Monday 6 September 2010

On This Day - 6th September


1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy born
1937 - Jo Anne Worley born
1944 - Swoosie Kurtz born
1947 - Jane Curtin born
1952 - At least 27 people, mostly spectators, are killed as a jet fighter breaks up over the crowd at an air show in Hampshire, England.
1964 - Rosie Perez born
1965 - Indian troops have invaded West Pakistan, crossing the border at three points in an attack which appears to be aimed mainly at the city of Lahore.
1970 - Four New York-bound airliners are hijacked over western Europe in an operation carried out by a militant Palestinian group.
1972 - All nine of the Israeli athletes kidnapped on Tuesday from the Olympic Village in Munich are killed in a gun battle at a nearby airport.
1973 - Greg Rusedski born
1997 - Funeral of Princess Diana is watched by an estimated T.V. audience of 2.5 billion people.
2012 - English Naturalist and TV Presenter Terry Nutkins dies of leukaemia aged 66.

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