You can choose your event here:
Tipps: write 'napoleon' to receive all events related to Napoleon.
Write 'england' to see historical events in England.
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 |
Anniversaries on: April 8, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1884 | Harry S.Truman, Former American President | | 1889 | Adrian Boult, Conductor | | 1893 | Mary Pickford, American film actress | | 1919 | Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia | | 1928 | Eric Porter, British actor | | 1944 | Hywel Bennett, Television actor; 'Shelly' | | 1963 | Alec Stewart, Cricketer |
Events:| 1513 | The spanish explorer Juan de Leon discovered Florida in what is now the USA | | 1838 | The steamship 'Great Western' made its maiden voyage to New York | | 1908 | Liberal leader Herbert Asquith became the British prime minister | | 1946 | The first ever meeting of the League of Nations took place | | 1964 | The unmanned Gemini 1 spacecraft was launched by the United States | | 1973 | Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, died | | 1986 | Clint Eastwood, the film star, was elected Mayor of Carmel, California |
Anniversaries on: April 9, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1806 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian engineer | | 1898 | Paul Robeson, American actor and singer | | 1906 | Hugh Gaitskell, Politician | | 1937 | Valerie Singleton, Former 'Blue Peter' presenter | | 1941 | Hannah Gorden, British actress | | 1957 | Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer |
Events:| 1770 | The British explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia | | 1865 | The American Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate forces | | 1940 | German forces invaded Denmark and Norway during World War 2 | | 1945 | The American USS Liberty exploded in Bari harbour, Italy, killing 360 of the crew | | 1957 | The Suez Canal, Egypt, was cleared and opened to shipping | | 1969 | The maiden test flight of the British built Concorde took place | | 1980 | Israeli troops moved into Leanon |
|
|
