Writing Magazine March 2020

Editorial calendar

http://www.writers-online.co.uk MARCH 2020^85

• Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley
  was born.


• Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall
  was born.


• Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho premiered.
  
  
  • Nan Winton became the BBC’s first woman
    newsreader. Some audience members felt it was
    not a suitable job for a woman and she was
    removed in 1961.
  
  
  • BBC Television Centre opened in London, and
    was the HQ of BBC Television until 2013.
  
  
  
  

In 2023 it will be

450 years since the

publication of the First

Folio, the first collected

edition of William

Shakespeare’s plays.

Looking ahead

80 years ago^

JUNE 1940

60 years ago JUNE 1960

70 years ago JUNE 1950

• Winston Churchill made his ‘Finest Hour’ speech.
  
  
  • Singers Tom Jones and Nancy Sinatra were born.
    
    
    • TV presenter Esther Rantzen was born
      
      
      • Singer and actor Adam Faith was born
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Pics, all CC BY-SA: Rainbow, Ludovic Bertron; Roskilde, Bill Ebbesen; Tony Hadley, Andrew Hurley; Mick Hucknall, papayita; BBC Television Centre, Panhard; Suzi Quatro, Jeanie Mackinder; Rowan Williams, Brian;

transplant, Wiremu Stadtwald Demchick; family allowance, Parliamentary Archives; Tom Jones, Ralph–PH; Esther Rantzen, Brian Minkoff, London Pixels; Adam Faith, Phil Guest;

90 years ago

JUNE 1930

• Actor Gena Rowlands
  was born

500 years ago

JUNE1520

• The Field of the Cloth of Gold, named for
  the sumptuousness of the event and the fabrics
  used to make the tentts, was a meeting between
  Henry Vlll and the French King Francis that
  took place in France half a century ago.

75 years ago JUNE 1945

• Parliament passed the Family
  Allowances Act, which was the UK’s
  first law to provide child benefit.


• Singer Carly Simon was born.


• Rock singer Suzi Quatro was born


• Soul singer Deniece Williams was born


• Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
  between 2002 and 2012, was born.


• The first successful human organ transplant was performed by Dr Richard Lawler
  in Illinios. The person operated on, Ruth Tucker, received a kidney and although
  her body rejected it ten months later, she survived for five years.


• The fourth FIFA world cup – the first for 12 years due to the war – was held in Brazil.

60 years ago 60 years ago 60 years ago

• Nan Winton became the BBC’s first woman
  newsreader. Some audience members felt it was
  not a suitable job for a woman and she was
  removed in 1961.


• BBC Television Centre opened in London, and
  was the HQ of BBC Television until 2013.


• Winston Churchill made his ‘Finest Hour’ speech.


• Singers Tom Jones and Nancy Sinatra were born.

75 years ago

• Parliament passed the Family
  Allowances Act, which was the UK’s
  first law to provide child benefit.


• Singer Carly Simon was born.

Allowances Act, which was the UK’s