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Birthday: 19/9/1839: George Cadbury, English founder of 'Cadburys' chocolates
Birthday: 19/9/1911: William Golding, English novelist
Birthday: 19/9/1932: Derek Nimmo, Actor
Birthday: 19/9/1946: Michael Elphick, Actor
Birthday: 19/9/1948: Jeremy Irons, English born film actor
Birthday: 19/9/1948: Rosemary Casals, American tenns player
Birthday: 19/9/1949: Twiggy, English model and actress
Birthday: 20/9/1851: Henry Jones, British dramatist
Birthday: 20/9/1878: Upton Sinclair, American novelist
Birthday: 20/9/1885: Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist and composer
Birthday: 20/9/1927: John Dankworth, English bandleader/jazzman
Birthday: 20/9/1934: Sophia Loren, Italian born film actress
Birthday: 20/9/1955: Jose Rivero, Golfer
Birthday: 21/9/1756: John McAdam, Scottish road engineer after whom Tarmac is named
Birthday: 21/9/1866: H.G Wells, English writer of 'War of the Worlds'
Birthday: 21/9/1923: Jimmy Young, Radio DJ/presenter
Birthday: 21/9/1931: Larry Hagman, US TV & film actor; played J.R in Dallas
Birthday: 21/9/1936: Leonard Cohen, Singer
Birthday: 21/9/1948: Stephen King, US novelist & director; 'The Shining' & 'IT'
Birthday: 21/9/1950: Bill Murray, US comedy film actor; 'Ghostbusters'
Birthday: 22/9/1515: Ann of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII
Birthday: 22/9/1791: Michael Faraday, English physicist
Birthday: 22/9/1902: John Houseman, US actor and producer
Birthday: 22/9/1926: William Franklin, Actor
Birthday: 22/9/1931: Fay Weldon, British author
Birthday: 22/9/1961: Catherine Oxenberg US television actress
Birthday: 23/9/1898: Walter Pidgeon, American film actor
Birthday: 23/9/1920: Mickey Rooney, American film actor
Birthday: 23/9/1930: Ray Charles, American singer
Birthday: 23/9/1943: Julio Iglesias, Spanish born singer
Birthday: 23/9/1949: Bruce Springsteen, American rock singer
Birthday: 23/9/1951: Jeff Squire, Rugby footballer
Birthday: 24/9/1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist of 'The Great Gatsby'
Birthday: 24/9/1931: Anthony Newley, Actor
Birthday: 24/9/1932: Svetlana Beriosova, Ballerina
Birthday: 24/9/1941: Linda McCartney, Former wife of 'Beatle' Paul
Birthday: 24/9/1942: Gerry Marsden, English rock musician
Birthday: 25/9/1927: Colin Davis, British conductor
Birthday: 25/9/1929: Ronnie Barker, Comedian
Birthday: 25/9/1944: Michael Douglas, American film actor
Birthday: 25/9/1946: Felicity Kendal, British actress
Birthday: 25/9/1952: Mark Hammil, 'Luke Skywalker' in the 'Star Wars' films
Birthday: 25/9/1952: Christopher Reeve, US actor; 'Superman' in the recent films
Birthday: 26/9/1888: T.S Eliot, Poet and playwright
Birthday: 26/9/1898: George Gershwin, American composer
Birthday: 26/9/1943: Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer
Birthday: 26/9/1945: Bryan Ferry, British rock singer
Birthday: 26/9/1948: Olivia Newton-John, Singer & film actress
Birthday: 27/9/1722: Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader
Birthday: 27/9/1792: George Cruikshank, English illustrator & caricaturist
Birthday: 27/9/1862: Louis Botha, South African politician; PM of Transvaal
Birthday: 27/9/1942: Alvin Stardust, British rock singer
Birthday: 27/9/1946: Robin Nedwell, Actor
Birthday: 27/9/1948: Barbara Dickson, Singer
Birthday: 27/9/1948: Michele Dotrice, British television actress
Birthday: 28/9/1573: Michel Angelo Merisi Caraviggio, Italian artist
Birthday: 28/9/1803: Prosper Merimee, French writer
Birthday: 28/9/1916: Peter Finch, English film actor
Birthday: 28/9/1917: Michael Soames, British dancer
Birthday: 28/9/1934: Brigit Bardot, French born film actress
Birthday: 28/9/1946: Peter Egan, Actor
Birthday: 28/9/1946: Helen Shapiro, Singer
Birthday: 29/9/1547: Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist
