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Born 1800 John Brown 1860 J.M. Barrie 1874 Howard Carter 1874 Lilian Baylis 1910 Barbara Woodhouse 1930 Joan Sims 1934 Alan Bennett 1936 Albert Finney 1936 Glenda Jackson 1949 Billy Joel 1962 Dave Gahan 1962 Paul Heaton Died 2001 James Myers Music 1970 Elvis began his first tour in the US for almost 12 years. 1988 'DEF II' began on BBC2. 1990 New Kids On The Block appeared at the NEC in Birmingham. 1992 Ireland's Linda Martin won the Eurovision song contest in Malmo, Sweden with 'Why Me?', with Britain's Michael Ball coming in second. Sport 1992 Women's world snooker champion Allison Fisher beat world number 8 Mike Hallett 5-3 in a Matchroom League game in Brighton. 1992 Liverpool won their third FA Cup final in 6 years with a 2-0 victory over Second Division Sunderland. 1993 Top jockey Frankie Dettori was arrested by police after he was suspected of possessing LSD. He was stopped by a routine police patrol in London and a drug like substance was found in his car. People & Showbiz 1662 The first recorded 'Punch & Judy' show in Britain was presented by Pietro Gimonde at Convent Garden, London, as recorded in the diary of Samual Pepys. 1671 Irish adventurer Colonel Thomas Blood and a band of accomplices attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, but were apprehended soon after making their way out of the Tower. 1983 Time Out magazine was banned by the High Court from publishing advanced schedules of television programmes. General Events 1984 French railways announced that specially converted carriages which would contain discos, play areas for children and feeding rooms for mothers and babies would be introduced in an attempt to attract more passengers. 1988 The 1938 record breaking steam locomotive Mallard left Marylebone station carrying huge Mallard stamps to mark the issue of 4 new transport stamps. 1988 Lorry drivers blockaded Dover, Calais and Dunkirk in the continuing dispute between P&O and the National Union of Seamen, bringing chaos to continental trade and traffic. 1989 Namibian conservation officials were cutting the horns of sedated black rhinos in an attempt to protect them from poachers. 1991 Former Sinn Fein publicity director Danny Morrison was jailed for falsely imprisoning a police informer. 1992 Thousands of shoppers were evacuated from Europe's biggest indoor shopping complex, Metrocentre in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, after 2 fire bombs were discovered. 1993 Italian schoolboys who were spying on prostitutes found that one of them was their English teacher. She later admitted that she was in fact a 'he' and was a prostitute during the night to pay for a sex change operation. |
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