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Anniversaries on: May 12, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1567 | Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer | | 1803 | Justus von Liebig, German chemist | | 1820 | Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing | | 1828 | Dante Rossetti, English artist and poet | | 1929 | Burt Bacharach, Composer | | 1937 | Dr Miriam Stoppard, Author & broadcaster | | 1942 | Susan Hampshire, Film actress | | 1945 | Alan Ball, Southampton FC manager |
Events:| 1881 | Tunisia became a French protectorate | | 1937 | King George VI was coronated in Westminster Abbey | | 1949 | The blockade of the city of Berlin, by the USSR, was officially lifted | | 1967 | John Masefield, the English poet & former Poet Laurete, died | | 1969 | The legal age for voting in Britain was lowered from 21 to 18 | | 1976 | Jo Grimond took over the leadership of the Liberal party | | 1982 | The liner QE2 sailed to join the Falklands naval task force | | 1985 | Prince Andrew opened the new Falklands airport | | 1986 | Libya expelled a number western diplomats from their embassys in Tripoli |
Anniversaries on: May 13, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1265 | Dante Alighieri, Italian poet | | 1842 | Arthur Sullivan, English composer | | 1907 | Daphne du Maurier, English novelist | | 1914 | Joe Louis, US boxer & World Heavyweight Champion | | 1950 | Stevie Wonder, American singer |
Events:| 1607 | There were widespread riots in England against the enclosure of common land | | 1846 | The United States declared war on Mexico | | 1927 | 'Black Friday' in Germany; the day when the economic collapse of Germany began | | 1944 | Hitler gave permission for German forces to withdraw from the USSR | | 1961 | Gary Cooper, the famous Hollywood actor, died | | 1977 | The eleven day stike in Ulster ended | | 1981 | Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded | | 1987 | Sevral sailing ships left Portsmouth, re-enacting the first voyage to Botany Bay |
Anniversaries on: May 14, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1686 | Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German inventor of mercury thermometer | | 1727 | Thomas Gainsborough, British artist | | 1771 | Robert Owen, Welsh born social reformer | | 1926 | Eric Morecambe, Funnyman of the Morcambe & Wise team | | 1934 | Sian Phillips, Actress | | 1940 | Chay Blyth, Round-the-word yachtsman | | 1944 | George Lucas, Creator of the Star Wars films | | 1945 | Francesca Annis, Film actress | | 1949 | Bob Woolmer, Cricketer & coach |
Events:| 1610 | Henry IV of France was assassinated | | 1842 | The Illustrated London News, Britains first periodical, was published for the first time | | 1921 | The British Legion was founded by Earl Haig | | 1940 | Rotterdam, in Holland, was captured by German forces during WW2 | | 1948 | A jewish provisional government was formed as British Mandate for Palestine ended | | 1955 | The Warsaw Pact was signed by Eastern bloc countries | | 1957 | Petrol rationing in Britain, imposed the previous year, ended | | 1961 | The New English Bible was first published | | 1973 | The United States launched the Skylab 1 space station | | 1986 | British shipbuilders announced major staff cutbacks |
Anniversaries on: May 15, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1859 | Pierre Curie, French physicist | | 1909 | James Mason, British born film actor | | 1918 | Eddy Arnold, American film actor | | 1935 | Ted Dexter, English cricketer | | 1936 | Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist | | 1953 | Mike Oldfield, Instrumentalist |
Events:| 1902 | Portugal declared itself bankrupt | | 1908 | Artist Claude Monet destroyed some of his paintings which he didn't like | | 1957 | Britan exploded a test thermonuclear bomb on Christmas Island | | 1961 | Filming began on the epic 'Lawrence of Arabia' | | 1972 | The Queen went on a state visit to France | | 1987 | Rita Hayworth, the American film actress, died | | 1988 | Soviet troops began their withdrawl from Afghanistan | | 1990 | A Van Gogh painting, 'Portrait Of Dr. Gachet' was sold for a record amount |
Anniversaries on: May 16, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1905 | Henry Fonda, American oscar winning film actor | | 1919 | Liberace. American piano playing entertainer | | 1936 | Roy Hudd, English comedian | | 1952 | Pierce Brosnan, Actor; chosen to be the new 'James Bond' | | 1955 | Debra Winger, American film actress | | 1966 | Janet Jackson, American singer |
Events:| 1770 | The Dauphin of France and Marie Antoinette were married | | 1804 | Napoleon was declared Emperor of France | | 1920 | Switzerland joined the League of Nations | | 1929 | The first ever Academy Awards (Oscars) were held | | 1943 | The famous RAF 'dambusters' raid took place | | 1963 | The US astronaut Gordon Cooper made 22 orbits of the Earth | | 1966 | British seamen went on strike | | 1979 | LEA's no longer had to run schools along Comprehensive lines | | 1983 | The London police began using wheel clamps on illegally parked cars | | 1985 | Sinn Fein won its first seats in the Northern Ireland local elections |
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