Today's Highlight In History;
Birthdays:
1808 Thomas Cook, Founder of the Thomas Cook travel agents
1819 George Elliot, Author of 'The Mill On the Floss' & 'Silas Marner'
1913 Benjamin Britten, English operatic composer
1930 Sir Peter Hall, Leading director, and former manager of the RSC
1941 Tom Conti, Stage and screen actor
1943 Billie Jean King, US tennis player & Wimbledon Champion
1950 Tina Weymouth, Of the group 'Talking Heads'
1953 Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and batsman
Events:
1900 Sir Arthur Sullivan, the famous composer of several operas with his friend W.S Gilbert, died
1963 US president J.F Kennedy was shot and killed while travelling through Dallas, Texas
1963 Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as the 35th President of America, shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy
1965 In Las Vegas, Cassius Clay beat Floyd Paterson to retain his world heavyweight boxing title
1975 King Juan Carlos II was sworn in as head of state, two days after the death of General Franco, the Spanish dictator
1980 The American actress Mae West died, aged 88
2001 Died, Christiana Ajayi-Okunga, 79, SAN,and former pro-chancellor, University of Calabar.
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