Today's Highlight In History;
Birthdays:
1701 Anders Celsius, Swedish deviser of the Celsius thermometer
1913 Robert Dougall, Broadcaster, author and former BBC TV newsreader
1925 Ernie Wise, 'Straight man' to the late Eric Morecambe
1929 Alan Simpson, Author and scriptwriter; 'Hancock's Half Hour'
1938 Rodney Bewes, Television actor; 'The Likely Lads'
1940 John Alderton, Actor of stage and screen
1942 Jimi Hendrix, American Guitarist and singer
1944 Eddie Rabbit, Top 'country' act
Events:
1582 William Shakespeare aged 18, married Anne Hathaway
1895 The french playwright Alexandre Dumas died
1914 Britains first policewomen, Mary Allen and E.F Harburn began their duties in Grantham, Lincolnshire
1944 In a storage cavern beneath Staffordshire, 4,000 tons of explosives exploded. The explosion was heard 100 miles away in London
1953 The writer and nobel prize winner, Eugene O'Neill died in Boston USA
1967 President of France, General Charles de Gaulle, refused British entry to the Common Market
1976 The four millionth 'Mini' left the production line
1983 A Nigerian Airways F28 aircraft crashes in Emene, near Enugu, killing at least 66.
1991 Nigeria's third attempt at a national head-count begins in all the states of the federation lasting three days.
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