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Anniversary on the 27th of August 0918

Anniversary

Date	Type		Text
100 years anniversary
27 Aug 1925	birth		Richard Rutt: Bishop of Leicester	0
27 Aug 1925	birth		Tony Crombie: Drummer / bandleader	0
75 years anniversary
27 Aug 1950	birth		Charles Fleischer: Washington, DC -- Comedian (Roger Rabbit)	0
27 Aug 1950	birth		Cynthia Potter: United States -- Springboard diver (1976 Olympics - Bronze Medalist)	0
27 Aug 1950	death		Cesare Pavese: Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41	0
27 Aug 1950	event		1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC	0
27 Aug 1950	event		General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist	0
27 Aug 1950	birth		Charles Fleischer Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)	0
27 Aug 1950	birth		Cynthia Potter US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)	0
27 Aug 1950	event		General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist	0
27 Aug 1950	science		TV crosses English Channel In 1950, the BBC transmitted in Britain the first cross-Channel live television programme by microwave relay links celebrated the centenerary of the first cross-Channel telegraph by submarine cable. Although the working range for outside broadcast units of the time had been just 25 miles (40 km), a greater distance was made possible using a relay of microwave signals between five portable radio-link stations, able to send and receive microwave signals. Thus the signal was relayed 95-miles (153 km) for the two-hour programme originating in Calais, in Northern France, to London. The show presented the town of Calais "en fete", with a torchlight procession, dancing and a firework display from the Place de l'Hotel de Ville.	0
50 years anniversary
27 Aug 1975	death		Emperor Haile Selassie: Depossed Ethiopian Emperor, strangled at 83	0
27 Aug 1975	event		1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)	0
27 Aug 1975	event		Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world	0
27 Aug 1975	death		Haile Selassie depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83	0
27 Aug 1975	event		Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world	0

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