Birthday 1882 Samuel Goldwyn, American movie mogul who helped start MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer).
1987 93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Adolf Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison.
17 AUGUST
1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
1903 Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America
1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands
1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel
1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed
1982 The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship
Today's Birthdays:
Davy Crockett
(1786 - 1836)
Mae WestMae West
(1893 - 1980)
Robert De NiroRobert De Niro
74th Birthday
Birthday 1882 Samuel Goldwyn, American movie mogul who helped start MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer).
1987 93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Adolf Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison.
A couple of good one's there SERVER
On this day today..http://news.sky.com/story/live-van-p...-10992730:mad:
Link cannot be found Spirit.
Try this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
I might be jumping the gun but it sounds as though the brain dead nutters are out again.
...and then run off!
Just finding out what's going on, Sky are covering it live, so are Fox, and so are RT, so are Al Jazeera, and France 24. On the BBC 6 o'clock News some guy is drearily wittering on about Grenfell. Why do we have to pay for this useless, politically biased, organisation ? It's an embarrassment, a national disgrace, totally unfit for purpose.