On this day

September 19th

1844 - USA: The Marquette Iron range in the upper Peninsula of Michigan, near Lake Superior was discovered accidentally by a group of government surveyors headed by William A. Burt. Burt observed that his compass was deviating 87 degrees from normal. On investigating the soil, he found evidence of large deposits of iron ore.

1905 - Europe: British and German armies hold simultaneous, but unrelated war manoeuvres.

1906 - UK: 12 passengers lose their lives when a London to Scotland express train derails.

1914 - South Africa: The South African army take Luderitzburg in the German occupied South-West.

1927 - Nicaragua: Rebel leader Augusto Sandino launches an attack on government troops at Las Flores.

1928 - New York: The "Vitaphone" talkie "The Singing Fool" starring Al Jolson opens across the city.

1935 - Germany: Jews become deprived of their German citizenship becoming merely "subjects" without rights.

1943 - Italy: Italian troops seize control of Sardinia.

1944 - Helsinki: Finland signs an armistice with the USSR.

1945 - USA: Actress Shirley Temple marries John Agar in Hollywood.

1952 - Washington: Charlie Chaplin is investigated as being a suspected "Subversive."

1954 - UK: The Federation of British Sun Clubs, a nudist organisation holds its first annual meeting.

1958 - UK: The RAF takes delivery of its first US-built Thor missiles.

1960 - London: 344 tickets are issued in central London on the first day of parking tickets and traffic wardens.

1965 - UK: A Gallup poll commissioned by ABC Television shows 94% of the English Population belong to a church.

1966 - USA: Folk singer Joan Baez leads a group of black children to an all-white school in Mississippi.

1972 - London: An Israeli diplomat is killed by a letter bomb from the "Black September" group; another four bombs are intercepted by the police.

1973 - Jordan: King Hussein declares an amnesty and releases Palestinian prisoners.

1977 - USA: Film director Roman Polanski is jailed for three months for having sex with a 13 year-old girl.

1980 - USA: One person is killed in a fuel explosion in an underground nuclear missile silo at Damascus, Arkansas.

1985 - Mexico City: Thousands are feared dead after a huge devastating earthquake hits, turning the baseball stadium into a giant morgue.

1990 - UK: IRA gunmen attack and badly injure Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry, a former governor of Gibraltar.

1995 - Washington: The House of Representatives speaker, Newt Gingrich, is investigated after his $4.5 million book advance from Rupert Murdoch.

1997 - London: A passenger train crashes into a freight train at Southall, West London, killing six people and injuring over 150.

2005 - Iraq: A US diplomat and three American security guards are killed following an insurgent suicide car bomb attack in Mosul.

2007 - UK: Jose Mourinho leaves Chelsea FC by mutual consent.

2011 - USA: Barack Obama outlines a plan to cut US deficit by $3 trillion over 10 years, with half of the reductions coming from tax increases.

1952 - Washington: Charlie Chaplin is investigated as being a suspected "Subversive."




1952: US Immigration slams door on Chaplin
The United States is to prevent the film legend, Charlie Chaplin, from returning to his Hollywood home until he has been investigated by the Immigration Services.
The Attorney-General, Thomas McGranery, has ordered the Immigration Service to hold Mr Chaplin "for hearings" if he returns to the United States, despite issuing him with a re-entry permit only a few months ago.

He gave no reason for his instructions.


I do not want to create any revolution, all I want to do is create a few more films.

Charlie Chaplin

Mr Chaplin is currently sailing to England on board the Queen Elizabeth with his wife and four children.

His friend, the writer Harry Crocker, who is travelling with the family, said Mr Chaplin would probably talk to his lawyers before making any comment.

He added that Mr Chaplin intends to return to the US in about six months.

Mr Chaplin is still a British citizen, despite living in America for almost 40 years, and has no automatic right to re-enter the country.

Under US law, grounds for denying a foreigner admission include "moral turpitude" and "political affiliations".

Charlie Chaplin has been under severe pressure in the US over accusations from Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee that he is associated with left-wing causes.

Mr Chaplin has been on the FBI's Security Index since 1948, and he was one of over 300 people blacklisted by Hollywood film studios and unable to work after he refused to cooperate when he appeared before the Committee.

When questioned about his membership of the Communist Party, Mr Chaplin answered, "I do not want to create any revolution, all I want to do is create a few more films.

