Monday, 8 November 2010

On This Day - 8th November


1900 - Margaret Mitchell born
1920 - Esther Rolle born
1927 - Patti Page born
1931 - Morley Safer born
1932 - Franklin D Roosevelt wins first US Presidential term
1951 - Mary Hart born
1957 - An inquiry into last month's fire at Cumberland's Windscale nuclear power plant has blamed the accident on a combination of human error, poor management and faulty instruments.
1968 - Parker Posey born
1974 - Detectives are searching for British aristocrat Lord Lucan, following the murder last night of his children's nanny and an attack on his estranged wife.
Also businessman Ronald Milhench who forged Harold Wilson's signature to help pull off a deal has been jailed for three years.
1975 - Tara Reid born
1985 - Jack Osbourne born
Sharon and Ozzy's son, a chip off the old block judging by his habits
1987 - A bomb has exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, killing 11 people.
1990 - Ireland elects Mary Robinson as its first female president.
2000 - Bush and Gore fight to the finish. The result of the American presidential election is still hanging in the balance hours after the last polls officially closed.
2003 - The Countess of Wessex is rushed into hospital to give birth to a girl, a month early.

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