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Anniversaries on: December 6, 2010
Birthdays: | | 1888 | Will Hay, Music hall comedian and actor | | 1892 | Sir Osbert Sitwell, Celebrated writer, brother of Dame Edith | | 1896 | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist; with brother George | | 1942 | Len Barry, Pop star of the 60's | | 1943 | Mike Smith, Of the Pop group 'The Dave Clark Five' | | 1944 | Jonathon King, 60's Pop singer and TV presenter | | 1961 | Eugene Wild, 'Soul' star |
Events:| 1492 | Christopher Columbus discovered Hispaniola, later changed to Haiti | | 1774 | Austria became the first nation to introduce state education | | 1877 | Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording o | | 1882 | The English novelist, Anthony Trollope, died in London | | 1921 | As a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the 'Irish Free State' was f | | 1926 | Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, introduced a tax on bachelors | | 1973 | In America, Gerald Ford was sworn in as Vice President | | 1983 | Lars Ljunberg from Sweden became the first person to receive a hear |
Anniversaries on: December 7, 2010
Birthdays: | | 1863 | Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer best known for 'Cavalleria Rustic | | 1915 | Eli Wallach, American film & television actor | | 1932 | Ellen Burstyn, American actress; 'The Last Picture Show' | | 1949 | Tom Waits, Singer/songwriter who has also appeared in films | | 1954 | Mike Nolan, Member of the Pop group 'Bucks Fizz' | | 1957 | Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer; fast bowler | | 1970 | Lindy Layton, Of the Pop group 'Beat International' |
Events:| 1431 | In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France | | 1732 | The original Covent Garden Opera House, known at that time as the T | | 1783 | At the age of 24, William Pitt became Britains youngest ever Prime | | 1817 | The captain of the famous 'Bounty', William Bligh, died in London | | 1941 | Pearl Harbour was attacked without a decleration of war by Japanese | | 1955 | Leader of the Labour Party, Clement Attlee resigned, to be created | | 1990 | Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was awarded 'The Order Of M |
Anniversaries on: December 8, 2010
Birthdays: | | 1542 | Mary Queen Of Scots, Scottish Queen who ascended to the throne aged | | 1865 | Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer; 'Finlandia' and 'Valse Triste' | | 1894 | James Thurber, American writer, humorist and cartoonist | | 1925 | Sammy Davis Jr., US singer, dancer and actor | | 1939 | James Galway, Popular Irish flautist | | 1941 | Geoff Hurst, Former West Ham footballer | | 1943 | Jim Morrison, American lead singer with the Pop group 'Doors' |
Events:| 1841 | Prince Albert Edward, later Edward VII, became the 'Prince of Wales | | 1863 | Boxer Tom King of England beat American John Heenan, to become the | | 1941 | As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United Sta | | 1952 | Her Majesty the Queen, announced she would permit her coronation to | | 1980 | 'Beatle' John Lennon was shot and killed, by Mark David Chapman | | 1981 | Arthur Scargill became leader of 'The National Union Of Mineworkers | | 1991 | The Soviet Union came to an end, with the forming of a 'Commonwealt | | 1993 | Daisy Adams of Church Gresley, Derbyshire, thought to be Britains o |
Anniversaries on: December 9, 2010
Birthdays: | | 1886 | Clarence Birdseye, American inventor, of the deep frozen food proce | | 1909 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor of stage and screen | | 1916 | Kirk Douglas, Veteran Hollywood superstar, appearing in many epics | | 1934 | Dame Judi Dench, Popular stage and screen actress | | 1942 | Billy Bremner, Former Leeds football player & captain of Scottland | | 1950 | Joan Armatrading, British singer/songwriter | | 1953 | Jill Saward, Of the Pop group 'Shakatak' | | 1957 | Donny Osmond, Singer, both as soloist & with 'The Osmonds' |
Events:| 1868 | Gladstone became British Prime Minister for the first time. He even | | 1903 | The Norwegian government refused a proposal to give women the vote | | 1955 | Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Carl Olsen to regain his world middl | | 1960 | Granada Television's long running 'soap', Coronation Street, was fi | | 1964 | Poet and author Dame Edith Sitwell, sister of the writer Sir Osbert | | 1982 | Steven Spielberg's science fiction film E.T. was first shown in Bri | | 1982 | The country and western star, Marty Robbins, died of a heart attack | | 1990 | In Poland, Lech Walesa won a landslide victory in the Presidential |
Anniversaries on: December 10, 2010
Birthdays: | | 1830 | Emily Dickinson, American poet | | 1851 | Melvil Dewey, Devised the library classification system | | 1885 | Vincent Lopez, Leader of first orchestra to play a live radio broad | | 1930 | Rt Hon Michael Joplin, Conserative MP & former government minister | | 1954 | Geoff Deane, Of the Pop group 'Modern Romance' | | 1957 | Paul Hardcastle, Singer best known for his hit No. 1, '19' | | 1960 | Kenneth Branagh, Actor and director, of stage and screen |
Events:| 1768 | The Royal Academy of Arts was founded, Joshua Reynolds becoming its | | 1845 | The first pneumatic tyres were patented, by the Scottish civil engi | | 1868 | Londons first traffic lights came into operation near Parliament Sq | | 1896 | The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who invented Dynamite and founded | | 1903 | Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel prize | | 1919 | The Smith brothers became the first pilots, to complete a flight fr | | 1987 | In Leicestershire, two dangerous prisoners escaped by helicopter fr | | 1998 | The Caribbean island of Cuba became independent from Spain |
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