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17th February |
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Born on this day
1914 Arthur Kennedy 1919 Kathleen Freeman 1934 Sir Alan Bates 1910 Marc Lawrence 1929 Patricia Routledge 1930 Baroness Ruth Rendell 1934 Barry Humphries 1941 Gene Pitney 1954 Renne Russo 1971 Jeremy Edwards 1989 Rebecca Adlington 1991 Bonnie Wright Died on this day 1980 Graham Sutherland 1982 Thelonius Monk Music 1956 Bill Haley and The Comets were offered a record-breaking sum for a proposed 1957 British tour. 1962 Gene Chandler reached the No.1 position in the US singles chart with 'Duke of Earl'. 1968 Manfred Mann reached the top of the UK chart with 'The Mighty Quinn'. 1974 The Who appeared in Poitiers. 1986 Kate Bush's single 'Hounds of Love/The Handsome Cabin Boy' was released in the UK. 1990 In the US singles chart, Roxette overtook Abba as Scandinavia's most successful act, as they scored their third top 5 hit. Sport 1968 Jean-Claude Killy from France, one of the world's greatest alpine skiers, won three gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble. People & Showbiz 1993 The Iranian parliament voted 2-1 in favour of keeping the death sentence on Salman Rushdie. 1994 New York surgeon John Morland announced that Elizabeth Taylor was to have a hip replacement operation. General Events 1863 The International Red Cross was formed in Geneva. 1958 During a meeting at Westminster's Central Hall, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the group calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons in Britain, was formed, led by a committee including Labour MP Micheal Foot, philosopher Bertrand Russell and author J.B Priestley. 1962 James Hanratty was sentenced to death for the murder of 36 year old Michael Gregston in a lay-by at Deadman's Hill near Bedford after a trial lasting 21 days, the longest murder trial in British legal history. 1972 British parliament passed the Bill to join the European Common Market. 1978 Inflation in the UK fell to 9.9 %, the first time in five years that it had been in single figures. 1991 It was reported that in the Gulf crisis, more than 78,000 missions had been flown since the 17th January, including 150 against Scud missile launcher sites. 1991 2 American soldiers were killed and 6 wounded when they were fired on mistakenly by a US Apache helicopter in the Gulf. 2003 The London Congestion Charge scheme begins. |
