Thursday, 27 January 2011

Last week of January

So many anniversaries this week...


Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January)
Bloody Sunday (30 January)

Births 
Jose Marti (28 January 1853)
Etta James (25 January 1938)
Angela Davis (26 January 1944)

Deaths
Derek Bentley hanged for a murder he did not commit  28 January 1953 (pardoned 30 July 1998)

Zora Neale Hurston (28 January 1960)
Coretta Scott King (30 January 2006)


2 Astronauts killed in a fire in their Apollo spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Centre (27 January 1967)
Break-up of space shuttle Challenger on lift-off with the loss of 7 lives (28 January 1986 )

Will we be able to touch on all of these in 90 minutes?




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