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Welcome to Lyneham On This Day. A history in the making.... Events occur, people do remarkable things, special days in our lives, and things happen and go by. Often, we sit back and think, when did so and so happen, what was I doing on that day. Was it really that long ago when that happened. Time flies by and we forget. More often than not, there are certain events that stick out more that others, you can vividly remember what you was doing when this occured. We have a little reminder here of events that occured on this day. Basically a history in the making, an archived records of events.

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04 February 2008	Low emmision zone in force
	The most heavily polluting lorries are to face charges of £200 per day to enter Greater London as Britain's first low emission zone (LEZ) comes into force

04 February 1987

Liberace dies

Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), better known by the stage name Liberace and known to his friends as Lee, was a homosexual and rather charismatic American entertainer. Liberace's final stage performance was at Radio City Music Hall in New York on November 2, 1986. He died of complications related to AIDS at the age of 67 on February 4, 1987 at his winter house in Palm Springs, California. His obvious weight loss immediately prior to his death was attributed to a "watermelon diet" by his longtime and steadfast manager Seymour Heller. He is interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. The Liberace Museum in Las Vegas contains many of his stage costumes, cars, jewelry and lavishly-decorated pianos along with numerous citations for philanthropic acts.

04 February 1962	Sunday Times Colour First
	The first colour supplement in Britain was published by The Sunday Times

04 February 1927	Campbell tops 174 mph in Bluebird
	Malcolm Campbell reached over 174 mph in Bluebird on the Pendine Sands in Wales to set a new land speed record. A year later in 1928 at Daytona Beach, Florida, he reached 206.35 mph. Four years and one day later, in 1931, he reached a record-breaking 245 mph, again at Daytona Beach.