On This Day

[alfinyalcabo]

I really enjoy it and a happy birthday to you Chalky ..

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25 DECEMBER

1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus

440 Church leaders agreed to fix the date of the birth of Christ. Previously some people had celebrated it in May, others in January.

597 England adopts Julian calendar

800 Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman Emperor

1066 William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England, was crowned at Westminster Abbey. To press his claim to the English crown, William had invaded England in October 1066, leading his army to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.

1176 The first Eisteddfod (Festival of the Arts) took place at Cardigan Castle.

1492 Christopher Columbus' flagship the Santa MarÃ*a runs aground and sinks on the north coast of Hispaniola. The crew are left to found a colony as Columbus returns to Spain

1643 Christmas Island (a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean) was discovered and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company.

1652 The Puritan government ordered all Churches to remain closed on Christmas Day.

1741 Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale

1800 The first Christmas tree in Britain was erected at Queen’s Lodge, Windsor by the German-born Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. She brought the idea over from Germany where the first reports of Christmas trees go back to 1521.

1809 Physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal surgery in the U.S, an ovariotomy to remove a 22 lb ovarian tumor

1832 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver

1833 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia

1834 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on the Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile

1835 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand

1864 The traditional swim in the ice-cold Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park was initiated.

1865 Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army was born, in South Hackney, London, She was the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became the Salvation Army in 1878.

1866 The US yacht Henrietta sailed into Cowes harbour on the Isle of Wight, and thus became the winner of the first Transatlantic Yacht Race.

1868 Despite bitter opposition, US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)

1896 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa

1914 The Christmas truce between British and German troops continued. At 2 a.m. a German band went along the trenches playing Home Sweet Home and God Save the King.

1932 King George V made the first Royal Christmas broadcast to the Empire, during his speech his chair collapse. Queen Elizabeth II made her first Christmas broadcast in 1952, and her first television Christmas message was broadcast in 1957.

1950 The Stone of Scone, the Scottish coronation stone which had been in Westminster Abbey for 650 years was stolen by Scottish nationalists. The Stone, weighing 458lb (208kg) was said to have been taken from Scotland by Edward I.

1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder

1977 Charlie Chaplin, the English born comic genius of silent films, died, aged 88.

1989 Show trial of Romanian Commuinst dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on charges of genocide and personal enrichment. The couple are found guilty and executed by firing squad the same day.

1990 The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech

2003 Scientists failed to make contact with the British built Mars probe Beagle 2, which should have landed on the Red Planet 'on this day'. Beagle 2 was named after HMS Beagle, which twice carried Charles Darwin during expeditions which would later lead to the theory of natural selection. Beagle 2 was officially declared lost on 6th February 2004. As of 2010 only 19 of 38 launch attempts to reach Mars have succeeded.

2010 The body of landscape architect Joanna Yeates was found, covered with leaves in Failand, North Somerset. A post-mortem examination determined that she had been strangled. The police initially suspected and arrested Christopher Jefferies, Yeates' landlord, who lived in a flat in the same building. The nature of press reporting on aspects of the case led to 'substantial, undisclosed libel damages' from eight newspapers being awarded to Mr. Jefferies. ITV commissioned a drama about Jefferies' arrest entitled 'The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies' which was aired on 10th and 11th December 2014.

2012 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan

2012 8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines

2013 Earlier storms across southern England, stretching through Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent, led to extensive power cuts, with around 50,000 homes remaining without power through the Christmas period. Southern Electric said that it would guarantee a £75 payment for any customer who was without electricity for any time on Christmas Day.

2014 The parcel delivery company City Link, which employed 2,727 people, went into administration.

Famous Birthday's



Isaac Newton
(1642 - 1727)

1863 Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (Pathé Brothers, 1896), born in Paris, France (d. 1957)

1899 Humphrey Bogart, American actor (Casablanca - "Here's looking at you, kid"), born in NYC, New York (d. 1957)

1908 Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)



Anwar Sadat
(1918 - 1981)

1944 Kenny Everett [Maurice James Christopher Cole], Seaforth Lancashire, British DJ and TV personality (Kenny Everett Show) (d.1995)

1949 Sissy Spacek
68th Birthday

Annie Lennox
63rd Birthday

Chris Kamara
60th Birthday

Stuart Hall
88th Birthday

1940 Pete Brown, English musician and songwriter (Cream), born in Ashtead, Surrey
76th Birthday

JoaquÃ*n "El Chapo" Guzmán
63rd Birthday

Marcus Trescothick
42nd Birthday

Alastair Cook
33rd Birthday

Famous Deaths



Charlie Chaplin
(1889 - 1977)

