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Birthday: 16/1/1853: Andre Michelin, French tyremaker
Birthday: 16/1/1906: Diana Wynyard, British actress
Birthday: 16/1/1909: Ethel Merman, American singer and actress
Birthday: 16/1/1948: Cliff Thorburn, Snooker player
Birthday: 16/1/1956: Mel Gibson, Australian film actor
Birthday: 16/1/1959: Sade, Soul singer
Birthday: 17/1/1706: Benjamin Franklin, American statesman & scientist
Birthday: 17/1/1820: Anne Bronte, Youngest of the 'Bronte' sisters
Birthday: 17/1/1899: Al Capone, American gangster
Birthday: 17/1/1942: Muhammad Ali, American heavyweight boxing champion
Birthday: 17/1/1956: Paul Young, English singer
Birthday: 17/1/1957: Keith Chegwin, Broadcaster & television presenter
Birthday: 18/1/1779: Peter Roget, Founder of Roget's Thesaurus
Birthday: 18/1/1882: A.A Milne, English poet and humourist
Birthday: 18/1/1892: Oliver Hardy, US comedian of 'Laurel & Hardy' fame
Birthday: 18/1/1904: Cary Grant, American Hollywood film actor
Birthday: 18/1/1913: Danny Kaye, American film actor
Birthday: 18/1/1933: David Bellamy, English botanist and TV celebraty
Birthday: 19/1/1736: James Watt, Scottish 'steam' inventor
Birthday: 19/1/1747: Johann Bode, German astronomer; formulated 'Bodes Law'
Birthday: 19/1/1807: Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general
Birthday: 19/1/1809: Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet
Birthday: 19/1/1943: Janis Joplin, American rock singer
Birthday: 19/1/1946: Dolly Parton, US country singer & film actress
Birthday: 19/1/1966: Stefan Edberg, Swedish born tennis player
Birthday: 20/1/1896: George Burns, American comedian
Birthday: 20/1/1920: Federico Fellini, Italian born film director
Birthday: 20/1/1926: Patricia Neal, American film actress
Birthday: 20/1/1930: Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, The second man to walk on the Moon
Birthday: 20/1/1934: Tom Baker, Actor; played 'Dr Who'
Birthday: 20/1/1946: Malcolm McLaren, British rock impresario
Birthday: 20/1/1950: Liza Goddard, Actress
Birthday: 20/1/1971: Gary Barlow, Of 'Take That'
Birthday: 21/1/1824: Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, American general
Birthday: 21/1/1924: Benny Hill, English comedian
Birthday: 21/1/1924: Telly Savalas, American film & television actor
Birthday: 21/1/1940: Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
Birthday: 21/1/1941: Placido Domingo, Spanish Operatic tenor
Birthday: 21/1/1945: Martin Shaw, Actor in 'The Professionals'
Birthday: 21/1/1950: Billy Ocean, Soul singer
Birthday: 22/1/1561: Francis Bacon, English politician and philospher
Birthday: 22/1/1788: Lord Byron, English poet
Birthday: 22/1/1875: D.W Griffith, American film director/producer
Birthday: 22/1/1921: Sir Alf Ramsey, Manager of England's World Cup squad
Birthday: 22/1/1937: Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress
Birthday: 22/1/1940: John Hurt, English born film actor; 'Alien'
Birthday: 22/1/1948: George Foreman, American heavyweight boxer
Birthday: 23/1/1832: Edouard Manet, French artist
Birthday: 23/1/1899: Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls for 20 years
Birthday: 23/1/1903: Randolph Scott, American film actor
Birthday: 23/1/1919: Bob Paisley, Former manager of Liverpool FC
Birthday: 23/1/1950: Patrick Simmons, Of the 'Doobie Brothers'
Birthday: 23/1/1957: Princess Caroline of Monaco
Birthday: 24/1/1917: Ernest Borgnine, American film and television actor
Birthday: 24/1/1928: Desmond Morris, English zoologist and author
Birthday: 24/1/1935: Bamber Gascoigne, Presenter, broadcaster & author
Birthday: 24/1/1941: Neil Diamond, American singer/songwriter
Birthday: 24/1/1949: John Belushi, American comedy actor
Birthday: 24/1/1961: Nastassja Kinski, German born film actress
Birthday: 25/1/1759: Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet
Birthday: 25/1/1882: Virginia Woolf, English novelist
Birthday: 25/1/1922: Raymond Baxter, Broadcaster; presenter of 'Tomorrows World'
Birthday: 25/1/1939: Angela Thorne, Actress
Birthday: 25/1/1944: Leigh Taylor-Young, Hollywood actress
