Thursday 9 December 2010

On This Day - 9th December


1608 - 17th century english poet John Milton born
1868 - William Gladstone becomes British Prime Minister
1898 - Emmett Kelly born
1902 - Margaret Hamilton born
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks born
1916 - Kirk Douglas born
1922 - Redd Foxx born
1925 - Dina Merrill born
1928 - Dick Van Patten born
1930 - Buck Henry born
1934 - Judy Dench born
1941 - Beau Bridges born
1942 - Dick Butkus born
1952 - Sunshine returns to London following four days of dense fog in which transport was brought to a standstill.
1953 - John Malkovich born
1957 - Donny Osmond born
1968 - Kurt Angle born
1969 - Jakob Dylan born
1970 - David Kersh born
1972 - Tre Cool born
1973 - Tripartite talks on Northern Ireland end in the signing of the 'Sunnigdale Agreement' to set up a Council of Ireland.
1974 - Emjay born
1987 - The England cricket tour to Pakistan is under threat of being called off following a row between Mike Gatting and the umpire Shakoor Rana.
1992 - US troops arrive in Somalia in a bid to aid thousands of starving locals.
1993 - Astronauts put Hubble back in action
1996 - Horrett Campbell, 33, who attacked three children and four women with a machete at an infant school teddy bears' picnic is found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder.

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