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Altobelli

20-08-2017, 12:45 PM

20 AUGUST

1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East

1619 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.

1741 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition

1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over

1882 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow

1968 During the night 200,00 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops begin to invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring

1993 Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month

Famous Birthday's

Benjamin Harrison
(1833 - 1901)

Slobodan Milosevic
(1941 - 2006)

Robert Plant
69th Birthday

Famous Death's

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
(1775 - 1854)

Hua Guofeng
(1921 - 2008)

Phyllis Diller
(1917 - 2012)

Jerry Lewis
(1926 - Today 2017)

Famous Weddings

1836 English novelist (Vanity Fair) William Makepeace Thackeray (25) marries Isabella Gethin Shawe (20)

1939 "Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (21) weds actor Brian Aherne (37)

1992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler at an 11th century chapel in Wiltshire, England

2005 "24" actress Sarah Wynter (32) weds "Details" magazine editor-in-chief Dan Peres in Sydney, Australia

2005 Award-winning American news anchor Lauren Sanchez (35) weds prominent talent agent Patrick Whitesell at The Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California

Famous Diverces

2012 The man known primarily for gatecrashing the White House, Tareq Salahi (42) divorces socialite Michaele Salahi (46) due to adultery, desertion and construction desertion

Altobelli

21-08-2017, 09:53 PM

21 AUGUST

1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)

1703 The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans

1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot - ends 50 years of parliamentary rule

1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1911 "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state

1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days

2000 82nd PGA Championship: Tiger Woods become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff

Famous Birthday's:

Bugs Moran
(1891 - 1957)

Wilt Chamberlain
(1936 - 1999)

Usain Bolt
31st Birthday

Famous Death's:

Elizabeth Báthory
(1560 - 1614)

Leon Trotsky
(1879 - 1940)

Famous Weddings:

1745 Future Russian Tsar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the Great)

1929 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)

1956 Boxing champ Archie Moore (42) weds model Joan Hardy in Ensenada, Mexico

1976 Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (33) weds Althea Leasure (23)

1982 U2 lead singer Bono (22) weds activist and businesswoman Ali Hewson (21)

outwoodclaret

22-08-2017, 07:20 AM

22 AUGUST

King Richard the Third is killed at Bosworth Field and Henry V11 becomes the first Tudor monarch.

Altobelli

23-08-2017, 04:37 PM

22 AUGUST

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses

•1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

•1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament

•1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

•1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

Famous Birthday's

Claude Debussy
(1862 - 1918)•

•Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967)

•Deng Xiaoping
(1904 - 1997)

•Carl Yastrzemski
78 Years Old

•Bill Parcells
76 Years Old

•Mats Wilander
53 Years Old

Famous Death's

Stilicho
( - 408)•

•Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
(1830 - 1903)

•Michael Collins
(1890 - 1922)

•Jomo Kenyatta
(1891 - 1978)

Famous Weddings

•1848 Soldier and later US President Ulysses Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
•
•1900 Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory
•
•1925 Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson (28) weds teacher Maryon Elspeth Moody (23)
•
•1931 FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina
•
•1944 Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker

Famous Divorces

•1968 Cynthia Lennon sues Beatle member John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultery
•
•2011 Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 long years of marriage

2012 "General Hospital" actress Vanessa Marcil (39) divorces actor Carmine Giovinazzo (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

Altobelli

23-08-2017, 04:45 PM

23 AUGUST

1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code

1850 1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane

Famous Birthdays

Keith Moon
(1946 - 1978)

River Phoenix
(1970 - 1993)

Kobe Bryant
39th Birthday

Famous Death's

William Wallace
( - 1305)

Rudolph Valentino
(1895 - 1926)

Ed Warren
(1926 - 2006)

Famous Weddings

1876 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler

1942 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

1962 Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell

1970 US Solicitor General Ken Starr weds Alice Mendell

1975 Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England

Famous Divorces

2010 Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6 years of marriage

afloatinclaret

23-08-2017, 05:46 PM

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]

In 2016 we were on Roanoke Island; there isn't anybody much there even now!

Altobelli

23-08-2017, 06:23 PM

Where exactly is it Afloatinclaret ?

afloatinclaret

24-08-2017, 03:07 AM

Where exactly is it Afloatinclaret ?

North Carolina, USA; if you look at a map of the US, there's a bump that sticks out about half-way down the east coast (Cape Hatteras) and Roanoke sits behind that in a big shallow water lagoon

Altobelli

25-08-2017, 12:51 AM

Thanks Afloatinclaret :)

Altobelli

25-08-2017, 01:00 AM

24 AUGUST

79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die

410 Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire

1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate

1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces

1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer

1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)

1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific

Famous Birthday's

William Wilberforce
(1759 - 1833)

Carlo Gambino
(1902 - 1976)

Yasser Arafat
(1933 - 2004)

Cal Ripken Jr
57 Years Old

Marlee Matlin
52 Years Old

Rupert Grint
29 Years Old

Famous Deaths

Getulio Vargas
(1883 - 1954)

Henry J. Kaiser
(1882 - 1967)

Famous Weddings

1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon

1899 Businessman James Cash Penney (24) weds Bertha Alva Hess

1970 Actor Peter Sellers (44) weds model Miranda Quarry

1987 Actor Patrick Dempsey (21) weds manager Rocky Parker (47)

1996 Actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm, Sweden

Famous Divorces

1976 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (59) divorces her sixth husband, toy inventor Jack Ryan (49) after 1 year of marriage

2009 American actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces TV personality Brandi Glanville (35) due to irreconcilable differences

Altobelli

25-08-2017, 01:07 AM

25 AUGUST

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded

1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean

1894 Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet

1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)

1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

Famous Birthday's

Ivan the Terrible
(1530 - 1584)

George Wallace
(1919 - 1998)

Sean Connery
87 Years Old

Tim Burton
59 Years Old

Famous Deaths

Margaret of Anjou
(1430 - 1482)

James Watt
(1736 - 1819)

William Herschel
(1738 - 1822)

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)

Paul Muni
(1895 - 1967)

Neil Armstrong
(1930 - 2012)

Famous Weddings

1749 British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England

1870 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland

1885 "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)

1925 Suffragette Kate Sheppard (78) weds printer and author William Sidney Lovell-Smith (72) in Christchurch, New Zealand

1928 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna

Altobelli

26-08-2017, 09:56 AM

26 AUGUST

1346 Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle

1924 The Catastrophe of Smyrna: known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. (August 13 OS)

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII

1959 British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers

1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history

1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in welfare policy

Famous Birthday's

Robert Walpole
(1676 - 1745)

Mary Ann Nichols
(1845 - 1888)

Mother Teresa
(1910 - 1997)

Famous Deaths

William James
(1842 - 1910)

Andrew Mellon
(1855 - 1937)

Charles Lindbergh
(1902 - 1974)

Famous Weddings

1926 Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson

1946 "Gone with the Wind" actress Olivia de Havilland weds screenwriter and novelist Marcus Goodrich

1965 Mobster and nbi informant Henry Hill (22) weds Karen Friedman in North Carolina

2006 "Days of our Lives" actor Billy Warlock (45) weds actress Julie Pinson in Las Vegas, Nevada

