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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'
Birthday: 27/1/1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Birthday: 27/1/1832: Lewis Carrol, Author of 'Alice In Wonderland'
Birthday: 27/1/1885: Jerome Kern, Songwriter
Birthday: 27/1/1928: Michael Craig, Actor & stage star
Birthday: 27/1/1945: Nick Mason, Of 'Pink Floyd'
Birthday: 27/1/1961: Martin Degville, Of 'Sigue Sigue Sputnik'
Birthday: 27/1/1973: Mark Owen, Of 'Take That'
Birthday: 28/1/1833: General Gordon, British army commander, killed in the Sudan
Birthday: 28/1/1841: Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone
Birthday: 28/1/1921: Alfred Marks, English comedian
Birthday: 28/1/1929: Acker Bilk, Jazz musician/clarinet player
Birthday: 28/1/1936: Alan Alda, American actor & television star of M*A*S*H
Birthday: 28/1/1944: Bobby Ball, British stage comedian of 'Cannon & Ball' fame
Birthday: 28/1/1948: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Soviet ballet dancer
Birthday: 28/1/1959: Dave Sharp, Of the group 'The Alarm'
Birthday: 29/1/1862: Frederick Delius, English composer
Birthday: 29/1/1879: W.C Fields, Stage and film comedian
Birthday: 29/1/1909: Viscount Tonypandy, Speaker of the House of Commons 1976 to 1983
Birthday: 29/1/1924: Brian Trubshaw, Test Pilot responsible for the Concorde airliner
Birthday: 29/1/1933: Sacha Distel, French singer
Birthday: 29/1/1941: Tom Selleck, American film and TV actor (TV's 'Magnum')
Birthday: 29/1/1943: Tony Blackburn, British disc jockey
Birthday: 29/1/1950: Jody Sheckter, South African born racing World Champion
Birthday: 29/1/1961: Pauline Henry, Of the Pop group 'The Chimes'
Birthday: 30/1/1882: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Former (32nd) American President
Birthday: 30/1/1913: Percy Thrower, Popular gardener and broadcaster
Birthday: 30/1/1915: John Profumo, Former Secretary of State for War
Birthday: 30/1/1920: Patrick Heron, Artist
Birthday: 30/1/1931: Gene Hackman, American stage and 'Oscar' winning screen actor
Birthday: 30/1/1937: Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion
Birthday: 30/1/1937: Vanessa Redgrave, Stage and screen actress
Birthday: 31/1/1797: Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
Birthday: 31/1/1882: Anna Pavlova, Celebrated Russian prima ballerina
Birthday: 31/1/1903: Lord Soper, Methodist minister and left wing activist
Birthday: 31/1/1921: Mario Lanza, American Tenor & film actor, who died suddenly aged 38
Birthday: 31/1/1931: Christopher Chataway, Former British athlete & conservative MP
Birthday: 31/1/1938: Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands
Birthday: 31/1/1951: Phil Collins, Drummer and Rock singer
Birthday: 31/1/1966: Alan Jaworskey, Of the Pop group 'Jesus Jones'
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
Event: 27/1/1778: The valve flush toilet was patented by Joseph Bramh
Event: 27/1/1926: John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television
Event: 27/1/1943: The United States Air Force made its first bombing raid on Germany
Event: 27/1/1967: Three American astronauts were killed in an Apollo spacecraft ground test
Event: 27/1/1969: Protestant leader Ian Paisley was jailed for three months
Event: 27/1/1989: In Brazil, three men were charged with stealing and melting down the World Cup
Event: 28/1/1547: King Henry VIII of England died
Event: 28/1/1896: The first ever speeding fine in Britain was given
Event: 28/1/1932: Japanese forces occupied Shanghai, and then went on to invade the rest of China
Event: 28/1/1935: Iceland became the first country to legalise abortion
Event: 28/1/1953: Derek Bentley was hanged after being convicted for murdering a policeman
Event: 28/1/1957: Prince Charles spent his first day at school
Event: 28/1/1984: Snooker player Kirk Stevens scored a maximum 147 break
Event: 28/1/1986: The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take off, killing all onboard
Event: 29/1/1820: King George III of Britain died at Windsor Castle, aged 81
Event: 29/1/1964: The screen actor Alan Ladd died from an overdose of alcohol and sedatives
Event: 29/1/1964: At Innsbruck in Austria, the 9th Winter Olympic games opened
Event: 29/1/1966: A bill was published by the government, permitting random breath tests
Event: 29/1/1969: Britain was refused entry into the European Economic Community
Event: 29/1/1978: Sweden became the first country to introduce a law, banning the use of aerosol sprays harmful to the ozone layer
Event: 29/1/1986: Oxford University Dons refused the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, an honorary degree
Event: 30/1/1649: King Charles I was executed, having been found guilty of treason
Event: 30/1/1888: The author and artist Edward Lear died in San Remo, Italy
Event: 30/1/1933: Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany
Event: 30/1/1961: The first contraceptive pills went on sale in Britain
Event: 30/1/1965: Sir Winston Churchill, former PM, was given a state funeral
Event: 30/1/1972: In Ireland, British paratroopers believing they were under attack killed 13 people. This became known as 'Bloody Sunday'
Event: 30/1/1979: Rhodesian whites voted to transfer to majority rule
Event: 30/1/1988: A microlight aircraft landed near Sydney, Australia, to create a record time of 55 days since leaving London
Event: 31/1/1606: Guy Fawkes, the 'Gunpowder Plot', conpirator was executed
Event: 31/1/1867: The four bronze lions at the base of Nelsons Column were completed
Event: 31/1/1958: America launched its first satellite, Explorer I, from Cape Canaverel
Event: 31/1/1966: Britain banned all trade with Rhodesia, Africa
Event: 31/1/1968: The Island of Mauritius became independent of Britain
Event: 31/1/1983: A law came into force, making the wearing of seat belts in cars obligatory
Event: 31/1/1983: The film 'Ghandi' won five prizes at the Hollywood Golden Globe awards
Event: 31/1/1986: The Greater London Council & six Metropolitan councils were abolished
Event: 31/1/1994: German based BMW bought Rover cars from British Aerospace for 800 million
Event: 31/1/1995: Extensive foolding struck much of Europe; Holland alone evacuated 100,000 people in danger
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