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		1 Sticky wicket in BrisbaneThe 1962-63 MCC tour of Australia was the last before the abolition of the distinction between ‘gentlemen’ and ‘players’	2	3	4 Blood off a duck’s backClaude Terrail, legendary Parisian proprietor of La Tour d'Argent, was born on this day in 1916. His restaurant’s fame extended to the four corners of the Earth, but in this country it is best known as the scene of a curious incident that perfectly illustrates the culinary and cultural gulf between Britain and the France.	5
6	7 A dead star is bornThe ‘Pet Shop Sketch’, better known as the ‘Dead Parrot Sketch’, was first broadcast on this day in 1969, in the ‘Full Frontal Nudity’ episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.	8	9	10 Controversial tattoo ruled admissibleHendon Police College made history on this day in 2002, by agreeing to admit a former punk with a tattoo that had previously been deemed offensive and inadmissible.	11	12
13 Tommy tin launchedThe first ‘Tommy Tins’ were sold on this day in 1946: special biscuits in a cylindrical tin with a soldier painted on the side and a lid shaped as a tin helmet.	14	15	16	17 ‘Fun size’ condom launchedThe launch of the ‘fun size’ condom on this day in 2000 was a measure of how attitudes to contraception had changed in Britain	18	19 Sixer’s punishing schedule to endThe Six-o-the-Best machine, better known as the ‘Tuppenny Sixer’ was a familiar feature of the British seaside for over half a century.
20	21 Publisher withdraws ‘River Kwai’ diet bookThe River Kwai Diet was a short-lived fad that achieved notoriety when public opinion forced a leading publisher to pulp all copies of a book based upon it.	22	23 ‘Truman pegs’ bring relief – and anxiety…Christmas came early in 1948, with the arrival in austerity Britain of a consignment of ‘Truman pegs’ from the United States.	24	25	26 Baffling BeatlesMagical Mystery Tour, the third Beatles film and the first directed by the group, was premiered on BBC1 on this day in 1967.
27	28	29	30	31 Sir Alex FergusonAlexander Chapman Ferguson was born in Govan, Glasgow on this day in 1941.

8 September 1978

Teachers
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The Buzzcocks’ single Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?) was released by United Artists on this day in 1978. Read on...

The Buzzcocks proved an unlikely hit with teachers

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