ON THIS DAY

Happy birthday to... Shirley MacLaine, 84, Djimon Hounsou, 54, and Gabby Logan, 45

1743:

■ Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.

■ La Marseillaise was composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

■ Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.

■ Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after the Second World War, was born.

■ The Easter rebellion began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland. It ended on April 29.

■ President Truman denied

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there were communists in the US government.

■ The Pennine Way – 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border – was officially opened.

■ The Duchess of Windsor, the American widow of Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris, aged 89.

■ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

■ Snuppy becomes the world’s first cloned dog

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1965: 1986: 1990: 2005: ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:

Driverless cars would be deployed on UK motorways in the next three years, a group of technology firms announced.

■ Shirley MacLaine, entertainer, 84; Barbra Streisand, singer/actress, 76; Michael O’Keefe, actor, 63; Stuart Pearce, football manager, 56; Djimon Hounsou, actor, 54; Sachin Tendulkar, former cricketer, 45; Gabby Logan, television presenter, 45; Dave Vitty, radio personality, 44; Kelly Clarkson, singersongwriter, 36; Ben Howard, singer-songwriter, 31.

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