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Born on this Day 1840 Claude Monet 1919 Veronica Lake 1935 King Hussein of Jordan 1940 Freddie Garrity 1948 HRH The Prince of Wales 1953 Alexander O'Neal 1959 Paul McGann 1962 Stefano Gabbana 1967 Letitia Dean Died On This Day 1905 Robert Whitehead 1990 Malcolm Muggeridge 2001 Charlotte Coleman Music 1922 BBC radio was first broadcast from Alexandra Palace. 1954 Bill Haley's first US Top 10 hit 'Shake, Rattle & Roll' peaked at No. 7. 1964 Roy Orbison reached the top of the charts with 'Oh Pretty Woman'. 1987 T'Pau reached the No.1 position with 'China In Your Hand' Sport 1994 The Football Association charged the Southampton and former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobelaar with bringing the game into disrepute. 1997 Briton Tim Henman became the first tennis player to compete in 2 tournaments in the same day. He began with a warm-up for the national championships quarter finals at 11am in which he beat Jamie Delgado in just 53 minutes. Then a chaffeur driven car took him to Birmingham airport where a private jet whisked him off to Hamburg for another tournament in the evening. People & Showbiz 1973 Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey, watched by an estimated 50 million television viewers across the world. 1994 £7 million was raised in the first 12 hours of National Lottery ticket sales. General Events 1899 The first recorded use of a staff suggestion box was implemented by Lever Brothers of Port Sunlight. 1940 Coventry Cathedral was destroyed by German air raids which killed over 1,000 civilans in the city. 1941 The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal was sunk. 1963 The Icelandic island of Surtsey was born after an eruption by an underground water volcano. 1983 The first batch of cruise missiles arrived at the Greenham Common base in Berkshire. 1994 The Channel Tunnel took its first paying foot passengers. 735 passengers paid the standard return of £155 to travel from Waterloo to Gare du Nord.
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