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27th April |
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Born on this Day
1791 Samuel Morse 1900 Walter Lantz 1927 Sandy Dennis 1922 Jack Klugman 1944 Michael Fish 1947 Ann Peebles 1959 Sheena Easton 1969 Mica Paris 1969 Darcey Bussell 1987 William Moseley Died on this Day 1521 Ferdinand Magellan 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1995 Peter Wright Music 1976 On having his collection of Nazi books confiscated, David Bowie told customs officials at the Russian/Polish border that ' the UK could benefit from a fascist leader'. 1989 Deacon Blue played a charity show in Scotland for the Lockerbie Disaster Fund. Sport 1908 The first annual FA Charity Shield match was played with Manchester United its first winners. 1983 England beat Hungary by 2 goals to 0 in their European Championship qualifying match at Wembley. 1991 Wigan won the Rugby League Challenge Cup for the fourth consecutive time, beating St. Helen's 13-8 at Wembley. People & Showbiz 1989 Actress Sondra Locke filed a palimony suit against actor Clint Eastwood after she claimed that he had persuaded her to have 2 abortions during their 10 year relationship. 1992 Labour MP Betty Boothroyd was elected as the first woman speaker of the House of Commons. General Events 1828 The Zoological Gardens in Regents Park opened. 1937 The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich was opened by King George VI. 1939 Conscription for the Second World War was introduced in Britain. 1968 Legalised abortion came into effect in Britain. This was as a result of the Abortion Act, presented by Liberal MP David Steel 1974 A hundred people were killed when a Soviet airliner crashed in Leningrad. 1988 A Northamptonshire couple who had a baby girl after a failed vasectomy operation were awarded £19,534 to pay for the child's private education. 2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. |