"I might amuse people. I hope so."

He has also been attacked over his colourful private life: he has married four times, twice to girls of 16, and in 1943 was the subject of a paternity suit which he fought and lost.

Mr Chaplin's lawyer in Hollywood, Lloyd Wright, said the re-entry permit was valid for a year.

"The immigration was so nice about issuing Chaplin his permit and even told him to hurry back," he said.

"Now the minute he gets on the high seas this comes up."


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Charlie Chaplin is under investigation for his political beliefs and his private life






In Context
When Charlie Chaplin arrived in the UK, he quickly realised it would be impossible for him to return to the United States.
He turned against his erstwhile home, saying, "I would not go back there even if Jesus Christ was the president."

After the highly successful premiere of his film, "Limelight", in London, he settled in Vevey, in Switzerland, where he lived until his death in 1977.

He continued to make films, although public opinion in the US had turned so strongly against him that his first European film, "A King in New York", was not released in America for 16 years.

He did return to the United States one more time, in 1972, when his talent was finally recognised and he was awarded a Special Academy Award.

Three years later, he received a knighthood from the Queen.

After his death, Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen from his grave and was missing for 11 weeks, until it was recovered in May 1978.

Two men were convicted of the theft and for trying to extort money from the Chaplin family.


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1986: Two dead in Midlands rail crash
2003: Washington DC swept by hurricane
1952: US Immigration slams door on Chaplin


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September 20th

1881 - USA: Republican Chester A, Arthur is inaugurated President of the United States, succeeding to the presidency on the death of James A, Garfield.

1904 - USA: In front of a crowd near their home town of Dayton, Ohio, Orville & Wilbur Wright give a display from their new more powerful aircraft "Flyer 2."

1907 - Morocco: French troops resume fighting with rebel forces in Casablanca after the breakdown of peace talks.

1909 - London: Parliament approve South African constitution, making English and Dutch official languages.

1919 - Vienna: The Austrian government reveals that the German Kaiser urged Austria to begin the Great War.

1925 - Rome: The city's first underground railway line is opened.

1926 - Chicago: Al Capone's Hawthorne headquarters is sprayed with machine gun fire in broad daylight.

1930 - London: Sir Edward Elgar's fifth Pomp and Circumstance March has it's first performance.

1931 - Glasgow: Sir Oswald Mosley is chased and stoned by a crowd of Socialists and Communists.

1939 - London: Government reports tell of an anti-German revolt in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia.

1940 - Rome: Benito Mussolini meets German foreign minister Klaus von Ribbentrop to discuss the division of African colonies.

1942 - Paris: The Germans murder 116 people in retaliation for increasing attacks on German officers.

1944 - France: The Allies capture Boulogne.

1946 - France: The First Cannes Film Festival opens.

1952 - USA: Adlai Stevenson pledges to ensure equal employment rights for blacks and whites if he wins the election.

1958 - New York: Martin Luther King is stabbed by a woman in Harlem.

1962 - USA: The governor of Mississippi defies a court order and refuses to allow a Negro to join the university.

1963 - UK: Princess Anne begins her classes at Benenden School.

1967 - Clydebank: Around 100,000 see the Queen launch the new £29 million Cunard liner "Queen Elizabeth II.

1974 - Honduras: Cyclone Fifi kills around 10,000 people.

1978 - UK: Police launch a massive manhunt after newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is murdered.

1981 - Belfast: Michael Devine becomes the tenth IRA hunger striker to die.

1984 - Beirut: 40 people are killed when an Islamic suicide bomber blows up himself and his explosive-packed car in an attack on the US embassy in East Beirut.

1989 - Scotland: Statistics show that 300,000 people in Strathclyde have defaulted on the poll tax.

1991 - The Hague: European Community ministers defer a decision on sending a peace keeping force to Yugoslavia.

1995 - Ankara: Turkey's first woman prime minister Tanzu Ciller, resigns.

1997 - Borneo: Scientists describe the widespread fires raging out of control in Borneo and Sumatra as on the worst ecological disasters of modern times.

1998 - Malaysia: Former Malaysian deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is arrested for sexual misconduct.

2008 - Pakistan: Pakistan detains 13 Indian fisherman after they had drifted into Pakistan waters.

2010 - The Universe: Jupiter becomes the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon, as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.

