Births on August 6

Iain Morris

Born on August 6, 1973

Iain Morris, English screenwriter and producer

Iain Kevan Morris (born 6 August 1973) is an English writer. He is best known for creating The Inbetweeners with his writing partner Damon Beesley and co-hosting a show on London radio station XFM with stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr.

He featured in the "Iron" and "Music" episodes of cult spoof TV show Look Around You, as well as on Jimmy Carr's second live DVD, as a panelist on a feature named Comedy Idol. Other writing credits include two episodes of HBO's Flight of the Conchords: Season One's "The Actor" and Season Two's "Unnatural Love". Morris also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Taika Waititi for the 2020 sports comedy Next Goal Wins and co-scripted the football comedy series The First Team for the BBC in 2020.

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Events on 1973

20 Jul

Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, the famous Chinese actor and martial-arts expert, dies in Los Angeles at age 32 from a brain edema possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller.
15 Aug

Cambodia
Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
22 Aug

Salvador Allende
The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
17 Oct

1973 oil crisis
OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
4 Nov

1973 oil crisis
The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.

Births on August 6

Iain Morris

Born on August 6, 1973

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Bruce Lee

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Salvador Allende

1973 oil crisis

1973 oil crisis