On this day in history 9th March
By will_barrow | Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 07:17
1981: M5 rapist jailed for life - The man known as the M5 Rapist, who for three-and-a-half
years terrorised women in the south west of England, has been sentenced
to life behind bars.
John Lambe, a builder and lorry driver aged
37 from Fordingbridge in Hampshire, was given a life sentence on each
of 12 counts of rape and concurrent six year sentences on four charges
of attempted rape.
Born on this Day
1881 Ernest Bevin
1918 Mickey Spillane
1934 Yuri Gagarin
1923 M. Andree Courreges
1932 Keely Smith
1933 Lloyd Price
1940 Air Marshal Sir Roger Austin
1943 Bobby Fischer
1952 Bill Beaumont
1958 Martin Fry
1970 Martin Johnson
1976 10 minutes after a Who show began, the drummer Keith Moon collapsed and the show had to be rescheduled.
1977 Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' Album went platinum.
1990 Wet Wet Wet played at the NEC, Birmingham.
1991 Whitney Houston had her highest entering record on the US
chart with her version of the patriotic 'Star Spangled Banner' which
came in at no.32.
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