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On this day, 7th February in 1952, after a long illness, King George VI of England dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king's two daughters is next in line to succeed him and is crowned on 2th June 1953.
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On this Day, 23rd of January 1989, James Brown was sentenced in Georgia to 6 years in jail in connection with a police chase through 2 states.
On This Day, 30th January 1988, Tiffany was No.1 on the UK singles charts with 'I Think We're Alone Now', her only UK No.1.
On This Day, 16th January 1920, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes" went into effect. Exactly a year earlier, on 16 January 1919, the Amendment – introduced and passed by Congress in December 1917 – was ratified by 36 of the 48 states in the Union.
On This Day, 9th January 1929, Irish Dramatist, Creator of Dancing at Lunghasa, & Short Story Writer, Brian Friel was born.
On This Day, 2nd January 1979, Sex Pistol's bass player Sid Vicious went on trial in New York accused of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen three months earlier.
On this day, Monday 19th December 1998, US House of Representatives approves impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury & obstruction of justice.
On this Day, Monday 12th December 2001, actress Winona Ryder was arrested in Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, for shoplifting & possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription.
On This Day, Monday 5th December 1901, Legendary American Animator & Producer, Walt Disney was born.
On this day, Monday 28th November 1990, Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to the Queen & leaves Downing Street for the last time.
On this day, Monday 21st of November 1783, French inventors Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, make the first manned hot-air balloon flight, travelling five miles over Paris in 25 minutes.
On this Day, Monday 14th November 1969, Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the moon is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr, Richard F. Gordon & Alan L. Bean aboard.
On this day, Monday 7th November 1999, Tiger Woods became the first man golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
On this day, Monday 31st October 1926, Magician Harry Houdini died of gangreene & peritontis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lesson Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach mussels & their ability to withstand hard blows.
On this Day, 24th October 2005, Iconic U.S Civil Rights Activist, Rosa Parks Died, Aged 92.
On this Day, 17th October 1931, Ganster Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in Prison for tax evasion & fined $80,000.
On this Day, Monday 10th October 1985, The hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro reaches a dramatic climax when U.S. Navy F-14 fighters intercept an Egyptian airliner attempting to fly the Palestinian hijackers to freedom and force the jet to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily.
On this Day, 3rd of October 1990, East & West Germany are Reunited, ending 45 years of Cold War Division.
On this day, 26th of September 1580, Francis Drake Retruns to Plymouth in the Golden Hind, Becoming the first British Navigator to sail the earth.
On this day, 19th September in 1995, a manifesto by the Unabomber, an anti-technology terrorist, is published by The New York Times and Washington Post.
On this day 12th September in 1940, near Montignac, France, a collection of prehistoric cave paintings are discovered by four teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork after following their dog down a narrow entrance into a cavern
On this Day, 5th September 1972, Israeli athletes were taken hostages by Palestinian terrorist at the Munich Olympics.
On this Day, 29th August in 2005 - Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana
On this Day, 22th August in 1950, Althea Gibson becomes the first African-American on U.S. tennis tour.
On this day, 15th August in 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces the news of his country's unconditional surrender in World War II over a radio broadcast to the Japanese people.
On this Day, 8th August 1974 - U.S. President Nixon resigns. In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings under way against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House.
On this day, 1st August 1914, Germany and Russia declare war against each other. Hostilities reach a climax in the rest of Europe upon Germany invading Luxembourg only days after Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated.
On this day in 1965, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan rocks the world of folk music when he abandons his acoustic guitar in favour of an electric one at the Newport Folk Festival
On this day, 18th July in 1960, Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" was released.
On this day, 11th July, in 1979, after breaking up in the atmosphere, the American space station Skylab comes crashing down in Australia and into the Indian Ocean five years after its last manned mission ended. Fortunately no one is injured.
On this day, 4th July in 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king.
On this day, 27th June in 1963, American President, John F Kennedy arrived in Ireland for his state visit.
On this day in 1975, Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters.
On this day, 7th of November 1999, Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
On this day - 13th June in 323 BC, Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon at the age of 33.
On this day, 6th June - 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.
On this Day, 30th May - 1431 - Joan of Arc is burned at the stake. At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the saviour of France, is burned at the stake for heresy.
On This Day - 23rd May in 1934 - Notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana.
On this day, 16th May in 1929, First Academy Awards ceremony held at a dinner party for around 250 people held in the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California.
On this day, 9th May - 1950, L Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) publishes ‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’. With this book, Hubbard introduced a branch of self-help psychology called Dianetics, which morphed into the belief system boasting millions of subscribers: Scientology.
On this Day, 2nd May 1933 - The Lough Ness Monster is Sighted.
Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland's Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933
On this day, 18th April, 1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake strikes at 5:13 a.m. It was an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale, killing hundreds of people and toppling numerous buildings.
On this day, 11th April in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
On this Day, 4th April 1968 - Martin Luther King is assassinated. Just after 6 p.m he is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-storey room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, he was 39 years old.
On this Day, 21st March, 1852 - U.S. gambler and gunman - Doc Holliday is born.
Doc Holliday started a brief career in Dentistry, then took up gambling and began to drift around the wild west where he joined Wyatt Earp and his brothers in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881). Having earned a reputation as a gunman, he resumed his drifting; five years later he died of tuberculosis at age 35.
On this day, 14th March 1879, Albert Einstein is born. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity drastically altered Man's view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.
On this day, 7th March in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention – the telephone.
On this day, 25th February, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by knocking out world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston.
On this day, 21st February, 1965 - African American nationalist and religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City.
On this day, 14th February - 1929. The St Valentines Day Massacre occurs in Chicago, gunmen in the suspected employment of organised-crime boss Al Capone murder seven members of the George "Bugs" Moran North Siders gang in a garage on North Clark Street.
