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Anniversaries on: January 13, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1884 | Sophie Tucker, American singer & entertainer | | 1918 | Ted Willis, English dramatist | | 1919 | Robert Stack, American film actor | | 1926 | Michael Bond, Creator of 'Padington Bear' | | 1964 | Graham Suggs McPherson, Singer with 'Madness' | | 1969 | Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player |
Events:| 1893 | The British Independent Labour Party was formed | | 1910 | Opera was broadcast over the radio for the very first time | | 1941 | James Joyce, the Irish born novelist, died in Zurich | | 1945 | The Soviet 'Red' army occupied the Hungarian city of Budapest | | 1964 | The first 'Beatles' release in the USA sold 1 million copies in three weeks | | 1972 | The military staged a coup in the African country of Ghana | | 1978 | The first ever American women astronauts were selected by NASA |
Anniversaries on: January 14, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1741 | Benedict Arnold, American traitor | | 1875 | Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary & Nobel Prize winner | | 1904 | Cecil Beaton, British photographer | | 1909 | Joseph Losey, American film director | | 1940 | Trevor Nunn, British stage director | | 1941 | Faye Dunaway, American film actress |
Events:| 1742 | Edmund Halley, the English astronmer associated with Halleys Comet, died | | 1898 | Lewis Carol, English author of 'Alice in Wonderland', died | | 1907 | An earthquake in Jamaica killed many & destroyed the capital, Kingston | | 1937 | The first Gallup Opinion Poll was conducted in Britain | | 1954 | Film star Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio | | 1968 | The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 4 spacecraft | | 1995 | Daylight army patrols in Northern Ireland ended |
Anniversaries on: January 15, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1906 | Aristotle Onassis, Wealthy greek shipowner | | 1908 | Edward Teller, American nuclear physicist | | 1913 | Lloyd Bridges, US veteran actor of television and film | | 1918 | Gamal Nasser, Former President of Egypt | | 1926 | Chuck Berry, American rock 'n' roll star | | 1929 | Martin Luther King, US black civil rights campaigner | | 1933 | Frank Bough, Television presenter |
Events:| 1559 | The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I took place | | 1759 | The British Museum in London was opened to the public | | 1880 | The first ever telephone directory in Britain was published | | 1913 | Sickness, unemployment & maternity benefits were introduced | | 1927 | The first ever live rugby match was broadcast over the radio | | 1968 | The Soviet Union launched the manned Soyuz 5 spacecraft | | 1971 | The Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt, was offically opened |
Anniversaries on: January 16, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1853 | Andre Michelin, French tyremaker | | 1906 | Diana Wynyard, British actress | | 1909 | Ethel Merman, American singer and actress | | 1948 | Cliff Thorburn, Snooker player | | 1956 | Mel Gibson, Australian film actor | | 1959 | Sade, Soul singer |
Events:| 1809 | There were attempted risings against Napoleon in Germany | | 1920 | The United States began its prohibiton era, banning the sale of alcohol | | 1929 | 'The Listener' magazine was published for the first time | | 1969 | The Soviets carried out the first manual docking of a spacecraft in orbit | | 1979 | The ruler of Iran, the Shah, left his country | | 1991 | Operation 'Desert Storm' began against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait | | 1994 | Syria declared its commitment to peace with Israel |
Anniversaries on: January 17, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1706 | Benjamin Franklin, American statesman & scientist | | 1820 | Anne Bronte, Youngest of the 'Bronte' sisters | | 1899 | Al Capone, American gangster | | 1942 | Muhammad Ali, American heavyweight boxing champion | | 1956 | Paul Young, English singer | | 1957 | Keith Chegwin, Broadcaster & television presenter |
Events:| 1773 | Captain Cooks ship became the first to cross the Antartic Ocean | | 1912 | English explorer Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole | | 1959 | The African country of Mali was formed with the joining of Senegal & French Sudan | | 1968 | The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed, from the merger of two companies | | 1983 | Breakfast television began in Britain | | 1986 | The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britions and other foreign nationals from Aden | | 1995 | In Japan a massive earthquake caused widespread destruction & left 300,000 homeless |
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