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Astronomer Fred Hoyle, who rejected the idea of the 'Big Bang' in favour of his own 'Steady State' theory of the universe,

died on this day in 2001...

 

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein Leon Trotsky, died today after succumbing to injuries received during an ice-pick attack.

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Rudolph Valentino, the heart-throb of the Silent era, died today in 1926...

 

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Actress Yootha Joyce died of liver failure today in 1980...

 

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The Man of a Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney Sr. died this day in 1930.

 

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The Man of a Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney Sr. died this day in 1930.

 

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Cripes, that genuinely looks like my dad.

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Actor Bernard Youens AKA Stan Ogden, died today in 1984. I remember this being big news at the time...

 

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Actor Bernard Youens AKA Stan Ogden, died today in 1984. I remember this being big news at the time...

 

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Yes I do too. I remember Hilda Ogden with the glasses case, but she terrified me so I didn't see the poignancy of it. I think 1984 was the year I started to take notice of celebrity deaths. I won't list them as I don't want to do a BCAlum.

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Louis Mountbatten 30 years ago today, <_<

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Louis Mountbatten 30 years ago today, :bomb:

 

By the hither-to unknown IRA Aqua Division! <_<

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Princess Diana died 12 years ago today in 1997.

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Princess Diana died 12 years ago today in 1997.

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Guest Mohamed Al-Fayad
Princess Diana died 12 years ago today in 1997.

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Not forgetting Dodi

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Its 70 years today since the Germans began their attack on Poland, triggering the Second World War.

 

A good few people died as a result.

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Guest yia
Princess Diana died 12 years ago today in 1997.

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Not forgetting Dodi

 

and the pissed driver

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On September 1st 1914, Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo, Ohio.

 

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The passenger pigeon was once North America's most common bird. During migration, flocks could be one mile wide and three hundred miles long, taking several hours to pass and sometimes containing more than two billion birds. By 1900 they were extinct in the wild.

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Princess Diana died 12 years ago today in 1997.

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There's a Diana Shrine just down the road from me, otherwise masquerading as a tea-shop, which is closing for a week in remembrance of said adulterous Princess. Ever get the feeling some people just ought to get a life? :rolleyes:

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Frank Capra died this day in 1991

 

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But he'd had A Wonderful Life

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He's been mentioned before on other threads, today's the day Ted Moult shot himself. I can remember exactly where I was when I found out.

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He's been mentioned before on other threads, today's the day Ted Moult shot himself. I can remember exactly where I was when I found out.

 

In his shed? :rolleyes:

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Mother Teresa died on this day in 1997...

 

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Boy, did she pick the wrong week to die...

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Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, was assassinated today in 1966...

 

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Nikita Khrushchev died on this day in 1971, followed by Salvador Allende exactly two years later.

 

Sept 11th isn't really a good day for capitalists or communists.

 

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