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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B0920 Alexander the Great (356 B.C.)
- B0923 Augustus, Emperor of Rome (63 B.C.)
- B09081157 King Richard I
- S09191356 Battle of Poitiers
- B09161387 Henry V
- B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I
- B09051638 King Louis XIV of France
- B09181709 Samuel Johnson
- B09241717 Horace Walpole
- B09291725 Robert (later Lord) Clive
- B09291758 Horatio Nelson
- B09101771 Mungo Park
- B09221791 Michael Faraday
- B09161858 Andrew Bonar Law
- B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper: U.S. writer
- B09041824 Anton Bruckner: Austrian composer
- B09091828 Leo Tolstoy: Russian writer
- B09081841 Antonin Dvorák: Chechoslavakian composer
- B09281841 Georges Clemenceau
- B09201842 Sir James Dewar: chemist & physicist
- B09051847 Jesse James: U.S. outlaw
- B09121852 Herbert Asquith
- B09111862 O. Henry: U.S. writer
- B09211866 Herbert George Wells: writer
- B09201869 George Robey: music-hall artist
- B09211874 Gustav Holst: composer
- B09111885 D.H. Lawrence
- B09251897 William Faulkner
- B09261897 Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI)
- B09261888 T.S. Eliot
- B09101890 Mortimer Wheeler (later Sir): archaelogist
- B09241890 A.P. (later Sir Alan) Herbert
- B09131894 J.B. Priestley: author
- B09081901 Doctor Henrik Verwoerd
- B09171901 Francis Chichester: yachtsman
- B09211902 Learie Constantine: West Indian cricketer & diplomat
- B09131903 Claudette Colbert: U.S. actress
- B09181905 Greta Garbo
- B09251906 Dmitri Shostakovich: Russian composer
- B09301908 David Oistrakh: violinist
- B09291908 Greer Garson
- B09191910 Arthur Mullard: comedian
- B09291911 Professor R.V. Jones: World War II boffin
- B09121913 Jesse Owens
- B09281913 Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters): Writer
- B09201914 Kenneth More: film actor
- B09011918 Milton Shulman: writer & critic
- B09211919 Nigel Stock: actor
- B09171920 Dinah Sheridan: actress
- B09231920 Mickey Rooney: U.S. film actor
- B09251920 Betty Box: film producer
- B09301921 Deborah Kerr: actress
- B09191922 Emil Zátopek: Chechoslovakian athlete
- B09211923 Jimmy Young: radio presenter
- B09281924 Marcello Mastroianni: Italian actor
- B09131925 Mel Tormé: U.S. singer
- B09161927 Peter Falk: U.S. actor
- B09201927 John Dankworth: jazz musician
- B09251927 Sir Colin Davis: conductor
- B09171929 Stirling Moss: former racing driver
- B09251929 Ronnie Barker: entertainer
- B09211930 Dawn Addams: film actress
- B09231930 Ray Charles: U.S. popular singer
- B09291930 Richard Bonynge: conductor & wife of Joan Sutherland
- B09011931 Lord Cecil Parkinson: former Conservative Government minister
- B09171931 Anne Bancroft: U.S. actress
- B09211931 Larry Hagman: U.S. actor
- B09241931 Anthony Newley: actor
- b09301931 Teresa Gorman: M.P.
- B09211932 Shirley Conran: novelist
- B09281932 Jeremy Isaacs: general director Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- B09201934 Sophia Loren: Italian actress
- B09281934 Brigitte Bardot: French actress
- B09301938 Alan Hacker: clarinettist & conductor
- B09251939 Sir Leon Brittan Q.C.: Vice-President of European Commission
- B09251940 Tim Severin: writer, traveller & historian
- B09271940 Dame Josephine Barstow: soprano
- B09291940 Jimmy Knapp: General Secretary of Rail, Maritime & Transport Union
- B09261943 Ian Chappell: former cricket captain of Australia
- B09291943 Lech Walesa: President of Poland
- B09011944 Leonard Slatkin: conductor
- B09131944 Jacqueline Bisset: actress
- B09251944 Michael Douglas: U.S. film actor
- B09151945 Jessye Norman: U.S. opera singer
- B09251946 Bishen Bedi: former cricketer of India
- B09251946 Felicity Kendal: actress
- B09291946 Patricia Hodge: actress
- B09211948 Stephen King: novelist
- B09261948 Olivia Newton-John: singer
- B09271948 Barbara Dickson: singer & actress
- B09231949 Bruce Springsteen: popular singer
- B09291956 Sebastian Coe M.P.: former athlete
- B09291956 Gareth Davies: former rugby captain of Wales
- B09291957 Chris Broad: former English cricketer
- B09171960 Damon Hill: racing driver
- B09131962 Robin Smith: English cricketer
- B09161924 Lauren Bacall: U.S. actress
- B09151984 Prince Henry of Wales
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- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S0929 Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.)
