Welcome to the Mine of Useless Information on Wednesday 20 October 2021
"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."
Horace ...more quotes
Instant replay added a new dimension to televised sports when it was featured in a 1963 telecast of an Army-Navy football game. In 1964, it became a standard technique on television. ...more trivia
- Tiffany, [Renee Darwisch], rocker, I Think We're Alone Now (1970)
- Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer, Sepoy-uprising (1792)
- Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer, Indian opening batsman (1963)
- Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet, Le Api (1475)
- Connie Chung, Washington D.C., news ancher, NBC, CBS (1946)
- Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61 (1676)
- Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68 (1876)
- Joannes Custos, S Netherlands humanist, dies at about 50 (1525)
- Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77 (1904)
- Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50 (1994)
- HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood (1947)
- Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) (1600)
- Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler (1982)
- Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected (1982)
- Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish (1905)
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UK: The Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There
US: Los Del Rio - Macarena
Australia: Los Del Rio - Macarena
UK: Rod Stewart - Maggie May
US: Rod Stewart - Maggie May c/w Reason To Believe
Australia: Drummond - Daddy Cool ...more number one singles
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