September 21st

1860 - China: Fighting continues in the second Opium War. Anglo French forces defeat Qing troops at Baliqiao on the road to Beijing.

1902 -Egypt: A cholera epidemic, which has claimed over 26,000 lives shows the first signs of abating.

1908 - Cologne: In his thesis "Space and Time", Hermann Minkowski defines time as the "Fourth Dimension."

1919 - Europe: The Paris to Constantinople Orient Express runs for the first time since the Great War.

1921 - Germany: An explosion at the BASF chemical works near Ludwigshafen kills 574 and injures over 1,000 people.

1933 - Washington: President Roosevelt orders $75 million to be spent on clothing and feeding the unemployed through the winter.

1936 - Germany: The German army begins its largest Manoeuvres since 1914.

1938 - Prague: The government agrees to Anglo-French plans to cede the Sudetenland to Germany.

1941 - USSR: The Germans cut off the Crimean peninsula from the rest of the USSR.

1944 - Philippines: General Douglas MacArthur's forces launch an attack on the Japanese near Manila.

1945 - India: The Congress Party calls for the freedom of India, Burma, Malaya and Indochina from colonial rule.

1956 - London: The Suez talks end with an agreement on setting up a Canal Users Association.

1957 - Oslo: Prince Olav becomes King Olav V of Norway on the death of King Haakon VII.

1961 - Paris: Dior heir Yves Saint Laurent announces the start of his own fashion business.

1964 - Malta: Malta becomes an independent member of the Commonwealth.

1969 - London: A task-force of 200 police officers storm 144 Piccadilly evicting 250 hippie squatters, ending a week long occupation on the century-old 100-room mansion in London's West End.

1970 - London: A slim volume of "Selected Poems" by Mary Wilson" wife of Harold Wilson goes on sale in Oxford Street, with long queues waiting for signed copies.

1971 - London: Asian refugees expelled from Uganda begin arriving at Heathrow Airport after being robbed by General Idi Amin's soldiers.

1980 - Baghdad: Iraq announces it has shot down an Iranian Phantom F-4 fighter and sunk eight warships.

1984 - Rotherham: Maltby Colliery is the scene of some of the worst violence in the miners strike so far.

1986 - UK: Prince Charles admits on TV that he talks to his plants.

1990 - Baghdad: Iraq expels 40 diplomats in retaliation for expulsions in Europe.

1994 - London: Footballer Gary Lineker announces his retirement.

2008 - China: The number of babies hospitalised due to adulterated milk products and infant formula reaches 12,892.

2011 - Iran: American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are freed on bail in a humanitarian gesture after being detained in prison for over two years under allegations of espionage.

September 22nd

1711 - USA: The Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713) began with a massacre of settlers on the Chowan and Roanoke rivers in north eastern Carolina.

1891 - USA: Nine hundred thousand acres of Indian land in Oklahoma were opened for general settlement by a presidential proclamation. The land had been ceded to the US by Sauk, Fox, and Patawatomi Indians.

1912 - Turkey: The government extends concessions made to Albania to all provinces within the Ottoman Empire.

1915 - Balkans: Bulgaria begins mobilising it's army.

1916 - Balkans: Rumania and Russia defeat the Germans under Marshal August von Mackensen at Dobrudja.

1919 - UK: 50,000 iron foundry workers go on strike for higher wages.

1920 - London: The Metropolitan Police's "Flying Squad is formed.

1921 - Europe: The Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia join the League of Nations.

1927 - Rome: Pope Pius XI gives $100,000 for flood victims in the Southern US.

1929 - Berlin: Communists and Nazi's are involved in armed street confrontations.

1935 - Rome: Benito Mussolini rejects the League's peace plan and demands the disarmament of the Abyssinian army.

1939 - Rumania: Scores of executions follow the murder by Fascist Iron Guards of premier Armand Calinescu.

1944 - Estonia: The Russians capture the capital, Tallinn.

1949 - Washington: George Marshall becomes head of the US Red Cross.

1950 - Korea: The Allies capture Suwon, south of Seoul.

1955 - UK: MG cars unveils a new sports model, the MG-A.

1965 - USA: San Francisco band The Great Society, featuring Grace Slick, make their live debut at the Coffee Gallery, in North Beach, California.

1969 - USA: THE MUSIC SCENE, a new weekly TV show airs on ABC in the US for the first time. Artists booked to appear on the first show included, Stevie Wonder, Tom Jones, James Brown, and Janis Joplin.

