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Born 1838 John Wilkes Booth 1899 Fred Astaire 1902 David O. Selznick 1933 Barbara Taylor Bradford 1943 Lucinda Lambton 1946 Donovan 1946 Maureen Lipman 1960 Bono 1966 Jonathan Edwards Died 1904 Sir Henry Stanley 1977 Joan Crawford Music 1954 BillHaley and the Comets released 'Rock Around the Clock'. 1972 Slade began their first major UK tour in Bradford. 1993 Ex-Housemartin's drummer Hugh Whitaker was jailed for 6 years after admitting attacking his former business partner James Hewitt with an axe. Sport 1983 Sporting greats including Henry Cooper, Stanley Mortensen, Billy Wright and Bill Edrich gathered at Thames Television in London for a preview of a documantary featuring the great sporting moments of Coronation year. 1986 Liverpool beat Everton by 3 goals to 1 in the final of the FA Cup. People & Showbiz 1992 Anne Diamond was signed up by the BBC for a mid-morning chat show. 1993 Bruce Willis signed the biggest ever pay deal in Hollywood after accepting almost £14 million to star in the film 'Die Hard III'. The first 2 'Die Hard' films had raked in almost £250 million. 1997 Television presenter and former wife of Bob Geldof, Paula Yates, was told that she was the secret love-child of the late presenter of 'Opportunity Knocks' Hughie Green. General Events 1907 Initiated in America by Miss Anna Jarvis, Mother's Day was held for the first time in Philadelphia. 1937 Asparagus, Britain's first frozen food, went on sale, the product of Smedley's of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. 1940 Neville Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister. 1941 In the worst night of the Blitz, 550 German bombers dropped 100,000 bombs on London, destroying a large section of the House of Commons. 1990 The Agriculture Ministry revealed that a cat had been put down suffering from a similar disorder to mad cow disease, prompting fears that the disease could be passed onto humans. 1993 A Chinese teenager who smoked non-stop for 3 hours to win a contest, collapsed and died immediately afterwards. |
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