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Anniversaries on: February 1, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1895 | John Ford, American film director; 'Stage Coach' | | 1901 | Clarke Gable, Hollywood superstar, and wartime US Air Force captain | | 1915 | Sir Stanley Matthews, Football player | | 1931 | Boris Yeltsin, Russian President | | 1932 | Sir John Nott, Former Conervative Defence Secretary | | 1937 | Don Everly, Canadian singer with the 'Everly Brothers' | | 1942 | Terry Jones, 'Monty Python' member; writer, comedian & director | | 1968 | Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of Elvis; Married to Michael Jackson |
Events:| 1851 | Mary Shelley, English author of the classic novel 'Frankenstein', died | | 1915 | Passport photos were made obligatory in Britain | | 1920 | The Canadian 'Mounties',(RCMP) came into being, after changing their name from the 'North West Mounted Police' | | 1930 | The first ever 'Times' crossword was published | | 1941 | The Air Training Corps, affiliated to the RAF, was formed | | 1973 | Londons Stock Exchange admitted women for the first time | | 1974 | Ronnie Biggs, one of the 'Great Train' robbers, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro | | 1989 | Students marched in London against government plans to introduce student loans |
Anniversaries on: February 2, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1650 | Nell Gwynne, Comedy actress and mistress of Charles II | | 1882 | James Joyce, Irish born novelist, author of 'Ulysses' | | 1920 | Hughie Green, Canadian born quiz show host | | 1933 | Les Dawson, Comedian and TV quiz presenter | | 1938 | Norman Fowler, Conservative; former Secretary of State for Employment | | 1940 | David Jason, Stage & TV actor; 'Only Fools and Horses' |
Events:| 1836 | The first public railway in London opened | | 1852 | The first 'flushing' mens public toilet was opened in Fleet street, London | | 1914 | The Cub Scouts were founded in Robertsbridge, Sussex | | 1970 | Bertrand Russell, the British mathematician and renowned philosopher died, aged 97 | | 1976 | The Queen opened the 'National Exhibition Centre' near Birmingham | | 1983 | In Ireland, a constitutional amendment was introduced, banning abortion | | 1987 | Alistair Maclean, the best selling novelist, died | | 1987 | Terry Waite, acting as special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, was captured by terrorists in Beirut |
Anniversaries on: February 3, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1809 | Felix Mendelssohn, German composer | | 1907 | James Michener, American author 'The Fires of Spring' | | 1920 | Iain Hamilton, Journalist and author | | 1928 | Frankie Vaughan, Popular singer during the 50's and 60's | | 1929 | Val Doonican, Irish singer and TV entertainer | | 1935 | Jeremy Kemp, Actor of stage, screen and TV | | 1947 | Elaine Padmore, Opera singer and director | | 1959 | Lol Tolhurst, Of the Pop group 'The Cure' |
Events:| 1877 | The paino piece 'chopsticks' was first registered | | 1953 | Hurricane force winds,and high tides, caused havoc on the east coast of Britain, leaving many drowned, & thousands homeless | | 1959 | Buddy Holly, the US singer and guitarist, died | | 1966 | The first soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft, Luna 9, took place | | 1988 | Hundreds of nurses, striking for more pay and better Health Service funding, marched on Parliament | | 1988 | The Prince and Princess of Wales ended their bicentennial tour of Australia | | 1989 | Twenty villages were evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster | | 1992 | India's Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets |
Anniversaries on: February 4, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1902 | Charles Lindberg, American pilot, first person to fly the Atlantic solo | | 1920 | Norman Wisdom, Actor & star of many comedy films | | 1920 | Derek Worlock R.C Archbishop of Liverpool | | 1936 | William Ross, Ulster Unionist politician | | 1941 | John Steel, Of the Pop group 'The Animals' | | 1947 | Dan Quayle, Former American Vice-President | | 1948 | Alice Cooper, Rock star |
Events:| 1927 | A new land speed record was set, when Malcolm Campbell reached 174mph in his car 'Bluebird', in Wales | | 1929 | The first 'Green Belt' was approved near Hendon, Middlesex | | 1938 | Adolf Hitler took command of the German Army | | 1953 | Sweets were taken 'Off Ration' in Britain | | 1962 | The Sunday Times produced the first British colour supplement | | 1971 | Rolls Royce were made bankrupt after a disastrous contract to supply aero engines to Lockheed Aircraft | | 1983 | The funeral took place of Billy Fury, the 60's Pop idol | | 1989 | John Cassavetes, the American actor and film director, died aged 59 |
Anniversaries on: February 5, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1788 | Sir Robert Peel, Founder of the Metropolitan Police | | 1840 | John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tyre | | 1906 | John Carradine, Character actor in American films | | 1942 | Susan Hill, Playwright and novelist | | 1944 | Al Cooper, Of the group 'Blood Sweat and Tears' | | 1946 | Charlotte Rampling, Leading British film actress | | 1952 | Russell Grant, Television astrologer | | 1969 | Bobby Brown, Pop star, and husband of Whitney Houston |
Events:| 1922 | The very first 'Readers Digest' appeared on the shelves | | 1936 | The film 'Modern Times', by Charlie Chaplin, had its American premiere | | 1961 | The Sunday Telegraph was first published | | 1971 | The US Apollo 14 (Shepard & Mitchell onboard) landed on the Moon | | 1988 | Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize | | 1989 | Sky satellite television was launched | | 1992 | Kevin Keegan was appointed manager of Newcastle Football Club | | 1994 | A US paragliding citizen landed on the roof of Buckingham Palace |
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