1972 - South Vietnam: The US report no military deaths for the first time in a week since March 1965.

1975 - USA: President Gerald Ford escapes assassination for the second time in 17 days when a woman Sara Jane Moore fires a gun at him as he was leaving a San Francisco Hotel.

1984 - UK: The new Bishop of Durham calls Coal Board chief Ian MacGregor an "imported elderly American."

1987 - London: The Government bans automatic weapons of the type used by Hungerford killer Michael Ryan.

1988 - USSR: Moscow sends in tanks to quell unrest in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

1996 - Australia: 66 year-old cancer sufferer Bob Dent becomes the first person in Australia to die under the Terminally Ill Act, which allowed his doctor to insist in his drug-induced suicide via a computer.

2006 - USA: The US military officially retires the F-14 Tomcat, the aircraft famous in the film "Top Gun."

2008 - UK: Radiocarbon dating estimates that Stonehenge was constructed around 2300BC.

2010 - Russia: Russia bans arms sales to Iran in accordance with UNSC Regulation 129.

September 23

1862 - USA: Approximately 700 Santee Sioux Indians under their leader Little Crow engage 1,500 soldiers lead by Colonel Henry Sibley in a fight at Wood Lake Minnesota.

1906 - USA: Around 3,000 state troopers fail to quell race riots in Atlanta, Georgia.

1911 - Belfast: A meeting of 50,000 Ulster Unionists addressed by Sir Edward Carson rejects any possibility of Home Rule.

1912 - USA: Max Sennett releases the first "Keystone Cops" film.

1920 - France: Premier Alexandre Millerand is elected president of France.

1931 - London: The Stock Exchange opens after being closed for two days due to the economic crisis.

1940 - West Africa: The Royal Navy lands Charles De Gaulle with a force of Free French troops at Dakar in Senegal.

1945 - London: The government refers the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine to the United Nations.

1952 - London: Charlie Chaplin visits the city for the first time in 23 years.

1957 - Haiti: Dr Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier wins the presidential election.

1961 - UK: The Shadows debut album Shadows starts a four week run at No.1 on the UK charts.

1964 - Paris: The famous decorated ceiling at the Paris Opera House by Marc Chagall is Unveiled.

1966 - UK: The "Rolling Stones 66" 12 date UK tour begins at the Royal Albert Hall in London. They were supported by the Yardbirds, Ike and Tina Turner, and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers.

1967 - Moscow: The USSR signs an aid pact with North Vietnam.

1974 - UK: The BBC-TV gives the first transmission of Ceefax, Teletext services.

1975 - San Francisco: Patty Hearst signs an affidavit saying she was coerced into committing robbery.

1976 - USA: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter hold their first televised debate.

1981 - London: The stock market suffers the second worst fall in its history.

1986 - UK: After a career of 24 years as Yorkshires - and for much of that time England's - most successful opening batsman since the war, Geoffrey Boycott is sacked by his county.

1987 - Australia: Britain loses an appeal against a court decision to allow the publication of "Spycatcher" in Australia.

1992 - Vietnam: General Le Duc Anh, a former Vietcong, is elected president.

1993 - Monaco: The International Olympic Committee awards the 2000 Olympic Games to Sydney.

1996 - London: The government outline proposals to censor the Internet in response to concern over transmission of child pornography. The system is to be called "Safety-Net."

1997 - Saudi Arabia: Scottish nurse Lucille McLauchlan is sentenced to 500 lashes and an eight-year jail term for being an accessory to the murder of Yvonne Gilford.

2006 - Japan: Japan's Solar-B mission is launched from the Uchinora Space Center.

2008 - Switzerland: The large Hadron Collider near Geneva is shut down until the northern spring, while engineers look into magnet failures.

2010 - USA: The state of Virginia executes its first woman since 1912, with Teresa Lewis who becomes the first woman in the US to be executed since 2005.

September 24th

1829 - USA: George Vashon, representing the United States and the Delaware Indians sign a treaty at the St. Mary's River on the Indiana-Ohio border. The Delaware gave up lands along the White River in exchange for land along the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. The Delaware also received annuity.

1896 - USA: American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.

1901 - USA: Leon Czolgosz is sentenced to death for President William McKinley's assassination.