Birthday: 29/9/1758: Horatio Nelson, English admiral killed at Trafalgar
Birthday: 29/9/1901: Enrico Fermi, American nuclear physicist
Birthday: 29/9/1935: Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer/pianist
Birthday: 29/9/1943: Lech Walesa, Polish leader; founder of Solidarity trade union
Birthday: 29/9/1956: Sebastian Coe, English Olympic athlete & Conservative MP
Event: 19/9/1876: The first ever patent for a carpet sweeper was given
Event: 19/9/1928: Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie', with Mickey Mouse, was shown for the first time
Event: 19/9/1929: The 'rocket plane' made its first successful test flight
Event: 19/9/1945: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to hang at the Old Bailey
Event: 19/9/1960: The first Traffic Wardens apperaed on British streets
Event: 19/9/1960: A new dance craze, the twist, began in the USA
Event: 19/9/1968: Chester Carlson, American inventor of the photocopier, died
Event: 19/9/1989: Vietnamese troops withdrew from Cambodia
Event: 19/9/1991: The UN allowed Iraq to begin selling oil again, after the Gulf War ban
Event: 20/9/1519: Ferdinand Magellan left Spain on his around the world voyage
Event: 20/9/1854: The first ever 'Victoria Crosses' were awarded during the Crimean War
Event: 20/9/1946: The first ever Cannes film festival was held
Event: 20/9/1961: An Argentinian became the first person to swim non-stop across the Channel and back
Event: 20/9/1967: The liner Queen Elizabeth II was launched from Clydebank
Event: 20/9/1973: An IRA bomb exploded at the Chelsea barracks
Event: 20/9/1984: The US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was attacked by a suicide car bomber
Event: 21/9/1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated the English at the Battle of Prestonpans, Scotland
Event: 21/9/1792: France became a republic, abolishing its monarchy
Event: 21/9/1832: Sir Walter Scott, the famous Scottish novelist, died
Event: 21/9/1915: Stonehenge was sold at auction for 6,600 pounds
Event: 21/9/1917: The country of Latvia proclaimed its independence
Event: 21/9/1962: The 'University Challenge' television programme was broadcast for the first time
Event: 21/9/1964: Malta became independent from Britain within the Commonwealth
Event: 21/9/1993: The first ever meeting between the Pope and the Israeli Chief Rabii took place
Event: 22/9/1792: France declared itself a Republic, scrapping its monarchy
Event: 22/9/1862: Abrahan Lincoln, the US President, ordered American slaves to be freed
Event: 22/9/1914: German U-boats sank three British cruisers off the Dutch coast
Event: 22/9/1921: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were admitted to the League of Nations
Event: 22/9/1966: The first ever 'Star Trek' episode was broadcast in the USA
Event: 22/9/1972: Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled 8,000 Asians, giving them just 2 days to leave
Event: 22/9/1980: The war between Iran and Iraq began
Event: 22/9/1989: Irving Berlin, the famous American composer, died
Event: 23/9/1846: The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Galle
Event: 23/9/1848: Chewing gum went on sale for the first time in the United States
Event: 23/9/1912: The first ever silent 'Keystone Cops' film was released
Event: 23/9/1940: Japanese troops entered Indo China
Event: 23/9/1957: An Asian flu epidemic swept across Britain
Event: 23/9/1974: The BBC began broadcasting its Ceefax teletext service
Event: 23/9/1987: Britain ended arms sales to Iran
Event: 23/9/1993: A South African Bill granted blacks a legal say in affairs of state for the first time
Event: 24/9/1776: The first ever St Leger horse race was run at Doncaster
Event: 24/9/1953: The first ever Cinemascope film, The Robe, had its Hollywood premier
