30/01/10

King Charles I was beheaded in 1649.  Cromwell got his own back in 1661.  The Menai Suspension Bridge was opened in 1826.  Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse, in 1948.

Born today:  Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989), Olaf Palme (1927-1986), Gene Hackman (1930), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), Boris Spassky (1937), Steve Marriott (1947-1991), Phil Collins (1951), Christian Bale (1967), Olivia Colman (1967).

It is the feast day of St. Aldegonde.