1908 - UK: Elder people around the country apply for Old Age Pensions under a new government act.

1912 - London: A new £10 million Chinese loan is floated in the City as the formation of a Anglo-Chinese Bank is announced.

1923 - Germany: Doctors announce that inhaling Smokers absorb eight times more nicotine than those who do not.

1927 - UK: Statistics show Britain has had it's worst summer since 1879, having 80% more rain than the normal average.

1931 - India: 19 people are killed by police during anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir.

1940 - London: The King introduces the George Cross, and George Medal "For valour and outstanding gallantry."

1945 - Tokyo: Emperor Hirohito announces he was opposed to war and blames Tojo for the raid on Pearl Harbour.

1953 - USA: Boxer Rocky Marciano knocks out Roland LaStarza to retain his world heavyweight title.

1954 - London: A temple to the Roman god "Mithras" is discovered near Mansion House.

1959 - UK: Rolls-Royce launches its new £8,905 Phantom V.

1963 - New Zealand: Doctors give the world's first successful blood transfusion to an unborn baby.

1966 - UK: Jimi Hendrix arrives in London with his manager Chas Chandler on a flight from New York, with only the clothes he was wearing after having to sell his other belongings to pay a New York hotel bill.

1968 - London: England's cricket tour of South Africa is officially cancelled.

1969 - Hanoi: Ton Duc Thang is elected to succeed Ho Chi Minh as President.

1973 - Pacific: The second Skylab crew return to Earth after a 59 day mission.

1975 - Nepal: Britons Douglas Haston and Doug Scott become the first mountaineers to climb Everest by the south-west face.

1978 - Dortmund: A West German policeman dies in a shoot-out with Baader Meinhoff terrorists.

1983 - UK: UB40 achieve their first UK No.1 album with "Labour of Love"

1986 - UK: Four million people apply for shares in the Trustee Savings Bank, in Britain's most popular ever floatation.

1988 - Seoul: Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own world record, when winning the Olympic 100 metre final in 9.79 seconds.

1992 - UK: Heritage secretary David Mellor resigns, blaming his departure on "a barrage of stories about me in tabloid newspapers."

1993 - Manila: Former first lady Imelda Marcos is sentenced to 18 years for corruption.

1996 - New York: The five nuclear nations - China, France, Russia, Great Britain and the US, sign a joint Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

1998 - Lesotho: Troops from South Africa and Botswana restore calm in Lesotho's war-torn capital, Maseru.

2006 - Ireland: Europe wins golfs Ryder Cup for the third successive time, defeating the USA by 18.5 to 9.5 at the K-Club in Straffan, County Kildare.

2009 - UK: The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure, consisting of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, is discovered buried underneath a field in Staffordshire.

September 25th

1902 - Italy: Hundreds of people are killed after a tornado strikes the Catania region of Sicily.

1907 - Spain: Severe floods cause widespread devastation in the city of Malaga.

1909 - London: Captain Robert Scott acquires the "Terra Nova" for his expedition to the South Pole.

1916 - Brussels: Anti-German demonstrations take place in front of the Royal Palace.

1925 - USA: The US Naval submarine S-51 sinks after a collision with a steamship, with the loss of 37 lives.

1930 - Germany: Adolf Hitler denounces the peace treaties, stating he wants to build a huge conscript German Army.

1934 - USA: The American yacht "Rainbow" wins the America's Cup.

1937 - China: The Japanese bomb the Chinese Nationalist capital Nanking, leaving a reported 200 people dead.

1943 - Russia: The Red Army recapture Smolensk.

1950 - Korea: UN forces recapture Seoul.

1953 - Libya: Briton Michael Lithgow reaches a record 737.3mph in a Vickers Supermarine Swift F.4 jet.

1959 - USA: Khrushchev and Eisenhower begin talks on Berlin.

1962 - Chicago: Boxer Sonny Liston defeats Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight title, becoming the first challenger this century to knockout the world champion in the first round.

1965 - USA: The Beatles cartoon series premieres on ABC-TV.

1967 - Paris: Britain, France, and West Germany sign an agreement to co-operate on an "Airbus" airliner.

1970 - USA: The first episode of "The Partridge Family is shown on US TV.

1971 - UK: Deep Purple reach No.1 on the UK Chart with their third album "Fireball."

1979 - Strasbourg: The European Court rules that France is acting illegally in restricting imports of British lamb.

