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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
Birthday: 15/1/1906: Aristotle Onassis, Wealthy greek shipowner
Birthday: 15/1/1908: Edward Teller, American nuclear physicist
Birthday: 15/1/1913: Lloyd Bridges, US veteran actor of television and film
Birthday: 15/1/1918: Gamal Nasser, Former President of Egypt
Birthday: 15/1/1926: Chuck Berry, American rock 'n' roll star
Birthday: 15/1/1929: Martin Luther King, US black civil rights campaigner
Birthday: 15/1/1933: Frank Bough, Television presenter
Birthday: 16/1/1853: Andre Michelin, French tyremaker
Birthday: 16/1/1906: Diana Wynyard, British actress
Birthday: 16/1/1909: Ethel Merman, American singer and actress
Birthday: 16/1/1948: Cliff Thorburn, Snooker player
Birthday: 16/1/1956: Mel Gibson, Australian film actor
Birthday: 16/1/1959: Sade, Soul singer
Birthday: 17/1/1706: Benjamin Franklin, American statesman & scientist
Birthday: 17/1/1820: Anne Bronte, Youngest of the 'Bronte' sisters
Birthday: 17/1/1899: Al Capone, American gangster
Birthday: 17/1/1942: Muhammad Ali, American heavyweight boxing champion
Birthday: 17/1/1956: Paul Young, English singer
Birthday: 17/1/1957: Keith Chegwin, Broadcaster & television presenter
Birthday: 18/1/1779: Peter Roget, Founder of Roget's Thesaurus
Birthday: 18/1/1882: A.A Milne, English poet and humourist
Birthday: 18/1/1892: Oliver Hardy, US comedian of 'Laurel & Hardy' fame
Birthday: 18/1/1904: Cary Grant, American Hollywood film actor
Birthday: 18/1/1913: Danny Kaye, American film actor
Birthday: 18/1/1933: David Bellamy, English botanist and TV celebraty
Birthday: 19/1/1736: James Watt, Scottish 'steam' inventor
Birthday: 19/1/1747: Johann Bode, German astronomer; formulated 'Bodes Law'
Birthday: 19/1/1807: Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general
Birthday: 19/1/1809: Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet
Birthday: 19/1/1943: Janis Joplin, American rock singer
Birthday: 19/1/1946: Dolly Parton, US country singer & film actress
Birthday: 19/1/1966: Stefan Edberg, Swedish born tennis player
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: The liner 'Queen Elizabeth' caught fire in Hong Kong harbour
Event: 9/1/1972: A miners strike began, which caused power cuts and industrial disruption
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
Event: 15/1/1559: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I took place
Event: 15/1/1759: The British Museum in London was opened to the public
Event: 15/1/1880: The first ever telephone directory in Britain was published
Event: 15/1/1913: Sickness, unemployment & maternity benefits were introduced
Event: 15/1/1927: The first ever live rugby match was broadcast over the radio
Event: 15/1/1968: The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 5 spacecraft
Event: 15/1/1971: The Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt, was offically opened
Event: 16/1/1809: There were attempted risings against Napoleon in Germany
Event: 16/1/1920: The United States began its prohibiton era, banning the sale of alcohol
Event: 16/1/1929: 'The Listener' magazine was published for the first time
Event: 16/1/1969: The Soviets carried out the first manual docking of a spacecraft in orbit
Event: 16/1/1979: The ruler of Iran, the Shah, left his country
Event: 16/1/1991: Operation 'Desert Storm' began against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait
Event: 16/1/1994: Syria declared its commitment to peace with Israel
Event: 17/1/1773: Captain Cooks ship became the first to cross the Antartic Ocean
Event: 17/1/1912: English explorer Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole
Event: 17/1/1959: The African country of Mali was formed with the joining of Senegal & French Sudan
Event: 17/1/1968: The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed, from the merger of two companies
Event: 17/1/1983: Breakfast television began in Britain
Event: 17/1/1986: The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britions and other foreign nationals from Aden
Event: 17/1/1995: In Japan a massive earthquake caused widespread destruction & left 300,000 homeless
Event: 18/1/1778: Captain Cook discovered what is now called the Hawiian Islands
Event: 18/1/1871: Germany had its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia
Event: 18/1/1911: A plane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA
Event: 18/1/1936: Rudyard Kipling, the English author of 'Jungle Book', died
Event: 18/1/1944: The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ended after over two years
Event: 18/1/1967: Jeremy Thorpe was elected leader of the Liberal Party
Event: 19/1/1793: King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French Convention
Event: 19/1/1915: German zeppelins bombed London for the first time in World War I
Event: 19/1/1942: Japanese forces invaded Burma during World War 2
Event: 19/1/1962: A Czech student set himself on fire in protest against the USSR
Event: 19/1/1991: The Presidential Palace in Iraq was attacked as the Gulf War began
Event: 19/1/1992: A new Bulgarian President was elected in the countries first free elections
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