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Birthday: 4/1/1809: Louis Braille, Devised the Braille system for the blind
Birthday: 4/1/1878: Augustus John, Welsh artist
Birthday: 4/1/1914: Jane Wyman, American actress
Birthday: 4/1/1935: Floyd Patterson, American heavyweight boxer
Birthday: 4/1/1939: Dyan Cannon, American actress
Birthday: 4/1/1943: John McLaughlin, Jazz and blues singer
Birthday: 5/1/1902: Stella Gibbons, English novelist and poet
Birthday: 5/1/1931: Alfred Brendal, Austrian concert pianist
Birthday: 5/1/1931: Robert Duvall, American film actor
Birthday: 5/1/1938: King Juan Carlos of Spain
Birthday: 5/1/1942: Jan Leeming, Television newsreader
Birthday: 5/1/1946: Dianne Keaton, American film actress
Birthday: 5/1/1950: Chris Stein, Of 'Blondie'
Birthday: 6/1/1745: Jaques Montgolfier, Built first practical hot air balloon
Birthday: 6/1/1913: Loretta Young, American film actress
Birthday: 6/1/1934: Sylvia Syms, British actress
Birthday: 6/1/1943: Treey Venables, England football manager
Birthday: 6/1/1957: Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
Birthday: 6/1/1959: Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
Birthday: 6/1/1959: Kathy Sledge, Of 'Sister Sledge'
Birthday: 7/1/1768: Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples
Birthday: 7/1/1867: Carl Laemmle, Founder of Universal Pictures
Birthday: 7/1/1873: Charles Peguy, French poet
Birthday: 7/1/1873: Adolph Zukor, American film producer
Birthday: 7/1/1925: Gerald Durrell, British naturalist
Birthday: 7/1/1951: Helen Worth, Actress in 'Coronation Street'
Birthday: 8/1/1897: Dennis Wheatley, English thriller novelist
Birthday: 8/1/1934: Roy Kinnear, Comedy actor
Birthday: 8/1/1935: Elvis Presley, American rock singer
Birthday: 8/1/1937: Shirley Bassey, Welsh born singer
Birthday: 8/1/1942: Stephen Hawking, English physicist/mathematician
Birthday: 8/1/1947: David Bowie, English rock singer and film actor
Birthday: 8/1/1961: Calvin Smith, American sprinter
Birthday: 9/1/1898: Dame Gracie Fields, English singer
Birthday: 9/1/1908: Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist
Birthday: 9/1/1913: Richard Nixon, Former (37th) US President
Birthday: 9/1/1914: Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress
Birthday: 9/1/1922: Clive Dunn, Actor in 'Dads Army'
Birthday: 9/1/1941: Joan Baez, American singer
Birthday: 9/1/1951: Crystal Gayle, American singer
Birthday: 10/1/1834: John Acton, 1st Baron, English historian
Birthday: 10/1/1908: Paul Henreid, Austrian born actor
Birthday: 10/1/1910: Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
Birthday: 10/1/1927: Johnny Ray, American singer
Birthday: 10/1/1945: Rod Stewart, English rock singer
Birthday: 10/1/1949: George Foreman, American boxer
Birthday: 11/1/1857: Fred Archer, English champion jockey
Birthday: 11/1/1864: Henry G.Selfridge, US born founder of 'Selfridges' stores
Birthday: 11/1/1929: Rod Taylor, Australian born film actor
Birthday: 11/1/1953: John Sessions, English comedian
Birthday: 11/1/1957: Bryan Robson, Footballer & former England captain
Birthday: 11/1/1963: Jason Connery, Actor son of Sean Connery
Birthday: 12/1/1876: Jack London, American author
Birthday: 12/1/1893: Hermann Goering, German Nazi leader
Birthday: 12/1/1896: Tommy Handley, Comedian
Birthday: 12/1/1916: P.W Botha, South African politician
Birthday: 12/1/1932: Des O'Connor, Singer & entertainer
Birthday: 12/1/1944: Joe Frazier, American heavyweight boxer
Birthday: 12/1/1965: Mark Moore, Of 'S-Express'
Birthday: 13/1/1884: Sophie Tucker, American singer & entertainer
Birthday: 13/1/1918: Ted Willis, English dramatist
Birthday: 13/1/1919: Robert Stack, American film actor
Birthday: 13/1/1926: Michael Bond, Creator of 'Padington Bear'
Birthday: 13/1/1964: Graham Suggs McPherson, Singer with 'Madness'
Birthday: 13/1/1969: Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
Birthday: 14/1/1741: Benedict Arnold, American traitor
Birthday: 14/1/1875: Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary & Nobel Prize winner
Birthday: 14/1/1904: Cecil Beaton, British photographer
Birthday: 14/1/1909: Joseph Losey, American film director
Birthday: 14/1/1940: Trevor Nunn, British stage director
Birthday: 14/1/1941: Faye Dunaway, American film actress
Event: 4/1/1885: An appendix was successfuly removed for the first time in Iowa, USA
Event: 4/1/1936: The first ever music chart was compiled, in the United States
Event: 4/1/1944: The British, during WW2, launched an attack on Monte Cassino, Italy
Event: 4/1/1951: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul, Korea
Event: 4/1/1959: The Luna 1 spacecraft became the first to leave Earth's gravity
Event: 4/1/1978: The PLO representative in London was shot dead
Event: 4/1/1981: A broadway show called 'Frankensetin' opened and closed on the same day
Event: 4/1/1985: Britain's first baby was born to a surrogate mother for commercial reasons
Event: 4/1/1989: Two Libyan jets were shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen
Event: 5/1/1896: X-Rays were demonstrated by their discover, Wilhelm Rontgen
Event: 5/1/1925: The first American female governer was elected
Event: 5/1/1938: The BBC broadcast its first radio comedy series, 'Bandwagon'
Event: 5/1/1964: The London Underground installed its first automatic ticket barrier
Event: 5/1/1968: Alexander Dubceck became the new Prime Minister of Czecholslovakia
Event: 5/1/1972: NASA announced its plans for a new space vehicle, the shuttle
Event: 5/1/1976: A new law made French the only language allowed in advertising throughout France
