I were goin t do the birthday thing for Keiran earlier tonight
Till I notced his dad couln't be bothered to POST til 11 0;clock
Sorry lad, yer dad's just not reliable
Belated birthday greetins
Em
Born today:
1939 - James Fox, actor
1942 - Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV presenter
1945 - Pete Townsend, Who's he?
1948 - Grace Jones, singer/actress
1953 - Victoria Wood, comedian
Died today:
1536 - Anne Boleyn, lost her head
1935 - Lawrence of Arabia, biker
1965 - Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise, aged 92
1984 - John Betjeman, poet
2006 - Freddie Garrity, Dreamer
526 - An earthquake in Syria kills around 300,000.
1813 - Napoleon defeats the combined armies of Russia & Prussia at the Battle of Bautzen.
1873 - Levi Strauss patents his jeans.
1913 - The 1st Chelsea Flower Show.
1916 - A tornado strikes Codell in Texas. and...
1917 - A tornado strikes Codell in Texas. and...
1918 - A tornado strikes Codell in Texas.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh takes off on the 1st solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off on the 1st solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic by a woman.
Born today:
1944 - Joe Cocker, singer
1946 - Cher, singer
1970 - Louis Theroux, TV presenter
Died today:
1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer
1996 - Jon Pertwee, actor
1871 - French government troops invade the Paris Commune and kill 20,000 of its inhabitants.
1894 - Queen Victoria opens the Manchester Ship Canal.
1904 - FIFA is founded, in Paris.
1945 - Humphrey Bogart marries Lauren Bacall.
1966 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) beats Henry Cooper in the 6th round.
1996 - The MV Bukoba sinks on Lake Victoria; 1,000 drown.
2003 - An earthquake in Algeria claims over 2,000.
Born today:
1941 - Martin Carthy, folk musician
1947 - Leo Sayer, singer
1952 - Mr T., actor
Died today:
1965- Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer
2000 - Barbara Cartland, author
2000 - Sir John Gielgud, actor
1895 - Oscar Wilde is convicted of poofery.
1940 - The evacuation at Dunkirk begins.
1967 - Celtic become the 1st British club to win the European Cup, beating Milan 2-1 in Lisbon.
1977 - 'Star Wars' is released.
1979 - A DC10 crashes on take-off from Chicago; 270 die.
1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a cyclone; 10,000 die.
2002 - A Boeing 747 plunges into the Taiwan Strait; 225 die.
2002 - A train crash in Mozambique kills 200.
Born today:
1939 - Ian McKellen, actor
1958 - Paul Weller, musician
Died today:
735 - The Venerable Bede, monk/historian
1934 - Gustav Holst, composer
2002 - Pat Coombs, actress
2006 - Desmond Dekker, ace musician
1798 - Income Tax introduced.
1868 - The last public hanging - Michael Barrett outside Newgate Prison.
1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over Thailand; 223 die.
1999 - MUFC win the European Cup to add to the FA Cup and League Championship.
2006 - The Java Earthquake kills 5,700.
Born today:
1923 - James Arness, actor
1948 - Stevie Nicks, songwriter
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, musician
1966 - Helena Bonham-Carter, actress
1966 - Zola Budd, runner
1972 - Patsy Palmer, actress
1936 - Queen Mary's maiden voyage - to New York.
1939 - DC Comics unveils 'Batman'.
1941 - The Royal Navy sink the Bismarck.
1986 - Bob Geldorf is knighted by the Queen.
1995 - Christopher Reeve falls from his horse and is paralysed from the neck down.
Born today:
1922 - Christopher Lee, actor
1943 - Cilla Black, singer
1946 - Lewis Collins, actor
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, musician
1967 - Paul Gascoigne, footballer
1975 - Jamie Oliver, chef
1907 - 1st Isle of Man TT - the winner's av speed = 38mph!
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco opens.
1951 - 1st Goon Show is broadcast.
1967 - Sir Francis Chichester completes his solo around the world voyage on Gypsy Moth IV.
1982 - British troops take 1,500 Argies prisoners at the Battle of Goose Green.
1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by an earthquake; over 2,000 are killed.
Born today:
1944 - Gladys Knight, singer
1944 - Faith Brown, comedienne
1947 - Sandra Locke, actor
1968 - Kylie Minogue, singer
Died today:
1787 - Leopold Mozart, composer
1849 - Anne Bronte, author
1971 - Audie Murphy, actor
1982 - Lt Col 'H' Jones VC, soldier
1984 - Eric Morecambe, comedian
1942 - Bing Crosby records 'White Christmas'.
