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On this day 8th June |
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Born on this Day
1771 Robert Stevenson 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright 1916 Francis Crick 1933 Joan Rivers 1940 Nancy Sinatra 1943 Colin Baker 1945 Derek Underwood 1953 Bonnie Tyler 1960 Mick Hucknell 1962 Nick Rhodes 1967 Juliana Marguiles 1976 Lindsay Davenport 1984 Javier Mascherano Died on this Day 1042 King Canute 1376 Edward the Black Prince 1882 John Scott Russell Music 1959 Pianist/entertainer Liberace won a libel case against the Daily Mirror, who had printed the theory that ' he might be gay'. 1968 The Rolling Stones released ' Jumpin' Jack Flash'. 1985 Tears For Fears' first US hit ' Everybody Wants To Rule The World'reached No.1 there. Sport 1985 Barry McGuigan beat Eusebio Pedroza of Panama to win the WBA featherweight title. 1990 Cameroon gave Argentina a shock 1-0 defeat in the opening game of the 1990 World Cup. 1997 England won the first of the 6 Tests with a day to spare, prompting bookies to rate them evens to win the series. People & Showbiz 1984 The film ' Gremlins' and ' Ghostbusters' both went on general release in the US. 1988 Comedian Ken Dodd was charged with tax evasion by a Liverpool court. General Events 452 Attila the Hun invaded Italy. 793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England. 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade. 1786 The first commercially made ice cream was sold in New York City by a local businessman known only as Mr. Hall. 1824 The washing machine was patented by Ives W. McGaffney of Chicago. 1965 The Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay companies merged to form PepsiCo Inc. 1968 James Earl Ray, wanted for the murder of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, was arrested in London, travelling under an assumed name. 1983 An Australian woman gave birth to the first test-tube triplets, 2 girls and a boy. 1989 The Government announced that marches and rallies were banned within a 4 mile radius of Stonehenge to try to stop clashes between Wiltshire police and hippies. 1995 The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf. |
