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Friday, November 9, 2018

On This Day: 09 Nov

Doctor Who Christmas Special - The Six Doctors (Marvel; 1984]

Births:

Godfrey Douglas Giles (1857); Harry Parlett (1881); Simon Farr (1940); Luca Saponti (1985)

Deaths:

Leonard Matthews (1997); Terry Willers (2011)

Notable Events:

George du Maurier coined the term 'curate's egg' in a Punch cartoon entitled True Humility in 1895.
The infamous confrontation between Malcolm Muggeridge and John Cleese and Michael Palin, regarding the release of The Life of Brian, was broadcast as part of Friday Night, Saturday Morning, on BBC 2, in 1979.
Stan Lee began a signing tour at Forbidden Planet, 71 Oxford Street, London, in 1991.
Thought Bubble / The Leeds Sequential Art Festival began, at Leeds Town Hall, in 2007.
Comica Presents Grandville BĂȘte Noire World Premiere, with Bryan and Mary Talbot in an interview with Kim Newman, took place, at Foyle's, Charing Cross Road, London, in 2012.
The Leeds Comic Art Festival began in 2015.

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