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Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 2002 Pierre Werner, the former twice Prime Minister of Luxembourg, died aged 88. Pierre Werners background initially was in banking and law. He was appointed the controller of the banking system in Luxembourg and attended the Bretton Woods conference after World War two. A conference that helped to set up the architecture of the global financial system and among other things resulted in the creation of the IMF. He joined the centre right Christian Social Peoples party and in 1953 became the governments finance minister Pierre went on to serve as Luxembourgs Prime Minister twice-from 1959-1974 and 1979 -1984. Such is the political culture and system in Luxembourg all of his governments were coalition governments, mainly with the Democrat Party but once with Luxembourgs socialist workers party. But always with Werners Christian social peoples party as the senior larger party. His party lost power , a rarity, in 1974 but his party kept him on as leader confident he could be victorious at the next election in 1979. During his second stint as PM he focused on diversifying the countrys economy after they were hit hard by the steel crisis in Europe and a need to not put all of their economic eggs in one basket was seen as a must. Financial services and global satellite communications were sectors that he nurtured and developed and are to the day key strengths in Luxembourgs economy. In 1970 the heads of state in the EEC asked him to work on and draw up a blueprint on the future of the group with a detailed plan for economic and monetary union. Reform was to be gradual but aimed for irreversible fixing of exchange rates and a single currency within a decade. The timetable for his plans were derailed by political disagreement in Europe and the 1970s oil crisis but the 'Werner Plan' as it became known was revived and extended by official Deathlist alumni Jacques Delors and the principles embedded in the Treaty of Maastricht. It is also known that he gave significant clandestine support to resistance forces during the 1940-1945 Nazi Occupation of Luxembourg. It would definitely be fair and accurate to describe him as a sort of early prototype europhile! -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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Dutch tennis player Betty Stove celebrates her 74th birthday today. She has won ten grand slam titles in total- a combination of womens doubles and mixed doubles titles. -
Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 1990 British Labour MP Sean Hughes died from cancer aged 44. He was the MP for Knowsley South and succeeded former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1983 as the MP for the constituency. He worked in the shadow whips office and the shadow defence team . He was regarded as a moderate not least by Harold Wilson who advocated for him to be the Labour partys selected candidate to represent the seat Wilson was retiring from. Sean Hughes was credited by a number of Labour party figures as being an important part of why in the era of the militant tendency in Merseyside this local Labour Party constituency was able to keep up its tradition of not succumbing to any extremes. 1990 was quite an unusual and sad year for the Labour party in Merseyside as three Labour mps died here in their forties this year. -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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American actress Michele Lee, best known for playing Karen MacKenzie in 1980s 1990s US Primetime soap Knots Landing celebrates her 80th birthday today. Her main acting career is in television but she has starred in a number of films including The Love Bug and The Comic alongside Dick Van Dyke. -
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18985525/the-queen-horse-riding-again/ The Queen back riding horses again nine months after she was told/advised to quit.
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Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 1891 German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber died aged 86. He was the joint inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph which connected the Observatory he was in with the Institute for physics in Gottingen. The other inventor was Carl Friedrich Gauss. The unit of measurement for magnetic flux is named weber after him. -
Totally respect @YoungWillz decision about his unique pool but God I'm gonna miss it this summer. All the best Will.
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Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 1998 Irish American actress Maureen O'Sullivan died aged 87. Best known for playing Jane in the Tarzan films from 1932-1942 , Maureen starred in a number of other films in the golden age of Hollywood including Barbara Stanwyck film All I Desire (1953), Pride and Prejudice (1940) along with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson and Woman Wanted (1935) with Joel McCrea. Maureens daughter is actress and activist Mia Farrow. -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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American actor Ted Shackleford, best known for playing Gary Ewing in US prime time soaps Dallas and Knots Landing, celebrates his 76th birthday today. -
Famous celebrity births , pregnancies and babies
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-saturdays-mollie-king-pregnant-27305146 Singer Mollie King , member of british band The Saturdays, has announced she is expecting her first child with England cricketer Stuart Broad. -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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The current astronomer royal and crossbencher in the House of Lords Martin Rees celebrates his 80th birthday today. -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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Belated Happy Birthday for yesterday to american actor Ron Ely, most famous for playing one of the incarnations of Tarzan who celebrated turning 84 yesterday. -
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/18967938/gloria-hunniford-hospital-fall-broke-eye-socket-loose-women/ British tv and radio presenter Gloria Hunniford reveals she has recently been hospitalised after falling and breaking her eye socket- causing her to miss her role in the official platinum jubilee celebrations a few weeks ago.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10943081/Rupert-Murdoch-Jerry-Hall-divorcing-six-years-marriage.html 91 year old Rupert Murdoch to divorce Jerry Hall after six years of marriage.