Nicolae Ceausescu
(1918 - 1989)

1995 Dean Martin [Dino Paul Crocetti], American singer and actor (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), dies at 78

James Brown
(1933 - 2006)

2008 Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (Santa Baby), dies at 81



2016 George Michael [Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou], English singer-songwriter and pop superstar (Wham!, I Want Your ***), dies of suspected heart failure at 53

Famous Weddings

1871 Inventor Thomas Edison (24) marries 1st wife Mary Stilwell (16)

1871 Writer Ambrose Bierce (29) weds Mary Ellen Day

1949 British actor Cary Grant (45) weds actress Betsy Drake (26)

1950 Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart

1997 Actress Rue McClanahan (64) weds actor-producer Morrow Wilson (58) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria

Famous Divorces

1945 Actor John Wayne (38) divorces Josephine Saenz (37) after 12 years of marriage

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - BEATLES






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06 JANUARY

1412 The birth of St Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans. She was a great heroine of French history and believed that she had a divine mission to drive the British from France. She died at the stake after being captured by the Burgundians and sold to the British.

1839 The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.

1916 World War I - The British Government introduced conscription, to replace the many thousands killed in the trenches in France.

1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy

1928 Four people were drowned, and many paintings in the basement of the Tate Gallery were severely damaged, when the Thames flooded. The water was deep enough to fill the moat of the Tower of London.

1930 Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours

1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling

1971 Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days

1975 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an estimated $30,000 damage

1983 The Royal Navy arrested a Danish trawler captain (Kent Kirk) for illegally entering British waters in the first confrontation of the ' fish war'. The move followed Denmark's refusal to agree to proposals for a new EEC fishing regime.

1987 The first episode of TV's Inspector Morse was broadcast. It was based in Oxford.

2014 54 year old Stephen Gough, the so-called 'Naked Rambler' was jailed for 16 months after a jury took just two minutes to find him guilty of breaching an antisocial behaviour order designed to prevent him from appearing nude in public. Gough has been convicted for dozens of offences, mainly in Scotland, where he was repeatedly arrested during attempts to walk from Land's End to John o'Groats without clothes.

2015 The death was announced of D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan (aged 90). In June 2014 he sparked a police search when he left the care home in Hove to join fellow veterans and attended the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France. His wife Irene (aged 88) died just days after her husband. They left their entire state, estimated at being worth around £600,000 to the RNLI.

Famous Birthday's

John Smith
(1580 - 1631)



Loretta Young
(1913 - 2000)



1946 Syd Barrett, English guitarist and early vocalist of the band Pink Floyd, born in Cambridge, England (d. 2006)

Terry Venables
74th Birthday

Rowan Atkinson
62nd Birthday

Nancy Lopez
61st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Louis Braille
(1809 - 1852)

Theodore Roosevelt
(1858 - 1919)

Victor Fleming
(1889 - 1949)

1934 Herbert Chapman, Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)



1989 Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign

1993 Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54



2012 Robert Holness, English radio and television presenter, dies at 83

2015 Lance Percival, English actor and comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 81

Famous Weddings

1759 US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation

1836 Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio

1903 Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (23) weds Mileva Maric

1945 Future US President George H. W. Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye NY

1945 US First Lady Barbara Bush (19) weds 41st president George H. W. Bush (20) at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York

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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!.

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02 FEBRUARY

1665 British forces captured New Amsterdam, the centre of the Dutch colony in North America. The trading settlement on the island of Manhattan was renamed New York in honour of the Duke of York, its new governor.

1852 1st British public men's toilet opens in Fleet St, London

1914 The very first Cub Scout pack was formed in England, the first pack being in Robertsbridge, Sus***, although the Cub Scout movement was not formally founded until 1916. By the end of that year there were 6,000 Cub Scouts and now there are 137,000 in the UK. Girls were allowed to become Cub Scouts in 1991.

1920 The birth of Hughie Green, who became a 'household name' with his TV shows Double Your Money and Opportunity Knocks.

1922 It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22

1940 The birth of Sir David John White OBE, better known by his stage name David Jason. He is best remembered as the main character Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He also played detective Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost, Granville in the sitcom Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in the comedy drama The Darling Buds of May.

1943 The half-starved remnants of the German 6th Army gave themselves up after their five months of bloody fighting for Stalingrad ended in defeat.

1972 Angry demonstrators burned the British Embassy in Dublin to the ground in protest at the shooting dead of 13 people in Londonderry on the previous Sunday, known as Bloody Sunday.

