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1st January – On This Day In History
Born:
1919 JD Salinger (author – Catcher In The Rye)
Died:
1953 Hank Williams (country singer)
On This Day:
1801 The Irish Parliament votes to join the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Ireland)
Have a good Tuesday, 1st January
30th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1865 Rudyard Kipling (author – Jungle Book)
Died:
1970 Sonny Liston (boxer)
On This Day:
1947 Romania declared a republic
Have a good Sunday, 30th December
22nd November – On This Day In History
Born:
1986 Oscar Pistorius (paralympic athlete, convicted for shooting his girlfriend)
Died:
1916 Jack London (author – Call Of The Wild)
On This Day:
1976 Algeria puts its constitution into effect
Have a good Sunday, 22nd November
14th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1948 Prince Charles (Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall)
Died:
1915 Booker T Washington (education pioneer)
On This Day:
1851 Moby Dick (by Herman Melville) is published
Have a good Wednesday, 14th November
19th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1940 Michael Gambon (actor – Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter)
Died:
1745 Jonathan Swift (author – Gulliver’s Travels)
On This Day:
1960 Mauritania granted independence (by France)
Have good Friday, 19th October
16th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1925 Angela Lansbury (actress – Murder She Wrote)
Died:
1793 Marie Antoinette (Queen of France, beheaded during The French Revolution)
On This Day:
1950 The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (by CS Lewis) is released
Have a good Tuesday, 16th October
15th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1029 Mario Puzo (author – The Godfather)
Died:
2011 Betty Driver (Elizabeth Driver), actress – Coronation Street
On This Day:
1952 Charlotte’s Web (by EB White) is published
Have a good Monday, 15th October
14th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1894 E.E. Cummings (poet)
Died:
1977 Bing Crosby (actor & singer – Going My Way)
On This Day:
1926 Winnie The Pooh (by AA Milne) is released
Have a good Sunday, 14th October
23rd September – On This Day In History
Born:
1930 Ray Charles (singer & pianist)
Died:
1939 Sigmund Freud (father of psychology)
On This Day:
1979 Somali constitution is approved by its president
Have a good Sunday, 23rd September
21st September – On This Day In History
Born:
1947 Stephen King (horror author – Christian, The Shining etc)
Died:
19 BC Virgil (Roman poet)
On This Day:
1937 The Hobbit is published (by JRR Tolkien)
Have a good Friday, 21st September
