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28th January 1986, the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger

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Back row (L-R): Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik.

Front row (L-R): Michael J. Smith, Francis "Dick" Scobee, Ronald McNair.

were all killed, when the shuttle exploded shortly after take-off.

 

 

Last words: "Somebody put that fag out!"

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Last words: "Somebody put that fag out!"

I heard it was, "Hey, why don't we let one of the women drive?"

 

(let the flaming begin...)

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Diminutive Hollywood star Alan Ladd died today in 1964...

 

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Diminutive Hollywood star Alan Ladd died today in 1964...

 

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Ah yes. According to his Wikipedia entry, he started in small roles, and featured in a few short subjects.

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Ben KingsleyMohandas K Gandhi

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Assassinated, 30 Janaury 1948, New Delhi, India.

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Oliver Cromwell was executed on this day in 1661...more than two years after his proper death.

 

Today is also the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, who was killed in 1649.

 

Happy days.

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Writer A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, died on this day in 1956...

 

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Dutch artist Piet Mondrian died today in 1944...

 

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Dutch artist Piet Mondrian died today in 1944...

 

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Mondrian

What a man

Framed a chart

Called it art.

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Re Mondrian:

I've been thinking of painting some art for the Lounge wall... but what subject should I pick?

How about I paint my colour coded patio layout plan that showed me how best to use the slabs I had to hand at the time?

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William Henry Pratt a.k.a Boris Karloff, died today in 1969...

 

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Cult actor John Cassavetes died today in 1989...

 

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Today is the 116th anniversary of the death Adolphe Sax, a famous Belgian!

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(unless of course it was yesterday, or Sunday, or even July 2nd)

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Banjo Paterson

 

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took his last waltz on this day in 1941, aged 76.

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Bit slow with this one. It's 27 years and 1 day.

 

 

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Tennis champion Arthur Ashe

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February 6, 1993, aged 49, from complications of AIDS.

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Mat Monro died 25 years ago today...

 

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Dr Josef Mengele died on this day in 1979, apparent drowning or stroke whilst swimming. Let's hope it was painful either way!

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Enoch Powell, perhaps the most controversial British politician of his generation, died on this day in 1998...

 

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Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off...this day in 1587.

 

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Enoch Powell, perhaps the most controversial British politician of his generation, died on this day in 1998...

 

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Clever chap. Could easily have become Prime Minister.

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Enoch Powell, perhaps the most controversial British politician of his generation, died on this day in 1998...

 

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Clever chap. Could easily have become Prime Minister.

 

...if he played his (race) cards right...;)

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Princess Margaret, the better looking of the two Windsor sisters, died today in 2002...

 

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little house on the Prairie

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died 10 February 1957.

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TV actor Barry Evans (Doctor In The House, Mind Your Language)

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found dead in a dilapidated bungalow, 11-February 1997, aged 53.

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