On this day - 7th February 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York's Kennedy Airport - and "Beatlemania" arrives in the U.S.
On this day, 31st January - 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong guerrillas attacks the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. The soldiers seized the embassy and held it for six hours until an assault force of U.S. paratroopers landed by helicopter on the building's roof and routed the Viet Cong.
On this day, 24th January 1972, Local farmers discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who, unaware that World War II was over, had been hiding in the jungles of Guam for 28 years. He was later discharged and sent home to Japan, where he was hailed as a national hero. He subsequently married and returned to Guam for his honeymoon.
On this day, 17th January, 1950 - The daring Great Brinks Robbery is carried out in Boston. A team of 11 thieves, in a precisely timed and choreographed strike, steal more than $2 million from the Brinks Armoured Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts.
On this day, 10th January - 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enormous gusher of crude oil, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet and signalling the advent of the American oil industry.
On this day, 3rd January in 1956, Australian born Hollywood actor, Mel Gibson was born.
On this day, 20th December -1957, while spending the Christmas holidays at Graceland, his newly purchased Tennessee mansion, rock-and-roll star Elvis Presley receives his draft notice for the United States Army.
On this day, 15th December 2001 - Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after a team of experts spent 11 years and $27 million to fortify the tower without eliminating its famous lean.
On this day, 6th December 1957 - America made her first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit but failed when the satellite blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FL.
On this Day, 26th November, 1922 - Archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter King Tutankhamen’s Egyptian tomb in over 3,000 years.
On this day, 22nd November, 1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while travelling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
On this Day, 15th November 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
On this Day, 8th November 1895, X-rays are discovered. Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.
On this Day, 1st November in 1512, The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
On this day, 25th October in 1881 - Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.
On this Day, 18th October, 1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as 'The Whale' by Richard Bentley of London.
On this day, 11th October 1962, Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II. Pope John reached the papacy from simple, peasant beginnings and his tolerance and disregard for protocol earned him a reputation for being the sympathetic pope. Through Vatican II, he hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and greater unity with other branches of Christianity.
On this day, 4th October 1957, Sputnik is launched. The Soviet Union inaugurates the "Space Age" with the world's first artificial satellite on this day in 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for "satellite," was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.
On this day, 27 September, 1964, The Warren Commission Report is released. The 888-page Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is released after a 10-month investigation, concluding that there was no conspiracy in the assassination, either domestic or international, and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, acted alone
On this day, 20th September, 1957, while spending the Christmas holidays at Graceland, his newly purchased Tennessee mansion, rock-and-roll star Elvis Presley receives his draft notice for the United States Army.
On this day, 13th September, 1814, Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America's national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
On this day, 6th September, 1915, the first tank, nicknamed Little Willie, rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tonnes, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per hour
On this day, 30th August - 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
On this day, 23 August - 1305, William Wallace is executed. He was arrested, condemned as a traitor to the king even though, as he maintained, he had never sworn allegiance to Edward. He was hanged, disemboweled, beheaded, and quartered. In 1306 Bruce raised the rebellion that eventually won independence for Scotland.
On this day, 16th August, 1977 - Elvis Presley ‘The King of Rock & Roll’ dies at the age of 42.
On this day, 9th August - 1969, members of Charles Manson's cult killed five people in movie director Roman Polanski's Beverly Hills, California, home, including Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate. On this Day, 2nd August 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait to start the First Gulf War. At about 2 a.m. local time on this day in 1990, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq's tiny, oil-rich neighbour. Kuwait's defence forces were rapidly overwhelmed, and those that were not destroyed retreated to Saudi Arabia.
On this day, 26th July – 1908, the FBI the largest investigative agency of the U.S. government is formed. It was founded as the Bureau of Investigation within the U.S. Justice Department. J. Edgar Hoover served as its director from 1924 until his death in 1972.
On this Day, 19th July - Just after 9 a.m. in 1995, a massive truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-storey building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble
On this day, 5th July in 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Originally code-named "6LL3," the cloned lamb was named after the buxom singer and actress Dolly Parton.
On this day, 28th June, 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo
On this day, 21st June, 1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
On This Day, 14th June - 1951, The worlds first ever general use commercial computer is unveiled. The computer was called UNIVAC
On this Day, 7th June, 1913 – Americas’ highest mountain, Mt Mckinley, is conqoured for the first time when it is successfully climbed. The first ascent of the main summit of McKinley came on June 7, 1913, by a party led by Hudson Stuck. The first man to reach the summit was Walter Harper, an Alaska Native. Harry Karstens and Robert Tatum also made the summit. Tatum later commented, "The view from the top of Mount McKinley is like looking out the windows of Heaven!"
On this day, 31st May - 1859, Londons’ most famous clock Big Ben rings out for the 1st time as it goes into operation.
On this Day, 24th May - 1981, The company IBM launch the very first personal computer
On this day, 17th May - 1792, The New York stock market is formed.
On this Day, 10th May - 1940, Winston Churchill takes over from Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
On this Day, 3rd May - 1802, Washington DC becomes a city
On this day, 26th April - 1954, The first children are given a new vaccine to combat Polio.
On this Day, 19th April, 1956, American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Ranier of Monaco and became Her Serene Highness Princess Grace, an event that marked her retirement from acting. The couple had three children, one of whom, Albert II, is Monaco's reigning Sovereign Prince. Kelly died in a car accident in 1982.
On this Day, 12th April, 1945, American president Franklin D Roosevelt dies.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest serving president in American history, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage three months into his fourth term.
On this day, 29 March 1973, the last American troops leave Vietnam. Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end.
On this day, 22nd March, 1977, Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India.
On this day, 15 March 44 BC, Julius Caesar murdered on the Ides of March