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Birthday: 10/4/1829: William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army
Birthday: 10/4/1847: Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner
Birthday: 10/4/1929: Max Von Sydow, Swedish born actor
Birthday: 10/4/1932: Omar Sharif, Egyptian born actor
Birthday: 10/4/1940: Gloria Hunniford, Television & radio presenter
Birthday: 10/4/1941: Chuck Connors, American film actor
Birthday: 10/4/1953: David Moorcroft, British athlete
Birthday: 11/4/1770: George Canning, Former British Prime Minister
Birthday: 11/4/1819: Charles Halle, Pianist & conductor
Birthday: 11/4/1908: Dan Maskell, Tennis player/commentator/coach
Birthday: 11/4/1933: Joel Grey, American actor & singer
Birthday: 11/4/1938: Jill Gascoigne, British actress
Birthday: 11/4/1966: Lisa Stansfield, Singer
Birthday: 12/4/1913: Lionel Hampton, American bandleader
Birthday: 12/4/1939: Alan Ayckbourn, Playwright
Birthday: 12/4/1941: Bobby Moore, British footballer
Birthday: 12/4/1947: David Letterman, American chat show host
Birthday: 12/4/1950: David Cassidy, Pop & television star
Birthday: 13/4/1743: Thomas Jefferson, Former American President
Birthday: 13/4/1771: Richard Trevithick, British steam engineer
Birthday: 13/4/1852: F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores
Birthday: 13/4/1919: Howard Keel, American actor and singer
Birthday: 13/4/1937: Edward Fox, British film actor
Birthday: 13/4/1951: Peter Davison, Actor who has played 'Dr Who'
Birthday: 13/4/1963: Gary Kasparov, Russian world champion chess player
Birthday: 13/4/1970: Ricky Schroder, American film actor
Birthday: 14/4/1629: Christian Hygens, Dutch astronomer
Birthday: 14/4/1904: John Gielgud, Actor of stage, film & TV
Birthday: 14/4/1907: Francois Duvalier, Dictator of Haiti
Birthday: 14/4/1925: Rod Steiger, American film actor
Birthday: 14/4/1941: Julie Christie, American film actress
Birthday: 15/4/1843: Henry James, American novelist
Birthday: 15/4/1901: Joe Davis, World Champion Snooker player
Birthday: 15/4/1924: Neville Marriner, Conductor
Birthday: 15/4/1938: Claudia Cardinale, Film actress
Birthday: 15/4/1939: Marty Wilde, 50's Rock singer
Birthday: 15/4/1940: Jeffrey Archer, Conservative MP & author
Birthday: 15/4/1959: Emma Thompson, British born film actress
Birthday: 16/4/1867: Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer
Birthday: 16/4/1889: Charlie Chaplin, Silent film actor & director
Birthday: 16/4/1918: Spike Milligan, Comedien, 'Goon' member and author
Birthday: 16/4/1921: Peter Ustinov, Actor & novelist
Birthday: 16/4/1922: Kingsley Amis, English novelist
Birthday: 16/4/1939: Dusty Springfield, Singer
Birthday: 16/4/1940: Joan Bakewell, Television presenter
Birthday: 16/4/1955: Ellen Barkin, American film actress
Birthday: 17/4/1586: John Ford, English playwright
Birthday: 17/4/1880: Leonard Wooley, Archaeologist
Birthday: 17/4/1894: Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader
Birthday: 17/4/1923: Lindsay Anderson, Film director
Birthday: 17/4/1929: James Last, Bandleader
Birthday: 17/4/1946: Clare Francis, Yachtswoman & novelist
Birthday: 17/4/1951: Olivia Hussey, American actress
Birthday: 18/4/1480: Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Birthday: 18/4/1922: Barbara Hale, American actress
Birthday: 18/4/1929: Peter Jeffrey, Actor
Birthday: 18/4/1946: Hayley Mills, British actress
Birthday: 18/4/1953: Ruby Wax, Comedienne
Birthday: 18/4/1958: Malcolm Marshall, West Indian cricketer
Birthday: 19/4/1900: Richard Hughes, Novelist
Birthday: 19/4/1925: Hugh O'Brien, American actor
Birthday: 19/4/1933: Jayne Mansfield, American actress
Birthday: 19/4/1935: Dudley Moore, Comedy actor & TV star, Partner of Peter Cook
Birthday: 19/4/1946: Tim Curry, Actor
Birthday: 19/4/1947: Trevor Francis, English footballer & manager
Birthday: 19/4/1956: Sue Barker, Tennis player and broadcaster
Birthday: 20/4/1889: Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany
Birthday: 20/4/1893: Joan Miro, Spanish artist
