The turnout was double the norm in the picturesque seaside town, 80 miles (128 kilometres) south of San Francisco. The 55-year-old Hollywood star got nearly three-quarters of the vote. e polled 2,166 against the 799...
The growing number of taxpayers during the Second World War war led to the need for a more efficient tax collection system, and Pay As You Earn – PAYE – was introduced in 1944...
The late Duchess of Windsor’s jewellery sold for £31m ($50m) – six times the expected figure during an auction in Switzerland. About 1,000 bidders and 300 members of the media crowded into a huge tent...
The steeple chaser won the race in 1973 and 1974 and came home second in the following two years. Before the race there was concern that at 12 the horse was too old for...
While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding, but prompt...
In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang, to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, he was never
Raymonde de Laroche (22 August 1882 – 18 July 1919), was a French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive a pilot’s licence to fly an aeroplane.
The new ½p, 1p and 2p were introduced on 15 February
1774 Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to ban the importation of slaves. 1842 Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to travel by train. 1865 Birth of the Irish poet W B Yeats. 1886 Mad King...
1458 Magdalene College in Oxford is founded. 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte is excommunicated by Pope Pius VII. 1929 Birth of Anne Frank. 1978 David Berkowitz (aka Son of Sam) receives six life sentences for his crimes. 1991 Residents...
1509 King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. 1776 Birth of John Constable, the British landscape artist. 1910 Birth of the underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau. 1946 Italy is proclaimed a republic. 1977 Dutch...
1190 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I drowns en route to the Holy Land. 1692 First hangings for alleged witchcraft in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. 1924 Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti assassinated by Mussolini’s...
1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1931 Birth of American actor Gene Hackman. 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. 1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated. 1948 Death of the aviation pioneer Orville...
1820 Death of King George III of Great Britain. 1899 Death of Albert Sisley, impressionist painter. 1943 Birth of Katherine Ross, American actress. 1979 US President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentence of...
1547 Death of King Henry VIII of England 1935 Iceland becomes first country in the world to make abortion legal. 1953 Derek Bentley aged 19 is hanged in London for the murder of...
1556 An earthquake in China kills an estimated 830000 people. 1806 William Pitt the Younger, former British Prime Minister, dies aged 47. 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell qualifies in the USA as the first woman...
