On This Day !

22nd December 1962 (the year of my birth)


http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3717502.stm
Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, Suffolk England, actor (English Patient) was born.
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR .



I thought I would start a thread based on historic events on the day of posting in the year I was born, or even just memorable news of the day from any particular year as long as it happened today.

Feel free to add any you think worth note using your own year of birth or significant years for you.

Just gone midnight so :

On the 23 of December 1962

Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion

23rd Dec 1965 Slash, (Guns N' Roses) was born.