On This Day

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13 JANUARY

1832 The death of Thomas Lord, English professional cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground in 1787. He is buried in the churchyard of St. John's Church at West Meon in Hampshire.

1926 The birth of Michael Bond, English children’s writer and creator of ‘Paddington Bear’. Whilst working as a BBC television cameraman Bond had his first book published, 'A Bear Called Paddington'. It was the start of Bond's most famous series of books, telling the tales of a bear from 'Darkest Peru', whose Aunt Lucy sent him to England, carrying a jar of marmalade. He also wrote the children's books about the adventures of a guinea pig named Olga da Polga, as well as the animated BBC TV series The Herbs.

1958 In Scotland, the serial killer Peter Manuel was arrested after a series of attacks over a two year period that left nine people dead, although he is suspected of having killed as many as eighteen. Manuel was hanged in Barlinnie prison on 11th July 1958. He was one of the last prisoners to die on the Barlinnie gallows.

1964 Capital Records grudgingly released the first Beatles record, ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, in the US to, as they said 'see how it goes’. It became their fastest selling single ever. Within only three weeks, a million copies had been sold.

2004 Dr. Harold Shipman, who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients, was found hanged in his prison cell. To date Shipman is the only British doctor to have been proved guilty of murdering his patients, in addition to being one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history.

2016 Record Powerball lottery held in America - $1.6 billion, (3 winning tickets)

2017 The death (aged 86) of the photographer and film maker Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, commonly known as Lord Snowdon. He was married to Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, from 1960 - 1978.

Famous Birthday's



1919 Robert Stack, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003)



1931 Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)

John Lees, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), born in Oldham
70th Birthday

Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
62nd Birthday

Suggs [Graham McPherson], English singer-songwriter (Madness), born in Hastings, England
57th Birthday

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
57th Birthday

Patrick Dempsey
52nd Birthday

Orlando Bloom
41st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Stephen Foster
(1826 - 1864)

Wyatt Earp
(1848 - 1929)

James Joyce
(1882 - 1941)

2004 Harold Shipman, British general practitioner and prolific serial killer, commits suicide at 57



2009 Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)



2010 Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)

2017 Anthony Armstrong-Jones [Lord Snowdon], British photographer and ex-husband of Princess Margaret, dies at 86

Famous Weddings

1992 MLB baseball right fielder Sammy Sosa (23) weds Sonia Rodriguez

2006 "The Diary of Anne Frank" actress Shelley Winters (85) weds Gerry DeFord a few hours before her death