Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and comic actor. Known for his raunchy material, heavy appearance, and thick New York accent, his best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963),…
Ken Tyrrell (3 May 1924 – 25 August 2001) was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor. Realising, however, that he was not going to reach the top and recognising that his talents were better suited to team management, Tyrrell stood down as a driver in…
For the past 101 years BBC radio stations have been broadcasting a series of six short tones or pips at one-second intervals to mark the precise start of each hour called the Greenwich Time Signal (GTS). On the 5th of February 1924 the pips were introduced and generated by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and…