On This Day in London: The Shady Old Lady's Guide to London
It all happened here on our streets, but today is the anniversary of which key events from London's history:
26th September 1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate Skytrain service, London to NY (48 years ago this year)
26th September 1963 Born today: Lysette Anthony, London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch) (62 years ago this year)
26th September 1961 Author Will Self was born in Finchley, North London. (64 years ago this year)
26th September 1947 Born today: Graham Faulkner, London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon) (78 years ago this year)
26th September 1926 JB Fagan's And So to Bed, premieres in London (99 years ago this year)
26th September 1920 Magician Edwin Archibald Maskelyne passed away in Islington. (105 years ago this year)
26th September 1907 Born today: Ralph Michael, London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House) (118 years ago this year)
26th September 1087 The Coronation of William II in Westminster Abbey. (938 years ago this year)
27th September 1968 Hair opens in London (57 years ago this year)
27th September 1940 Holland House in Kensington is largely destroyed by Germans bombs. (85 years ago this year)
27th September 1938 Born today: Alexander Graham, Lord Mayor of London (87 years ago this year)
27th September 1927 Fred Browne murders PC Gutteridge in Epping and heads back to London. (98 years ago this year)
27th September 1796 Essayist Charles Lamb's sister stabs her mother to death, jury's verdict: lunacy. (229 years ago this year)
27th September 1792 Born today: George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist) (233 years ago this year)
28th September 1991 Born today: Saffron LeBon, London, daughter of Simon and Yasmon (34 years ago this year)
28th September 1985 Race riot in London area of Brixton (40 years ago this year)
28th September 1946 Born today: Helen Shapiro, Bethnal Green London, rock vocalist (Culture Club) (79 years ago this year)
28th September 1935 Born today: Heather Sears, London England, actress (Room at the Top) (90 years ago this year)
28th September 1916 Born today: Peter Finch, London, actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe) (109 years ago this year)
28th September 1872 Born today: Tom Terriss, London England, director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru) (153 years ago this year)
28th September 1855 Born today: Thomas F Tout, London, historian (Manchester school of historiography) (170 years ago this year)
28th September 1746 Born today: William Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist (279 years ago this year)
29th September 1970 Born today: Emily Lloyd, London England, actress (Wish You Were Here, In Country) (55 years ago this year)
29th September 1956 Runner Sebastian Coe born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. (69 years ago this year)
29th September 1930 Born today: Peter Miller, CEO (Lloyd's of London) (95 years ago this year)
29th September 1916 Cartoonist Carl Giles born in Islington. (109 years ago this year)
29th September 1904 Actress Greer Garson born in Manor Park, East London. (121 years ago this year)
29th September 1862 The Father of Modern Ventriloquism, Fred Russell, was born in London. (163 years ago this year)
29th September 1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) (196 years ago this year)
29th September 1810 Born today: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist (215 years ago this year)
30th September 1977 Ian Dury releases first album New Boots and Panties!! featuring a London shop on sleeve. (48 years ago this year)
30th September 1965 Comedian Omid Djalili was born in Chelsea, London. (60 years ago this year)
30th September 1950 Born today: Victoria Tennant, London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War) (75 years ago this year)
30th September 1947 T Rex singer Marc Bolan was born in Hackney, East London. (78 years ago this year)
30th September 1905 Born today: Ralph Forbes, London England, actor (Romeo and Juliet, Daniel Boone) (120 years ago this year)
30th September 1904 Born today: Frank Lawton, London England, actor (Devil Doll, Invisible Ray) (121 years ago this year)
pinpointing the forgotten and lost history of London
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