2006 2004 X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein (37) weds jazz musician Eileen Hunter at King's College Chapel in Aberdeen, Scotland

Famous Divorces

1927 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (60) divorces artist Maude Noel after almost 4 years of marriage

Altobelli

27-08-2017, 12:40 PM

27 AUGUST

479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece

663 Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Korean Baekje forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea; - no Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years

1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1979 Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers killed when Provisional IRA explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passes Narrow Water Castle

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States

Famous Birthday's

Donald Bradman
(1908 - 2001)

Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908 - 1973)

Barbara Bach
70th Birthday

Famous Deaths

W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868 - 1963)

Haile Selassie
(1892 - 1975)

Stevie Ray Vaughan
(1954 - 1990)

Famous Weddings

1930 Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

1956 Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32)

1966 American sportscaster Al Michaels (21) weds Linda Stamaton

1977 "Coral Reefer Band" singer Jimmy Buffett (30) weds Jane Slagsvol

1994 TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York

Altobelli

28-08-2017, 11:42 AM

28 AUGUST

1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Famous Birthday's

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)

Jack Kirby
(1917 - 1994)

Shania Twain
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Albert Frederick
(1553 - 1618)

Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822 - 1903)

Emmett Till
(1941 - 1955)

Famous Weddings

1775 Statesman John Hancock (38) weds hostess Dorothy Quincy (28) in Fairfield, Connecticut

1811 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)

1924 British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)

1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown

1997 British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West

Famous Divorces

1953 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (36) divorces bass player Ray Brown (27) after 6 years of marriage

2009 Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage

Altobelli

29-08-2017, 01:55 PM

29 AUGUST

1526 Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent

1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa

1825 Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil

1842 Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.

Famous Birthday's

Ingrid Bergman
(1915 - 1982)

Michael Jackson
(1958 - 2009)

Chris Hadfield
58th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Brigham Young
(1801 - 1877)

Ingrid Bergman
(1915 - 1982)

Lee Marvin
(1924 - 1987)

Famous Weddings

1885 Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (Age of Innocence) Edith Jones (23), marries Edward "Teddy" Wharton (36)

1955 "Untamed Youth" actress Mamie Van Doren (24) weds trumpeter and actor Ray Anthony (33)

1964 46th US Vice President Dick Cheney (23) weds Lynne Ann Vincent (23) at the First Presbyterian Church of Casper in Wyoming

1968 Norwegian Crown Prince Harald (later Harald V) marries Sonja Haraldsen at Oslo Cathedral

1993 Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)

It probably does not happen very often, Ingrid Bergman born on this day and also died on the same date 67 years later, Lee Marvin an actor I rated died on this day.

SERVERNOTRESPONDING

29-08-2017, 02:22 PM

Don't forget

29 John the Baptist, beheaded

1350 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

1640 English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland

1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed

1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion

1958 George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)

Altobelli

29-08-2017, 02:33 PM

I leave some so others can contribute if they wish, which thankfully you have Server :)

Altobelli

30-08-2017, 09:40 AM

30 AUGUST

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

Famous Birthday's

Peter the Cruel
(1334 - 1369)

Ted Williams
(1918 - 2002)

Cameron Diaz
45th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Vera-Ellen
(1921 - 1981)

Charles Bronson
(1921 - 2003)

Seamus Heaney
(1939 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1846 Author and Christian pioneer Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine

1940 CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC

1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills

1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

Famous Divorces

1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springs****

Altobelli

31-08-2017, 11:37 AM

31 AUGUST

1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty

1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies

1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

Famous Birthday's

Caligula
(12 - 41)

Commodus
(161 - 192)

Ramon Magsaysay
(1907 - 1957)

Famous Deaths

Mary Ann Nichols
(1845 - 1888)

Rocky Marciano
(1923 - 1969)

Diana Spencer
(1961 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1940 "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26)

1940 Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York

1952 Soprano singer Leontyne Mary Violet Price (25) weds concert bass-baritone singer William Warfield (32)

1991 Musician Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip

2010 Actress Leelee Sobieski (27) weds fashion designer Adam Kimmel in Italy

Altobelli

01-09-2017, 12:10 AM

01 SEPTEMBER

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1939 World War II starts as Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defence treaty

1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution

Famous Birthday's

Johann Pachelbel
(1653 - 1706)

Rocky Marciano
(1923 - 1969)

Gloria Estefan
60th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Jacques Cartier
(1491 - 1557)

Louis XIV
(1638 - 1715)

William Clark
(1770 - 1838)

Famous Weddings

1730 US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read

1843 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark

1940 Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon

1945 Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (23) weds childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox

1970 "The Bee Gees" singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray

Altobelli

02-09-2017, 01:54 PM

02 SEPTEMBER

31 BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.

1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1864 Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

Famous Birthday's

Andrew Grove
(1936 - 2016)

Jimmy Connors
65th Birthday

Lennox Lewis
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Pheidippides
( - 490 BC)

J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892 - 1973)

Bob Denver
(1935 - 2005)

Famous Weddings

1824 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant

1908 Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England

1922 "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw

1978 George Harrison marries Olivia

1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)

Famous Divorces

1960 Actress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

03-09-2017, 10:01 AM

It was the third of September, that day I will always remember, oh yes I will

Altobelli

03-09-2017, 07:11 PM

It was the third of September, that day I will always remember, oh yes I will

Give us a clue Chalky.

Altobelli

03-09-2017, 07:17 PM

03 SEPTEMBER

301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America

1900 With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa

1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada

1950 1st Formula One WDC: Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins by three points

1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

Famous Birthday's

Carl David Anderson
(1905 - 1991)

Whitey Bulger
88th Birthday

Charlie Sheen
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Oliver Cromwell
(1599 - 1658)

Ho Chi Minh
(1890 - 1969)

Vince Lombardi
(1913 - 1970)

Famous Weddings

1921 American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)

1923 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

1937 Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

1953 Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose

1957 World Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston (25) weds Geraldine Clark in St. Louis, Missouri

Famous Divorces

2010 Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

03-09-2017, 09:50 PM

Give us a clue Chalky.

Just quoting the first line of Papa Was A Rolling Stone as it was September 3rd,I always enjoy reading this thread Altobelli

Altobelli

03-09-2017, 11:18 PM

Just quoting the first line of Papa Was A Rolling Stone as it was September 3rd,I always enjoy reading this thread Altobelli

Thanks Chalky, I was wondering whether to stop doing the thread as I thought not a lot was interested, thanks for the positivity fella :)

chalky_ncfc

04-09-2017, 08:09 AM

Thanks Chalky, I was wondering whether to stop doing the thread as I thought not a lot was interested, thanks for the positivity fella :)

I come on here every day and always look for this thread,its an interesting read

Altobelli

04-09-2017, 11:35 AM

04 SEPTEMBER

476 Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Western Roman Empire

1588 The death of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a favourite and possible lover of Queen Elizabeth I. When his wife Amy died after falling down the stairs, it was widely rumoured that Dudley had murdered her in order to marry Elizabeth. The Queen rejected him, even proposing that he wed Mary, Queen of Scots. His church in Denbigh was never completed, due to a lack of finance and it has been an empty shell since work ceased in 1584.

