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Birthday: 3/4/1367: King Henry IV, Became King of England in 1399
Birthday: 3/4/1893: Leslie Howard, Stage and screen actor
Birthday: 3/4/1924: Marlon Brando, Oscar winning actor
Birthday: 3/4/1924: Doris Day, Star of stage, screen and television
Birthday: 3/4/1925: Tony Benn, Labour politician
Birthday: 3/4/1938: Jeff Barry, Producer and songwriter
Birthday: 3/4/1944: Tony Orlando, American singer
Birthday: 3/4/1946: John Virgo, Snooker player
Birthday: 4/4/1915: Muddy Waters, Chicago blues singer
Birthday: 4/4/1932: Anthony Perkins, American actor, star of 'Psycho'
Birthday: 4/4/1935: Trevor Griffiths, Playwright
Birthday: 4/4/1941: William Tarmey, Actor in Coronation Street
Birthday: 4/4/1945: Anthony Braxton, Jazz musician
Birthday: 4/4/1964: Paul Parker, Footballer with Manchester United
Birthday: 4/4/1965: Robert Downey Jnr, American actor
Birthday: 5/4/1649: Elihu Yale, Founder of American Yale University
Birthday: 5/4/1900: Spencer Tracey, American film star
Birthday: 5/4/1908: Bette Davis, American actress & film star
Birthday: 5/4/1916: Gregory Peck, American actor/film star
Birthday: 5/4/1928: Michael Bryant, Actor
Birthday: 5/4/1929: Nigel Hawthorne, Actor
Birthday: 5/4/1946: Jane Asher, British actress
Birthday: 6/4/1866: Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw
Birthday: 6/4/1874: Harry Houdini, Famous escapologist
Birthday: 6/4/1906: John Betjeman, Poet, author and broadcaster
Birthday: 6/4/1926: Rev Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland Politician
Birthday: 6/4/1929: Andre Previn, American conductor
Birthday: 6/4/1938: Paul Daniels, Magician & TV quiz show host
Birthday: 6/4/1938: Billy Dee Williams, US film & television actor
Birthday: 7/4/1770: William Wordsworth, English Poet
Birthday: 7/4/1915: Billy Holiday, American jazz singer
Birthday: 7/4/1928: James Garner US film & TV actor; TV's 'Rockford files'
Birthday: 7/4/1939: Sir David Frost, Television presenter & interviewer
Birthday: 7/4/1939: Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
Birthday: 7/4/1945: Dennis Amiss, Cricketer
Birthday: 7/4/1945: Martyn Lewis, Television newsreader
Birthday: 8/4/1884: Harry S.Truman, Former American President
Birthday: 8/4/1889: Adrian Boult, Conductor
Birthday: 8/4/1893: Mary Pickford, American film actress
Birthday: 8/4/1919: Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Birthday: 8/4/1928: Eric Porter, British actor
Birthday: 8/4/1944: Hywel Bennett, Television actor; 'Shelly'
Birthday: 8/4/1963: Alec Stewart, Cricketer
Birthday: 9/4/1806: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian engineer
Birthday: 9/4/1898: Paul Robeson, American actor and singer
Birthday: 9/4/1906: Hugh Gaitskell, Politician
Birthday: 9/4/1937: Valerie Singleton, Former 'Blue Peter' presenter
Birthday: 9/4/1941: Hannah Gorden, British actress
Birthday: 9/4/1957: Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
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
Event: 3/4/1721: Robert Walpole was elected as Britains first Prime Minister
Event: 3/4/1860: In the United States, the Pony Express mail delivery system began
Event: 3/4/1882: Jesse James, the American outlaw, was shot in the back by a former friend, Robert Ford
Event: 3/4/1933: The first ever flight over Mount Everest was completed by four Britons
Event: 3/4/1947: 'BUPA', the private health care service, began in the UK
Event: 3/4/1966: Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve orbit around the Moon
Event: 3/4/1974: Glenda Jackson won an Oscar for her role in the film 'A Touch of Class'
Event: 3/4/1984: A new world record distance for flying a microlight aircraft was set at 340 miles
Event: 4/4/1841: William Harrison, the 9th US President, died of pneumonia after only holding the office for 30 days
Event: 4/4/1887: The world's first woman mayor, Susanna Salter, was elected at Argonia, Kansas
Event: 4/4/1934: 'Cats eyes' were used on the road for the first time, in Yorkshire
Event: 4/4/1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 'NATO' was formed in Washington USA
Event: 4/4/1964: The top five places in the US singles charts were all held by the 'Beatles'
