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11th May
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Born

1720 Baron Von Munchausen

1892 Dame Margaret Rutherford

1904 Salvador Dali

1927 Mort Sahl

1941 Eric Burdon

1950 Jerermy Paxman

1963 Natasha Richardson

1964 John Parrott



Died

1778 William Pitt the Elder

1981 Bob Marley

1988 Kim Philby



Music

1963 The Beatles had their first No.1 album with ' Please, Please Me'.

1968 Aretha Franklin performed her first UK show in London.



Sport

1984 Mongolia, Bulgaria, East Germany, Vietnam and Laos announced they would also boycott the Los Angeles Olympics just several days after the Soviet Union announced they would stay away from the games.

1997 Gary Kasparov was visibly shaken after his defeat after only 19 moves in the deciding game with the IBM super-computer 'Deep Blue' in New York. He then accused the team in charge of the computer of cheating, demanding to see print-outs of the 'thinking' behind each of the compter's moves.



People & Showbiz

1940 Winston Churchill became head of the wartime coalition.

1962 Prince Charles began his first day at Gordonstoun school in Scotland.

1993 41 year old rock star Sting revealed in Rolling Stone magazine that he made love to his wife Trudie for 5 hours at a time. He credited yoga and mind control for his stamina.



General Events

1983 Australian government figures revealed that the country had more kangaroos than people, with the kangaroo population standing at 19m, compared with just 15m people.

1992 Students at Somerville College were meeting with their Chancellor Lord Jenkins to appeal against the decision to admit men after 113 years of single-sex education.

1995 The Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend Derek Warlock, announced he was to retire as soon as a successor could be appointed.

1997 It was predicted that Labour's Gordon Brown was probably going to phase out MIRAS, the mortgage tax relief that saves over £10 million British home-owners around £27 a month, in his first Budget.



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