Birthday: 20/4/1893: Harold Lloyd, American silent film star
Birthday: 20/4/1938: Peter Snow, Television reporter
Birthday: 20/4/1939: Ray Brooks, English television actor
Birthday: 20/4/1941: Ryan O'Neal, American film actor
Birthday: 20/4/1949: Jessica Lange American film actress
Birthday: 20/4/1961: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Television actor
Event: 10/4/1633: Bananas went on sale for the first time in Britain
Event: 10/4/1841: The New York Tribune was published for the very first time
Event: 10/4/1849: The safety pin was patented in the United States
Event: 10/4/1912: The liner 'Titanic' left Southampton on her first (and only) voyage
Event: 10/4/1924: The first ever book of crosswords was published in the United States
Event: 10/4/1960: The Civil Rights Bill was passed in the American Senate
Event: 10/4/1972: An agreement, banning the use of biological weapons, was signed by 46 countries
Event: 10/4/1984: The Solar Max satellite was sucessfully retrieved by Shuttle astronauts
Event: 10/4/1986: Miss Bhutto returned to Pakistan from exile
Event: 11/4/1814: Former French leader Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of Elba
Event: 11/4/1855: The first pillar boxes in London were erected, which were painted green
Event: 11/4/1929: The cartoon character 'Popeye' made his film debut
Event: 11/4/1941: Belgrade, in Yugoslavia, was occupied by German forces during World War 2
Event: 11/4/1945: At the end of World War 2, the Red army entered the Austrian city of Vienna
Event: 11/4/1951: General MacArthur was relieved of command in the Far East, over Korea
Event: 11/4/1970: The American Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched to the Moon
Event: 11/4/1983: The British film 'Ghandi' won a total of eight Oscars
Event: 11/4/1985: A bomb exploded in Columbo, Sri Lanka, shorty before PM Margaret Thatcher arrived on a visit
Event: 12/4/1606: The Union Jack was adopted as the official flag of England
Event: 12/4/1861: The American Civil War began between the Union & Confederate states
Event: 12/4/1945: Franklin D. Roosvelt, the 32nd American President, died
Event: 12/4/1961: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth
Event: 12/4/1982: The naval blockade of the Falklands, by the British, began
Event: 12/4/1983: The British film Gandhi won eight Oscars
Event: 13/4/1668: John Dryden became the first ever Poet Laureate
Event: 13/4/1829: The British Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act
Event: 13/4/1912: The Royal Flying Corps was created by Royal Charter
Event: 13/4/1919: The Amritsar Massacre took place in the Punjab, India
Event: 13/4/1962: An international agreement was signed, to stop oil pollution of seas & beaches
Event: 13/4/1963: Ian Smith became the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Event: 13/4/1964: Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar for best actor
Event: 13/4/1967: Conservative councillors gained a landslide victory in the GLC elections
Event: 13/4/1970: The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, had an onboard explosion
Event: 13/4/1981: Lord Scarman headed the enquiry into the Brixton riots
Event: 14/4/1759: George Frederick Handel, the English composer, died
Event: 14/4/1912: The liner 'Titanic' struck an ice berg at 11.40pm, and began to sink
Event: 14/4/1929: The first ever Monaco Grand Prix was held
Event: 14/4/1931: The first Highway Code guide was published in Britain
Event: 14/4/1981: The first space shuttle, Columbia, was successfully launched
Event: 14/4/1983: The first cordless telephones went on sale in the UK
Event: 15/4/1865: The American president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Event: 15/4/1912: The passenger liner Titanic struck an ice berg; during the early hours it sank
Event: 15/4/1922: The drug insulin was discovered by Banting & Macleod
Event: 15/4/1925: James Barrie donated his copyright fee for Peter Pan to Great Ormond St Hospital
Event: 15/4/1942: During World War 2, the George Cross medal was awarded to the island of Malta
