Today in History   Home Pick a date! JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Birthdays 1951 Evonne Crawley, Australian tennis player 1944 Jonathon Dimbleby, Broadcaster 1944 Geraldine Chaplin, Actress & daughter of Charlie 1929 Lynne Reid Banks, English writer 1927 Peter Nichols, English author 1803 John Ericsson, American naval engineer  Events: 1973 The Ulster Assembly, Northern Ireland, sat for the first time 1969 The halfpenny ceased to be legal tender in Britain 1965 The advertising of cigarettes on British television was banned 1964 Spacecraft Ranger 7 transmited the first close-up photographs of the Moons surface 1954 The Mountain K2 was climbed for the first time by an Italian team 1950 Sainsbury's opened Britains first self-service store 1943 Jim Reeves, the American country and western singer, died in an aircrash © 2010, AmeriWave - All rights reserved.