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Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 2015 probably one of the most successful and proflic composers and orchestrators of film scores in the world James Horner , died aged 61 while flying his short tucano turboprop aircraft which crashed into a national park in California. Horner was responsible for the best selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time - James Camerons Titanic in 1997. He composed too many film scores in very well known films to list them all here but some of his highlights include Troy (2004), Avatar (2009), Honey I shrunk the kids (1989), Deep Impact (1998), Aliens(1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Patriot Games(1992) , The Amazing Spiderman(2012), Braveheart(1995), Star Trek ll The Wrath of Khan (1982) ,Hocus Pocus (1993) and Southpaw (2015). Most of his work was distinguished by his particular successful blending together of choral and electronic elements . -
Looks like quite a few people agree with you including comedian Paul Sinha . I hadn't realised Piers Morgan made a fool of himself with Mick until Isaw it on twitter. Genuinely surprised that his show on TalkTV seems to be rating so badly.
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The Happy Birthday Thread
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I don't care what anyone says in my opinion Meryl Streep is not overrated she is bloody fantastic!! -
Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 1993 former first lady of the United States Pat Nixon died aged 81 She was first lady from 1969 until 1974 when her husband President Richard Nixon was impeached and resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal. To no avail Pat urged her husband not to resign believing in his innocence until the very end. Pat also served as second lady of the United States from 1953-1961 while her husband was President Eisenhowers Vice President. Pat died less than a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer but had been in frail health for years after a number of strokes Pat was a lifetime smoker but this was not common public knowledge as she made a point of not being seen smoking in public or photographed smoking. -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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Journalist and television presenter Esther Rantzen celebrates her 82nd birthday today. Scottish singer and songwriter Jimmy Somerville who sang in the pop groups The Communards and Bronski Beat turns 61 today . -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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Malcolm Rifkind, former foreign, defence and secretary of state for Scotland under the UK Conservative government of John Major , turns 76 today. -
Death Anniversary Thread
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On this day in 1957 Nobel prize winning German physicist Johnannes Stark died aged 83. Highly intelligent and gifted in jis area of expertise physics Johannes wrote over 300 papers on the subject, mainly electricity. He won the Nobel prize for physics in 1919 for his discovery and confirmation of the doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields- the latter named after him as the stark effect. In 1907 he asked an unknown Albert Einstein to write a review article on the principle of relativity. His undeniable intellectual gifts were overshadowded by his early and ongoing for Adolf Hitler from 1924. Johannes was one of the key main figures along with Nobel laureate Philipp Lenard behind a drive to remove all Jewish scientists from German physics in an antisemitic purge. In 1947 he was found guilty of being a 'major offender' by a denazification court. In 2020 the International Astronomical Union in recognition of Starks achievements in physics decided to honour him by naming a crater on the moon after him but dropped the plan after his Nazi past they unknowingly overlooked was highlighted to them. -
Death Anniversary Thread
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American tennis player Maureen Connolly died on this day aged 34 in 1969 from ovarian cancer. In her all too brief life and career she won nine major singles titles and was the first woman to win a grand slam. -
The Happy Birthday Thread
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Sir Bernard Ingham , journalist and former Chief Press Secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, celebrates his 90th birthday today -
The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/18949141/x-factor-death-fiancee-wedding-day/ Tom Mann ,former contestant on X Factor and member of boyband Stereo Kicks, has announced that his fiance and mother of his eight month old child has died suddenly on the morning of their wedding. -
Famous celebrity births , pregnancies and babies
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https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/tyler-herro-and-katya-elise-henry-announce-baby-herro-on-the-way-news.153806.html American NBA basketball player Tyler Herro and his Instagram model girlfriend are expecting their second child together.