Saturday 4 September 2010

On This Day - 4th September


1907 - Composer Edvard Greig dies
1908 - Richard Wright born
1917 - Henry Ford II born
1918 - Paul Harvey born
1930 - Mitzi Gaynor born
1949 - Tom Watson born
1957 - The Wolfenden Report suggests consenting sex between homosexual adults "in private" should no longer be a criminal offence in Britain.
1958 - Dr. Drew Pinsky born
1960 - Damon Wayans born
1964 - The Queen officially opens Europe's longest suspension bridge linking Edinburgh to Perth across the River Forth.
1968 - Mike Piazza born
1970 - Ione Skye born
1973 - Jason David Frank born
1978 - At least two million people are made homeless as the worst floods in living memory hit northern India.
1980 - Dan Miller born
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles born
1985 - The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic are released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.
1997 - Eight people are killed and over 150 injured in a series of suicide bomb attacks in the centre of Jerusalem.

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