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by Richard Frost » Thu Oct 14 2021 11:47am
Thursday 14th October 2021
William, Duke of Normandy and his army defeat the English forces of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
A Selection of Birthdays
1633 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), born in St. James's Palace, London (d. 1701)
1644 William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, born in London (d. 1718)
1687 Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (Simson line), born in West Kilbride, Ayrshire (d. 1768)
1712 George Grenville, British Prime Minister (1763-65) who introduced the Stamp Act (1st international tax to the colonies in America), born in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire (d. 1770)
1726 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician, born in Leith, Midlothian (d. 1813)
1790 Christian, son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the Bounty), born in Pitcairn Island (d. 1831)
1827 William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, born in York (d. 1904)
1855 George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl), born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire (d. 1915)
1869 Joseph Duveen, British art connoisseur (Elgin marbles), born in Hull, Yorkshire (d. 1939)
1872 Reginald "R.F." Doherty, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1897-1900), born in Wimbledon (d. 1910)
1882 Charlie Parker, English cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test), born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire (d. 1959)
1882 Éamon de Valera, Irish politician (President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59)), born in NYC, New York (d. 1975)
1890 Frank Conroy, British actor (Call of the Wild), born in Derby, Derbyshire (d. 1964)
1896 Bud Flanagan [Chaim Reuben Weintrop], English comedian (duo with Chesney Alley), born in London (d. 1968)
1906 Benita Hume, British actress (Tarzan Escapes, High Treason, Halls of Ivy), born in London (d. 1967)
1912 Jack Crapp, English cricketer (England batsman 1948-49), born in St Columb Major, Cornwall (d. 1981)
1912 Jack Young, English cricketer (Middlesex & England slow left-armer post-WW2), born in Paddington, West London (d. 1993)
1927 Roger Moore, British actor (The Saint, James Bond), born in London (d. 2017)
1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren), born in The Bronx, New York
1940 Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor (All Creatures Great & Small), born in Bala, Snowdonia
1940 Cliff Richard [Harry Webb], English rock vocalist ("Move It"; "Living Doll"; "We Don't Talk Anymore"), born in Lucknow, British India
1942 Billy Harrison, Irish rock guitarist (Them), born in Belfast
1945 Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake), born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
1945 Lesley Joseph, British stage and screen actress (Birds of a Feather - "Dorien") and radio broadcaster, born in Finsbury Park, London
1946 Justin Hayward, English vocalist (Moody Blues - "Nights in White Satin"), born in Swindon, Wiltshire
1946 Dan McCafferty, Scottish rock vocalist (Nazareth - "Love Hurts"), born in Dunfermline
1947 Al Atkins, British rock singer (Judas Priest, 1969-73), born in West Bromwich, West Midlands
1949 Katy Manning, English actress (Doctor Who-Jo Grant), born in Guildford, Surrey
1951 Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-British rock vocalist (Boney M), born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
1953 Roland Butcher, Barbados born English cricketer (1st cricketer of Caribbean descent to play for England 1981), born in Saint Philip Parish, Barbados
1954 Carole Malone, English TV presenter, journalist and broadcaster. born in West Allotment, near Newcastle upon Tyne
1958 Thomas Dolby [Robertson], British new-wave rock singer and musician (She Blinded Me With Science), born in London,
1960 Steve Cram, English runner (world record mile/2 km) born in Gateshead
1968 Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer, born in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
1975 Teresa "Shaznay" Lewis, British singer (All Saints), born in Islington, London
1977 Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor, born in Lincolnshire
1977 Freddy Kempf, British musician (BBC Young Musician of the Year), born in Croydon
1978 Paul Hunter, English snooker player (Masters 2001, 02, 04), born in Leeds, Yorkshire (d. 2006)
1978 Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer, born in Paisley
1980 Ben Whishaw, English actor (A Very English Scandal), born in Clifton, Bedfordshire
1986 Tom Craddock, English footballer, born in Darlington
On this day in British History
1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence
1773 American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1840 Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, an explosion claims 439 lives.
1926 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released
1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
1944 British troops march into Athens
1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
1968 Opening of the rebuilt Euston railway station in London
1969 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971
2020 A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York
Northern Ireland
1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
1972 North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition
Scotland
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence
1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth
1745 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
Deaths in History
1066 Harold II, last crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England (1066), dies at Battle of Hastings, at about 44
1565 Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
1619 Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1660 Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
1758 Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal, dies at 62
1961 Harriet Shaw Weaver, British political activist, and magazine editor (The Egoist), dies at 85
1984 Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
2005 Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
2006 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2007 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director (Oxford Playhouse), dies at 85
2008 Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, British peer and business man, dies at 82