1976 The Queen opened the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham. It is the largest and busiest exhibition centre in the UK and the seventh largest in Europe.

1987 Reports from Lebanon said that Church of England envoy Terry Waite had been kidnapped by an Islamic militia group.

1993 The Queen's solicitors began proceedings against the Sun newspaper for publishing the text of her 1992 Christmas Day broadcast two days before its transmission.

1995 The death of Fred Perry, English tennis and table tennis player. He won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships between 1934 and 1936 and was World No. 1 four years in a row.

1999 Glenn Hoddle was sacked as England's football coach after his comments that disabled people were reaping the punishment for something done in a previous life.

2014 'The ruddy ducks with nowhere left to hide.' The Government wants to exterminate the entire British population, and in January 2014, having already spent £4 million on the job, announced that another £120,000 would be made available to track down and shoot the final few. The ducks’ downfall has been their fondness for breeding with an endangered Spanish species, the white-headed duck. The British Birding Association said 'It’s a total waste of public money, and all that will happen when the cull stops is that new ducks will fly over from the Continent, and we’ll be back to square one.'

2015 Bristol became the first city in the UK to ban smoking in some outdoor public places and Millennium Square and Anchor Square became no smoking zones. The project, by Smokefree South West, was inspired by 33-year-old mother Kirsty Vass, who was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease a year previously.

Famous Birthday's



James Joyce
(1882 - 1941)



Farrah Fawcett
(1947 - 2009)

David Jason, English actor
78th Birthday

Shakira
41st Birthday

Famous Weddings

1870 American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY

1904 US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey

1936 Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds jewish woman Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy

1957 Actress Elizabeth Taylor (24) marries for the 3rd time to producer Mike Todd (47)

1963 Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (23) weds documentary filmmaker Eleanor Jessie Neil (26) in Las Vegas, Nevada

Famous Deaths

Dmitri Mendeleev
(1834 - 1907)

Sid Vicious
(1957 - 1979)




1995 Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85



1995 Donald Pleasence, British actor (You Only Live Twice, Escape from New York, Halloween), dies from heart failure at 75

1996 Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (Singin' in the Rain), dies at 83


Philip Seymour Hoffman
(1967 - 2014)

[chalky_ncfc]

1192.... Richard the Lionheart captured "On his way home" I've absolutely no idea why I find this funny but I almost spat my tea out

Thanks again Altobelli

[Altobelli]

Nice Fact, Thank You Chalky

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14 JANUARY

1690 Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany

1904 The birth of Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion and portrait photographer, writer and theatrical designer. He was a photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, often photographed the Royal Family for official publications and was a major influence on the work of photographer David Bailey.

1937 The first Gallup Opinion Poll was conducted in Britain. It was the invention of the American George Horace Gallup who founded the Gallup Institute in 1935.

1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant

1966 David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"

1969 Football legend Sir Matt Busby announced that he would retire as manager of Manchester United at the end of the season. Formerly a Scottish football player and manager he was most noted for his time as managing Manchester United between 1945 and 1969. His manager records and longevity at the helm of Manchester United are only surpassed by Sir Alex Ferguson.

1974 World Football League founded

1975 A 17-year-old heiress, Lesley Whittle, was kidnapped from her home in Shropshire. Her body was found on 7th March, 1975, hanging from a wire at the bottom of a drain shaft in Bathpool Park, Staffordshire. Donald Neilson, also known as the Black Panther, was convicted of her murder (and three others) in July 1976.

1989 Muslims in Bradford ritually burned a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in the first serious protest in Britain. The book had been banned in some Muslim countries.

2002 After three months of no cases being reported, the United Kingdom was finally declared free from the 'Foot and Mouth' infection, after a crisis that started in 2001 in which millions of cows and sheep were destroyed.

2013 Music and DVD chain HMV appointed an administrator, making it the latest casualty on the High Street and putting 4,350 jobs at risk. Quote from retail analyst Neil Saunders - "In the digital era, where 73.4% of music and film are online .... there is no real future for physical retail in the music sector."

2014 Monkeys at Paignton Zoo in Devon were banned from eating bananas. Keepers said - "Giving monkeys bananas that have been cultivated for humans is like giving them cake and chocolate. Reducing the sugar in their diets has calmed them down and made their group more settled."

