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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 |
Anniversaries on: April 6, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1866 | Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw | | 1874 | Harry Houdini, Famous escapologist | | 1906 | John Betjeman, Poet, author and broadcaster | | 1926 | Rev Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland Politician | | 1929 | Andre Previn, American conductor | | 1938 | Billy Dee Williams, US film & television actor | | 1938 | Paul Daniels, Magician & TV quiz show host |
Events:| 1830 | The Mormon church was founded in the United States | | 1896 | The first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece | | 1909 | The North Pole was reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary | | 1917 | The United States entered World War I | | 1944 | The income tax system 'Pay As You Earn', devised by Cornelius Gregg, was introduced | | 1965 | The worlds first commercial communication satellite, Early Bird, was launched | | 1973 | The spacecraft Pioneer 11 was launched to the planets Jupiter & Saturn | | 1982 | The UK banned all Argentinian imports after the invasion of the Falklands | | 1983 | Ian Smith, the ex prime minister of Rhodesia, was granted a British passport | | 1985 | President Numeiri of the Sudan was deposed |
Anniversaries on: April 7, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1770 | William Wordsworth, English Poet | | 1915 | Billy Holiday, American jazz singer | | 1928 | James Garner US film & TV actor; TV's 'Rockford files' | | 1939 | Sir David Frost, Television presenter & interviewer | | 1939 | Francis Ford Coppola, American film director | | 1945 | Dennis Amiss, Cricketer | | 1945 | Martyn Lewis, Television newsreader |
Events:| 1827 | Matches went on sale for the first time, produced by John Walker in Stockton | | 1891 | Phineas T. Barnum, the American showman, died | | 1906 | There was an eruption of the Italian volcano 'Versuvius' | | 1939 | Italy invaded Albania | | 1947 | Henry Ford, the man who revolutionised car manufacturing, died | | 1948 | The World Health Organisation (WHO) was established | | 1982 | A 200-mile radius naval blockade of the Falkland Islands was announced by the British | | 1986 | Sinclair computers, who produced the popular 'Spectrum', were sold to Amstrad | | 1989 | A Soviet nuclear powered submarine cuaght fire and sank off the caost of Norway |
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