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Anniversaries on: January 4, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1809 | Louis Braille, Devised the Braille system for the blind | | 1878 | Augustus John, Welsh artist | | 1914 | Jane Wyman, American actress | | 1935 | Floyd Patterson, American heavyweight boxer | | 1939 | Dyan Cannon, American actress | | 1943 | John McLaughlin, Jazz and blues singer |
Events:| 1885 | An appendix was successfuly removed for the first time in Iowa, USA | | 1936 | The first ever music chart was compiled, in the United States | | 1944 | The British, during WW2, launched an attack on Monte Cassino, Italy | | 1951 | Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul, Korea | | 1959 | The Luna 1 spacecraft became the first to leave Earth's gravity | | 1978 | The PLO representative in London was shot dead | | 1981 | A broadway show called 'Frankensetin' opened and closed on the same day | | 1985 | Britain's first baby was born to a surrogate mother for commercial reasons | | 1989 | Two Libyan jets were shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen |
Anniversaries on: January 5, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1902 | Stella Gibbons, English novelist and poet | | 1931 | Robert Duvall, American film actor | | 1931 | Alfred Brendal, Austrian concert pianist | | 1938 | King Juan Carlos of Spain | | 1942 | Jan Leeming, Television newsreader | | 1946 | Dianne Keaton, American film actress | | 1950 | Chris Stein, Of 'Blondie' |
Events:| 1896 | X-Rays were demonstrated by their discover, Wilhelm Rontgen | | 1925 | The first American female governer was elected | | 1938 | The BBC broadcast its first radio comedy series, 'Bandwagon' | | 1964 | The London Underground installed its first automatic ticket barrier | | 1968 | Alexander Dubceck became the new Prime Minister of Czecholslovakia | | 1972 | NASA announced its plans for a new space vehicle, the shuttle | | 1976 | A new law made French the only language allowed in advertising throughout France | | 1992 | The oil tanker 'Braer' was wrecked in the Shetland Islands, discharging large amounts of crude oil |
Anniversaries on: January 6, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1745 | Jaques Montgolfier, Built first practical hot air balloon | | 1913 | Loretta Young, American film actress | | 1934 | Sylvia Syms, British actress | | 1943 | Treey Venables, England football manager | | 1957 | Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor | | 1959 | Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer | | 1959 | Kathy Sledge, Of 'Sister Sledge' |
Events:| 1540 | King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleeves | | 1838 | Samuel Morse gave the first demonstration of the electric telegraph | | 1928 | The river Thames flooded, causing damage to Tate Art Gallery basement paintings | | 1945 | The Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes, began | | 1981 | The scottish novelist A.J Cronin died | | 1991 | Christmas was celebrated in the USSR for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution | | 1994 | Prime Minister John Major relaunched his 'Back to Basics' campaign |
Anniversaries on: January 7, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1768 | Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples | | 1867 | Carl Laemmle, Founder of Universal Pictures | | 1873 | Charles Peguy, French poet | | 1873 | Adolph Zukor, American film producer | | 1925 | Gerald Durrell, British naturalist | | 1951 | Helen Worth, Actress in 'Coronation Street' |
Events:| 1610 | Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter with his newly invented telescope | | 1785 | The English Channel was crossed by air for the first time by a hot air balloon | | 1927 | A telephone service between London and New York began operating | | 1975 | The oil producing members of OPEC agreed to raise prices by 10% | | 1986 | President Regan broke off all economic links with Libya | | 1987 | Government unemployment figues showed a North-South divide | | 1995 | An eathquake of magnitude 6.9 hit northern Japan & caused major damage to buidings |
Anniversaries on: January 8, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1897 | Dennis Wheatley, English thriller novelist | | 1934 | Roy Kinnear, Comedy actor | | 1935 | Elvis Presley, American rock singer | | 1937 | Shirley Bassey, Welsh born singer | | 1942 | Stephen Hawking, English physicist/mathematician | | 1947 | David Bowie, English rock singer and film actor | | 1961 | Calvin Smith, American sprinter |
Events:| 1642 | Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist and astronomer, died | | 1886 | Britain's longest railway tunnel, The Severn Railway Tunnel, was opened | | 1940 | Because of the Second World War, food rationing in Britain began | | 1941 | Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouts movement, died | | 1974 | A new government post was created, the Secretary of State For Energy | | 1982 | Blizzards struck Britain, causing a weekend of chaos | | 1987 | The privatisation of British Airways was launched |
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