On This Day.....

[rockin_plumber]

1978 - Dire Straits began recording their first album.

2000 - KISS announced that they were going to do a farewell tour in
makeup and then sell off the stage props from their career in an auction.

 

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1951 - British-American actress Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, better known as Jane Seymour, was born.

1954 - American cartoonist Matt Groening, who created both The Simpsons and Futurama, was born.

 

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1964 - The Beatles performed for the second time on The Ed Sullivan Show. The band had made its first appearance on the show only a week before.

 

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1962 - American film star Lou Diamond Phillips was born.

1972 - Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was born.

1982 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, winner of the 2005 F.I.F.A. Confederations Cup with Brazil, was born.

 

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1977 - Gianluca Zambrotta, winner of the 2006 F.I.F.A. World Cup with Italy, was born.

1980 - Bon Scott, the lead singer of heavy metal band A.C./D.C., died in London at the age of 33. He died as a result of choking on his own vomit after drinking heavily.

Boy! It looks like this thread has become my favourite with no one posting their own events!

 

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1946 - British film star Alan Rickman was born.

1965 - American Muslim militant leader Malcolm X was slain at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

1984 - David Odonkor, winner of the 2004 U.E.F.A. European Under-21 Championship with Germany, was born.

 

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1940 - American film star Peter Fonda was born.

1945 - During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.

1979 - Dire Straits' first U.S./ Canada tour began in Boston.

 

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1900 - German football club Bayern Munich was founded.

1957 - Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith was born.

 

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1942 - The late Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was born.

1944 - Josef Dieter "Sepp" Maier, winner of the 1972 U.E.F.A. European Championship and the 1974 F.I.F.A. World Cup with ex-West Germany, was born.

1991 - The first Gulf War ends.

 

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1956 - Morocco declares its independence from France.

1962 - Bon Jovi vocalist and actor John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. a.k.a. Jon Bon Jovi, was born.

1982 - German footballer of Hungarian-Panamanian heritage Kevin Kurányi was born.

 

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1974 - German footballer Jens Jeremies was born.

1974 - Cuban-American actress Eva Mendes was born.

1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.

2002 - M.T.V. began airing The Osbournes. The reality television show followed the daily activities of Ozzy Osbourne and his family.

 

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1902 - The Spanish football club Real Madrid was founded.

1946 - Pink Floyd's former lead guitarist David Gilmour was born.

1957 - Ghana declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

 

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1940 - American actor Chuck Norris was born.

1978 - Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba was born.

1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

1997 - Paul McCartney was knighted.

 

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There was also the Madrid train bombings in 2004, by Islamic terrorists killing 191 civillian people and wounding 1,755.

:|

 

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1956 - Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris was born.

1968 - Mauritius declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

2003 - The Chinese government ordered the Rolling Stones to eliminate four songs from its upcoming performances in Shanghai and Beijing. The banned songs were Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women, Beast of Burden and Let's Spend the Night Together.

 

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1975 - Herman Li (Dragonforce) was born.

 

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1996 - Dunblane massacre. Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a gunman who then commits suicide.

Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale
Emma Elizabeth Crozier
Melissa Helen Currie
Charlotte Louise Dunn
Kevin Allan Hasell
Ross William Irvine
David Charles Kerr
Mhairi Isabel MacBeath
Brett McKinnon
Abigail Joanne McLennan
Gwen Mayor (schoolteacher)
Emily Morton
Sophie Jane Lockwood North
John Petrie
Joanna Caroline Ross
Hannah Louise Scott
Megan Turner

R.I.P.

 

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1975 - American actress Eva Longoria-Parker was born.

1976 - K.I.S.S. releases its 4th album Destroyer.

1988 - During the Iran-Iraq War the Halabja poison gas attack begins.

 

[rockin_plumber]

2004 - A federal judge denied Axl Rose's request for a restraining order to
block the release of a Guns N' Roses greatest hits collection. Rose sued
because he said he had not approved the album. Universal Music Group
said that they had every right to release the album since Rose had not
delivered the contracted album "Chinese Democracy." The album has
been in the making for more than eleven years.