Wednesday 8 September 2010

On This Day - 8th September


1900 - Claude Pepper born
1922 - Sid Caesar born
1925 - Peter Sellers born
1932 - Patsy Cline born
1943 - General Dwight D Eisenhower tells the world of the secret capitulation five days ago by the Italian Government.
1950 - Rescuers say 116 miners trapped in Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland following a landslide are safe.
1971 - Henry Thomas born
1979 - Pink born
1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas born
1986 - The president of Chile escapes an attempt on his life in a fierce attack killing five of his bodyguards and wounding 11 more.
1998 - The dissident republican group behind Northern Ireland's worst atrocity 'The Real IRA' declares its violence at an end.
2000 - The fuel protests which have been crippling France for the past week reach Britain with a series of actions across the country.

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