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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Nov 24, 2012 9:02:13 GMT
Nov 23.
Dallas star Larry Hagman dies aged 81
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Nov 24, 2012 9:03:31 GMT
Nov 24.
1963: Kennedy 'assassin' murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of murdering President Kennedy, is himself shot dead in a Dallas police station.
1974: Six charged over Birmingham pub bombs Police charge six men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings three days ago.
1985: Commandoes storm hijacked plane The hijacking of an EgyptAir passenger jet ends in violence and further bloodshed after the plane is stormed by Egyptian commandoes.
1989: New era for Czechoslovakia The entire leadership of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigns to make way for democratic changes.
1991: Giant of rock dies Freddie Mercury dies aged 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive.
1998: Queen's speech spells end for peers Under new proposals hereditary peers will lose their right to sit and vote in the UK Parliament's upper chamber.
2005: Pubs open 24 hours Round-the-clock drinking in England and Wales is now a reality as new licensing laws come in force.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 26, 2012 17:35:27 GMT
Nov 26.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £25 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men were convicted in the heist.
1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.
1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 27, 2012 21:54:15 GMT
Nov 27.
1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer.
1975: Guinness Book of Records co-founder and editor Ross McWhirter was shot dead outside his North London home.
1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
2000: A schoolboy died after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers in Peckham, south London. Damilola Taylor, 10, staggered 100 yards with blood pouring from the wound in his leg before collapsing in a stairwell near his home on a rundown council estate.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Nov 28, 2012 15:21:49 GMT
Nov 28. 1991 - WWF holds their Survivor Series Pay-per-view in Detroit, Michigan at the Joe Louis Arena, headlined by The Undertaker defeating Hulk Hogan for the WWF World Heavyweight Title when Taker gave Hogan a tombstone onto a steel chair that was slid into the ring by Ric Flair.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 28, 2012 18:30:44 GMT
Nov 28.
1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married.
1919 - American-born Lady Astor was elected the first female member of the British Parliament.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived in New York after escaping her homeland through Hungary.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Nov 28, 2012 18:35:41 GMT
It just occurred to me that this thread is going to end on the 16th of December
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 29, 2012 19:18:19 GMT
It just occurred to me that this thread is going to end on the 16th of December Damn and I was betting on Dec 21st!
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 29, 2012 19:24:47 GMT
Nov 29.
1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, former adviser to England's King Henry VIII, died.
1974 - In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective.
1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.
1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Norman "Butch" Owens, twice in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits.
1986- Actor Cary Grant died at the age of 82.
2004 - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Nov 30, 2012 18:17:20 GMT
Nov 30.
1016 - English King Edmund II died.
1700 - 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated an army of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. King Charles XII died on this day.
1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born. He wrote "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" under the name Mark Twain.
1936 - London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. The structure had been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.
1994 - Tupac Shakur was shot five times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio. He survived the shooting, but was killed two years later in Las Vegas. Two days later a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a woman, but acquitted him of the more serious sex and weopons charges.
1996 - Tiny Tim (Tip Toe through the tulips) died after collapsing after ending a show early because he felt ill.
2001 - For the first time in its history, McDonald's teamed up with a retail partner on its Happy Meal promotions. Toys R Us provided plush figures from its Animal Alley.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 1, 2012 15:12:58 GMT
Dec 01.
1952 - In Denmark, it was announced that the first successful sex-change operation had been performed.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was arrested marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.
1976 - The Sex Pistols appeared on the British TV "Today Show." In the interview Glenn Matlock said the word "f*ck." The result was the Sex Pistols being banned in several British cities.
1984 - A remote-controlled Boeing 720 jetliner was deliberately crashed into California's Mojave Desert to test an anti-flame fuel additive. The test proved to be disappointing.
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met under the English Channel.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 2, 2012 21:08:45 GMT
Dec 02.
1969 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people flew from Seattle, WA, to New York City, NY. Most of the passengers were reporters and photographers.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Barney Clark. He lived 112 days with the device. The operation was the first of its kind.
1986 - Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) ripped off her bra while performing in front of 10,000 fans in Birmingham, England.
1995: Former futures trader Nick Leeson was jailed for six-and-a-half years for his part in the collapse of Britain's oldest merchant bank.
