David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
Peter Harrison Swan, English-Australian WWII bomber pilot and stockbroker, dies at the age of 75. He was cited in the London Gazette No 36788 dated 1944-11-10.
After the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross he completed very many sorties involving attacks on vital targets in Germany and also in Northern France. He continued to display the highest skill and bravery and his example has greatly inspired all with whom he has flown.
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Dolphins Quarter Back Dam Marino sets United States National Football League record with 343rd touchdown pass
Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and the oldest host of the Eurovision Song Contest, aged 63, dies at 81
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF).
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In a historic referendum, Ireland voted to end its long-standing ban on divorce, marking a significant social and legal transformation.
The vote was incredibly close, with 50.28% supporting the referendum and 49.72% opposing it.
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Bernard Oliver, American engineer at HP and inventor (first hand-held calculators, SETI, Pulse Code Modulation), dies aged 79
Buena Vista Pictures releases Toy Story, the first feature film completely animated by computers.
The ground-breaking film was created using an impressive 800,000 hours of computing time across 300 Sun Microsystems microprocessors.
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