Births of outstanding people
1889 – Ernest Tyldesley, English crickete
1908 – Peg Entwistle, English actress
1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins
1920 – Frank Muir, British comedian
1946 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
1948 – Tom Wilkinson, British actor
1951 – Robin Sachs, English actor
1980 – Jo Swinson, British politician
1889 – Ernest Tyldesley, English crickete
1908 – Peg Entwistle, English actress
1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins
1920 – Frank Muir, British comedian
1946 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
1948 – Tom Wilkinson, British actor
1951 – Robin Sachs, English actor
1980 – Jo Swinson, British politician
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ReplyDeleteOn the 5th of February in 1953 the sweet rationing ends in Britain!
Children all over Britain have been emptying out their piggy-banks and heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today.
Rationing came into force on 8 January 1940, a few months after the start of World War II.
All sorts of essential and non-essential foods were rationed, as well as clothing, furniture and petrol. Rationing of sweets and chocolate began on 26 July 1942.
Charles Brooke Longbottom (22 July 1930 – 5 February 2013) was a British barrister, businessman and politician. In his later years his interest turned to Christian healing and education. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for public and charitable services.
ReplyDeleteHe became ill summer of 2012 and died at The Royal Marsden Hospital on 05 February at the age of 82.
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, PRS (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.
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