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9th January |
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Born on this day
1554 Pope Gregory XV 1728 Thomas Warton 1735 John Jervis 1773 Cassandra Austen 1811 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett 1829 Thomas William Robertson 1849 John Hartley 1881 Lascelles Abercrombie 1898 Gracie Fields 1908 Simone De Beuavoir 1912 Ralph Tubbs 1913 Richard Nixon 1916 Peter Twinn 1917 Herbert Lom 1920 Clive Dunn 1939 Susannah York 1941 Joan Baez 1943 Freddie Starr 1944 Jimmy Page 1951 Crystal Gayle 1952 Hugh Bayley 1956 Imelda Staunton 1958 Stephen Neale 1965 Iain Dowie 1965 Joely Richardson 1972 Sarah Beeny 1987 Sam Bird 1985 Luke McClelland 1987 Paolo Nutini Died on this day 1995 Peter Cook 2008 Sir John Harvey-Jones Music 1971 Clive Dunn's record Grandad moved to No. 1 on his 49th birthday. 1980 KC & the Sunshine Bad were at the top of the US chart with 'Please Don't Go'. 1989 Simply Red played a sell-out concert at Wembley. Sport 1988 In the third round of the FA Cup, Liverpool only managed a goalless draw against Stoke, Notts Forest hammered Halifax by 4 goals to 0 & Aston Villa beat Leeds 2-1. People & Showbiz 1983 A gala ballet starring Rudolf Nureyev was abruptly stopped in Bordeaux after angry fans demanded money back, claiming the seating was so badly arranged, they could not see or hear the ballet. 1990 Tracy Edwards, skipper of the all-woman crew of the British yacht Maiden, winner in its class in the 2nd and 3rd legs of the Whitbread Round the World Race, was named Yachtsman of the Year General Events 1768 In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus. 1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816 Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1905 According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905. 1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 miles (156 km) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1941 First flight of the Avro Lancaster. 1969 Concorde received its first trial flight in Bristol. 1997 Research results released by scientists from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, claimed that women's brains shrink during late pregnancy, taking up to six months to return to normal size. |