1980 - Baghdad: Iraq claims it has captured the Iranian city of Khorramshahr.

1983 - Northern Ireland: 134 IRA prisoners break out of Maze Prison.

1987 - UK: The biggest Iron Age burial site in Britain is discovered in Yorkshire.

1990 - London: Sir Jack Lyons is fined £4 million for his role in the Guinness fraud.

1991 - Wiltshire: 77 year-old Jackie Mann returns to Britain, after spending two and a half years as a hostage in Beirut.

1992 - USA: A 12 year-old boy from Florida wins a "divorce" from his biological parents, accused of having neglected him.

2005 - Brazil: Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest Formula 1 world champion, after finishing third behind McClaren rivals Juan Pablo Montoya, and Kimi Raikkonen.

2007 - New Zealand: Mount Ruapehu erupts leading to the evacuation of 50 people.

2010 - Kazakhstan: The Soyuz TMA-18 space capsule carrying three members of the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan.

September 26th

1903 - USA: Connecticut gives women the right to vote in state elections.

1908 - London: Around 500,000 people demonstrate in Hyde Park against a new Licensing Bill.

1914 - Pacific: Australian forces capture the port of Friedrich Wilhelmshafen in German West South Africa.

1921 - France: French aviator Sadi Lecointe flies at a record speed of 205mph.

1928 - Geneva: 23 nations sign an act of the League assembly, embodying the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact.

1932 - Nicaragua: Sandinist rebels engage in heavy fighting with government troops in Lindo Lugar and Jinotega.

1937 - USA: Blues singer Bessie Smith dies in a car crash in Mississippi. Surrounding her death were rumours that local hospital treatment, which might have saved her, was denied because she was a Negro.

1939 - Paris: The French Communist Party is dissolved by the government.

1940 - Atlantic: 46 survivors are found from the evacuee ship "City of Banares, which sank on the 22nd September, with the loss of 306 lives.

1941 - Leningrad: The RAF has its first engagement in Russia, as they fly in to aid the city.

1950 - London: NATO adopts the idea of an integrated European defence force, including West Germany.

1955 - UK: Hughie Green's show "Double Your Money" starts on ITV.

1959 - UK: Jockey Manny Mercer, brother of Joe Mercer, is killed in a parade before a race at Ascot.

1962 - Barcelona: 323 are killed in severe floods.

1963 - London: Lord Denning's report into the Profumo Affair, states that Harold Macmillan and his ministers failed in their handling of it.

1964 - USA: Roy Orbison begins a three week stint at No.1 on the US singles charts with "Pretty Woman."

1968 - UK: Car maker Jaguar unveils its new XJ-6 luxury saloon.

1969 - UK: The Beatles release their final studio album "Abbey Road" in the UK.

1977 - UK: Freddie Laker's first cut-price "Skytrain" service to New York takes off from Gatwick, passengers queued for more than 24 hours to pay £59 for the first walk-on, no-frills flight.

1980 - Munich: 8 people are killed and 60 are injured when a bomb explodes at the annual beer festival.

1984 - London: After two years of hard negotiations, The UK and China reach an agreement over the sovereignty of Hong Kong, with it reverting back to China in 1997.

1985 - London: The government allots £1 million to be spent on countering the spread of AIDS.

1992 - UK: Belinda Carlisle tops the UK album chart with "The Best of Belinda Vol 1.

1994 - Brussels: Belgium foreign minister Willy Claes is appointed Secretary-General of NATO.

1997 - South Africa: Winnie Mandela is questioned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding eight murders and other human rights abuses during the apartheid era.

1998 - Brittany: Frenchman Benoit Lecomte becomes the first person to swim the Atlantic, in 73 days.

2004 - UK: Green Day secure their first No.1 UK album with "American Idiot."

2007 - India: The Indian national cricket team, hold a victory parade in Mumbai after winning the inaugural ICC World Twenty 20.

2011 - Philippines: More than 100,000 people are evacuated ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Nesat.

(26-09-2013 09:34 )4evadionne Wrote:  September 26th
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1969 - UK: The Beatles release their final studio album "Abbey Road" in the UK.

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From wikipedia
Abbey Road is the 11th studio album released by the English rock band the Beatles.
It is their last recorded album, although Let It Be was the last album released before the band's dissolution in 1970.
A lot more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road