On This Day.....

1971: Sixty-six football supporters were killed following a match between
Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers at the Ibrox Park stadium in Glasgow.

1979 - The trial of ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder
of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opened in New York City. Vicious died of
a heroin overdose, thereby not living to hear the verdict.
 
1942 - During WWII, Manila, Philippines, was captured by Japanese forces.

1967 - Filipino-American actress Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo, better known as Tia Carrere, was born.
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1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Croat, Serb, Muslim) meet to discuss peace plans.
 
1967: Donald Campbell was killed a split second before breaking his
own water speed record in his jet-powered boat, the Bluebird K7.

1986: Phil Lynott, the former lead singer of Thin Lizzy, died from heart
failure and pneumonia after an 11-day fight for his life.
 
1953 - The late U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.

1956 - American actor David Caruso was born.
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1944 - Former Led Zeppelin bassist Jimmy Page was born.
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1973 - Mick Jagger was refused a Japanese visa because of a 1969 drug bust. The event halted the Rolling Stones' plan to tour the Orient.

1978 - Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, winner of the 2006 F.I.F.A. World Cup with Italy, was born.
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1932 - During the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, Shanghai was attacked by Japanese troops.

1978 - English footballer James Lee Duncan "Jamie" Carragher was born.
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1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on-board, including Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space.
 
1943 - During WWII, the Battle of Stalingrad ends, resulting in Soviet victory over the German invaders.

1974 - The late John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were temporarily separated.

1998 - While in Belgium, Bill Gates, the world's richest individual, is pied by an unknown man.

2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
 
On this day, 1998, Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. :err: :blah:

Also today is Bob Marley Day 8) in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia)
 
1990 - Billy Idol broke several bones in a serious motorcycle accident. As
a result he could not appear in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" in a major role.

1998 - Falco died in a traffic accident in the Dominican Republic.
Rock Me Amadeus!!!!!!!!!!!
 
1941 - American film star Nick Nolte was born.
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1966 - Bulgarian football star Hristo Stoichkov was born.
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1969 - The late George Harrison had his damaged tonsils removed at London's University College Hospital.
 
1943 - Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal, now in the Solomon Islands, secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, thus ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

1972 - Paul McCartney's band Wings made its concert debut at Nottingham University in England.

afraidtoshooteddie, the pictures of a grey character with question mark have now been replaced with the actual pictures for your viewing pleasure.
 
1958 - Derek Riggs, the British artist known for designing Iron Maiden album covers, was born.
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1974 - British singer Robbie Williams was born.
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1984 - Konstantin Chyernyenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
 
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