1609 English navigator Henry Hudson, working for the Dutch East India Company, arrived at the island of Manhattan, before sailing up the river that now bears his name.

1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet named after him

1781 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

1815 Sir Humphrey Davy invented the miner's safety lamp.

1860 The first weather forecast appeared in The Times.

1862 General Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederate troops during US Civil war

1884 Britain stopped sending convicts to New South Wales in Australia.

1893 Beatrix Potter introduced Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail in an illustrated note to her governess’s five-year-old son, Noel Moore. Her house, Hill Top, at Sawrey is now in the care of the National Trust.

1901 The birth, in Blackpool, of Sir William Lyons, known as 'Mr. Jaguar'. He was, with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the war. The first 'Jaguar' model, under the company name of SS Cars Ltd. was offered in 1935, but after World War II Lyons changed the company name to Jaguar to avoid the unfortunate connotations of SS Cars Ltd. with the Nazi 'SS'.

1909 The first Boy Scout rally was held at Crystal Palace, near London.

1932 The birth of Dinsdale Landen, British actor known mainly for his television appearances. He made his television debut in 1959 as Pip in an adaptation of Great Expectations and his film debut in 1960, with a part in The League of Gentlemen.

1939 World War II: The British liner Athenia was sunk by a German submarine off Ireland.

1939 World War II: A Bristol Blenheim bomber became the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war. German ships were bombed but the aircraft stood little chance against the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 during daylight operations, although it proved successful as a night fighter.

1944 In World War II, the Allies liberated Brussels and Antwerp (Belgium).

1955 British TV newsreaders were seen in vision for the first time. The first was the BBC's Kenneth Kendall.

1962 The Beatles started their first recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, with their producer, George Martin.

1939 World War II: The British liner Athenia was sunk by a German submarine off Ireland.

1939 World War II: A Bristol Blenheim bomber became the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war. German ships were bombed but the aircraft stood little chance against the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 during daylight operations, although it proved successful as a night fighter.

1944 In World War II, the Allies liberated Brussels and Antwerp (Belgium).

1955 British TV newsreaders were seen in vision for the first time. The first was the BBC's Kenneth Kendall.

1962 The Beatles started their first recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, with their producer, George Martin.

1964 Queen Elizabeth II opened the Forth Road Bridge across the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

1981 The start of the Greenham Common peace protest outside the US Air Force base in Berkshire. The protest lasted for 19 years.

1985 The wreck of the Titanic was photographed for the first time, 73 years after it sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.

1988 British customs officers intercepted a helicopter landing on its way in from Holland. It was the first helicopter known to have been used in an attempt to smuggle drugs into Britain.

Famous Birthday's

Eduard Wirths
(1909 - 1945)

Paul Harvey
(1918 - 2009)

Beyoncé Knowles
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Hank Greenberg
(1911 - 1986)

Steve Irwin
(1962 - 2006)

Joan Rivers
(1933 - 2014)

Famous Weddings

1834 Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (28) weds Helen Eliza Benson

1930 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1988 Actor Kevin Bacon marries actress Kyra Sedgwick

1989 Tennis star Bjorn Borg (33) weds rock singer Loredana Berte (39) in a civil wedding

1993 Five-time U.S. national champion figure pair skater Jerod Swallow (26) weds his partner Elizabeth Punsalen

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05 SEPTEMBER

1174 Canterbury Cathedral was destroyed by fire.

1646 Following Cromwell's victory in the English civil war, the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury was abolished.

1666 The end of the Great Fire of London, that had started on 2nd September at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral had been destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.

1774 Twelve of the thir**** American colonies adopt a trade embargo with Britain at the first Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1800 Following a blockade by Admiral Horatio Nelson, French troops surrendered the Mediterranean island of Malta to Britain.

1839 The First Opium War begins in China

1887 A fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter killed 186.

1914 The First Battle of the Marne began. German, British and French troops fought for six days. Half a million people were killed.

1935 The birth of the actor Johnny Briggs. He is best known for his role as Mike Baldwin in the soap opera Coronation Street, in which he appeared from 1976 to 2006. He received a lifetime achievement award at the 2006 British Soap Awards for his thirty years of contribution to the show.

1939 At the start of World War II in Europe, American President Roosevelt declared the United States to be neutral.

1946 The birth (in Stone Town, Zanzibar) of the British musician, singer and songwriter Freddie Mercury. As a songwriter, Mercury composed many hits for Queen, including 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Don't Stop Me Now' and 'We Are the Champions'. He died of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on 24th November 1991, only one day after publicly acknowledging that he had the disease.

1959 The first trunk dialling system from a public call-box was launched during a ceremonial phone call from Bristol to London.

1963 Christine Keeler, one of the women involved in the Profumo scandal in Britain, was arrested and charged with perjury.

1969 The British commercial television channel, ITV, began broadcasting in colour.

1969 The death of Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his book Ring of Bright Water, about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. The book sold more than a million copies and was made into a film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna in 1969. This bronze otter, sculpted by Penny Wheatley, stands as a memorial to Gavin Maxwell.

1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics

1975 Two people were killed and 63 injured as a suspected IRA bomb exploded in the lobby of the Hilton hotel in central London.

1979 The Queen led the nation in mourning as the body of her husband's uncle (Lord Mountbatten) was buried after a day of pageantry in London. His tomb is in Romsey Abbey, Hampshire along with the family Coat of Arms. See ©BB picture.

1979 The BBC began broadcasting the hit American series 'Dallas' which soon became one of the most popular programmes on British TV.

1982 Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot died.

1988 No *** Please We're British, the longest running comedy, closed in London (after 6,671 performances over 16 years).

2008 £20,000 of petrol was given away in north London to promote a computer game. Traffic was gridlocked outside the Last Stop garage in Finsbury Park as drivers queued for £40 worth of free fuel each.

2013 More than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey crossing in Kent. The A249 bridge was closed for more than nine hours. Police found enough evidence to prosecute 32 motorists, but offered to send them on a driver alertness course instead. Eight people suffered serious injuries and 200 others were treated at the scene following the crash, which started at around 7.15am.

2014 Channel 4's game show Countdown achieved a Guinness World Record for the 'most series broadcast for a TV game show' when it reached its 6,000th episode On This Day. The programme was launched in 1982, with the late Richard Whiteley at the helm.

Famous Birthday's

Louis XIV
(1638 - 1715)

Jesse James
(1847 - 1882)

Freddie Mercury
(1946 - 1991)

Famous Deaths

Suleiman the Magnificent
(1494 - 1566)

Crazy Horse
(1840 - 1877)

Mother Teresa
(1910 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski

1959 Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel (20) weds Linda Joan Bork

1968 Author Ken Follett (19) weds Mary Emma Ruth Elson

1970 Producer Dick Wolf (23) weds Susan Scranton

1987 Actor Steven Seagal (36) weds actress Kelly LeBrock (27) in Beverly Hills, California

Famous Divorces

1980 Lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage

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1664 After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York.

