On This Day - 17th July

1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner born
1899 - James Cagney born
1903 - Artist James Whistler dies
1912 - Art Linkletter born
1917 - Phyllis Diller born
1934 - Donald Sutherland born
1935 - Diahann Carroll born
1936 - Franco leads an uprising in Spanish Morocco signalling the start of the Spanish Civil War
1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles born

1952 - David Hasselhoff born
1954 - J. Michael Straczynski born
1974 - An explosion in the Tower of London leaves one person dead and 41 injured.
1976 - The opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic games in Montreal is marred by the withdrawal of 25 African countries.

1979 - The left-wing Sandinistas take control of the Nicaragua after 46 years of dictatorial rule by the Somoza family.
1982 - Tash Hamilton born
1987 - Former Guinness director Thomas Ward is ordered to repay £5.2m to the brewing giants.
2000 - British supermarket Tesco is to revive imperial measures in its stores.

On This Day - 16th July

1821 - Mary Baker Eddy born
1872 - Roald Amundsen born
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck born
1911 - Ginger Rogers born
1918 - The Russian Royal Family are executed
1924 - Bess Myerson born
1945 - First atomic weapon exploded in New Mexico
1945 - Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin discuss the fate of a defeated Germany at Postdam.
1955 - Stirling Moss wins the British Grand Prix (his first Grand Prix Victory) at the Aintree track near Liverpool - the first time an Englishman has triumphed in the race.
1958 - Michael Flatley born
1967 - Will Ferrell born
1968 - Barry Sanders born
1969 - Apollo 11 takes off from Cape Kennedy at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.
1971 - Corey Feldman born
1986 - The rock band Queen play Manchester City's Maine Road stadium.
1993 - Britain's internal security service, MI5, holds the first photocall in its 84-year history
2001 - The Labour Government is defeated in the House of Commons for the first time since it came to power in 1997.

On This Day - 15th July

1606 - Rembrandt Van Rijn born
1779 - Clement Clarke Moore born
1904 - Playwright Anton Chekhov dies
1935 - Alex Karras born
1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent born
1946 - Linda Ronstadt born
1951 - Jesse Ventura born
1961 - Forest Whitaker born
1966 - A West Indian refused a job at Euston Station will now be employed there after managers overturn a ban on black workers.
1971 - The British Government endorses a cull of baby seals in the Wash.
1973 - Brian Austin Green born

1995 - Thousands of Muslim refugees flee the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica - forced out by the Bosnian Serbs.
1997 - Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion.
2000 - Two men caught on camera for dangerous driving escape prosecution in a landmark case.

On This Day - 14th July

1881 - Billy the Kid (William Bonney) is killed
1902 - St Marks Campanile (Venice) Collaps
1910 - William Hanna born
1912 - Woody Guthrie born
1913 - Gerald R. Ford (38th U.S. President) born
1918 - Ingmar Bergman born
1923 - Dale Robertson born
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton born
1927 - John Chancellor born
1930 - Polly Bergen born
1932 - Roosevelt Grier born
1941 - Maulana Karenga born

1958 - A military revolt in Iraq overthrows the monarchy and prompts King Hussein of Jordan to call for British and US military help to avert a similar rebellion in his country.
1971 - Police in Cheshire call off the hunt for the murderer of three French tourists after another body is found.
1989 - About 500 people are involved in scuffles as Parisians celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
1991 -British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq begin to pull out amid fears of reprisal.
2001 - Six days of crisis talks to save the Northern Ireland peace process end in deadlock.

Egerton Park Arts College

Egerton Park Arts College closed it's doors to students for the last time today. Opened in 1955 Egerton Park County Secondary School, it had 1500 students at it's peak but is now making way for the new Denton Community College.

On This Day - 13th July

1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest born
1928 - Bob Crane born
1935 - Jack Kemp born
1940 - Actor Patrick Stewart born
1942 - Actor Harrison Ford born
1944 - Erno Rubik born
1946 - Cheech Marin born

1955 - Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain
1971 - Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco were executed
1985 - The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa raised triple the £10m that was expected. Wembley was packed with a crowd of 72,000, and TV pictures, co-ordinated at BBC Television Centre, were beamed to over 1.5bn people in 160 countries in the biggest broadcast ever known.

1993 - Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high".
2001 - The family of a mentally ill man shot dead by police in Liverpool last night demands a public inquiry.

On This Day - 12th July

1543 - Henry VIII marries for the final time to Catherine Parr
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter was born.
1817 - Henry David Thoreau born
1857 - George Ohr born
1861 - George Washington Carver born
1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller and Oscar Hammerstein II born
1902 - Arthur Balfour becomes British Prime Minister
1904 - Pablo Neruda born
1908 - Milton Berle born
1917 - Andrew Wyeth born
1934 - Van Cliburn born
1937 - Bill Cosby born
1943 - Christine McVie born
1948 - Richard Simmons born
1951 - Cheryl Ladd born
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi born

1974 - Bill Shankly retires from Liverpool F.C.
1977 - Brock Lesnar born
1986: Orange Parade sparks riots and dozens are injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.

1990 - Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Presidency of the Russian Parliament, in what was to become the beginning of the end for the Soviet Communist Party.
1998 - Three young brothers are murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree.
2000 - The British Foreign Office is severely criticised over plans to back a new dam in Turkey.

On This Day - 11th July

1767 - 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams born
1899 - E.B. White born
1914 - Babe Ruth, playing for the Boston Red Sox, made his debut in Major League Baseball.
1920 - Yul Brynner born
1931 - Tab Hunter born
1934 - Giorgio Armani born
1953 - Leon Spinks born
1958 - Mark Lester born
1959 - Suzanne Vega born
1965 - Lisa Rinna born
1966 - On July 11 1966, Alf Ramsey's England got their campaign off to a disappointing start with a 0-0 draw against Uruguay in front of 87,000 at Wembley.
1977 - The Gay News and its editor is found guilty of blasphemous libel in the first case of its kind for more than fifty years.

1979 - The United States' first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.
1982 - Paolo Rossi was the star of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, the Italian smashing five goals on the way to the final before netting Italy's first, his sixth, against West Germany at the Bernabeu on July 11. Italy won the match 3 - 1.

1987 - Veterans return to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The fields of Passchendaele in Belgium claimed the lives of 250,000 troops of the British Commonwealth between July and November 1917.
1991 - Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay his poll tax.
1995 - The Bosnian Serb army seizes control of the United Nations "safe area" of Srebrenica after Dutch peacekeepers are forced to withdraw. Also the United States announced it was to re-establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

2000 - The World Aids Conference in South Africa announces trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.
2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of train bombings in Mumbai, India.