![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the same day, O’Kelly Isley of The Isley Brothers dies of a heart attack, aged 48. On the same day, Brian Fletcher and Red Rum win their first of three Grand Nationals at Aintree and Billie Jean King ends Australian Margaret Court’s 57-match winning streak in the semi finals of the WTA event in Indianapolis.ġ980: Legendary athlete Jesse Owens dies from lung cancer aged 66.ġ981: Robert De Niro wins the Oscar for best actor in the film Raging Bull.ġ986: The Greater London Council is abolished. On the same day, US forces bomb Rotterdam by mistake, killing 326.ġ945: Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” premieres in New York.ġ949: RCA Victor introduces the seven-inch 45rpm single record, which had been in development since 1940.ġ966: Labour wins a sweeping victory in the general election returning Harold Wilson to No 10 Downing Street.ġ967: Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar live on stage for the first time while appearing at The Astoria in London on the first night of a package tour of the UK with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck.ġ968: US President Lyndon B Johnson announces in an address to the nation that he will not seek re-election.ġ970: Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast which last for three days.ġ971: Lt William Calley is sentenced to life imprisonment for the Mi Lai Massacre.ġ972: CND begins a four-day demonstration march against nuclear arms from London to Aldermaston.ġ973: Muhammad Ali suffers a broken jaw in a shock split-points decision loss to Ken Norton. 1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus, The Philippines.ġ596: Birth of French philosopher Rene Descartes.ġ657: Parliament makes the Humble Petition to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, offering him the crown, which he declines.ġ685: Birth of composer Johann Sebastian Bach in Eisenach, Germany.ġ732: Birth of Franz Joseph Haydn in Vienna.ġ770: Immanuel Kant is appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg.ġ796: Goethe’s “Egmont” premieres in Weimar.ġ814: Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris.ġ822: Massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt.ġ837: Death of landscape painter John Constable aged 60.ġ841: First performance of Robert Schumann’s 1st Symphony in B.ġ855: Novelist Charlotte Bronte dies aged 38.ġ866: The Spanish navy bombards Valparaíso harbour, Chile.ġ889: The Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris.ġ907: The Romanian Army puts down a Moldavian farmers’ revolt.ġ921: British coal miners goes on strike.ġ924: London public transport strike ends.ġ939: Britain and France agree to support Poland if it is invaded by Germany.ġ943: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” premieres in New York. ![]()
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