BOOK YOUR BinB EXPO Stand | LinkedIn Group | Twitter | OPT-IN | Jobs | News | Events | BLOG
SOCIAL MEDIA AWARDS 2012 | LinkedIn Group | Twitter | OPT-IN | Jobs | News | Events | BLOG
18th January |
|
Born on this day
1659 Damaris Cudworth Masham 1779 Peter Mark Roget 1840 Henry Austin Dobson 1882 A.A. Milne 1888 Thomas Sopwith 1892 Oliver Hardy 1904 Cary Grant 1910 Kenneth E. Boulding 1913 Danny Kaye 1933 David Bellamy 1934 Raymond Briggs 1935 Jon Stallworthy 1938 Anthony Giddens 1943 Paul Freeman 1951 Bob Latchford 1952 Michael Angelis 1954 Richard Littlejohn 1955 Kevin Costner 1961 Peter Beardsley 1964 Jane Horrocks 1965 Richard Dunwoody 1973 Crispian Mills 1977 Richard Archer 1980 Robert Green 1980 Estelle Swaray Died on this day 1936 Rudyard Kipling 1990 Mel Appleby 2002 Peter Adamson Music 1973 A benefit concert by The Rolling Stones for the Nicaraguan earthquake victims took place. 1977 Abba held the top 2 positions on the album chart with 'Arrival' and 'Greatest Hits'. 1978 Neil Sedaka joined the top singers and actors to have a brass star on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Sport 1992 In Barclays League Division 1, title favourites Leeds United and Manchester United could only manage 1 all draws against their respective opponents, leaving Leeds at the top of the table, ahead of Manchester United by just 1 point. People & Showbiz 1988 Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Edward was to join Andrew Lloyd Webber's highly successful thatrical production company, the Really Usefuil Company. as a production assistant. 1993 Disney cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were banned from Yugoslav newspapers because of United Nations sanctions General Events 1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. 1778 Captain Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands, later known as Hawaii. 1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay. 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States. 1970 Karl Marx's grave in Highgate was daubed with swastikas and damaged during a bid to blow it up. 1919 Bentley Motors Limited is founded. 1983 Lance Corporal Philip Aldridge was jailed for 4 years after being found guilty of attempting to pass classified information to the Russians. He was caught when his commanding officer discovered his diary that contained telephone numbers for the Soviet Embassy. 1984 Pit worker Henry Daniels from Newton Le Willows, Merseyside was rescued after he fell 340 ft down a mine shaft at the Parkside colliery. He saved himself by holding onto a wire guide rope. 1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report. 2007 The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England. |
