim cleric rose to prominence for his fiery sermons at a north London mosque prior to the protracted extradition battle. The US justice department and Theresa May, the UK home secretary, hailed the sentence.



2016 The Flying Scotsman, (engine no. 60103) and the first steam engine to be officially recorded at 100mph carried its first passengers, after a 10 year restoration that cost £4.2M. Test run services were carried out on the East Lancashire Railway, between Bury and Rawtenstall, for two successive weekends.

Famous Birthday's

Richard Nixon
(1913 - 1994)

1920 Clive Dunn, British actor, (d. 2012)



1925 Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY) (d. 1989)

Bob Denver
(1935 - 2005)



1939 Susannah York, English actress (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Superman), born in London, England (d. 2011)

Jimmy Page
74th Birthday

Joan Baez
77th Birthday

Catherine, Duchess of CambridgeCatherine, Duchess of Cambridge
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Victor Emmanuel II
(1820 - 1878)

Katherine Mansfield
(1888 - 1923)



Albert Stevens
( - 1966)

1995 Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57

2009 Dave Dee, British musician (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), dies of cancer at 67

2016 Ed Stewart, British DJ and broadcaster (Crackerjack), dies of a stroke at 74

Famous Weddings

1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester invalid

1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass

1988 English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli

2005 "Motley Crue" lead singer Vince Neil (43) weds Lia Gerardini at the Four Seasons hotel in Las Vegas

2007 "Ugly Betty" actress Ashley Jensen (37) weds actor and writer Terence Beesley in a ceremony in the woods of Big Sur, California

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

VAL DOONICAN ROCKS BUT GENTLY - VAL DOONICAN

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

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