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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 |
Anniversaries on: February 6, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1911 | Ronald Reagan, Former actor and US (40th) President | | 1919 | Zsa Zsa Gabor, American actress | | 1922 | Denis Norden, Scriptwriter, radio and TV presenter | | 1929 | Keith Waterhouse, Journalist, playwright and novelist | | 1931 | Fred Trueman, Former Yorkshire and England cricketer | | 1932 | Francois Truffaut, Oscar winning French film director | | 1933 | Leslie Crowther, Television game show host | | 1940 | Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian | | 1966 | Rick Astley, British singer |
Events:| 1685 | King Charles II died | | 1918 | Women aged 30 and over were given the vote for Parliamentary Elections for the first time | | 1952 | King George VI died in his sleep, aged 56 | | 1958 | A plane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed at Munich airport, killing 7 of the team | | 1959 | Indira Ghandi became the leader of India's Congress Party | | 1991 | Debis from the Soviet space station 'Salyut 7' fell into the Atlantic as it broke up | | 1992 | Barbara Mills QC, became the first female Director of Public Prosecutions | | 1994 | Ambulance crews in Manchester were issued with bullet proof vests |
Anniversaries on: February 7, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1478 | Sir Thomas More, Writer, statesman and Lord Chancellor | | 1812 | Charles Dickens, Celebrated novelist; 'A Christmas Carol' | | 1923 | Earl of Harewood, Managing director of the English National Opera | | 1924 | Dora Bryan, Actress appearing in over 50 films | | 1937 | Peter Jay, Former Ambassador to Washington | | 1943 | Gareth Hunt, British TV actor; 'New Avengers' | | 1949 | Alan Lancaster, Former member of the group 'Status Quo' | | 1959 | Sammy Lee, Former Liverpool football player |
Events:| 1845 | A priceless glass Roman was broken by a drunken visitor to the British Museum | | 1878 | Pope Pius IX died, having reigned for over 31 years | | 1922 | During an outbreak of the disease 'Foot and Mouth', thousands of cattle were slaughtered | | 1940 | Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio' had its world premiere, in the USA | | 1976 | A woman refereed an all male football match for the first time | | 1984 | US astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to 'Spacewalk' untethered to a spacecraft | | 1988 | Torrential rains and flooding killed 120 people and injured thousands in Rio de Janeiro | | 1993 | Former Wimbledon champion Arthur Ashe, died in New York of AIDS |
Anniversaries on: February 8, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1819 | John Ruskin, English writer and artist | | 1820 | William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after | | 1828 | Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' | | 1920 | Lana Turner, American film actress | | 1925 | Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor | | 1931 | James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause') | | 1932 | John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones' |
Events:| 1725 | Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia | | 1886 | A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting | | 1924 | The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison | | 1955 | Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party | | 1969 | The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place | | 1974 | The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere | | 1984 | British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon | | 1994 | Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides |
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