Todays birthdays

Andy Warhol, pop artist (pictured), died 1987

Sir Chris Bonington, mountaineer, 86

Barbara Windsor, actress, 83

Ron Davies, Welsh politician, 74

Oliver Tobias, actor, 73

Reece Dinsdale, actor, 61

Michelle Yeoh, actress, 58

M. Night Shyamalan, film director, 50

Geri Halliwell, singer-songwriter/actress, 48

Leslie Odom Jr, actor, 39

Robin van Persie, footballer, 37

1504: Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born. He had an extremely long nose and was extremely inquisitive, hence the expression Nosey Parker

1637: The first Poet Laureate, Ben Jonson, died in poverty

1844: The first press telegram in Britain was sent to The Times, announcing the birth of Prince Alfred to Queen Victoria

1859: Worth a guinea a box appeared on Beechams Powders packets the first known advertising slogan

1881: Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, was born

1889: The Savoy Hotel in London opened

1890: Murderer Walter Kemmler was the first man to die in the electric chair, at Auburn Prison, New York

1932: The first film festival was held in the Hotel Excelsior, Venice

1945: The first atomic bomb was dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan, from a B29 bomber Enola Gay (pictured)

1962: Jamaica gained independence after being a British colony for more than 300 years

1990: The UN Security Council imposed economic sanctions on Iraq, ruled by Saddam Hussein, for its invasion of Kuwait four days earlier.

2011: A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, sparked a wave of rioting.

2012: NASAs robotic vehicle Curiosity landed on Mars and soon began transmitting images of the planets surface.

Puzzles have become big. Were all sitting on the floor around the table where the puzzle is now permanently set up and then we sit down for dinner and we talk some more former first lady Michelle Obama (pictured), speaking on staying at home during lockdown

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if its realistic or not Author and alternative-medicine advocate Deepak Chopra

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On this day: August 6 - Metro Newspaper UK