1999 - The British government transferred political power over the province of Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 3, 2012 17:50:40 GMT
Dec 03.
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1984: Hundreds of people died from the effects of toxic gases which leaked from a chemical factory near the central Indian city of Bhopal.
1988: Health minister Edwina Currie provoked outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria.
1999 - Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 4, 2012 18:01:21 GMT
Dec 04.
1791 - Britain's Observer newspaper was first published.
1961: Women who wished to have oral contraception were able to get it on the National Health Service for the first time.
1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.
1980 - Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones made the announcement of their decision not to re-form Led Zeppelin in the wake of the death of drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham.
1984 - A five-day hijack drama began as four men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran. Two American passengers were killed by the hijackers.
1988 - Roy Orbison gave his final concert. He died two days later.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 5, 2012 17:47:02 GMT
Dec 05.
1766 - James Christie, founder of the famous auctioneers, held his first sale in London.
1901 - Movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago. He created his first Mickey Mouse cartoon at the age of 27.
1945 - The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again.
1958 - Britain's first motorway, the Preston by-pass, was opened by Prime Minister Macmillan.
1998 - James P. Hoffa became the head of the Teamsters union, 23 years after his father was the head. His father disappeared and was presumed dead.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 6, 2012 18:57:12 GMT
Dec 06.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
1978 - Sid Vicious smashed glass in the face of Patti Smith's brother Todd during an altercation at New York rock club Hurrah. Vicious was out on bail after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
1983: The first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain was successfully carried out today.
1993 - Former priest James R. Porter was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison. Porter had admitted molesting 28 children in the 1960s.
2002 - Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 6, 2012 20:03:16 GMT
Dec 06.
2012 - Liverpool quality for the knockout stages of the Europa league after a comfortable victory over Italian giants Udinese
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 7, 2012 17:48:35 GMT
Dec 07.
1431 - In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France.
1732 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) was opened.
1907 - At London's National Sporting Club, Eugene Corri became the first referee to officiate from inside a boxing ring.
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies.
1941: Japan launched a surprise attack on American bases in the Pacific and declared it is at war with Britain and the United States.
1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX.
1993 - Guns N' Roses announced they would keep the tune written by Charles Manson "Look At Your Game, Girl" on their album, "The Spaghetti Incident?" The decision to keep the song came when the band learned that the royalties would go to the son of one of Manson's victims.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 8, 2012 14:54:32 GMT
Dec 08.
Only one story dominated the headlines.....
1980: John Lennon shot dead!!
Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apartment. The 40-year-old was shot several times as he entered the Dakota, his luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, opposite Central Park, at 2300 local time.
He was rushed in a police car to St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he died.
His wife, Yoko Ono, who is understood to have witnessed the attack, was with him.
Shots heard
A police spokesman said a suspect was in custody, but he had no other details of the shooting.
"This was no robbery," the spokesman said, adding that Mr Lennon was probably shot by a "deranged" person.
Witness reports say at least three shots were fired and others have claimed they heard six.
There are also reports Mr Lennon staggered up six steps into the vestibule after he was shot, before collapsing.
Jack Douglas, Lennon's producer, said he and the Lennons had been at a studio called the Record Plant in mid-town earlier in the evening and Lennon left at 2230.
Mr Lennon said he planned to have some dinner and then return home, Mr Douglas said.
Fans at scene
The Lennons are said to have left their limousine on the street and walked up the driveway when the gunman opened fire.
It is unclear whether the man had been lying in wait in the entrance to the building for Mr Lennon, or whether he came up behind him.
Witnesses describe the gunman as a "pudgy kind of man", 35 to 40 years old with brown hair.
Other former band members, Paul McCartney, guitarist George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr are thought to have been informed of Lennon's murder.
Fans have already begun arriving at the scene, many still unaware Lennon has died.
Mr Lennon is survived by his wife, their son Sean, and his son from a previous marriage, Julian.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 9, 2012 18:17:52 GMT
Dec 09.
1783 - The first executions at Newgate Prison took place.
1854 - Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
1960 - The first episode of "Coronation Street" was screened on ITV.
1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia," by David Lean had its world premiere in London.
1992 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after learning that she had told a conference that masturbation should be discussed in school as a part of human sexuality.
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