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.

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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

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29 JANUARY

1801 The birth of the illegitimate daughter of Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton. She was christened Horatia Nelson Thompson. One of Nelson's last wishes was that Horatia should take the name Nelson. He left her £200 a year in his will, adding : "I desire she will use in future the name of Nelson only."

1817 Birth of John Callcott Horsley. He designed the first commercial Christmas cards in 1843.

1820 King George III died, aged 81. At the time he was the longest reigning monarch and served for more than 59 years.

1856 Queen Victoria instituted Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross (VC). The medal is awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces for outstanding bravery ‘on the field of battle’. The medal was originally made from the metal of cannon captured from the Russians at Sevastopol, until the supply came to an end in 1942.

1888 The death of Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author and poet, renowned today primarily for his limericks and his literary nonsense poems such as The Owl and the *****cat.


1916 British military tanks had their first trials, in Hertfordshire.

1928 The death of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, British senior officer during World War I. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the battle with one of the highest casualties in British military history. In the 1960s he became an object of criticism for his leadership during the First World War and has been dubbed "Butcher Haig", for the two million British casualties under his command.

1930 Barton Airport, Manchester's first international airport, was opened.

1942 The first broadcast of Desert Island Discs on BBC radio, devised and presented by Roy Plomley. It is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio.

1943 The birth of Tony Blackburn, English disc jockey. He broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1, in 1967.

1963 A French veto stopped Britain joining the European Common Market.

1966 A bill was published by the government, permitting random breath tests.

1985 Oxford University snubbed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by refusing her an honorary degree. Academics led a campaign against honouring Mrs. Thatcher in protest against the government's cuts in funding for education.

1989 The artificial leg that had belonged to Sir Douglas Bader was catalogued for sale. His widow was selling memorabilia to raise money to buy her own house, instead of renting.

2003 Solicitor Sally Clark was cleared by the Court of Appeal of murdering her two sons after serving more than three years of a life sentence. Sadly, she never fully recovered from the effects of the appalling miscarriage of justice and was found dead at her home on 16th March 2007.

2015 Lt. Danielle Welch was presented with her 'wings' by The Duke of York. She was the first and also the last woman to become a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter pilot, as the aircraft is due to be replaced in 2017.

2015 There were tears of joy for widower Stan Beaton as he heard again the answerphone message of his late wife Ruby. The message had been accidentally deleted during an upgrade by Virgin Media, but engineers searched through thousands of recordings and eventually managed to restore the message, which he had kept on his phone for 14 years.

2016 The Land Rover Defender ceased production at 9:30am GMT (and at 8:30pm on the same day for the East Coast of Australia). Over 2 million Land Rover Series and Defender vehicleswere produced since 1948. To mark the Defender’s passing, the Sunshine Coast Land Rover Owners' Club held a gathering at the exact time that production ceased, to hold a wake and to remember the Defender.

Famous Birthday's

Thomas Paine
(1737 - 1809)

William McKinley
(1843 - 1901)

1880 W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], actor (Bank Dick), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1946)



1913 Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1999)



1930 John Junkin, actor/writer (A Hard Day's Night) (d. 2006)



Katharine Ross, American actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys), born in Hollywood, California
78th Birthday

Tom Selleck
73rd Birthday

Oprah Winfrey
64th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1839 English Naturalist and author of Origin of the Species author Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

1917 Sculptor Auguste Rodin (76) weds Rose Beuret

1923 President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (41) weds highly-educated woman Latife Hanim

1945 Actress Gloria Swanson (45) weds William N. Davey

1958 Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman (33) weds "The Three Faces of Eve" actress Joanne Woodward (27) at the El Rancho hotel-casino in Las Vegas

Famous Divorces

1951 Actress Elizabeth Taylor's 1st divorce from hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr

1987 Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry

1990 Actor Michael Keaton (38) divorces actress Caroline McWilliams (44) after 7 years of marriage

1994 Actor Bill Murray (43) divorces Margaret Kelly after 13 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

H. L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)

Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963)



1964 Alan Ladd, American actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers), dies from an overdose at 50

1965 John Larkin, American actor (Saints & Sinners, The Satan Bug, 12 O'Clock High), dies of heart attack at 52

1980 Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86

2009 Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939)