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[GarySTFC]

Hitchin Town (h) now Tuesday 20th April @ 1945

 

We are currently reviewing the date for the B&B Cup game with Wycombe and may see if this can be moved to an alternative date so we do not have to use Thursdays for league games as will be the case as things stand for the Bromsgrove away trip.

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

20th April 1945 - US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.

 

Or did you mean 7:45 pm?

[GarySTFC]

1945 is 7:45pm in 24hr clock Staines me old mucker!

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

Also in the 20th April 1945 Vera Lynn was singing "he'll score again, don't know where, dont know when, but we know he'll score again, some sunny day" - did not know she attended Slough games

[Desarico]

Also in the 20th April 1945 Vera Lynn was singing "he'll score again, don't know where, dont know when, but we know he'll score again, some sunny day" - did not know she attended Slough games

also on this day my eldest brother mick was conceived( or near about) in salt hill park but on a lighter note here are some facts about this date not including hitlers birth

 

20th April

 

Born on this Day

1893 Harold Lloyd

1924 Leslie Phillips

1941 Ryan O'Neal

1938 Peter Snow

1949 Jessica Lange

1951 Luther Vandross

1961 Nicholas Lyndhurst

1972 Carmen Electra

1976 Shay Given

 

Died on this Day

1912 Bram Stoker

1992 Benny Hill

2003 Nina Simone

 

 

Music

1959 13 year old Dolly Partn released her first single 'Puppy Love'.

 

1974 Abba entered the UK charts with their winning entry in the recent Eurovision Song Contest 'Waterloo'.

 

1992 Some 72,000 people packed Wembley Stadium as stars including George Michael, David Bowie, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Def Leppard and the remaining members of Queen performed a tribute concert for the late Freddie Mercury to benefit AIDS charities.

 

 

Sport

1955 2 sets of brothers, the Allchurch's and the Charles' set a since unrivalled record when they appeared in the same international football team, playing for Wales at Windsor Park, Belfast.

 

1988 Liverpool were left requiring only 1 point from their 5 remaning matches to win the League Championship after holding Norwich City to a goalless draw.

 

 

People & Showbiz

1989 The Princess of Wales was to be made the patron of Relate, the marriage guidance charity.

 

 

General Events

1653 Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

 

1913 Isadora Duncan's 2 children drowned when their car rolled into the Seine in France. The children along with their nurse, were in the car when it stalled, the driver got out to crank the car and the car rolled downhill to the river, killing all those inside.

 

1968 122 people were killed when a Boeing 707 bound for London crashed in South Africa.

 

1969 British troops were called in to guard key installations after 9 Belfast post offices were fire-bombed, a bus station attacked and the city's main reservoir damaged.

 

1974 A catholic man was shot in Belfast becoming the 1000th victim of the unrest.

 

1989 The underground was paralysed for the 2nd time in a fortnight by unofficial industrial action by tube drivers.

 

1997 British climatologists announced the long-term weather report for England to be freezing, but global warming will give us at least 1000 years of Mediterranean sunshine first

 

interesting in it!

[GarySTFC]

Music

1959 13 year old Dolly Partn released her first single 'Puppy Love'.

 

Rewording:

 

And they called him Sean Sonnnneeeeeeeerrrrrr

He came here and scores goals

And his name is Sean Sonnnneeeeeeeerrrrrr....

 

Someone finish it off...

[Reading Rebel]

Music

1959 13 year old Dolly Partn released her first single 'Puppy Love'.

 

Rewording:

 

And they called him Sean Sonnnneeeeeeeerrrrrr

He came here and scores goals

And his name is Sean Sonnnneeeeeeeerrrrrr....

 

Someone finish it off...

 

 

Thats why we love him so