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22nd May – On This Day In History
Born:
1987 Novan Djokovic (tennis player)
Died:
1885 Victor Hugo (writer of Les Miserables)
On This Day:
1906 The Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane
Have a good Sunday, 22nd May
21st May – On This Day In History
Born:
1952 Mr T (actor – The A team)
Died:
2000 Sir John Gielgud (actor)
On This Day:
1932 Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland after completing the first solo trans Atlantic flight by a woman
Have a good Saturday, 21st May
20th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1944 Joe Cocker (rock vocalist)
Died:
1506 Christopher Columbus (explorer)
On This Day:
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to fly to Paris – first person to fly across the Atlantic
Have a good Friday, 20th May
28th April – On This Day In History
Born:
1908 Oskar Schindler (Austrian businessman who saved over 1000 people from Nazi concentration camps etc)
Died:
2005 Percy Heath( (jazz musician)
On This Day:
1937 First commercial flight to cross the Pacific (undertaken by PanAm)
Have a good Thursday, 28th April
8th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1828 Jules Verne (pioneer of science fiction writing)
Died:
1990 Del Shannon (rocker)
On This Day:
1933 First flight of an all metal aircraft (Boeing 247)
Have a good Monday, 8th February
4th February – On This Day In History
Born:
1902 Charles Lindburgh (first to fly solo across the Atlantic)
Died:
1976 Edward Benjamin Britten (composer)
On This Day:
1822 Free American blacks settle in Liberia
Have a good Thursday, 4th February
21st November – On This Day In History
Born:
1945 Goldie Hawn (actress)
Died:
2006 Robert Lockwood Jnr (blues guitarist)
On This Day:
1977 First flight of Concorde (London to New York)
Have a good Saturday, 21st November
2nd November – On This Day In History
Born:
1755 Marie – Antoinette (Queen of Louis XVI, “let them eat cake”)
Died:
1950 George Bernard Shaw (author)
On This Day:
1947 “Spruce Goose”, owned by Howard Hughes, has its one and only flight
Have a good Monday, 2nd November
26th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1888 TS Eliot (poet)
Died:
1820 Daniel Boone (frontiersman)
On This Day:
1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3 hours 33 minutes
Have a good Saturday, 26th September
15th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1890 Agatha Christie (novelist)
Died:
1938 Thomas Wolfe (novelist)
On This Day:
1948 F-86 Sabre sets the world speed record form an aircraft (1080 kph)
Have a good Tuesday, 15th September
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