Sunday 15 May 2011

On This Day - 15th May


1905 - Joseph Cotten born
1909 - James Mason born
1918 - Eddy Arnold born
1930 - Jasper Johns born
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti born
1937 - Trini Lopez and Madeleine Albright born
1954 - The Royal Family returns safely from their six-month tour of the Commonwealth to a rapturous welcome in London.

1953 - George Brett born
1957 - After just two years of development, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb over Christmas Island, as the arms race begins to escalate.
1969 - Emmitt Smith born
1972 - David Charvet born
1974 - Sixteen teenagers die along with three Palestinians holding them hostage at an Israeli school near the Lebanese border.
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler born
1993 - A hostage crisis at a nursery school in Paris ends when commandos storm the school, the children's teacher is hailed a hero.
2001 - British consumers reap the benefits of cheaper over-the-counter medicine after a court ruling puts an end to the drug industry's price-fixing policy.

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