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On this day 27th July |
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Born on this Day
1733 Jeremiah Dixon 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1777 Thomas Campbell 1832 Lewis Carroll 1833 Thomas George Bonney 1882 Geoffrey de Havilland 1911 Rayner Heppenstall 1921 Donna Reed 1929 Jack Higgins 1930 Shirley Williams 1931 John Hopkins 1944 Tony Capstick 1945 Nick Mason 1950 Simon Jones 1957 Timothy Spall 1958 Christopher Dean 1961 Gillian Gilbert 1964 Bridget Fonda 1968 Tricky Died on this day 1901 Guiseppe Verdi 1938 Jack Sharp Music 1962 Topping the UK charts was Cliff Richard and the Shadows with 'The Young Ones'. 1968 The Bee Gees played their first US gig in California. 1978 Wings were at the top of the charts with 'Mull Of Kintyre'. 1990 Billy Idol won a libel case against The News Of The World. Sport 1913 American athlete Jim Thorpe, known as 'the greatest athlete in the world', was stripped of his Olympic gold medals for the decathlon and pentathlon when it was discovered that he had been paid £25 a week to play baseball. He was therefore a professional and not eligible to compete under the rules of the Olympic Games. 1962 New Zealand athlete Peter Snell broke the world mile record in a time of three minutes, 54.5 seconds. People & Showbiz 1940 The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny. 1981 British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event, with massive viewer numbers earned for the show. 1985 'Amadeus' received four Golden Globe awards from Hollywood's Foreign Press Association. 1992 Monty Python star Michael Palin was to be honoured by the City of Sheffield, where he made his stage debut, with an honorary degree presented to him by Sheffield University. General Events 1663 The British Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. 1694 A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England. 1926 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television, to members of the Royal Institution, at his Soho workshop. 1981 Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy 'The Times' and 'Sunday Times' was given the go ahead without the investigation usually required by the Monopolies Commission. 1992 Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Clinton was accused of being a liar by part-time cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers, following his denial of an alleged 12 year affair with her. |
