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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 |
Anniversaries on: January 12, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1876 | Jack London, American author | | 1893 | Hermann Goering, German Nazi leader | | 1896 | Tommy Handley, Comedian | | 1916 | P.W Botha, South African politician | | 1932 | Des O'Connor, Singer & entertainer | | 1944 | Joe Frazier, American heavyweight boxer | | 1965 | Mark Moore, Of 'S-Express' |
Events:| 1866 | The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London | | 1897 | Isaac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, died | | 1960 | Kenya ended its State of Emergency, after being in force for eight years | | 1970 | The first ever Boeing 747, 'Jumbo Jet', landed at Heathrow airport | | 1987 | Prince Edward resigned from the Royal Marines | | 1990 | Martial Law was lifted in Beijing, China | | 1992 | US Congress authorised military strikes against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait | | 1993 | Widespread violence and unrest continued in Bombay, India | | 1994 | The National Westminster Bank announced large scale job cuts |
Anniversaries on: January 13, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1884 | Sophie Tucker, American singer & entertainer | | 1918 | Ted Willis, English dramatist | | 1919 | Robert Stack, American film actor | | 1926 | Michael Bond, Creator of 'Padington Bear' | | 1964 | Graham Suggs McPherson, Singer with 'Madness' | | 1969 | Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player |
Events:| 1893 | The British Independent Labour Party was formed | | 1910 | Opera was broadcast over the radio for the very first time | | 1941 | James Joyce, the Irish born novelist, died in Zurich | | 1945 | The Soviet 'Red' army occupied the Hungarian city of Budapest | | 1964 | The first 'Beatles' release in the USA sold 1 million copies in three weeks | | 1972 | The military staged a coup in the African country of Ghana | | 1978 | The first ever American women astronauts were selected by NASA |
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