On This Day

[Elbmek]

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I KNEW there was some cause to celebrate

[Richard1978]

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One for yesterday:

2nd January 1978

First episode of Blakes 7 transmitted


For today:

3rd January 1970

Jon Pertwee makes his debut in Doctor Who, which is also made in colour for the first time.

[HG]

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4th January 1986

Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott died 11 days after collapsing following a drink and drugs binge.

5th January 1981

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe appeared in court for the first time, 5 days after his arrest for the murder of 13 women.

6th January 1977

EMI sacked The Sex Pistols fropm their recod label

[HG]

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8th January 1989

46 people were killed after a British Midland Boeing 737 crash landed on the M1 following double engine failure on its approach to East Midlands airport

[HG]

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12th January 1976

Author Agatha Christie died aged 85

[HG]

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15th January 1982

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark was found safe and well after being missing for 6 days in the Sahara Desert whlst taking part in the Paris-Dakar rally.

16th January 1979

The Shah of Iran went into exile following months of increasing violence in protest at his regieme.

[HG]

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17th January 1991

Operation Desert Storm began to liberate Kuwait from Iraq. Saddam Hussein described it as the Mother of all Battles.

[HG]

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21st January 1981

52 Americans held hostage for 444 in the American Embassy in Tehran were released

22nd January 1979

The biggest mass strike in the UK since 1926 paralyses the country as public sector workers strike over pay

23rd January 1973

US president Richard Nixon announces peace with honour, ending over a decade of war in Vietnam

24th January 1965

WW2 prime minister Sir Winston Churchill died aged 90

25th January 1971

General idi Amin seized power in Uganda whilst President Milton Obote was away on a foreign visit

[HG]

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27th January 1984

Michael Jackson received hospital treatment for serious burns to his head after his hair caught light during a freak accident whilst making a Pepsi commercial.

28th January 1986

The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift off from Cape Canaveral killing all 7 astronauts

30th January 1972

British troops opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians. This event became known as Bloody Sunday.

31st January 1983

The wearing of seat belts in the front seats of cars became compulsory in the UK.

[HG]

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1st February 1984

Chancellor Nigel Lawson announced the 1/2p coin would cease to be produced after the end of February and would cease to be legal tender during the year.

[HG]

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2nd February 1979

Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York.