1877 The great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted at age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

1910 Marie Curie demonstrates the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.

1944 Germany launches its first V-2 missile at Paris, France.

1977 Voyager 1 space probe launched.

Born this day

1568 Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet, who wrote City of the Sun.

1940 Raquel Welch, actress (One Million Years B.C., Myra Breckinridge).

1945 Al Stewart, singer, songwriter, musician ("Year of the Cat," "Roads to Moscow").

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06 SEPTEMBER

3114 BC Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).

1522 Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth.

1620 149 Pilgrims, The Pilgrim Fathers, set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower bound for America - the New World. The Pilgrims' story of people seeking to escape the religious controversies and economic problems of their time by emigrating to America, has become a central theme of the history and culture of the United States. (Note:- They had originally set sail from Southampton on 5th August but were beset with problems.

1651 Charles II famously spent the night hidden in an oak tree at Boscobel after his defeat by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester.

1766 The birth of John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness.

1852 Britain's first free lending library opened, in Manchester.

1866 Three British tea clippers reached London within 2 hours of each other after a 16,000 mile race from China as there were big bonuses for the first ships home with the new season's tea.

1879 The opening of Britain's first telephone exchange - at Lombard Street in London.

1880 England beat Australia by five wickets at the Oval in the first Test Match played in England. English batsman W.G. Grace scored a century.

1901 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

1907 The Lusitania set sail from Liverpool for New York on her maiden voyage. She set a record, crossing the Atlantic in five days at an average speed of 23 knots.

1909 Word received that American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole, 5 months earlier

1916 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee

1939 World War II: In an episode known as The Battle of Barking Creek, a friendly fire incident near Ipswich resulted in the first war death of a British fighter pilot (Pilot Officer Montague Hulton-Harrop). The incident exposed the inadequacies of RAF radar and identification procedures, leading to them being greatly improved by the crucial period of the Battle of Britain.

1944 World War II: The city of Ypres in Belgium was liberated by allied forces. As it was a difficult name to pronounce in English, British troops nicknamed the city 'Wipers'.

1952 At the Farnborough Airshow, a prototype de Havilland jet fighter exploded, and the debris fell onto the crowd. 26 people died.

1952 Erddig Hall, one of the country's finest stately homes, was granted Grade I listed status. In 2007 it was voted the UK's "favourite Historic House". Erddig's walled garden is one of the most important surviving 18th century formal gardens in Britain.

1960 Ten skeletons were found in 3800 year old graves at Stonehenge. Wiltshire.

1963 Cilla Black signed a contract with Beatles manager Brian Epstein. She changed her name from White to Black after a misprint in the music paper Mersey Beat.

1986 The first series of the British medical drama television series 'Casualty'.

1988 11-year-old Thomas Gregory, from London, swam the channel, reaching Dover after 12 hours. He was the youngest person ever to achieve a cross-channel swim.

1990 Sir Len Hutton, cricketer, and the first professional to captain England, died at the age of 74.

1997 The funeral service for Diana, Princess of Wales, was held in Westminster Abbey, London. An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the service on television.

2014 A study by Cass Business School claimed that the secret to a long life is having a waistline no larger than half your height. A waist to height ratio of 80 per cent or more could reduce life expectancy by up to 20 years.

Famous Birthday's

Jane Addams
(1860 - 1935)

Joseph P. Kennedy
(1888 - 1969)

Roger Waters
74th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Margaret Sanger
(1879 - 1966)

Akira Kurosawa
(1910 - 1998)

Luciano Pavarotti
(1935 - 2007)

Famous Weddings

1840 Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York

1889 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen (30)

1944 Actor Yul Brynner (24) weds actress Virginia Gilmore (25) at the Los Angeles County Courthouse

1980 81st Prime Minister of UK Theresa May (23) weds investment banker Philip May at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Wheatley, Oxfordshire

1997 "Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman (34) weds "Fargo" actor William H. Macy (47) in Woody Creek, Colorado

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07 SEPTEMBER

70 Roman army under General Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem

1533 The birth of Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. She was Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 and was known as the Virgin Queen because she never married, being too shrewd to share power with a foreign monarch.

1548 Catherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry VIII, died in childbirth.

1571 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. He was executed for treason in 1572 and is buried within the walls of the Tower of London.

1665 The death of George Viccars, the first plague victim to died in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. The plague raged for 14 months. Out of a population of 350 people, only 80 survived..

1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine

1735 The birth of Thomas Coutts, son of a wealthy Scottish merchant. He and his brother James founded a banking house in London.

1822 Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (National Day)

1838 Grace Darling and her father rescued the crew of the Forfarshire, a steamer wrecked off the Northumberland coast, close to the Longstone Lighthouse. She became a national heroine.

1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York

1895 The first game of what would become known as rugby league football, was played in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy

1917 The birth of Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard Cheshire, British airman. He was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War and he and his wife Sue Ryder founded the Cheshire Foundation Home for the Incurably Sick in 1948.

1929 Britain won the prestigious Schneider Trophy for air speed. The winner was Flying Officer Waghorn.

1931 King George V announced he would be taking a £50,000 a year pay cut while the economic crisis continued.

1940 Germany began regular bombing of London - commonly known as 'The Blitz'. The bombing continued nightly until 2nd November.

1943 World War II. Italy surrendered to the Allies.

1973 Jackie Stewart became world champion racing driver for the third consecutive year.

1978 Keith Moon, drummer with 'The Who', died of a drugs overdose.

1978 While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a Bulgarian secret police agent using a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

1984 Three more people died in the food poisoning epidemic at hospitals in Yorkshire, bringing the total number of deaths to 22.

2001 The Government suffered a shock legal defeat predicted to result in the release of hundreds of asylum seekers from an immigration centre.

2009 Sir Terry Wogan announced that he was to step down as presenter of BBC Radio 2's breakfast show. The veteran broadcaster first hosted the breakfast show in 1972, returning to the role in 1993. Wake Up to Wogan was the UK's most popular breakfast radio show with 7.93 million listeners each week.

2004 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) held their first debate in the new Scottish Parliament building. It was built at a cost : £414 million (ten times over the original budget).

2013 New Yorker Marin Alsop become the first woman to lead the Last Night of the Proms in its 118-year history.

Famous Birthday's

Elizabeth I
(1533 - 1603)

Buddy Holly
(1936 - 1959)

Roy DeMeo
(1942 - 1983)

Famous Deaths

Keith Moon
(1946 - 1978)

Mobutu Sese Seko
(1930 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1943 "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (24) weds actor-director Orson Welles (28)

1945 "Star Trek" actor DeForest Kelley (25) weds Carolyn Dowling

1984 Actress-singer Janet Jackson (18) weds fellow R&B singer James DeBarge (21)

1991 US actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Nicollette Sheridan

1996 Five-foot-eleven model-actress Eva Herzigova (23) weds Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres (43) in Sea Bright, New Jersey

Famous Divorces

1949 Actress Janet Leigh (22) divorces Stanley Reames after 4 years of marriage

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08 SEPTEMBER

1157 King Richard I (the Lion Heart) was born.

1380 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars•

•1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

•1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan)

1560 Amy Robsart, wife of the Earl of Leicester, died from a fall. It was suspected that she was pushed, for soon after, the earl became an active suitor to Queen Elizabeth I.

