ON THIS DAY
BRITISH-BORN film star Peter Lawford, pictured second from right, died aged 61 in LA.
The Ocean’s 11 actor was a member of Hollywood’s famous Rat Pack along with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr and was the last person to speak to Marilyn Monroe before her death. He married several times and US President John F Kennedy was ONE Direction’s Louis Tomlinson was born in Doncaster.
He auditioned as a solo singer for X Factor six years ago, but guest judge Nicole Scherzinger suggested he would be perfect as part of a group and he joined forces with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne.
They came third in the ITV show, but went on to international success. Louis became a father for the first time in January when his son Freddie Reign was born. WILLIAM Burke went on trial in Edinburgh. He was charged with grave robbing and murdering locals to sell their bodies to medical professionals for dissection.
He and his partner William Hare became infamous for their body snatching crimes, but Hare was granted immunity for testifying against Burke. The latter was found guilty and hanged and his body was then publicly dissected at Edinburgh Medical College.
A book was made from his skin and his skeleton was put on display at the college museum. his brother-in-law after he married JFK’s sister Patricia.
“Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time,” he said. ASTRONAUTS Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders piloted the first manned space mission into orbit around the Moon.
At 09.59 GMT, the astronauts were about 78 miles (125 km) from the Moon and fired their rocket engine to send Apollo 8 into the first of 10 elliptical lunar orbits.
James Lovell said: “The Moon is essentially grey. No colour. Looks like plaster of Paris. Sort of a greyish beach sand.” ELVIS Presley proposed to girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu in her dressing room at Graceland in Memphis.
Her engagement ring was a three-and-a-half-carat diamond surrounded by a detachable row of smaller diamonds. The couple first met in Germany in 1959 when he was stationed there with the American army.
Elvis once pointed out: “When I get married, it’ll be no secret.” FORMER UK government minister John Stonehouse was found living under a false name with his secretary in Australia after faking his own death on a Miami beach.
The 49-year-old Labour MP for Walsall North went missing while swimming in November and his clothes were found on the beach.
He later conducted his own defence at his trial in Britain and was convicted and imprisoned for seven years on charges of fraud, theft and forgery. AMERICAN tycoon, Hollywood filmmaker and recluse Howard Hughes was born.
He became one of the world’s wealthiest men – when staff once threatened to kick him out of a Las Vegas hotel, he simply bought the hotel. He became obsessed with germs and diseases later in his life and locked himself away from the world declaring: “I’m not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire.”