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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: Vanessa Redgrave, Stage and screen actress
Birthday: 30/1/1937: Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion
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: 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: At Innsbruck in Austria, the 9th Winter Olympic games opened
Event: 29/1/1964: The screen actor Alan Ladd died from an overdose of alcohol and sedatives
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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