Birthday: 25/1/1956: Andy Cox, Of the Beat/Fine Young Cannibals
Birthday: 25/1/1962: Emma Freud, Television presenter
Birthday: 26/1/1880: Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general
Birthday: 26/1/1905: Baroness Maria Von Trapp, On who the Sound Of Music was based
Birthday: 26/1/1908: Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist
Birthday: 26/1/1922: Michael Bentine, British comedian & writer
Birthday: 26/1/1925: Paul Newman, American Actor & Oscar winner
Birthday: 26/1/1928: Eartha Kitt, American singer/actress
Birthday: 26/1/1945: Marti Caine, English comic
Birthday: 26/1/1957: Eddie Van Halen, Rock guitarist
Birthday: 26/1/1958: Norman Hassan, Of the group 'UB40'
Event: 16/1/1809: There were attempted risings against Napoleon in Germany
Event: 16/1/1920: The United States began its prohibiton era, banning the sale of alcohol
Event: 16/1/1929: 'The Listener' magazine was published for the first time
Event: 16/1/1969: The Soviets carried out the first manual docking of a spacecraft in orbit
Event: 16/1/1979: The ruler of Iran, the Shah, left his country
Event: 16/1/1991: Operation 'Desert Storm' began against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait
Event: 16/1/1994: Syria declared its commitment to peace with Israel
Event: 17/1/1773: Captain Cooks ship became the first to cross the Antartic Ocean
Event: 17/1/1912: English explorer Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole
Event: 17/1/1959: The African country of Mali was formed with the joining of Senegal & French Sudan
Event: 17/1/1968: The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed, from the merger of two companies
Event: 17/1/1983: Breakfast television began in Britain
Event: 17/1/1986: The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britions and other foreign nationals from Aden
Event: 17/1/1995: In Japan a massive earthquake caused widespread destruction & left 300,000 homeless
Event: 18/1/1778: Captain Cook discovered what is now called the Hawiian Islands
Event: 18/1/1871: Germany had its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia
Event: 18/1/1911: A plane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA
Event: 18/1/1936: Rudyard Kipling, the English author of 'Jungle Book', died
Event: 18/1/1944: The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ended after over two years
Event: 18/1/1967: Jeremy Thorpe was elected leader of the Liberal Party
Event: 19/1/1793: King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French Convention
Event: 19/1/1915: German zeppelins bombed London for the first time in World War I
Event: 19/1/1942: Japanese forces invaded Burma during World War 2
Event: 19/1/1962: A Czech student set himself on fire in protest against the USSR
Event: 19/1/1991: The Presidential Palace in Iraq was attacked as the Gulf War began
Event: 19/1/1992: A new Bulgarian President was elected in the countries first free elections
Event: 20/1/1265: The first ever English Parliament met in Westminster Hall
Event: 20/1/1841: The island of Hong Kong was occupied by the British
Event: 20/1/1961: John F. Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States
Event: 20/1/1961: The Queen began a tour of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran
Event: 20/1/1981: 52 Americans held hostage in their embassy in Teheran, Iran, were released
Event: 20/1/1986: The British and French agreed on a twin tunnel rail link for the Channel Tunnel
Event: 20/1/1987: The Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy, Terry Waite, disapperaed in Beirut
Event: 20/1/1993: Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood film actress, died
Event: 21/1/1793: Louis XVI, the King of France, was guillotined during the French revolution
Event: 21/1/1911: The first ever Monte Carlo Car Rally was held
Event: 21/1/1950: George Orwell, the British author of '1984' & 'Animal Farm', died
Event: 21/1/1954: The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear powered submarine, was launched
