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5th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1959 Bryan Adams (singer)
Died:
1956 Art Tatum (jazz pianist)
On This Day:
1605 The Gunpowder Plot – Catholic conspirators attempt to blow up King James 1 and parliament. Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed.
Have a good Monday, 5th November
4th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1916 Walter Cronkite (broadcast journalist)
Died:
1847 Felix Mendelssohn (pianist and composer)
On This Day:
1875 Tonga adopts its constitution
Have a good Sunday, 4th November
25th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1984 Katy Perry (singer)
Died:
1999 Payne Stewart (champion golfer)
On This Day:
1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade (Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War – over 100 killed)
Have a good Thursday, 25th October
20th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1971 Snoop Dog (rapper)
Died:
2011 Muammar Gaddafi (dictator of Libya)
On This Day:
1813 The end of the Kingdom of Westphalia
Have a good Saturday, 20th October
Blow, Bugle, Blow
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
12th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1935 Luciano Pavarotti (singer)
Died:
1997 John Denver (Country Music singer)
On This Day:
1968 Equatorial Guinea declares its independence (from Spain)
Have a good Friday, 12th October
10th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1813 Giuseppe Verdi (opera composer)
Died:
2004 Christopher Reeves (actor – Superman)
On This Day:
1970 Fiji gains independence (from Britain)
Have a good Wednesday, 10th October
9th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1940 John Lennon (musician – The Beatles)
Died:
1967 Che Guevara (Marxist revolutionary)
On This Day:
1962 Uganda becomes independent (from Britain)
Have a good Tuesday, 9th October
5th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1951 Bob Geldof (musician and activist)
Died:
2011 Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple)
On This Day:
1908 Bulgaria declares independence (from Turkey)
Have a good Friday, 5th October
2nd October – On This Day In History
Born:
1869 Mahatma Ghandi (Indian pacifist and activist for peace, independence and equality)
Died:
2017 Tom Petty (singer – Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers)
On This Day:
2002 The Beltway Sniper attacks begin and continue for three weeks
Have a good Tuesday, 2nd October
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