1964 Mods and Rockers riots in Brighton and Margate with thousands fighting each other
1974 Valery Giscard d’Estaing is elected President of France
1981 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is sentenced to life imprisonment
1991 Helen Sharman becomes the first Briton in space
1998 Good Friday Agreement receives a yes vote in Northern Ireland
2004 Fathers 4 Justice throw purple flour over Tony Blair in the House of Commons
This week’s Birthdays
18th Pop singers Toyah Willcox is 57 and Rick Wakeman is 66
19th Actor James Fox is 76
20th Singer and actress Cher is 69
21st A team actor Mr T is 63
22nd Actress Denise Welch is 57 and presenter Dale Winton is 60
23rd Actress Joan Collins is 82 and Chancellor George Osborne is 44
24th Actor Jim Broadbent is 66
Image courtesy of Helen Sharman’s spacesuit by Alan Saunders at wikimedia.org