- S09201258 Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated
- S09201440 Eton College, Berkshire, was founded
- S09091513 Battle of Flodden Field
- S09081620 The 'Mayflower' sailed from Plymouth
- S09021666 Great Fire of London began
- S09211745 Charles Edward Stuart defeated the English at the Battle of
- S09211745CPreston Pans
- S09141752 Gregorian calendar adopted in Britain
- S09271825 Stockton-Darlington railway opened
- S09251857 The relief of Lucknow
- S09201906 The liner 'Mauretania' was launched
- S09261907 Declaration of New Zealand as a Dominion
- S09211915 Stonehenge was sold by auction for £6,600
- S09211917 The independence of Latvia was proclaimed
- S09081926 Germany admitted to League of Nations
- S09211927 The first London performance of the musical 'Oh, Kay!'
- S09301929 First BBC TV broadcast
- S09181931 Japan invades Manchuria
- S09211931 Britain abandoned the Gold Standard
- S09261934 RMS 'Queen Mary' launched
- S09271938 RMS 'Queen Elizabeth' launched
- S09011939 Germany invaded Poland
- S09031939 Britain & its colonies declared war on Germany
- S09071939 The introduction of Atlantic convoys
- S09141939 The first U-boat of WWII sunk (U39)
- S09031940 U.S.A. - British lend-lease agreement: U.S.A. to supply
- S09031940CBritain with 50 destroyers in return for naval bases in
- S09031940CCaribbean, Bermuda & Newfoundland
- S09071940 Beginning of the London Blitz
- S09171940 The German operation 'Sea Lion' is postponed
- S09271940 Germany, Italy & Japan sign Tripartite Pact
- S09081944 First V2 rocket landed in England
- S09021945 Japanese & Allies sign the unconditional surrender agreement
- S09021945Caboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
- S09091945 Japanese surrender in China signed
- S09111945 British troops land in Indochina
- S09121945 Japanese troops in south-east Asia surrender to Mountbatten
- S09171949 NATO established
- S09301949 Berlin airlift ended
- S09221955 Commercial televison began in Britain
- S09201960 The first London production of the musical 'Once Upon a Mattress'
- S09211964 Malta became independent
- S09201966 The liner 'Queen Elizabeth II' was launched
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- *mmddyyyy Deaths
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- D0921 Virgil: Roman poet (19 B.C.)
- D09091087 William the Conqueror
- D09011159 Pope Adrian IV: the only English Pope
- D09211327 King Edward II was murdered
- D09031658 Oliver Cromwell
- D09271660 Saint Vincent de Paul
- D09251680 Samuel Butler
- D09011715 King Louis XIV of France
- D09131759 General James Wolfe
- D09211832 Sir Walter Scott: novelist
- D09021834 Thomas Telford
- D09141852 Duke of Wellington
- D09151859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel: railway pioneer
- D09281895 Louis Pasteur
- D09291902 Emile Zola: French writer
- D09191905 Doctor Thomas Barnado
- D09041907 Edvard Grieg: Norwegian composer
- D09231939 Sigmund Freud
- D09201947 Fiorello Henry La Guardia: mayor of New York
- D09081949 Richard Strauss: German composer
- D09111950 Jan Smuts
- D09211953 Roger Cuthbert Quilter: composer
- D09071956 C.B. Fry
- D09201957 Jean Sibelius: Finnish composer
- D09211957 Haakon VII: King of Norway
- D09181961 Dag Hammarskjöld
- D09041965 Albert Schweitzer
- D09061966 Doctor Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated
- D09281973 W.H. Auden
- D09211974 Walter Brennan: U.S. film actor
- D09091976 Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
- D09121977 Robert Lowell: U.S. astronomer
- D09161977 Maria Callas: U.S. opera singer
- D09051995 David Farrar: actor
- D09061995 Francis Showering, aged 83: He invented 'Babycham'
- D09131995 Jeremy Brett: actor
- D09221995 Air Commodore Al Deere, aged 77: World War II fighter ace
- B09081923 Alan Weeks: Sports commentator.
- B09151916 Margaret Lockwood: actress