1st
Dennis Brown is born in Kingston.
2nd
1943 Robert Pickersgill is born.
1949
Paul Issa is born.
1973
The first drug sniffer dog, Rip, joins the
airports customs team.
5th
1793
Capt
William Bligh
arrives at Port Royal with two ships,
The Providence and The Assistance, filled
with trees and plants from the Pacific. The cargo includes
breadfruit, almond, pomegranate, otaheite apples, tree ferns
and bougainvillea.
1911
The rebuilt
Holy Trinity Cathedral is solemnly opened with a
High Mass concelebrated by Rt Rev John J Collins, RC Bishop
of Jamaica and several visiting bishops from
overseas. The original structure was destroyed by the
Great
Earthquake of 1907.
1933
Hugh Wynter is born in Spanish Town to Dr TAP Wynter and
Theresa Grant Wynter.
1974
Municipal and Parish Council elections are held. This is
the first election since the lowering of the voting age from
21 to 18.
6th
1945
Bob Marley
is born at Nine Miles in St
Ann.
1952 King
George VI dies and Queen Elizabeth II is proclaimed
Monarch of Great Britain, its dominions and colonies,
which includes Jamaica.
1956
Rt Rev Percival Gibson, the founding principal of Kingston
College, is enthroned as Lord Bishop of Jamaica at the
Cathedral of St James in Spanish Town. He is the first
Jamaican to attain this office.
8th
1942 Karl Samuda is born in Kingston to Enid (Espeut)
and Kenneth Samuda.
1942
Alexander Bustamante is released from detention at Up Park Camp. He
had been detained 17 months previously under the Defence of the
Realm Act wartime regulations.
1963
The recently founded
National Dance Theatre Company performs
its first production African Scenario at the
Assembly Hall of the University of the West Indies. The
production, choreographed by Rex Nettleford, is based on
West African song and dance.
16th
1954
Michael Holding is born in Kingston to Ralph and Enid
Holding.
1963
Rev Martin Luther King Jr is detained by
immigration officials at the Palisadoes International
Airport. After lengthy interrogation it is discovered that
the eminent civil rights leader has been confused with an
individual who had previously been deported.
1974 Bob
Marley and the Wailers release their second album, Burning,
to the international market. Their first album, Catch A
Fire, has been an international success. Their three
earlier albums had been only released locally.
1989
Jamaican born Tony Robinson, resident in the UK, is elected
the first black Sheriff of Nottingham.
18th
1845 The corner stone of the new General Penitentiary
is laid by the Governor, The Earl of Elgin.
1918
Kenneth McNeill is born in Richmond, St Mary to Eustace
and Blanche McNeill.
24th
1884
William Alexander Clarke (Bustamante) is born in
Blenheim, Hanover to Mary (Wilson) & Robert Constantine
Clarke.
1930
George Headley
scores 112, after 114 in the first innings of
the Third Test between the West Indies and England. He
becomes the youngest player, at 20, to score a century in
each innings of a Test Match.
1941
Kenneth Baugh is born in Montego Bay to Lillieth (King)
and Kenneth Baugh.
1989 Dr
Warren Blake successfully reattaches the severed hand of
Lloyd Patterson, a factory worker. The operation, done at
the Kingston Public Hospital, is the first of its kind
attempted in Jamaica.
25th
1951
Donald Quarrie is born
in Harbour View, Kingston.
26th
1956 Chief Electoral Officer, OM Royes,
completes the allocation of symbols to candidates contesting
the next General and Municipal Elections. PNP candidates
are allocated The Head, JLP the Hand and independents, the
Star. Up to this point, symbols were allocated to each
individual candidate and not Parties.
27th
1977
Acting
Corporal Ionie Ramsey
graduates as Jamaica's first motorcycle policewoman.
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