1664 The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was surrendered to the British, who, in 1669, renamed it New York after the Duke of York.

1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, killed 78 people (51 of them children). The doors had been nailed shut to prevent further people getting in, a simple act which was key to the tragedy which resulted. On 8th September 2005, a plaque was unveiled at the site of the barn in memorial of the fire.

1760 British troops under Jeffrey Amherst defeated the French in the Battle of Montreal. After the loss, the French surrendered their arms throughout Canada.

1888 Annie Chapman was found disembowelled in an East London street, the second victim of 'Jack the Ripper'.

1888 The first English Football League matches were played.

1914 World War I: Private Thomas Highgate became the first British soldier of the war to be executed for desertion. He was undefended and called no witnesses in his defence, as all his comrades had been shot and killed. Highgate claimed that he was a 'straggler' trying to find his way back to rejoin his regiment after having been separated from his comrades. His execution was almost as hasty as his trial, as senior officers insisted that he be executed 'At once, as publicly as possible'. Posthumous pardons for over 300 such soldiers were announced in August 2006, including Highgate.

1921 Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer and singer was born.

1925 Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian was born.

1944 The first German V2 flying bombs fell on Britain, exploding at Chiswick in London, killing 3 people.

1960 Publishers Penguin Books were charged with public obscenity for publishing D.H. Lawrence's controversial book - 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'.

1966 Queen Elizabeth II officially opened The Severn Bridge linking south Wales with south west England.

1968 British tennis player Virginia Wade beat American Billie Jean King to win the US Open.

1970 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

1986 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally

2000 Protests about high fuel costs that had been crippling France the previous week reached Britain, with actions across the country.

2007 Portuguese police named both parents of missing schoolgirl Madeleine McCann (who disappeared on 3rd May) as formal suspects. Gerry McCann was officially given "arguido" status as was his wife Kate after they had been questioned separately for more than 24 hours.

2011 The first repatriation ceremony was held at RAF Brize Norton, after repatriations ended through Wootton Bassett. Sergeant Barry Weston, killed in Afghanistan on 30th August, was the first to be repatriated.

•Famous Birthday's

Richard the Lionheart
(1157 - 1199)

•Peter Sellers
(1925 - 1980)

•Patsy Cline
(1932 - 1963)

Famous Deaths

Ann Lee
(1736 - 1784)

Edward L. Doheny
(1856 - 1935)

Leni Riefenstahl
(1902 - 2003)

Famous Weddings

•1761 Marriage of George III of the United Kingdom to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen Charlotte).

•1864 Business magnate John D. Rockefeller (25) weds abolitionist Laura Spelman (24)

•1897 Confederate General James Longstreet (76) weds Helen Dortch (34) at the governor's mansion in Atlanta, Georgia

•1953 Actress Lana Turner (32) weds "Tarzan of the Apes" actor Lex Barker (34)

•1963 Academy Award-winning actress Geraldine Page (38) weds actor Rip Torn (32) in Pinal, Arizona

Famous Divorces

2009 90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (36) divorces glamour model Katie Price (31) due to unreasonable behaviour after 3 years of marriage

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09-09-2017, 02:04 PM

09 SEPTEMBER

1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea. King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age.

1087 William the Conqueror died in Maine (France) from injuries he sustained after a fall from his horse.

1513 The Scots were heavily defeated by the English at the Battle of Flodden Field and James IV was killed, along with all his nobles. Flodden Field is close to the village of Branxton, Northumberland. The slain, including King James IV were taken to Branxton Parish Church.

1543 Mary Stuart, at just nine months old, was crowned 'Queen of Scots' in the Scottish town of Stirling.

1754 Birth date of William Bligh, British naval officer who was the victim of two mutinies, the most famous on the HMS Bounty which was taken over by Fletcher Christian.

1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)

1817 Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College

1855 Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol (Sebastopol) came to an end when Russian forces abandon the city. Although defended heroically and at the cost of heavy Allied casualties, (almost 130,00 in total), the fall of Sevastopol led to the Russian defeat in the Crimean War.

1879 The death of John Smith, English brewer, best known for operating the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. As at 2012, John Smith's was the highest selling bitter in the world.

1911 The launch of the first airmail service in England, between Hendon and Windsor.

1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)

1949 The birth of John Curry, English figure skating champion and 1976 Olympic and World Champion.

1958 There were race riots in London's Notting Hill Gate, with television crews accused of encouraging the rioting by staging reconstructions in the streets.

1960 The birth of Hugh Grant, English actor and film producer who achieved international stardom after appearing in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

1963 Scotsman Jim Clark became the youngest person to win the world motor racing championships, driving Colin Chapman’s Lotus. He was aged 27 and 188 days. The youngest winner to date is Sebastian Vettel (in 2010), aged 23 years and 133 days.

1985 Champion jockey Lester Piggott announced his retirement, having won more than 5,000 races around the world. In 1987 he was jailed following an investigation over tax evasion, but resumed his career following his release and rode his last winner in October 1994.

1987 Twenty five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster were extradited to Belgium.

1988 The Indian cricket tour was cancelled as English cricket captain Graham Gooch and seven other members of his squad were refused visas to travel to India.

1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition

1996 The European Court of Human Rights agreed to hear a case in which a 12-year old boy was challenging British laws allowing parents to use corporal punishment on their children.

2001 Days before Home Secretary David Blunkett met his French counterpart, he admitted Britain was "particularly attractive" to asylum seekers.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

Famous Birthday's

Fred Spofforth
(1853 - 1926)

Colonel Sanders
(1890 - 1980)

Adam Sandler
51st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Mao Zedong
(1893 - 1976)

Burgess Meredith
(1907 - 1997)

Richie Ashburn
(1927 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1770 Founding Father of America Robert R. Livingston (23) weds John Steven's daughter Mary Stevens

1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque

1995 Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin

1995 Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)

2004 'N Sync singer Joey Fatone (27) weds Kelly Baldwin (27) at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York

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10 SEPTEMBER

1224 The Franciscans, founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi, first arrived in England. They were originally called Grey Friars because of their grey 'habits'.

1515 Thomas Wolsey was invested as a Cardinal. When Wolsey failure to secure Henry VIII's annulment to Catherine of Aragon it caused his downfall and arrest and he was stripped of his government office and property, including Hampton Court.

1547 The Duke of Somerset led the English to victory over the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, Musselburgh. It was the last full scale military 'pitched battle' confrontation between England and Scotland and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles.

1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers

1813 The first unqualified defeat of a British naval squadron in history took palace when US Captain Oliver Hazard Perry led a fleet of nine American ships to victory over a squadron of six British warships at the Battle of Lake Erie.

1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstich sewing machine

1891 Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-E, the most popular song in Victorian England in the 1890s was written by former Canadian bandsman Henry J Sayers. Sayers later admitted to copying an Austrian song after hearing the tune being played in a brothel.

