1987 Ford announces it has bought Aston Martin.
1983 Scargill attacks Solidarity as an anti-Socialist organ who desire the overthrow of a Socialist state.
1978 Keith Moon died
1940 Start of the night Blitz on London, 550 German bombers with fighter escorts over London
1936 Buddy Holly (singer) born
1822 Brazil Independence Day (from Portugal)

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RANDOM THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.