English singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)

Sarah Harding

Sarah Harding was an English singer, model, and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles in the UK, six albums that were certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulated a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise".

Born

1981

November 17

Died

2021

Era

1980s

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887 Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.
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1292 John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
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The world in 1981

When Sarah arrived

april 10 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later.
april 11 A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
april 12 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
april 14 STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia, completes its first test flight.

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Angelika Machinek 1956–2006 German glider pilot (died 2006) Daniel Scott 1963– American novelist and short story writer East Bay Ray 1948– American guitarist Kimya Dawson 1972– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Lee Strasberg 1901–1982 American actor and director (born 1901) Lev Vygotsky 1896–1934 Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896) Nguyễn Tấn Dũng 1949– Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth Prime Minister of Vietnam Sophie Marceau 1966– French actress, director, and screenwriter Walter Terence Stace 1886–1967 English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1886)

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