Events which happened on this day in history include:
1348 Edward III established the Order of the Garter.
1793 French King Louis XVI went on trial and was sentenced to the guillotine.
1840 American Charles Wilkes discovered the coast of Antarctica.
1915 The first casualties were sustained in air raid over Britain, when a German Zeppelin bombed Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
1937 The 18-year-old Margot Fonteyn made her debut in Giselle at Sadler’s Wells.
1942 The Japanese invaded Burma.
1943 Singer Janis Joplin was born in Texas. Her typical drink-and-drugs rock lifestyle ended in early death in 1970.
1963 Snow and ice meant that only nine out of 63 League football fixtures could be played, and two of those were abandoned.
1966 Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India, following in the footsteps of her father Jawaharlal Nehru.
Today’s celebrity birthdays include:
Mike Reid, actor/comedian, 66
Michael Crawford, actor, 64
Julian Barnes, author, 60
Dolly Parton, country singer, 60
Dennis Taylor, snooker commentator, 57
Stefan Edberg, tennis player, 40
Christine Tucci, actress, 39
Shawn Wayans, actor, 35
Jensen Button, racing driver, 26
Todays non-celebrity birthdays include:
Will Forbes, student/writer/director/editor, 28
Had quite a good day today. For college I had to pitch an idea for 4 30 second stings for a new digital tv station called Propeller. If my idea was selected, it would be made, and shown on the channel from the summer. So being my birthday, my group was pitching first. And I was the one doing the talking.
Help.
Well, I was shaking so much that you could use me to mix paint, and rushed through the thing. (Later my lecturer congratulated me on managing to not pass out.) Thankfully, the person from Propeller that we were pitching to seemed to like our idea.
Once everyone who had something to pitch had pitched, we were sent from the room while a decision was made. For an hour and a half.
To misquote Simon in Jaynestown:
No, THIS is what terror must feel like.
Anyhoo, we go back into the room for the verdict.
MY IDEA WAS ONLY ONE OF THE CHOSEN ONES!!!!!
Go me!
Will
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