Event: 4/4/1968: Martin Luther King, the US black civil rights leader, was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee
Event: 4/4/1968: Apollo 6, an unmanned test spacecraft, was launched on a Saturn V rocket
Event: 4/4/1983: American actress Gloria Swanson, star of both silent and sound films, died aged 84
Event: 4/4/1983: The second space shuttle, 'Challenger' was launched from Cape Canaveral
Event: 4/4/1988: After over four and a half thousand episodes, the soap 'Crossroads' ended
Event: 5/4/1910: Kissing was banned on the French railway system
Event: 5/4/1955: The Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned
Event: 5/4/1960: The film epic 'Ben Hur', with Charlton Heston, won a total of ten Oscars
Event: 5/4/1975: Howard Hughes, the American multi-millionaire, died
Event: 5/4/1976: Harold Wilson, of the Labour Party, resigned as Prime Minister
Event: 5/4/1981: The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev went to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis
Event: 5/4/1982: A British Naval Task Force left for the Falkland Islands, which had been invaded by Argentina
Event: 5/4/1984: BBC 1 went off the air, blacked out by an industrial dispute
Event: 5/4/1986: A terrorist bomb exploded in a Berlin disco
Event: 5/4/1987: Prison officers were held hostage at Magilligan Prison, Northern Ireland
Event: 6/4/1830: The Mormon church was founded in the United States
Event: 6/4/1896: The first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece
Event: 6/4/1909: The North Pole was reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary
Event: 6/4/1917: The United States entered World War I
Event: 6/4/1944: The income tax system 'Pay As You Earn', devised by Cornelius Gregg, was introduced
Event: 6/4/1965: The worlds first commercial communication satellite, Early Bird, was launched
Event: 6/4/1973: The spacecraft Pioneer 11 was launched to the planets Jupiter & Saturn
Event: 6/4/1982: The UK banned all Argentinian imports after the invasion of the Falklands
Event: 6/4/1983: Ian Smith, the ex prime minister of Rhodesia, was granted a British passport
Event: 6/4/1985: President Numeiri of the Sudan was deposed
Event: 7/4/1827: Matches went on sale for the first time, produced by John Walker in Stockton
Event: 7/4/1891: Phineas T. Barnum, the American showman, died
Event: 7/4/1906: There was an eruption of the Italian volcano 'Versuvius'
Event: 7/4/1939: Italy invaded Albania
Event: 7/4/1947: Henry Ford, the man who revolutionised car manufacturing, died
Event: 7/4/1948: The World Health Organisation (WHO) was established
Event: 7/4/1982: A 200-mile radius naval blockade of the Falkland Islands was announced by the British
Event: 7/4/1986: Sinclair computers, who produced the popular 'Spectrum', were sold to Amstrad
Event: 7/4/1989: A Soviet nuclear powered submarine cuaght fire and sank off the caost of Norway
Event: 8/4/1513: The spanish explorer Juan de Leon discovered Florida in what is now the USA
Event: 8/4/1838: The steamship 'Great Western' made its maiden voyage to New York
Event: 8/4/1908: Liberal leader Herbert Asquith became the British prime minister
Event: 8/4/1946: The first ever meeting of the League of Nations took place
Event: 8/4/1964: The unmanned Gemini 1 spacecraft was launched by the United States
Event: 8/4/1973: Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, died
Event: 8/4/1986: Clint Eastwood, the film star, was elected Mayor of Carmel, California
Event: 9/4/1770: The British explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia
Event: 9/4/1865: The American Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate forces
Event: 9/4/1940: German forces invaded Denmark and Norway during World War 2
Event: 9/4/1945: The American USS Liberty exploded in Bari harbour, Italy, killing 360 of the crew
Event: 9/4/1957: The Suez Canal, Egypt, was cleared and opened to shipping
Event: 9/4/1969: The maiden test flight of the British built Concorde took place
Event: 9/4/1980: Israeli troops moved into Leanon
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
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