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Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 4BU
Tel: 01753 852904
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9th December
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Born on this Day
1927 Benny Green 1915 Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1916 Kirk Douglas 1934 Dame Judi Dench 1949 Tom Kite 1950 Joan Armatrading 1953 Gil Saward 1953 John Malkovich 1957 Donny Osmond Music 1967 The Beatles reached No 1 with 'Hello, Goodbye'. 1973 'Tommy' the rock opera opened in London. 1978 Boney M reached No 1 with 'Mary's Boy Child', while Ian Dury entered the charts with 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'. 1978 Queen entered the US Top 40 with their quirky double A side 'Bicycle Race/ Fat Bottomed Girls'. Sport 1991 Oxford Utd Football Club, owned by the late Robert Maxwell, put its 28 professional footballers up for sale to help repay the £2m debts owed to the Maxwell family. People & Showbiz 1960 The first episode of Coronation Street was broadcast. 1982 Steven Spielberg's record breaking sci-fi film 'E.T.' premiered in Britain. General Events 1868 W.E. Gladstone became PM for the first of his four terms in office. 1967 Nicoloae Ceausescu became Romanian premier. 1988 Following Edwina Currie's comments on salmonella in eggs, farmers in the UK began to slaughter their chickens as egg sales dropped by 60%. |
