English academic and politician

Simon Danczuk

Simon Christopher Danczuk is a British author and former politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale between 2010 and 2017. Elected as a member of the Labour Party, he was suspended from the party in 2015 after it emerged he had exchanged explicit messages with a 17-year-old girl. He has co-written two books, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith (2014) and Scandal at Dolphin Square (2022). Danczuk was the unsuccessful Reform UK candidate at the 2024 Rochdale by-election, which was won by Workers Party of Britain leader George Galloway.

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1966

October 24

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1966 Born

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69 In the Second Battle of Bedriacum, troops loyal to Vespasian defeat those of Emperor Vitellius.
1260 Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
1260 After defeating the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut and assassinating the previous Mamluk sultan, Qutuz, Baybars ascends to the Egyptian throne as the fourth sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate.
1360 The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.

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The world in 1966

When Simon arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Ahmad Shah of Pahang (died 2019) 1930– Alexandra David-Néel 1868–1969 Belgian-French explorer and author (died 1969) Ben Gillies 1979– Australian drummer and songwriter Domitian 51–96 Roman emperor (died 96) Georg August Wallin 1811–1852 Finnish explorer, orientalist, and professor (born 1811) Gilbert Bécaud 1927–2001 French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1927) Ieng Sary 1925–2013 Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925) Marcel-Paul Schützenberger 1920–1996 French mathematician and theorist (born 1920) Monica 1980– American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

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Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress

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