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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 |
Anniversaries on: January 18, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1779 | Peter Roget, Founder of Roget's Thesaurus | | 1882 | A.A Milne, English poet and humourist | | 1892 | Oliver Hardy, US comedian of 'Laurel & Hardy' fame | | 1904 | Cary Grant, American Hollywood film actor | | 1913 | Danny Kaye, American film actor | | 1933 | David Bellamy, English botanist and TV celebraty |
Events:| 1778 | Captain Cook discovered what is now called the Hawiian Islands | | 1871 | Germany had its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia | | 1911 | A plane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA | | 1936 | Rudyard Kipling, the English author of 'Jungle Book', died | | 1944 | The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ended after over two years | | 1967 | Jeremy Thorpe was elected leader of the Liberal Party |
Anniversaries on: January 19, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1736 | James Watt, Scottish 'steam' inventor | | 1747 | Johann Bode, German astronomer; formulated 'Bodes Law' | | 1807 | Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general | | 1809 | Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet | | 1943 | Janis Joplin, American rock singer | | 1946 | Dolly Parton, US country singer & film actress | | 1966 | Stefan Edberg, Swedish born tennis player |
Events:| 1793 | King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French Convention | | 1915 | German zeppelins bombed London for the first time in World War I | | 1942 | Japanese forces invaded Burma during World War 2 | | 1962 | A Czech student set himself on fire in protest against the USSR | | 1991 | The Presidential Palace in Iraq was attacked as the Gulf War began | | 1992 | A new Bulgarian President was elected in the countries first free elections |
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