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Born on this Day 1881 Sir PG Wodehouse 1908 Prof. JK Galbraith 1920 Mario Puzo 1938 Marv Johnson 1944 David Trimble 1946 Richard Carpenter 1947 Chris De Burgh 1958 Sarah, Duchess of York 1965 Stephen Tompkinson Died On This Day 1946 Hermann Goering 1964 Cole Porter 2002 Buddy Lester Music 1956 Tommy Steele made his television debut on Jack Paynes' 'Off The Record'. 1977 Status Quo entered the Top 20 at No.17 with 'Rockin' All Over The World' and Rod Stewart entered at No.7 with 'You're In My Heart'. 1987 Fish, former lead singer of Marillion launched his solo tour. Sport 1988 The Paralympic Games opened in Seoul. 1990 After his serving his prison sentence for tax offences, jockey Lester Piggot made his first professional ride in a meeting at Leicester. People & Showbiz 1951 The Liberals he d the first BBC televised Party Political Broadcast given by Lord Samuel. 1954 William Golding's classic 'Lord of the Flies' was published in Britain. 1969 The print unions gave Rupert Murdoch permission to buy The Sun newspaper. General Events 1991 An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale had struck near the Solomon Islands on the South Pacific. 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1993 The President of the ANC Nelson Mandela and president de Klerk of South Africa were both awarded the Nobel peace prize 'for their work forthe peaceful termination of the apartheid regime'. 1995 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was re-elected for a further 7 years with a 100% vote.
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