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5th December |
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Born on this day
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1839 George Armstrong Custer 1901 Walt Disney 1934 Jeremy Sandford 1935 Little Richard 1941 Sheridan Morley 1946 Jose Carreras 1963 Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards 1975 Ronnie O'Sullivan Music 1968 The Rolling Stones album 'Beggars Banquet' was released. 1981 Julio Iglesias knocked Queen and David Bowie from No.1 with 'Begin the Beguine'. 1987 Kim Wilde and Mel Smith entered the charts with 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree'. Sport 1983 England and Argentina were set to play football for the first time since the Falklands People & Showbiz 1982 More than 700 Thai's responded to a 'have a vasectomy for the King' call in Bankok, to celebrate King Bhumipol's 55th birthday. 1990 Salman Rushdie attended a book signing in London, his first public outing since going into hiding almost 2 years earlier General Events 1908 Hoover introduced the first upright vacuum cleaner. 1933 Prohibition was repealed in America after more than 13 years. 1956 Miss Rose Heilbron QC was appointed Britain's first woman judge. 1991 The Maxwell empire collapsed with debts of £1.4 billion as the late Robert Maxwell's sons conceded they were unable to organise a rescue package for the family's private companies. |