Event: 24/9/1960: The USS Enterprise, the worlds first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, was launched
Event: 24/9/1970: The first automated return of a lunar sample by Luna 16 took place
Event: 24/9/1971: Britain expelled over 100 Russian diplomats for spying
Event: 24/9/1976: Rhodesia accepted an American and British plan for majority rule
Event: 24/9/1993: America & the Commonwealth lifted trade sanctions against South Africa
Event: 25/9/1818: The first human blood transfusion took place at Guy's Hospital in London
Event: 25/9/1897: Britains first motor bus service began operating
Event: 25/9/1907: New Zealand became a dominion within the British Empire
Event: 25/9/1954: 'Papa' Doc Duvalier became the President of Haiti
Event: 25/9/1957: The US National Guard were deployed in Little Rock, USA, to enforce desegregation in schools
Event: 25/9/1972: Norway voted not to join the European Community
Event: 25/9/1977: The Skytrain airliner service to New York started
Event: 25/9/1983: 38 IRA prisoners escaped from the Maze prison, Northern Ireland
Event: 25/9/1995: New M.O.T emission tests were introduced in the UK
Event: 26/9/1887: The worlds first gramaphone was patented in Germany
Event: 26/9/1934: The liner 'Queen Mary' was launched in Clydebank, Scotland
Event: 26/9/1953: Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end
Event: 26/9/1968: Theatre censorship in Britain was abolished
Event: 26/9/1979: Compulsary metrication in Britain was abandoned
Event: 26/9/1984: The UK agreed to hand over the soverignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997
Event: 26/9/1988: The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for drug taking
Event: 26/9/1990: The Soviet parliament agreed on a Bill for allowing religious practices
Event: 27/9/1821: Mexico became an independent country from Spain
Event: 27/9/1826: The first ever passenger railway opened, The Stockton and Darlington
Event: 27/9/1922: King Constantine I of Greece abdicated
Event: 27/9/1938: The Queen Mother launched the liner 'Queen Elizabeth' in Scotland
Event: 27/9/1939: The Polish capital, Warsaw, surrended to the German army
Event: 27/9/1979: The TV programme 'Question Time', with Robin Day, was shown for the first time
Event: 27/9/1979: Gracie Fields, the English wartime singer, died
Event: 27/9/1983: GNU Project officially announced
Event: 27/9/1990: Britain resumed diplomatic relations with Iran, in the Middle East
Event: 27/9/1993: The government announced its plans to privatise the Post Office
Event: 28/9/1745: The national anthem, God Save The King, was sung for the first time
Event: 28/9/1794: Britain, Austria and Russia formed an alliance against France
Event: 28/9/1865: The first female doctor in Britain became qualified
Event: 28/9/1885: Simon Marks and Tom Spencer opened their first shop
Event: 28/9/1894: The founders of Marks and Spencer opened their first shop in Manchester
Event: 28/9/1978: Pope John Paul I died, after only being pope for 33 days
Event: 28/9/1985: Rioting broke out in Brixton after a police shooting
Event: 28/9/1994: The car ferry 'Estonia' sank in the Baltic, drowning over 900 people
Event: 29/9/1829: Britains police force began in London, with Robert Peels 'bobbies'
Event: 29/9/1911: Italy declared war on Turkey over who owned Tripoli, Libya
Event: 29/9/1913: Rudolf Diesel, the German engine designer, died
Event: 29/9/1916: American John D. Rockerfeller became the world's first billionaire
Event: 29/9/1944: Near the end of World War 2, the Red Army entered Yugoslavia
Event: 29/9/1950: The world's first automatic telephone answering machine began its tests
Event: 29/9/1979: The first ever Papal visit to Ireland began, by John Paul II
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