Event: 21/1/1959: Famous Hollywood film director, Cecil B. De Mille, died aged 77
Event: 21/1/1976: The supersonic airliner 'Concorde' began its regular commercial service
Event: 21/1/1978: The Liberal Party voted to continue with the Lib-Lab pact until July
Event: 22/1/1771: The Falkland Islands were given to Britain by the Spanish
Event: 22/1/1879: British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana, South Africa
Event: 22/1/1924: Ramsey MacDonald became the first British Labour Prime Minister
Event: 22/1/1927: A football match was broadcast over the radio for the very first time
Event: 22/1/1941: Tobruk, North Africa, was captured by Australian troops
Event: 22/1/1944: Allied forces landed at Anzio, Italy
Event: 22/1/1947: The fresh meat ration was reduced to 1s (5p) per week in Britain
Event: 22/1/1972: The United Kingdom joined the Common Market
Event: 22/1/1974: Loyalists were expelled from the Northern Ireland Assembley
Event: 23/1/1556: An earthquake in Shensi Province, China, killed 830,000 people
Event: 23/1/1571: The Royal Exchange, in London, was founded
Event: 23/1/1931: The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova died at her Hampstead Heath home, aged 49
Event: 23/1/1943: British forces captured the city of Tripoli, Libya, from the Germans
Event: 23/1/1963: Kim Philby, the double agent, defected to Russia
Event: 23/1/1985: A House of Lords debate was televised for the first time
Event: 23/1/1990: Gales of up to 115mph caused much damage, and four people were killed
Event: 23/1/1991: During the Gulf War, virtually all of Iraqs radar & runway facilities had been destroyed
Event: 24/1/1848: Gold was first discovered in California, which then started the gold rush
Event: 24/1/1916: Conscription began in Britain
Event: 24/1/1935: Beer, in cans, was sold for the first time, in Virginia (United States)
Event: 24/1/1965: Winston Churchill, Britains wartime prime minister, died
Event: 24/1/1975: Dr Coggan became the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury
Event: 24/1/1978: A Russian satellite accidently crashed in Canada's Northwest Territory
Event: 24/1/1985: The space shuttle 'Discovery' was launced on its first military mission
Event: 24/1/1987: The were violent clashes, and many arrests, outside the Wapping print works
Event: 24/1/1991: Operation 'Desert Storm' against Iraq continued with thousands of air sorties
Event: 25/1/1917: The United States bought the Virgin islands for 25 million dollars
Event: 25/1/1924: The first ever Winter Olympic games were held, in French alps
Event: 25/1/1972: The Worlds first kidney & pancreatic tissue transplant was carried out in London
Event: 25/1/1974: Dr Christian Barnard performed a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place
Event: 25/1/1981: The Social Democrats party was formed in UK
Event: 25/1/1984: The government announced a ban on union membership at GCHQ
Event: 25/1/1985: The first ever international hockey match was held
Event: 25/1/1990: The American film actress, Ava Gardener, died in London
Event: 25/1/1992: A selection of America's popular films began showing on Soviet television
Event: 25/1/1995: The maxium speed limit for cocahes in Britain was reduced to 65 mph
Event: 26/1/1788: The first English convicts arrived in Australia
Event: 26/1/1823: Edward Jenner, the pioneer of vaccination, died
Event: 26/1/1841: Hong Kong became a British soverign territory
Event: 26/1/1871: The English Rugby Union was formed in London
Event: 26/1/1905: The world's largest diamond was found near Pretoria, South Africa
Event: 26/1/1950: India became a democratic republic within the Commonwealth
Event: 26/1/1956: Heroin imports and exports were banned in the United Kingdom
Event: 26/1/1972: The first London performance of 'Godspel' took place
Event: 26/1/1986: The Sunday Times & News of the World were printed at Wapping for the first time
Event: 26/1/1990: Hurricane force winds caused much damage in southern Britain
Event: 26/1/1994: A protester fired blanks at Prince Charles on his tour in Sydney
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