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16th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1770 Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)
Died:
1944 Glen Miller (jazz orchestra leader and composer)
On This Day:
1773 Boston Tea Party (rebellious act against the British Tea Tax)
Have a good Friday, 16th December
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11th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1979 Rider Strong (writer & actor)
Died:
1975 Lee Wiley (jazz singer)
On This Day:
1816 Indiana becomes the 19th State of the USA
Have a good Sunday, 11th December
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4th August – On This Day In History
Born:
1901 Louis Armstrong (jazz musician)
Died:
1857 Hans Christian Andersen (fairy tales author)
On This Day:
1693 Generally accepted that Don Perignon invented Champagne on this day
Have a good Thursday, 4th August
26th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1956 Chris Isaak (musician)
Died:
1956 Clifford Brown (Jazz trumpeter)
On This Day:
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
Have a good Sunday, 26th June
24th May – On This Day In History
Born:
15 BC Julius Caesar (Roman general and dictator)
Died:
1974 Duke Ellington (jazz musician)
On This Day:
1862 Westminster Bridge, crossing the Thames River in London, is opened
Have a good Tuesday, 24th 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
5th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1956 Kenny G (jazz musician)
Died:
1915 General Kitchener (famous for his campaigns in the Sudan)
On This Day:
1805 First officially recorded tornado in “Tornado Alley” (Illinois)
Have a good Friday, 5th June!
24th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1870 Jan Smuts (South African Prime Minister, General and Commonwealth statesman)
Died:
1974 Duke Ellington (pianist, musician – band leader)
On This Day:
1954 Lufthansa is formed (German national airline)
Have a restful Sunday, 24th May
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