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Anniversaries on: January 22, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1561 | Francis Bacon, English politician and philospher | | 1788 | Lord Byron, English poet | | 1875 | D.W Griffith, American film director/producer | | 1921 | Sir Alf Ramsey, Manager of England's World Cup squad | | 1937 | Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress | | 1940 | John Hurt, English born film actor; 'Alien' | | 1948 | George Foreman, American heavyweight boxer |
Events:| 1771 | The Falkland Islands were given to Britain by the Spanish | | 1879 | British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana, South Africa | | 1924 | Ramsey MacDonald became the first British Labour Prime Minister | | 1927 | A football match was broadcast over the radio for the very first time | | 1941 | Tobruk, North Africa, was captured by Australian troops | | 1944 | Allied forces landed at Anzio, Italy | | 1947 | The fresh meat ration was reduced to 1s (5p) per week in Britain | | 1972 | The United Kingdom joined the Common Market | | 1974 | Loyalists were expelled from the Northern Ireland Assembley |
Anniversaries on: January 23, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1832 | Edouard Manet, French artist | | 1899 | Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls for 20 years | | 1903 | Randolph Scott, American film actor | | 1919 | Bob Paisley, Former manager of Liverpool FC | | 1950 | Patrick Simmons, Of the 'Doobie Brothers' | | 1957 | Princess Caroline of Monaco |
Events:| 1556 | An earthquake in Shensi Province, China, killed 830,000 people | | 1571 | The Royal Exchange, in London, was founded | | 1931 | The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova died at her Hampstead Heath home, aged 49 | | 1943 | British forces captured the city of Tripoli, Libya, from the Germans | | 1963 | Kim Philby, the double agent, defected to Russia | | 1985 | A House of Lords debate was televised for the first time | | 1990 | Gales of up to 115mph caused much damage, and four people were killed | | 1991 | During the Gulf War, virtually all of Iraqs radar & runway facilities had been destroyed |
Anniversaries on: January 24, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1917 | Ernest Borgnine, American film and television actor | | 1928 | Desmond Morris, English zoologist and author | | 1935 | Bamber Gascoigne, Presenter, broadcaster & author | | 1941 | Neil Diamond, American singer/songwriter | | 1949 | John Belushi, American comedy actor | | 1961 | Nastassja Kinski, German born film actress |
Events:| 1848 | Gold was first discovered in California, which then started the gold rush | | 1916 | Conscription began in Britain | | 1935 | Beer, in cans, was sold for the first time, in Virginia (United States) | | 1965 | Winston Churchill, Britains wartime prime minister, died | | 1975 | Dr Coggan became the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury | | 1978 | A Russian satellite accidently crashed in Canada's Northwest Territory | | 1985 | The space shuttle 'Discovery' was launced on its first military mission | | 1987 | The were violent clashes, and many arrests, outside the Wapping print works | | 1991 | Operation 'Desert Storm' against Iraq continued with thousands of air sorties |
Anniversaries on: January 25, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1759 | Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet | | 1882 | Virginia Woolf, English novelist | | 1922 | Raymond Baxter, Broadcaster; presenter of 'Tomorrows World' | | 1939 | Angela Thorne, Actress | | 1944 | Leigh Taylor-Young, Hollywood actress | | 1956 | Andy Cox, Of the Beat/Fine Young Cannibals | | 1962 | Emma Freud, Television presenter |
Events:| 1917 | The United States bought the Virgin islands for 25 million dollars | | 1924 | The first ever Winter Olympic games were held, in French alps | | 1972 | The Worlds first kidney & pancreatic tissue transplant was carried out in London | | 1974 | Dr Christian Barnard performed a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place | | 1981 | The Social Democrats party was formed in UK | | 1984 | The government announced a ban on union membership at GCHQ | | 1985 | The first ever international hockey match was held | | 1990 | The American film actress, Ava Gardener, died in London | | 1992 | A selection of America's popular films began showing on Soviet television | | 1995 | The maxium speed limit for cocahes in Britain was reduced to 65 mph |
Anniversaries on: January 26, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1880 | Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general | | 1905 | Baroness Maria Von Trapp, On who the Sound Of Music was based | | 1908 | Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist | | 1922 | Michael Bentine, British comedian & writer | | 1925 | Paul Newman, American Actor & Oscar winner | | 1928 | Eartha Kitt, American singer/actress | | 1945 | Marti Caine, English comic | | 1957 | Eddie Van Halen, Rock guitarist | | 1958 | Norman Hassan, Of the group 'UB40' |
Events:| 1788 | The first English convicts arrived in Australia | | 1823 | Edward Jenner, the pioneer of vaccination, died | | 1841 | Hong Kong became a British soverign territory | | 1871 | The English Rugby Union was formed in London | | 1905 | The world's largest diamond was found near Pretoria, South Africa | | 1950 | India became a democratic republic within the Commonwealth | | 1956 | Heroin imports and exports were banned in the United Kingdom | | 1972 | The first London performance of 'Godspel' took place | | 1986 | The Sunday Times & News of the World were printed at Wapping for the first time | | 1990 | Hurricane force winds caused much damage in southern Britain | | 1994 | A protester fired blanks at Prince Charles on his tour in Sydney |
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