Event: 5/1/1992: The oil tanker 'Braer' was wrecked in the Shetland Islands, discharging large amounts of crude oil
Event: 6/1/1540: King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleeves
Event: 6/1/1838: Samuel Morse gave the first demonstration of the electric telegraph
Event: 6/1/1928: The river Thames flooded, causing damage to Tate Art Gallery basement paintings
Event: 6/1/1945: The Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes, began
Event: 6/1/1981: The scottish novelist A.J Cronin died
Event: 6/1/1991: Christmas was celebrated in the USSR for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution
Event: 6/1/1994: Prime Minister John Major relaunched his 'Back to Basics' campaign
Event: 7/1/1610: Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter with his newly invented telescope
Event: 7/1/1785: The English Channel was crossed by air for the first time by a hot air balloon
Event: 7/1/1927: A telephone service between London and New York began operating
Event: 7/1/1975: The oil producing members of OPEC agreed to raise prices by 10%
Event: 7/1/1986: President Regan broke off all economic links with Libya
Event: 7/1/1987: Government unemployment figues showed a North-South divide
Event: 7/1/1995: An eathquake of magnitude 6.9 hit northern Japan & caused major damage to buidings
Event: 8/1/1642: Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist and astronomer, died
Event: 8/1/1886: Britain's longest railway tunnel, The Severn Railway Tunnel, was opened
Event: 8/1/1940: Because of the Second World War, food rationing in Britain began
Event: 8/1/1941: Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouts movement, died
Event: 8/1/1974: A new government post was created, the Secretary of State For Energy
Event: 8/1/1982: Blizzards struck Britain, causing a weekend of chaos
Event: 8/1/1987: The privatisation of British Airways was launched
Event: 9/1/1799: Income tax was introduced into Britain to raise funds for the Napoleonic War
Event: 9/1/1949: Tommy Handley, the English radio comedian, died
Event: 9/1/1957: Sir Anthony Eden resigned as British Prime Minister
Event: 9/1/1960: Work began on the Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt
Event: 9/1/1969: The supersonic airliner, Concorde, made its first test flight
Event: 9/1/1972: A miners strike began, which caused power cuts and industrial disruption
Event: 9/1/1972: The liner 'Queen Elizabeth' caught fire in Hong Kong harbour
Event: 9/1/1986: Michael Heseltine resigned as Defence Secretary over the 'Westland affair'
Event: 10/1/1840: The postal service, the 'penny post', began in Britain
Event: 10/1/1862: Samuel Colt, the American inventor of the Colt revolver, died
Event: 10/1/1863: The first section of the London Underground was opened
Event: 10/1/1920: The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
Event: 10/1/1926: The science fiction classic, Metropolis, was screened for the first time
Event: 10/1/1989: Czechoslovakia announced it would stop the export of 'Semtex' explosive
Event: 10/1/1992: An IRA bomb exploded only a short distance away from Downing Street
Event: 11/1/1787: William Herschel discovered that the planet Uranus had moons
Event: 11/1/1922: The first ever successful insulin treatment was given to a Canadian man
Event: 11/1/1928: Thomas Hardy, the English playwright and poet, died aged 87
Event: 11/1/1962: There was an outbreak of smallpox in Britain
Event: 11/1/1971: The first divorce in Britain was granted under the new Divorce Act
Event: 11/1/1973: The Open University awarded its first degrees
Event: 11/1/1984: French farmers hijacked English lorries in a dispute against meat imports
Event: 11/1/1995: Driving examiners went on strike over plans to make changes to the way there were paid
Event: 12/1/1866: The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London
Event: 12/1/1897: Isaac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, died
Event: 12/1/1960: Kenya ended its State of Emergency, after being in force for eight years
Event: 12/1/1970: The first ever Boeing 747, 'Jumbo Jet', landed at Heathrow airport
Event: 12/1/1987: Prince Edward resigned from the Royal Marines
Event: 12/1/1990: Martial Law was lifted in Beijing, China
Event: 12/1/1992: US Congress authorised military strikes against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait
Event: 12/1/1993: Widespread violence and unrest continued in Bombay, India
Event: 12/1/1994: The National Westminster Bank announced large scale job cuts
Event: 13/1/1893: The British Independent Labour Party was formed
Event: 13/1/1910: Opera was broadcast over the radio for the very first time
Event: 13/1/1941: James Joyce, the Irish born novelist, died in Zurich
Event: 13/1/1945: The Soviet 'Red' army occupied the Hungarian city of Budapest
Event: 13/1/1964: The first 'Beatles' release in the USA sold 1 million copies in three weeks
Event: 13/1/1972: The military staged a coup in the African country of Ghana
Event: 13/1/1978: The first ever American women astronauts were selected by NASA
Event: 14/1/1742: Edmund Halley, the English astronmer associated with Halleys Comet, died
Event: 14/1/1898: Lewis Carol, English author of 'Alice in Wonderland', died
Event: 14/1/1907: An earthquake in Jamaica killed many & destroyed the capital, Kingston
Event: 14/1/1937: The first Gallup Opinion Poll was conducted in Britain
Event: 14/1/1954: Film star Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio
Event: 14/1/1968: The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 4 spacecraft
Event: 14/1/1995: Daylight army patrols in Northern Ireland ended
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