August 30.Born today... American actress Cameron Diaz, 36, American tennis player Andy Roddick, 26, former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Chan·cel·lor of the Exchequer n. The senior finance minister in the British government and a member of the prime minister's cabinet. Chancellor of the Exchequer Noun Brit Denis Healey, 91, former MP Jonathan Aitken, 66, former Eurovision winner, Dana, 57. To add your birthday, contact Margaret O'Leary, South Wales Echo The South Wales Echo is a daily newspaper distributed in south Wales. It was founded in 1884 and is based in Thomson House, Cardiff city centre. It is published daily, in a tabloid form, by Media Wales Ltd (formerly Western Mail & Echo Ltd), part of the Trinity Mirror group. , Six Park Street, Cardiff CF10 1XR or e-mail margaret.o'leary@mediawales.co.uk giving no more than one month's notice. Today in 1901: Hubert Cecil Booth Hubert Cecil Booth (4 July 1871 – 18 January 1955) in was an English engineer who invented the first powered vacuum cleaner, designed Ferris wheels in Blackpool, Paris, and Vienna and who designed suspension bridges. He was born in Gloucester and died in Purley, Surrey. patented the vacuumcleaner. 1941: The German siege of Leningrad began. 1980: Lech Walesa signed an agreement with the Polish government, to allow the formation of independent trade unions. 1991: Azerbaijan declared its independence fromthe USSR. 2005: Patients at Llandough Hospital had been forced to use plastic plates and cutlery for a month because a dishwasher had broken down. CAPTION(S): Cameron Diaz |
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