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363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. [1]1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
28 August – Caryl Churchill 's play Top Girls premieres at the Royal Court Theatre, London. 29 August – 65-year-old American Ashby Harper becomes the oldest person to swim the English Channel. 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff as the National Concert Hall and Conference Centre of Wales.
13 April – A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire Police believe that she was the sixth victim of a rapist who had been operating across the city since October last year. In June, the police arrest 47-year-old Peter Cook for the rapes; he is sentenced to life imprisonment in October.
Events. 1 January – establishment of the National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith. [1] 21 January – ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley. [2] 27 March – the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 is passed.
A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. [ 1][ 2] Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a form of communication, such as emoticons. The smiley began as two dots and a line representing eyes and a mouth.
Emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology, and some devices and applications have provided stylized pictures that do not use text punctuation. They offer another range of "tone" through texting through facial gestures. [ 9] Emoticons were the precursors to modern emojis .
The SAG-nominated actor was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. In a rare appearance, Vaughn and wife Kyla Weber were joined by their children Locklyn, 13, and Vernon, 11 ...
This was the first UK murder trial held behind closed doors. The UK press were prohibited from speculating as to the reasons for this order. [166] [167] In 2008, the poem Education for Leisure was removed from the AQA Anthology, after complaints were received. The poem explores the mind of a person who is planning to commit a murder. [168]