Thursday 14 April 2011

On This Day - 14th April


1904 - John Gielgud born
1913 - Typhus Vaccine discovered
1925 - Rod Steiger born
1929 - The first Monaco Grand Priz is run
1935 - Loretta Lynn born
1941 - Pete Rose and Julie Christie born
1943 - Germans evacuate North Africa
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore born
1960 - Brad Garrett born
1961 - Robert Carlyle born
1968 - A massive student rally in West Berlin has ended in violent clashes between police and protesters.
1970 - An explosion on board Apollo 13 causes one of the most critical situations in American space history.
1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar born
1979 - Yusufu Lule, once driven into exile by former Uganda dictator Idi Amin has been sworn in as the country's new president.
1988 - The Soviet Union signs an agreement paving the way for pulling Russian troops out of Afghanistan.
2000 - Kenneth Noye, the man who carried out a "road rage" killing is beginning a life sentence after being convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in London.

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