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Being as your bored hun.. heres few thingss that happened on mine... you tell me xxx
1964
I was born.. Lucky you lol.
2003
Mars passes within 34,646,416 miles of Earth, its closest approach in approximately 60,000 years.
1991
Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1990
In what was the most expensive court case in British legal history at the time, costing around £7.5m, the “Guinness Four” are found guilty of trying to increase the share price of the Guinness Company during takeover talks.
1987
In Britain, Robert Maclennan becomes the new leader of the Social Democratic Party.
1979
Lord Mountbatten, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is killed by an IRA bomb planted on his boat Shadow V off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland.
1979
18 British soldiers are killed in Northern Ireland as their vehicles are hit by two booby-trap bombs.
1967
The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein dies from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1962
U.S. spacecraft Mariner II is launched on a voyage to Venus.
1950
The BBC broadcasts from Calais, France in the first ever live transmission from across the Channel.
1939
In Germany, the world’s first jet-propelled aircraft, the Heinkel 178, makes its maiden flight at Marienehe in north Germany.
1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed by an eventual 62 countries. The pact was supposed to outlaw the use of war as a national policy.
1900
The Boer War: In South Africa, the Boer army commanded by Louis Botha is defeated by the British at Bergendal.
1859
In America, the world's first commercial productive oil well is drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake.
1813
French troops, commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, defeat a coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1776
American Revolution: British forces under General William Howe defeat Patriot forces under General George Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn in New York.
1954
English tennis player John Lloyd.
1932
Historical writer Lady Antonia Fraser.
1910
Mother Theresa of Calcutta.
1908
36th US President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-69). As a former Democratic congressman from Texas, he loses the Democratic Presidential Nomination to John F.Kennedy in 1960 before agreeing to run as his Vice-President. Sworn in as President on November 22nd, 1963 after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas,Texas. Is elected President in his own right in 1964 and is responsible for dramatically increasing US military strength in Vietnam. Sanctions the bombing of North Vietnam. Dies 1973.
1908
Australian cricketer Donald Bradman.
1904
English novelist Nora Lofts.
1899
English novelist C.S Forrester born in Cairo
1882
Hollywood film producer Samuel Goldwyn born in Poland
1877
British motor manufacturer Charles Stewart Rolls.
1770
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel.
1998
Veteran actor Bob Arnold, known to millions of fans as Tom Forrest in the BBC Radio serial The Archers, dies aged 87.
1979
Lord Mountbatten, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is killed by an IRA bomb planted on his boat Shadow V off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland aged 79.
1975
The last descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, dies in exile aged 83.
1967
Brian Epstein, the manager of the British group The Beatles, dies in his home in London from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1919
South African Boer General Louis Botha - first Prime Minister of the Union
1576
Venetian painter Titian aged about 90. |
