Wednesday 27 October 2010

On This Day - 27th October


1728 - Captain James Cook born
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt born
1872 - Emily Post born
1904 - The New York Subway opens
1914 - Dylan Thomas born
1920 - Nanette Fabray born
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein born
1924 - Ruby Dee born
1939 - John Cleese born
1946 - Carrie Snodgress born
1950 - The British intelligence service searches for the missing atomic scientist Bruno Pontecorvo who disappeared seven weeks ago.
1967 - Scott Weiland born
1968 - An estimated 6,000 marchers demonstrating against the Vietnam War face up to police outside the US Embassy in London.
1977 - Jeremy Thorpe tells journalists he was not involved in a plot to kill former male model Norman Scott.
1978 - Four people are killed and four others seriously wounded after a gunman goes on a shooting spree in the Midlands
1982 - Three RUC officers investigating reports of a robbery in Lurgan die after a bomb explodes beneath their armoured police car.
1984 - Kelly Osbourne born

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