The celebration of the Chinese New Year in Medway has emerged from a small Chinese community event into the third largest celebration of its kind in the United Kingdom, involving the whole Medway community in a grand street parade with dragons, lions and more than 250 people, in costumes especially imported from China. The celebrations take place in Chatham town centre.
2008 is the Year of the Rat. People born in the Year of the Rat are said to be imaginative, charming and generous to those they love - although they do have a tendency to be quick-tempered and over-critical. They are supposed to make good writers, critics and publicists.
The last few Years of the Rat have been:
- 1924
- 1936
- 1948
- 1960
- 1972
- 1984
- 1996
Some of the famous people born in the Year Of The Rat are:
- Marlon Brando
- Al Gore
- Buddy Holly
- Clark Gable
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- Dennis Hopper
- George Bush Sr.
- George Washington
- Hugh Grant
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- John McCain
- Mikhail Barishnykov
- Prince Charles
- Sidney Poitier
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- Piotr Tchaikovsky
- Vanessa Redgrave
- William Shakespeare
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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