1858 - Minnesota becomes the 32nd US State
1888 - Irving Berlin born
1894 - Martha Graham born
1904 - Salvador Dali born
1911 - Phil Silvers born
1912 - Foster Brooks born
1927 - Mort Sahl born
1933 - Louis Farrakhan born
1956 - Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announces the Gold Coast is to become the first black African nation to be granted independence from Britain.
1963 - Greville Wynne, a British businessman accused of spying for the West is sentenced to eight years' detention by a Moscow tribunal. Also Natasha Richardson born
1971 - The Daily Sketch newspaper which was founded in 1909 has been published for the last time.
1983 - Holly Valance born
1985 - 56 people are killed and 265 injured after fire engulfs Bradford City football stadium.
1998 - The Indian government announces it has carried out a series of underground nuclear tests in a move which has shocked the world.
No comments:
Post a Comment