1897 George Smith, a London cab driver, became the first person to be convicted for drunken driving. He was fined £1.

1933 English tennis player Fred Perry became the first Briton to win the US Open Championship since 1903.

1939 World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley was mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and became the Royal Navy's first loss. There were only two survivors.

1942 In a single raid, the RAF dropped 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1960 A goal-less draw between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers became the first English League game shown live on TV.

1963 American Express opened a credit card service in Britain.

1967 Almost 100 per cent of the voters of Gibraltar rejected Spanish rule in favour of retaining British sovereignty.

1973 Scotland Yard began hunting for a ****age suspect after two bombs at mainline stations injured 13 people and brought chaos to central London.

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France

1987 Hypnotist Andrew Newton was permitted to perform on stage, as Westminster Council lifted a 35 year ban on acts of that type. Doctors raised objections to lifting the ban, but Newton was not allowed to demonstrate regression on stage (taking hypnotized people back to their childhood).

2001 Charles Ingram won one million pounds on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He was later accused of cheating by having his wife, Diana, and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, cough as Ingram announced the correct answer from the available choices. The Ingrams and Tecwen Whittock were convicted, on 7th April 2003, by a majority verdict of 'procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception'. All three were fined and given suspended prison sentences. In October 2004 Diana and Charles Ingram were declared bankrupt.

2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland

Famous Birthday's

Maria Theresa of Spain
(1638 - 1683)

Arnold Palmer
88th Birthday

Roger Maris
(1934 - 1985)

Famous Deaths

Qin Shi Huang
(259 BC - 210 BC)

Jane Wyman
(1917 - 2007)

Cliff Robertson
(1923 - 2011)

Famous Weddings

1957 Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien (23) weds Aline Chaine (21) in Canada

1961 Nigerian novelist, critic and academic Chinua Achebe ("Things Fall Apart") marries Christie Okoli

1961 Baseball player Ted Williams marries model Lee Howard (divorced 1967)

1966 Actor John Lithgow (20) weds Jean Taynton

1993 Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85

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11-09-2017, 05:29 PM

11 SEPTEMBER

1297 Scottish hero William Wallace defeated the English at Stirling Bridge. Wallace's statement before the battle was - 'We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.'

1609 Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos

1697 Battle of Zenta: forces of Prince Eugen of Savoye defeat the Turks, ending Ottoman control of large parts of Central Europe

1708 Great Northern war: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the war

1777 American troops led by George Washington were defeated by the British at the Battle of Brandywine Creek, in the American War of Independence.

1836 Register Office marriages were introduced in Britain.

1841 The London to Brighton commuter express train began regular service, taking just 105 minutes.

1879 268 miners died in an explosion at the Prince of Wales Colliery, at Abercarn, South Wales.

1885 D.H. Lawrence, controversial English author of Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover, was born.

1895 The prestigious FA Cup trophy was stolen from football outfitters William Shillock of Birmingham. 68 years later an 83 year old man confessed he'd melted it down to make counterfeit halfcrown coins.

1915 The opening of Britain’s first Women’s Institute at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch, Anglesey, Wales.

1950 Barry Sheene, British racing motor cyclist was born.

1962 The Beatles completed the recording of their first single 'Love Me Do' at the Abbey Road Studios in north London.

1968 The housing charity, Shelter, said up to three million people in Britain were living in damp, overcrowded slum conditions.

1987 Four men were arrested on charges of plotting to steal a dolphin worth £25,000 from the Marineland Oceanarium in Morecambe, Lancashire.

1997 In a national referendum on devolution, the people of Scotland voted 'Yes' to creating their own Parliament, for the first time in more than 300 years.

2001 The '911' terrorist attacks in New York. In the aftermath, Prime Minister Tony Blair deployed British troops in the invasion of Iraq (March 2003), supporting the US President George Bush and his 'War on Terror'. On This Day hijackers crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and thousands of those working in the buildings. Both towers collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. A third airliner was crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth plane was redirected towards Washington, D.C., targeting either the Capitol Building or the White House, but it crashed in a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to retake control of the airliner. There were no survivors from any of the flights.

2012 25 year old tennis player Andy Murray finally emulated Fred Perry's 1936 achievement and became the first British player to win the US Open in 76 years when he beat Novak Djokovic. Murray also won the Wimbledon championship in 2013 and 2016. He won gold at the London 2012 Olympics and gold again at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games thus becoming the first player, male or female, to win two gold medals in the tennis singles events.

2014 The Society of Biology stated that warm temperatures had prompted flying ants to leave their nests early, Subsequently, seagulls had become more agressive, after getting 'drunk' by the formic acid in the ants’ bodies.

Famous Birthday's

D. H. Lawrence
(1885 - 1930)

Ferdinand Marcos
(1917 - 1989)

Tom Landry
(1924 - 2000)

Famous Deaths

Billy Bishop
(1894 - 1956)

Nikita Khrushchev
(1894 - 1971)

Todd Beamer
(1968 - 2001)

Famous Weddings

1930 Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)

1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels

1983 Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss

1993 Country singer Merle Haggard (56) weds fifth wife Theresa Ann Lane at his ranch near Redding, California

1999 Actress Jenny McCarthy (26) weds actor-director John Mallory Asher (28) in the Crystal Gardens at the Beverly Hills Hotel

Famous Divorces

1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced

Altobelli

12-09-2017, 07:56 AM

12 SEPTEMBER

1440 Eton College was founded by Henry VI. Prefects were warned to look out for "ill-kempt heads and unwashed faces."

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed his ship 'Half Moon' into New York harbour and 150 miles further inland to Albany, along the waterway now called Hudson River.

1846 Poet Elizabeth Barrett eloped to Italy with poet Robert Browning to escape Elizabeth's domineering father who disapproved of marriage for any of his children. Mr. Barrett then disinherited Elizabeth, as he did for each of his children who married:

1852 The birth of Herbert Henry Asquith, British Liberal Prime Minister. It was Asquith who introduced old age pensions and Lloyd-George was his Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1878 Cleopatra's Needle, the obelisk of Thothmes II, was erected on London's Embankment.

1885 The Scottish football team of Arbroath beat Bon Accord (from Aberdeen) by 36 goals to nil in the first round of the Scottish Cup, making it a record breaking score for professional football. Thir**** goals were scored by centre-forward John Petrie.

1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, was founded as a military fort by by Cecil Rhodes. They originally named the city Fort Salisbury after the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, then British prime minister.

1906 The opening of the Newport Transporter Bridge in south east Wales. Only eight such bridges remain in use worldwide and this is the oldest and largest of the three historic transporter bridges which remain in Britain. Vehicles are tranported on the 'gondola' across the River Usk.

1908 The marriage of Winston Churchill to Clementine Hozier.

1909 World's first patent for synthetic rubber granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann

1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction

1936 Britain’s Fred Perry won the US Tennis Championships against Donald Budge, the first non-US player ever to win. Britain had to wait a further 76 years for a male singles champion and on 11th September 2012 Andy Murray won the US Open, beating Novak Djokovic.

1940 4 ****s, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings

1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate

1959 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon

1960 Ministry of Transport (MoT) tests on motor vehicles were introduced in the UK.

1970 The supersonic Concorde passenger jet landed at Heathrow Airport for the first time to a barrage of complaints from nearby residents about noise.