Event: 15/4/1945: At the end of World War 2, the Battle of Berlin began
Event: 15/4/1961: Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was awarded the Order of Lenin
Event: 15/4/1982: The Muslims who murdered President Sadat of Egypt were executed
Event: 15/4/1986: American warplanes bombed Tripoli, Libya, in retalisation for Libyain terrorism
Event: 16/4/1689: Francisco de Goya, the famous Spanish artist, died
Event: 16/4/1746: Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated at the battle of Culloden
Event: 16/4/1850: Marie Tussaud, the Swiss born founder of the world famous waxworks, died
Event: 16/4/1883: Paul Kruger became the new President of South Africa
Event: 16/4/1912: American pilot Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the Channel
Event: 16/4/1951: The British submarine 'Affray' sank in the Channel, with the loss of 75 lives
Event: 16/4/1953: The Queen launched the royal yacht 'Britannia'
Event: 16/4/1972: The American spacecraft Apollo 16, bound for the Moon, was launched
Event: 16/4/1981: The first American space shutte, Columbia, returned safely to Earth
Event: 17/4/1956: Premium Bonds were first issued in the UK
Event: 17/4/1960: American rock star Eddie Cochran died in a car crash while on tour
Event: 17/4/1961: Rebel forces failed to invade Cuba at the 'Bay of Pigs'
Event: 17/4/1969: The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in the UK
Event: 17/4/1970: The Apollo 13 spacecraft retured to Earth, despite an onboard explosion
Event: 17/4/1975: The government of Cambodia surrended to the Khmer Rouge
Event: 17/4/1983: India launched its first satellite
Event: 17/4/1986: An attempted bomb attack on an El-Al jet at Heathrow airport failed
Event: 17/4/1987: Civil service centres in Scotland went on strike
Event: 18/4/1689: Judge Jeffreys (of the 'booody assizes') was put to death in the Tower Of London
Event: 18/4/1775: The American War of Independence, against the British, began
Event: 18/4/1881: The Natural History Museum in London was opened
Event: 18/4/1906: An earthquake, follwed by fire, destroyed most of San Francisco
Event: 18/4/1949: The Republic of Ireland was created
Event: 18/4/1955: Albert Einstein, the world famous physicist, died
Event: 18/4/1968: An oil tycoon bought the old London Bridge, and shipped it stone by stone to the USA
Event: 18/4/1983: The government agreed to phase out the lead additives in petrol
Event: 18/4/1986: The 'Pass Laws' in South Africa were abolished
Event: 19/4/1587: English captain Francis Drake sank the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
Event: 19/4/1775: The American War of Independence, against the British, began
Event: 19/4/1882: Charles Darwin, the developer of the theory of evolution, died
Event: 19/4/1951: The first 'Miss World' contest was held in London, as part of the Festival of Britain
Event: 19/4/1956: Film star Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco
Event: 19/4/1971: The Soviet Union launched the first manned spacelab, Salyut 1
Event: 19/4/1972: Bangladesh joined the Commonwealth
Event: 19/4/1982: The Soviet Union launched the Salyut 7 space station
Event: 19/4/1995: A massive bomb explosion destroyed much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA
Event: 20/4/1770: British explorer Captain Cook reached New South Wales, Australia
Event: 20/4/1912: The Irish author of the novel 'Dracula', Bram Stoker, died
Event: 20/4/1929: The first Italian parliament made up completely from Mussolinis Fascists opened
Event: 20/4/1949: The first ever Badminton Horse Trials were held
Event: 20/4/1961: There was a revolt in the South African country of Angola
Event: 20/4/1969: Pierre Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada
Event: 20/4/1980: Many people were injured & arrested in Lewisham, as NF & Anti-Nazi League members clashed
Event: 20/4/1989: It was announced that an asteroid had 'narrowly' missed the Earth
Event: 20/4/1993: The UN recommended the creation of 'safe havens' in Bosnia
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