Today in History.....

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On this day: 13th August

In 1899, Alfred Hitchcock, an English film director and producer, was born in Leytsonstone, London. His innovative directing techniques and mastery of suspense made him one of the most popular and influential filmmakers of the 20th century.

Did you know that "The Master of Suspense" never won an Oscar for his film direction...

 

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On this 13th August 1961 the communist east-Germans built the Berlin-Wall.

 

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On this day: 14th August

In 2004, Michael Phelps wins gold and breaks a world and Olympic record with a time of 4.08.26 in the 400m IM final at the Athens Olympic Games.

 

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On this day: 15th August

In 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opens on a 600-acre hog farm in the small town of Bethel, New York. On Friday evening, August 15, Richie Havens got up on stage and officially started the Festival. Sweetwater, Joan Baez, and other folk artists also played Friday night. The Festival that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll (plus a lot of mud) has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture.

 

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On this day: 16th August

In 1977, Elvis Presley died of heart failure in his Memphis mansion.

 

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On this day: 20th August

In 1779, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry, was born near Linköping, Sweden. He is especially noted for his determination of atomic weights, the development of modern chemical symbols, his electrochemical theory, the discovery and isolation of several elements, the development of classical analytical techniques, and his investigation of isomerism and catalysis, phenomena that owe their names to him.

 

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On this day: 1st September

In 2013, Gareth Bale, a Welsh footballer, put pen to paper and signed as a Real Madrid player. The fee, believed to be £85.3 million, surpassed Madrid’s previous record breaking signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, back in 2009 for £80 million from Manchester United.

 

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On this 1st September 1939 the horrible 2nd World War started

 

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On this day: 2nd September

In 1973, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, linguist, scholar and author of "The Lord of the Rings," died in Bournemouth. He was 81 years old. Three sons and a daughter survive.

 

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Japan Surrenders

Japan Surrenders

September 2, 1945

Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.

 

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On this day: 3rd September

In 2004, Russian school siege ends in bloodbath. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. The siege ended on September 3, 2004 with 334 people killed, including 186 children, and more than 700 people wounded.

 

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Beyonce was Born! 9-4

 

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On this day: 5th September

In 1997, Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87.

 

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On this day: 6th September

In 2007, Luciano Pavarotti, the world's favourite tenor, died.

 

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On this day: 8th September

In 1895, Adam Opel, the founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel GmbH, died in Rüsselsheim, Germany. By the mid 1930's Opel was the largest manufacturer of cars in Europe.

 

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On this day: 9th September

In 1960, Hugh Grant, an English actor and film producer, was born in London, England. The hit 1994 comedy, Four Weddings and a Funeral earned Grant a Golden Globe Award and made him an international heartthrob. In 1995, Grant was arrested with a Hollywood prostitute but his career weathered the scandal and he starred in subsequent hits, including Bridget Jones's Diary. In 2011, Grant published an article that helped expose the phone-hacking practices by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper.

 

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On this day: 10th September

In 2003, Anna Lindh, a Swedish Social Democratic politician, was fatally stabbed as she shopped with a friend in a busy Stockholm department store. Despite her position as foreign minister she did not have a permanent bodyguard, a situation which was quite normal for senior Swedish politicians. Lindh died the following day after undergoing surgery for more than 10 hours at Karolinska Hospital.

Her killing stirred memories of the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot in the back as he walked home from the cinema with his son and his wife in 1986.

 

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On this day: 12th September

In 2003, Johnny Cash, one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century, died from complications from diabetes.

 

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On this day: 13th September

In 2004, Mexican chemist and inventor of the first contraceptive tablet Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas died.

 

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On this day: 15th September

In 1830, the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) took place. It was the first modern railway line to open in Britain. The first railroad built in Great Britain was the Stockton and Darlington, opened in 1825.