You can choose your event here:
Tipps: write 'napoleon' to receive all events related to Napoleon.
Write 'england' to see historical events in England.
Anniversaries on: April 1, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1873 | Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer | | 1883 | Lon Chaney, American actor (played the Wolfman) | | 1932 | Debbie Reynolds, American stage and screen actress | | 1938 | Ali Mcgraw, American film actress | | 1939 | Rudolph Isley, Of the Pop group 'The Isley Brothers' | | 1948 | J.J Williams, Welsh rugby player | | 1948 | Simon Cowe, Of the Pop group 'Lindisfarne' | | 1957 | David Gower, English cricketer/captain |
Events:| 1908 | The Territorial Army was formed, consisting of volunteers | | 1918 | The Royal Air Force was formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Naval Air Service | | 1947 | The school leaving age in Britain was raised to fifteen | | 1960 | The first weather satellite, TIROS 1, was launched by the United States | | 1965 | The Greater London Council was created from the City of London and 32 boroughs | | 1973 | Value Added Tax (VAT) began operation in the United Kingdom | | 1974 | Britain re-organised its local government system, changing many county names | | 1981 | Robert de Niro won an Oscar for best actor in the film 'Raging Bull' | | 1988 | Iran accused Iraq of using mustard gas on civilians |
Anniversaries on: April 2, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1805 | Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of fairy tales | | 1914 | Sir Alec Guinness, English actor of stage and screen | | 1940 | Penelope Keith, Actress | | 1946 | Sue Townsend, Writer, and creator of 'Adrian Mole' | | 1949 | Paul Gambaccini, DJ | | 1949 | Emmylou Harris, Country and Western singer | | 1960 | Linford Christie, British medal winning sprinter | | 1961 | Keren Woodward, Of the Pop group 'Bananarama' |
Events:| 1801 | During the naval battle of Copenhagen, Nelson ignored a signal to withdraw by putting the telescope to his blind eye | | 1872 | Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code, died | | 1873 | The first ever toilets were fitted on British trains, in the sleeping cars | | 1877 | In London, the first ever human cannonball act was shown to the public | | 1912 | The liner Titanic underwent her sea trials in the Irish Sea | | 1966 | The author C.S Forester, best known for his 'Hornblower' books, died | | 1977 | Red Rum won the 'Grand National' for the third time | | 1982 | Argentinian forces invaded the British run Falkland Islands | | 1990 | An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, struck near Wrexham in North Wales |
Anniversaries on: April 3, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1367 | King Henry IV, Became King of England in 1399 | | 1893 | Leslie Howard, Stage and screen actor | | 1924 | Marlon Brando, Oscar winning actor | | 1924 | Doris Day, Star of stage, screen and television | | 1925 | Tony Benn, Labour politician | | 1938 | Jeff Barry, Producer and songwriter | | 1944 | Tony Orlando, American singer | | 1946 | John Virgo, Snooker player |
Events:| 1721 | Robert Walpole was elected as Britains first Prime Minister | | 1860 | In the United States, the Pony Express mail delivery system began | | 1882 | Jesse James, the American outlaw, was shot in the back by a former friend, Robert Ford | | 1933 | The first ever flight over Mount Everest was completed by four Britons | | 1947 | 'BUPA', the private health care service, began in the UK | | 1966 | Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve orbit around the Moon | | 1974 | Glenda Jackson won an Oscar for her role in the film 'A Touch of Class' | | 1984 | A new world record distance for flying a microlight aircraft was set at 340 miles |
Anniversaries on: April 4, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1915 | Muddy Waters, Chicago blues singer | | 1932 | Anthony Perkins, American actor, star of 'Psycho' | | 1935 | Trevor Griffiths, Playwright | | 1941 | William Tarmey, Actor in Coronation Street | | 1945 | Anthony Braxton, Jazz musician | | 1964 | Paul Parker, Footballer with Manchester United | | 1965 | Robert Downey Jnr, American actor |
Events:| 1841 | William Harrison, the 9th US President, died of pneumonia after only holding the office for 30 days | | 1887 | The world's first woman mayor, Susanna Salter, was elected at Argonia, Kansas | | 1934 | 'Cats eyes' were used on the road for the first time, in Yorkshire | | 1949 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 'NATO' was formed in Washington USA | | 1964 | The top five places in the US singles charts were all held by the 'Beatles' | | 1968 | Martin Luther King, the US black civil rights leader, was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee | | 1968 | Apollo 6, an unmanned test spacecraft, was launched on a Saturn V rocket | | 1983 | American actress Gloria Swanson, star of both silent and sound films, died aged 84 | | 1983 | The second space shuttle, 'Challenger' was launched from Cape Canaveral | | 1988 | After over four and a half thousand episodes, the soap 'Crossroads' ended |
Anniversaries on: April 5, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1649 | Elihu Yale, Founder of American Yale University | | 1900 | Spencer Tracey, American film star | | 1908 | Bette Davis, American actress & film star | | 1916 | Gregory Peck, American actor/film star | | 1928 | Michael Bryant, Actor | | 1929 | Nigel Hawthorne, Actor | | 1946 | Jane Asher, British actress |
Events:| 1910 | Kissing was banned on the French railway system | | 1955 | The Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned | | 1960 | The film epic 'Ben Hur', with Charlton Heston, won a total of ten Oscars | | 1975 | Howard Hughes, the American multi-millionaire, died | | 1976 | Harold Wilson, of the Labour Party, resigned as Prime Minister | | 1981 | The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev went to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis | | 1982 | A British Naval Task Force left for the Falkland Islands, which had been invaded by Argentina | | 1984 | BBC 1 went off the air, blacked out by an industrial dispute | | 1986 | A terrorist bomb exploded in a Berlin disco | | 1987 | Prison officers were held hostage at Magilligan Prison, Northern Ireland |
|
|
