Tuesday 16 November 2010

On This Day - 16th November


1908 - Burgess Meredith born
1916 - Daws Butler born
1922 - Andrew Bonar Law becomes Prime Minister and Shigeru Miyamoto born
1960 - British TV personality Gilbert Harding, who achieved fame through his outspoken and often rude behaviour, dies of a heart attack.
1964 - Dwight Gooden born
1967 - Lisa Bonet born
1976 - Seven men who took part in an £8m 'Bank of America' robbery receive jail terms totalling nearly 100 years.
1977 - Oksana Baiul born
1979 - The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, names Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer and personal adviser on art to the Queen as the "fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring and Trevor Penick born
1983 - 50 English football supporters are arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence.
1995 - The Queen Mother has her right hip replaced in an operation in London.
2010 - The engagement of Prince William and Catherine Middleton is announced by Clarence House.

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