1972 Two British trawlers were sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the 'cod war'

1987 The BBC filmed the first 'Top of the Pops' to be sold in America.

1988 Roger Hargreaves, author and creator of the Mr. Men books died.

2000 Britain was brought to a standstill as fuel tax protesters, backed by tanker drivers, caused petrol shortages.

2005 England took the Ashes from Australia for the first time since 1987.

2012 After three years reviewing 450,000 documents, including those relating to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Merseyside police, the Hillsborough Independent Panel published its report. The report exposed the police campaign to blame Liverpool fans for the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster which saw the death of 96 fans. It led to a new criminal inquiry into the disaster and an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

2014 The death, aged 88, of Dr. Ian Paisley, the former firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader. For decades he was the face of opposition to compromise with the IRA in Northern Ireland. Friends and one-time foes described him as a 'colossus' and 'big man of Irish politics'.

Famous Birthday's

Henry Hudson
1575

Jesse Owens
(1913 - 1980)

Paul Walker
(1973 - 2013)

Famous Deaths

Anthony Perkins
(1932 - 1992)

Johnny Cash
(1932 - 2003)

Ray Dolby
(1933 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1812 Revolutionary leader Jose de San Martin (33) weds María de los Remedios de Escalada at Buenos Aires Cathedral in Argentina

1840 Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck

1846 Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London

1892 61st UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (25) weds writer and activist Lucy Ridsdale (23) in Rottingdean, England

1908 Politician Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier

Famous Divorces

1967 Actress Rosemary Clooney divorces actor José Ferrer for the second time after she found out his affair with Stella Magee

Altobelli

13-09-2017, 09:07 AM

13 SEPTEMBER

509 BC The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September

335 Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem

1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Verna

1759 British troops, under the command of General Wolfe, secured Canada for the British Empire after defeating the French at the Battle of Quebec. Wolfe and the French commander were killed during the battle.

1806 The English statesman Charles James Fox was taken ill and died at his home in London, just as he was about to introduce a bill abolishing slavery.

1847 American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1894 The birth, in Manningham, Bradford, of John Boynton Priestley, the English author generally referred to as J.B. Priestley. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions (1929), as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls (1945). There is a statue to him outside the National Media Museum in Bradford.

1902 The first conviction in Britain using finger-prints as evidence was in the case against Harry Jackson by the Metropolitan Police at the Old Bailey. He had left his thumbprint in wet paint on a window sill and was tracked down through it. He was sentenced to seven years.

1916 The birth, in Cardiff, (to Norwegian parents) of the author Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl Plass is a public plaza in the heart of Cardiff Bay. The area is home to the Senedd (Welsh Assembly Building) and the Wales Millennium Centre. Some of Roald Dahl's notable works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG (Big Friendly Giant).

1938 John Smith, former leader of the Labour Party was born.

1940 Buckingham Palace was hit by a bomb during 'The Blitz'.

1944 The birth of Carol Barnes, British television newsreader and broadcaster who worked for ITN from 1975 to 2004. In 1994 she was voted Newscaster of the Year at the TV and Radio Industries Club Awards

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton

1957 The Mousetrap became Britain's longest running play, reaching its 1,998th performance.

1958 Cliff Richard made his British TV debut on Jack Good's Oh Boy, performing Move It.

1970 In Colombia, en route to the World Cup finals in Mexico, the captain of the England football team, Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a diamond bracelet from a shop. After being kept under house arrest, he was released and all charges were dropped.

1980 Hercules, the bear who went missing on Benbecula (in the Outer Hebrides) while being filmed for a Kleenex television commercial, was recaptured after 24 days 'on the run'.

1988 Medina Perez, a Cuban diplomat opened fire in a crowded London street because of an American plot to make him defect, (his government said).

1989 Britain's biggest ever banking computer error gave customers an extra £2 billion in a period of 30 minutes; 99.3 per cent of the money was reportedly returned.

1993 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway

2001 Iain Duncan Smith became the new leader of the Tory party.

2001 British defence experts said that forces could be involved in retaliatory strikes against those responsible for the US terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Centre two days previously.

2012 Jo Shuter, head teacher since 2001 of Quintin Kynaston School in St John's Wood, north-west London was suspended after an investigation into its finances. (Shuter resigned on August 28th when it was announced that she had spent £30,000 of public money on luxury hotels, flowers and her 50th birthday party.) She had earlier had been credited with turning around a school's fortunes, was named head teacher of the year at the 2007 Teaching Awards and was awarded a CBE in June 2010.

Famous Birthday's

Daniel Defoe
(1660 - 1731)

Arnold Schoenberg
(1874 - 1951)

Claudette Colbert
(1903 - 1996)

Famous Deaths

Titus
(39 - 81)

Philip II
(1527 - 1598)

Tupac Shakur
(1971 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1893 Microbiologist Robert Koch (49) weds actress Hedwig Freiberg (20)

1975 Novelist Danielle Steel (28) weds Danny Zugelder in the prison can****

1981 Television producer Lorne Michaels (36) weds model Susan Forristal

1998 "Spice Girls" pop singer Melanie Brown (23) weds Jimmy Gulzar in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire

2000 Wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (35) weds WWE Diva Debra Marshall (40) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

Famous Divorces

1974 Singer-composer Quincy Jones Jr (28) divorces actress Ulla Andersson (41) after 5 years of marriage

Altobelli

14-09-2017, 10:48 AM

14 SEPTEMBER

1607 The 'Flight of the Earls' from Lough Swilly, Donegal, in Ireland took place when Hugh Ó Neill (the earl of Tyrone) and about ninety followers left Ireland for mainland Europe following their earlier defeat in battle. They hoped to recruit an army for the invasion of Ireland with Spanish help, but King Philip III of Spain wanted to preserve the recent peace with England under its new Stuart dynasty so it was all to no avail. Nevertheless he persisted with the invasion plan until his death in exile in 1616.

1682 Bishop Gore School, in Swansea was founded. It is one of the oldest schools in Wales and its most famous former pupil is almost certainly the poet, playwright and author Dylan Thomas who, it is said, was not a distinguished pupil. His father was Senior English Master at the school, which was then known as Swansea Grammar School.

1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days

1752 The 3rd of September became the 14th as the Gregorian Calendar was introduced into Britain. Crowds of people rioted on the streets demanding, 'Give us back our 11 days.'

1759 The earliest dated board game in England was sold on this day by its inventor John Jeffreys, from his house in Chapel Street, Westminster. The game was called 'A Journey Through Europe', or 'The play of Geography'.

1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and the fires start, extinguished by the 19th

1852 The Duke of Wellington, victor at Waterloo, died aged 83. He was known as the Iron Duke and was Tory Prime Minister from 1828-30. 'Duke of Wellington' is a hereditary title, derived from the Somerset town of Wellington and was created for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington. The Wellington Monument is located on the highest point of the Blackdown Hills, 1.9 miles from the town of Wellington.

1868 At the Open Championships at Prestwick, the legendary Scottish golfer Tom Morris scored the first recorded hole-in-one, on the 8th hole (166 yards).