1953 - Edmund Hilary & Tenzing Norgay conquer Mt Everest.
1968 - MUFC become 1st English club to win the European Cup.
1985 - 39 football fans were killed and at least another 400 injured when a wall collapsed during crowd violence at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, only minutes before the start of the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.
Born today:
1956 - La Toya Jackson, singer
Died today:
1829 - Humphrey Davey, chemist
1847 - de Grouchy, Marshall of France
1656 - Britain's senior regiment, the Grenadier Guards, were formed.
1842 - John Francis attempts to assassignate Queen Victoria.
1942 - 1,000 British bombers attack Cologne, Germany.
1978 - Liverpool won the European Cup for the 2nd year running.
1989 - Cliff Richard released his 100th single.
1998 - An earthquake hits Afghanistan killing 5,000.
Born today:
1961 - Harry Enfield, comedian
Died today:
1416 - Joan of Arc, Noah's wife
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, playwright
1640 - Peter Rubens, painter
1778 - Voltaire, philosopher
1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviator
1678 - Lady Godiva rides thru Coventry.
1859 - Big Ben tolls for the 1st time.
1889 - A dam breaks sending a 60' wall of water over Johnstown, Pennsylvania drowning 2,200.
1902 - End of the Boer War.
1910 - The Girl Guides was formed.
1911 - The Titanic was launched.
1916 - The indecisive naval Battle of Jutland between GB and Germany was fought.
1927 - The last Ford Model T - over 15m were produced.
1931 - An earthquake destroys Quetta, Pakistan; 40,000 die.
1970 - " " " Yungay, Peru; 47,000 die.
Born today:
1930 - Clint Eastwood, the man with no name
1939 - Terry Waite, humanitarian
1943 - Sharon Gless, actress
1949 - Tom Berenger, actor
1935 - Intro of the 'L' plate.
1946 - TV licences 1st issued (@ £2).
1957 - ERNIE drew the 1st premium bond - top prize = £1000.
Born today:
1930 - Edward Woodward, actor
1937 - Morgan Freeman, actor
1944 - Robert Powell, actor
1947 - Ron Wood, Stone
1968 - Jason Donovan, actor/singer
Died today:
1943 - Leslie Howard, actor
1985 - Richard Greene, actor
a bit of history for me......for those who dont know iopen safes for a living(all above board ), yesterday..i opened a safe at a house that was the house that oliver cromwell stayed in the night before the battle of naseby......i thought that was pretty cool....didnt get a tip though...not so cool !!!!! lol
1896 - Marconi patents the radio.
1953 - The coronation of QEII at Westminster Abbey.
1954 - Lester Piggott becomes the youngest jockey at 18 to win the Derby.
Born today:
1926 - Milo O'Shea, actor
1941 - Stacy Keach, actor
Died today:
1990 - Rex Harrison, actor
1162 - Thomas Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1962 - A Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris; 130 die.
1969 - The Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne cuts the US destroyer Frank E Evans in half.
1979 - An oilwell blowout in the Gulf of Mexico spills 175m gallons of oil into the waters.
1998 - A HST derails in Eschede, Germany; 100 die.
Born today:
1925 - Tony Curtis, actor
1950 - Suzi Quatro, rock chick
1962 - Susannah Constantine, fashion guru
Died today:
1875 - Georges Bizet, composer
1899 - Johann Strauss II, composer
1992 - Robert Morley, actor
2001 - Anthony Quinn, actor
1913 - Suffragette Emily Davison throws herself under the King's horse Anmer during the Derby - she dies later.
1917 - The 1st Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.
1940 - The evacuation at Dunkirk ends: 300,000 troops survive.
1940 - Winston Churchill says "...we shall never surrender."
1942 - The Battle of Midway.
1989 - The massacre in Tiananmen Square.
1989 - A gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 575.
Born today:
1927 - Geoffrey Palmer, actor
1936 - Bruce Dern, actor
1948 - Bob Champion, jockey
Died today:
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, womaniser
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1963 - Secretary of State John Profumo resigns in sex scandal.
1967 - Israel starts the Six-Day War.
1968 - Robert F Kennedy is killed by a Palestinian dissident.
1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts a tank in Tianamen Square.
Died today:
1916 - Lord Kitchener, field marshall
2004 - Ronald Reagan, actor turned president
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