English engineer and politician

Steven Norris

Steven John Norris is a British former politician and businessman. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East from 1983 to 1987. After narrowly losing that marginal seat he re-entered the House of Commons at a by-election for Epping Forest in 1988, which he held until stepping down to focus on his business career in 1997. Norris was subsequently chosen by Conservative Party members to be their candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004 in which he secured 42% and 45% of the vote respectively, coming second to Ken Livingstone on both occasions.

Born

1945

May 24

Died

Living

Era

1940s

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1945 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

919 The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

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The world in 1945

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april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Anthony Minichiello 1980– Australian rugby league player Artem Anisimov 1988– Russian ice hockey player Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Bartolo Colón 1973– Dominican-American baseball player Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686–1736 Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (died 1736) Eduardo De Filippo 1900–1984 Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984) Gerald Strickland 1861–1940 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861) Germanicus -15–19 Roman general (died 19)

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Adly Mansour 1945– Egyptian lawyer, judge, and politician, President of Egypt André Lacroix 1945– Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach August Wilson 1945–2005 American author and playwright (died 2005) Bernard Goldberg 1945– American journalist and author Bill Bergey 1945–2024 American football player (born 1945) Bob Seger 1945– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Brenda Fricker 1945– Irish actress Brian Doyle-Murray 1945– American actor and comedian Colin Blunstone 1945– English singer-songwriter

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