Today's Highlight in History;
Birthdays:
1885 George Patton, Controversial World War II US General
1918 Stubby Kaye, US actor/singer remembered for 'Guys and Dolls'
1920 Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, Former SDP leader
1921 Ron Greenwood, Former England football manager
1925 June Whitfield, Radio/TV actress 'Terry and June'
1927 Sir Leonard Woolfson, Managing Director of 'Great Universal Stores'
1944 Jesse Colin Young, Of the group 'The Youngbloods'
1946 Len Hawkes, Of the Pop group 'The Tremeloes'
Events:
1880Ned Kelly, the notorious Australian outlaw, was hanged in Old Melbourne Gaol aged 25 1918Germany and the Allies signed the armistice, in a railway carriage in the Compiegne forest
1921The first ever 'Poppy Day' was held by the British Legion
1940The first wartime 'Jeep', was launched by Willis
1944 The Home Guard,affectionately called 'Dads Army', was disbanded
1945 Jerome Kern, the renowned 'Broadway', composer died
1961 Elvis Presley reached number one in the record charts with 'Latest Flame'
1985 Justice Ayo Irikefe is sworn in as Chief Justice of the Federation at age 63.
1992 A noted Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, dies.
1998 General Abubakar inaugurates a 23-man Constitutional Review Committee.
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