October 24th
1895 The birth of Jack Warner OBE, the English film and television actor who is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon in the BBC television series Dixon of Dock Green, a part he played until the age of eighty.
1908 Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were sent to prison for ‘inciting the public to rush the House of Commons’. Two Cabinet ministers were witnesses for the defence including Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1922 George Cadbury, the English chocolate manufacturer, died aged 83.
1945 The United Nations was formed with the aim to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.'(That worked well!)
1961 Malta was granted independence from Britain.
1969 British actor Richard Burton bought his wife, American actress Elizabeth Taylor, a 69.42 carat diamond costing more than half a million pounds. Born at Pontrhydyfen, this Richard Burton sculpture (see ©BB picture) is on the Richard Burton Trail in the Afan Forest Park in Neath - Port Talbot
And it,s my sisters 56th birthday...