Famous Birthday's

Mark Antony
(83 BC - 30 BC)

Benedict Arnold
(1741 - 1801)



1926 Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), born in London (d. 2015)

1934 Richard Briers, English actor, (d. 2013)

1937 Billie Jo Spears, country singer (d. 2011)

Faye Dunaway
77th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1236 English King Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence

1914 Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke

1930 Author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning in Los Angeles, California

1954 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio weds actress Marilyn Monroe (27) in her 2nd marraige at San Francisco City Hall

1958 Human rights activist Malcolm X marries fellow activist Betty Shabazz in Lansing, Michigan

Famous Divorces

1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas

2010 "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (73) divorces his fifth wife Victoria Duffy due to irreconcilable differences and out-of-control spending

Famous Deaths

Edmond Halley
(1656 - 1742)

1898 Lewis Carroll, English writer (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), dies at 65



1957 Humphrey Bogart, American actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer of the esophagus at 57

1977 Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1955-57) and Foreign Secretary, dies of liver cancer at 79

1977 Peter Finch, actor (Network, The Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60



1984 Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres, dies of heart failure at 81

2006 Shelley Winters, American actress (Lolita, A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Adventure), dies at 85



Alan Rickman
(1946 - 2016)

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24 JANUARY

1899 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan

1901 The birth of Edward Turner, English motorcycle designer. He sold his 4 cylinder engine to Aerial motorcycles when BSA rejected it. And thus it became the legendary 'Ariel Square Four'.

1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.

1915 The First World War sea battle of Dogger Bank ended with a British victory when the superior speed and gunnery of the British fleet sank the German armoured cruiser Blucher. If it had not been for a British signalling mixup that enabled the German fleet to flee safely to port, German losses would have been considerably higher.

1927 Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film as director - The Pleasure Garden, in England

1928 The birth of Desmond Morris, British anthropologist. He first came to the public's attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme Zoo Time, but he achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape.

1930 The birth, in Norfolk, of Bernard Matthews, the poultry industry figure. He won a scholarship to the City of Norwich School, but found it difficult to settle, regularly failed his exams and left school with no qualifications. Nevertheless, when he died, aged 80, in November 2010 he had amassed a fortune estimated at over £300m and a motor yacht, a Cessna private jet and a Rolls-Royce motor car.

1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.

1942 World War II: The Allies bombarded Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and the United Kingdom.

1965 Death of Sir Winston Churchill, aged 90, world famous soldier, politician, historian and Prime Minister of Britain. He was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of the battle of Dogger Bank (see above). He had correctly predicted that he would die on the same date as his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, who had died exactly 70 years previously. The graves of Winston Churchill and his father are in St Martin's Churchyard at Bladon, Oxfordshire

1969 Students protesting at the installation of steel security gates at the London School of Economics went on the rampage, with crowbars, pickaxes and sledgehammers.

1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. He was among the last three Japanese hold-outs to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945, almost 28 years after the island had been liberated by allied forces in 1944.

1976 Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, was dubbed 'The Iron Lady' in the Soviet newspaper 'Red Star' after her speech on the threat of Communism.

1986 The beginning of the end for London's Fleet Street, home to most of Britain's national newspapers, when staff of the 'Sun' and 'News of the World' were told that they were moving to new premises at Wapping, in London's Docklands.

2014 Somerset County Council and Sedgemoor DC declared a major incident throughout much of the Somerset Levels. The village of Muchelney was cut off by flood water from the River Parrett for almost 10 weeks.

2015 A racehorse named Sir Winston Churchill netted a win, on the 50th anniversary of the wartime leader's death, in the 3:25pm race at Uttoxeter racecourse.

Famous Birthday's

Hadrian
(76 - 138)

Frederick the Great
(1712 - 1786)



1917 Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale's Navy, Marty), (d. 2012), born in Hamden, Connecticut (d. 2012)

1930 Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire (d. 2010)



Sharon Tate
(1943 - 1969)



Desmond Morris, English zoologist (Human Ape, Body Language)
90th Birthday

Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter, born in Brooklyn, New York
77th Birthday

Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
61st Birthday

Jools Holland, British musician and TV presenter, born in Blackheath, London
60th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen (Hainault)

1884 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass marries his second wife suffragist Helen Pitts

1978 Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

1981 Singer Davy Jones (35) weds Anita Pollinger

2004 "Married ... With Children" actor David Faustino (33) weds actress Andrea Elmer (31) at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Famous Deaths

Caligula
(12 - 41)



Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

Ted Bundy
(1946 - 1989)

50 YEARS AGO SINGLE AND ALBUM # 1's

THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE - GEORGIE FAME

VAL DOONICAN ROCKS BUT GENTLY - VAL DOONICAN


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