On This Day: 10 Jan

Births:

Mike Butterworth (1924); Patrick Blower (1959)

Deaths:

Annette Mills (1955); William Augustus Sillince (Silenus; 1974); John Buscema (2002)

Notable Events:

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody died in 1917.
The pilot episode of Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show broadcast in 1992.
Richard Horne (Harry Horse) and his wife Mandy were found dead in their remote bungalow on Burra, in 2007, in an apparent suicide pact.

On This Day: 16 Nov

Births:

G. William Backhouse (1903); William Augustus Sillince (Silenus; 1906); Suzanne Henriette Einzig (1922); Nik Pollard (1945)

Deaths:

Bernard Greenbaum (1993)

Notable Events:

The Astérix strip made its first appearance in Britain, on the back page of Valiant in 1963 – although renamed 'Little Fred And Big Ed' for some reason.
The Pet Shop Boys' single West End Girls entered the charts at #80 in 1985. It would remain on the charts for sixteen weeks, taking the top spot for two weeks at the beginning of 1986.
Axa newspaper strip ceased publication in 1985.
Stan Lee concluded his signing tour in Fantastic Store at the Virgin Megastore, 14 Oxford Street, London, in 1991.
A Steve Bell cartoon depicting a press conference held by Binyamin Netanyahu, with Tony Blair and William Hague as glove puppets, appeared in The Guardian in 2012 to much controversy. After the Press Complaints Commission was brought in, The Guardian issued an editorial statement which sought to diffuse tension surrounding the cartoon.