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Anniversaries on: January 7, 2009
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, 2009
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 |
Anniversaries on: January 9, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1898 | Dame Gracie Fields, English singer | | 1908 | Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist | | 1913 | Richard Nixon, Former (37th) US President | | 1914 | Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress | | 1922 | Clive Dunn, Actor in 'Dads Army' | | 1941 | Joan Baez, American singer | | 1951 | Crystal Gayle, American singer |
Events:| 1799 | Income tax was introduced into Britain to raise funds for the Napoleonic War | | 1949 | Tommy Handley, the English radio comedian, died | | 1957 | Sir Anthony Eden resigned as British Prime Minister | | 1960 | Work began on the Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt | | 1969 | The supersonic airliner, Concorde, made its first test flight | | 1972 | The liner 'Queen Elizabeth' caught fire in Hong Kong harbour | | 1972 | A miners strike began, which caused power cuts and industrial disruption | | 1986 | Michael Heseltine resigned as Defence Secretary over the 'Westland affair' |
Anniversaries on: January 10, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1834 | John Acton, 1st Baron, English historian | | 1908 | Paul Henreid, Austrian born actor | | 1910 | Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina | | 1927 | Johnny Ray, American singer | | 1945 | Rod Stewart, English rock singer | | 1949 | George Foreman, American boxer |
Events:| 1840 | The postal service, the 'penny post', began in Britain | | 1862 | Samuel Colt, the American inventor of the Colt revolver, died | | 1863 | The first section of the London Underground was opened | | 1920 | The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland | | 1926 | The science fiction classic, Metropolis, was screened for the first time | | 1989 | Czechoslovakia announced it would stop the export of 'Semtex' explosive | | 1992 | An IRA bomb exploded only a short distance away from Downing Street |
Anniversaries on: January 11, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1857 | Fred Archer, English champion jockey | | 1864 | Henry G.Selfridge, US born founder of 'Selfridges' stores | | 1929 | Rod Taylor, Australian born film actor | | 1953 | John Sessions, English comedian | | 1957 | Bryan Robson, Footballer & former England captain | | 1963 | Jason Connery, Actor son of Sean Connery |
Events:| 1787 | William Herschel discovered that the planet Uranus had moons | | 1922 | The first ever successful insulin treatment was given to a Canadian man | | 1928 | Thomas Hardy, the English playwright and poet, died aged 87 | | 1962 | There was an outbreak of smallpox in Britain | | 1971 | The first divorce in Britain was granted under the new Divorce Act | | 1973 | The Open University awarded its first degrees | | 1984 | French farmers hijacked English lorries in a dispute against meat imports | | 1995 | Driving examiners went on strike over plans to make changes to the way there were paid |
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