by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 13, 2022 | On This Day
Actor Oliver Reed was born in Wimbledon, London. His films included Oliver, Women in Love and The Three Musketeers. His final role was as the elderly slave dealer Proximo in Gladiator. Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting...
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 12, 2022 | On This Day
Lady Jane Grey was Beheaded At the tender age of 16, the ‘nine days queen’, Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley were beheaded; he on Tower Hill, she on Tower Green, after being implicated in the Wyatt’s rebellion. The rebellion arose out of...
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 11, 2022 | On This Day
Margaret Thatcher won the Conservative Party Leadership (defeating Edward Heath) and became the first woman leader of a British political party.
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 10, 2022 | On This Day
The birth of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who, as British Prime Minister after Eden’s resignation following the Suez crisis, claimed ‘You’ve never had it so good’ and warned South Africa that ‘the wind of change’ was blowing through the continent. He was...
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 9, 2022 | On This Day
The Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, aged 71, died at the King Edward VII Hospital in London after suffering a stroke and a heart attack. Her body was laid to rest at Kensington Palace in order for the Royal Family to pay their respects.
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