1998: Witchcraft was blamed when a bolt of lightening killed all 11 members of a soccer team in the African Congo village of Bena Tshadi during a game in which both teams were evenly matched 1-1.
1998: a superbly preserved granite sphinx with the head of Cleopatra’s father was winched up by divers in Alexandra Harbour, Egypt after 1,600 years in the sea.
1996: Archaeologists in Slovenia announced they had found a flute-like object played by Neanderthal man
1977: British punk group THE SEX PISTOLS’ album NEVER MIND THE B*****KS was released in America. Ten years later it went platinum.
1971: The House of Commons voted by a majority of 112 in favour of Britain joining the European Common Market.
Celebrity Birthdays for October 28
English 1960s pop star WAYNE FONTANA, 60
HANK MARVIN, leader of CLIFF RICHARD’s backing group THE SHADOWS, 62
English broadcaster DAVID DIMBLEBY, 65
American composer and conductor CARL DAVIS, 69
JOAN PLOWRIGHT, English actress and wife of the late LAURENCE OLIVIER, 74
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