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(Tricia Thubron)
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| 8 June 31 |
is born in Kasmir / Karachi, India, the daughter of an Army colonel
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becomes India’s female skiing champion
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marries Aldon Bryce-Harvey
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makes her West End stage debut in London in Red Letter Day
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| c. mid-50s |
her first daughter is born
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| c. 55 |
is a big hit on British TV in a play based on Mazo de la Roche's Whiteoak stories
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| October 55 |
attends the London premiere of Touch and Go with Heathcliff, a black cat. The cat wears a diamond star brooch, diamond clips, and a couple of bracelets with a total value of $20,000.
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| November 55 |
is among the stars presented to the Queen at the Royal Film Command Performance in London. Others in the row are Anna Neagle, Janette Scott, and Peter Ustinov.
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divorces Bryce-Harvey
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| 57 |
marries Morton Smith-Petersen, her second husband
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| January 61 |
is riding in a sedan chair carried by students from London's Imperial College in a publicity race from St. Paul's Cathedral to Fleet Street
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| 25 May 61 |
attends the premiere of Don’t Bother to Knock at the new ABC cinema in Sheffield
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| 24 May 62 |
visits the fun fair at Battersea Festival Gardens, London, with other British stars
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| 3 September 62 |
attends a charity race at the racecourse in York, North Yorkshire, together with fellow actresses Rita Tushingham, Liz Fraser, and Carole Lesley
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| 13 September 62 |
attends a Variety Club horse race meeting at the Sandown Park Race Course, Surrey, with her husband
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| July 63 |
attends a garden party given by President John F. Kennedy and Ireland’s president, de Valera, during Kennedy’s visit to Ireland
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| c. early 65 |
her second daughter is born
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| c. early 65 |
her second daughter is born
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| 4 November 67 |
dies at age 36 in a plane crash in England when the Iberia Airlines Caravelle in which she is traveling from Malaga to London crashes into the side of Blackdown Hill. The jetliner crashed near Haslemere as it was making its final approach to London. It tore into a 100-foot oak tree, gouged windows out of a farmhouse, and came to rest in buckled fragments halfway up a 900-foot hillside. She was three months pregnant. Smith-Petersen and two daughters survive.
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the authorities believe that the jet, with 37 passengers and crew members, exploded in flight, given the wide radius over which shattered fragments of the aircraft are found
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| 6 November 67 |
her London agent, Al Parket, confirms that she perished
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Sources:
The New York Times, Winnipeg Free Press, Chronicle-Telegram, The Constitution Tribune, The Fresno Bee, Picture Show Who's Who, Picture Show Annual 1954, Screen World, The Post, The Frederick Post, The Mansfield, Ohio News Journal, www.BritishPathe.com, www.IMDb.com |
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