BinB News | BinB Events Town Sites | Ascot | Bracknell | Henley | Maidenhead | Marlow | Newbury | Slough | Reading | Windsor | Wokingham
3rd November |
||||||
|
Born on this Day
1921 Charles Bronson 1935 Jeremy Brett 1919 Sir Ludovic Kennedy 1933 John Barry 1948 Lulu 1953 Roseanne 1954 Adam Ant 1958 Dolph Lundgren 1963 Ian Wright Died On This Day 1991 Mort Schuman 1999 Ian Bannen 2002 Lonnie Donegan Music 1984 Jim Diamond entered the UK charts with 'I Should Have Known Better'- a future No.1 1990 A record 7 out of the US Top 10 dance records were by British artists 1990 Ice Ice Baby' by Vanilla Ice became the first rap record to top the US singles charts Sport 1991 British runner Liz McColgan won the New York marathon, her first in a record time 1991 In the Australian Grand Prix, the last of the season, world champion Ayrton Senna came in first, ahead of Nigel Mansell and 3rd placed Gerhard Bergar People & Showbiz 1970 David Frost received his OBE from the Queen 1988 Actress Koo Stark received £300,000 libel damages from the Sunday People over allegations suggesting she had an adulterous affair with Prince Andrew 1991 Coronation Street star Bill Roache was awarded £50,000 against the Sun Newspaper after they branded him 'boring' General Events 1843 The statue of Lord Admiral Nelson standing at 17 feet and weighing 16 tons, was hauled up to the top of its column in Trafalgar Square 1903 Willem Einthoven unveiled the Electro-Cardiograph in Holland, his new invention for monitoring the heart 1945 The Government announced that all civil aviation will be state-owned and controlled 1948 The State of Kansas abolished Prohibition after 68 years 1957 Russia launched Laika the dog, the first living creature to be sent into space 1992 Democrat Bill Clinton won a landslide victory over President George Bush in the American elections, putting an end to 12 years of Republican rule
|
||||||
