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3rd January |
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Born on this day
106 BC Cicero 1733 Sir Richard Arkwright 1856 R. C. Lehmann 1861 William Renshaw 1883 Clement Attlee 1892 JRR Tolkien 1912 Robert Flemyng 1922 Bill Travers 1924 Doug Ellis 1926 Sir George Martin 1928 Michael Barrett 1933 Anya Linden ( Lady Sainsbury) 1935 David Vine 1942 John Thaw 1944 David Atherton 1946 John Paul Jones 1950 Victoria Principal 1956 Mel Gibson 1963 Alex Wheatle 1969 Michael Schumacher 1971 Sarah Alexander 1977 Lee Bowyer 1977 Michelle Stephenson 1978 Dominic Wood Died on this day 1795 Josiah Wedgwood 1903 Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler 1967 Jack Ruby Music 1967 Beach boy Carl Wilson received his call up papers. He refused to go and eventually won his case 5 years later 1970 English member Davy Jones quit the Monkees 1970 BJ Thomas reach the top of the US singles chart with 'Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head' 1976 The Bay City Rollers reached No.1 in the US with 'Saturday Night' 1977 The first 12" single Undisputed Loves 'You And Me Love' was released in the UK Sport 1989 Yachtsman Chay Blyth was searching for 120 men and women to race around the world, in an event sponsored by British Steel People & Showbiz 1993 The first episode of the 3rd star trek incarnation 'Star Trek: Deep Space 9' was boadcast on US TV General Events 1431 Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine 1924 English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt 1925 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary, with a party from New Zealand, reached the South Pole, becoming the first man to do so overland since Captain Scott 1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State 1961 The millionth Morris Minor rolled off the production line at Oxford 1971 The Open University was inaugurated 1977 Apple Computer is incorporated 1984 Former secretary to Cecil Parkinson Sara Keays gave birth to their child, a daughter weighing 8lb 3oz named Flora Elisabeth 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century 1999 The Mars Polar Lander was launched |