1891 The first penalty kick in an English League football game was taken by Heath of Wolverhampton Wanderers against Accrington.

1909 Peter Scott, British artist and ornithologist was born.

1910 The birth of the actor Jack Hawkins. He mostly appeared in character roles, often in epic films such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Zulu, The Cruel Sea and Lawrence of Arabia. A 60 a day smoker, Hawkins began experiencing voice problems in the late 1950s. His entire larynx was removed and his performances were dubbed. Hawkins continued to smoke after losing his voice and died aged 62.

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut

1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.

1951 Prime Minister Clement Attlee opened the largest oil refinery in Europe, at Fawley on Southampton Water.

1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington, D.C.

1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

1964 The British daily newspaper, the Daily Herald, ceased publication and was replaced by the Sun.

1974 Two giant pandas, Chia-Chia and Ching-Ching, arrived at London Zoo.

1981 A ****age boy who fired blank shots at the Queen in June 1980, pleaded guilty to a charge under the 1848 Treason Act.

1988 A London taxi reached New Delhi with the meter showing a fare of £13,200. It was part of a six-man expedition on the way to Sydney.

1997 Pete Townshend unveiled an English Heritage Blue Plaque at 23, Brook Street, Mayfair, London to mark where Jimi Hendrix had lived in 1968-69. He was the first pop star to be commemorated with the plaque.

2001 Offices, shops and factories across the UK fell silent for three minutes as the nation mourned the victims of the US terrorist attacks.

Famous Birthday's

Alexander von Humboldt
(1769 - 1859)

Sam Neill
70th Birthday

Amy Winehouse
(1983 - 2011)

Famous Deaths

Aaron Burr
(1756 - 1836)

William McKinley
(1843 - 1901)

Grace Kelly
(1929 - 1982)

Famous Weddings

1830 Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia

1835 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1838 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York

1886 Neurologist Sigmund Freud (30) weds Martha Bernays (25) in Hamburg, Germany

1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo

Famous Divorces

1962 Actress Janet Leigh (35) divorces actor Tony Curtis (37) after after 10 years of marriage

1984 Film director John Carpenter (36) and actress Adrienne Barbeau (39) divorce after 5 years of marriage

sinkov

14-09-2017, 12:00 PM

Can you do a bit more research Alto, the first ever penalty kick taken by Heath of Wolves against Accy, that's only half the story......did he score ?

chalky_ncfc

14-09-2017, 04:02 PM

Thanks Alto,very interesting read day by day

Altobelli

15-09-2017, 12:45 PM

Can you do a bit more research Alto, the first ever penalty kick taken by Heath of Wolves against Accy, that's only half the story......did he score ?

I'm just the messenger Sinkov finding snippets of old anniversary news, I thought some would chip in with facts that stand out to them from a certain subject then it could get the thread working with a bit of more knowledge and some debate, like your interest in the first penalty, SERVER has put a few facts up along with chalky liking the read and your good self which is promising, if I researched all the things that interest me I'd be here all day boring the hell out of everyone.

I'm at the moment in Turkey on Holiday, I have suffered the last 10 weeks with abdominal pains which the Surgeons and specialists cannot find out what is wrong with me, great NHS eh ? I should not have come away really as it seems to be getting worse with yet another sleepless night rolling about in agony on the bed, so If my posts over the last few weeks seem sparse its because of that.

Altobelli

15-09-2017, 02:59 PM

15 SEPTEMBER

1616 First non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy

1821 Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua declare their independence from the Spanish Empire

1830 George Stephenson's Manchester and Liverpool railway opened. During the ceremony, William Huskisson, MP, became the first person to be killed by a train when he crossed the track to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington. Stephenson was from humble beginnings and was illiterate until the age of 18. The entire family lived in just one room at a house at Wylam. The house was shared with three other families.

1835 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reaches the Galapagos Islands

1859 The death of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He was involved in dock design, railway engineering and marine engineering. He built the SS Great Western in 1837, SS Great Britain in 1843 & SS Great Eastern in 1858, each the largest in the world at launch date.

1871 The first British-based international mail order business was begun by the Army and Navy Co-operative. They published their first catalogue in February 1872.

1890 Agatha Christie, English detective novelist was born.

1901 The birth of Sir Donald Bailey, English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge, a wood and steel bridge small and light enough to be carried in trucks and lifted into place by hand, yet strong enough to carry tanks. Field Marshal Montgomery is recorded as saying that without the Bailey bridge, we would not have won the war.

1916 Military tanks, designed by Ernest Swinton, were first used by the British Army, in the Somme offensive.

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza

1940 The tide turned in the Battle of Britain as the German air force sustained heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Air Force. The defeat was serious enough to convince Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to abandon his plans for an invasion of Britain. The day was chosen as "Battle of Britain Day".

1960 London introduced Traffic Wardens onto the streets of the capital.

1966 HMS Resolution, Britain’s first nuclear submarine, was launched at Barrow. It provides a controlled environment for ship and submarine assembly.

1981 The death of the actor Harold Bennett, best remembered as 'Young Mr. Grace' in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served? and as the character Mr. Blewitt in Dad's Army from 1969 to 1977.

1984 Prince Harry, 3rd in succession to the throne, was born.

1985 Tony Jacklin's team of golfers beat the United States in the Ryder Cup for the first time in 28 years.

1998 Google.com is registered as a domain name

2000 The fuel protests which had paralysed Britain for seven days, ended.

2000 Home Secretary Jack Straw decided that parents would not be allowed access to the *** offenders' register.

2006 The death of Raymond Baxter, television presenter and writer who is best known for being the first presenter of Tomorrow's World, continuing for 12 years, from 1965 to 1977. He also gave radio commentary at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the funerals of King George VI, Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and the first flight of Concorde.

2014 Phones 4u, which had more than over 600 stores throughout the United Kingdom, went into administration after EE, Vodafone, Orange & O2, the company's final remaining suppliers, ended their contracts.

2016 The government gave the go ahead for a new £18bn nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset after imposing 'significant new safeguards' to protect national security.The new plant (Hinkley Point C) is to be financed by the French and the Chinese.

Famous Birthday's

William Howard Taft
(1857 - 1930)

Agatha Christie
(1890 - 1976)

Dan Marino
56th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Thomas Wolfe
(1900 - 1938)

Johnny Ramone
(1948 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1794 4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia

1949 Figure skater and actress Sonja Henie (36) weds Winthrop Gardner Jr

1951 Actor Peter Sellers (26) weds actress Anne Howe in London, England

1957 Country music legend Patsy Cline (25) weds linotype operator Charles Dick (23) in Winchester, England

1962 Actress Janet Leigh (35) weds stockbroker Robert Brandt

sinkov

15-09-2017, 03:46 PM

I'm just the messenger Sinkov finding snippets of old anniversary news, I thought some would chip in with facts that stand out to them from a certain subject then it could get the thread working with a bit of more knowledge and some debate, like your interest in the first penalty, SERVER has put a few facts up along with chalky liking the read and your good self which is promising, if I researched all the things that interest me I'd be here all day boring the hell out of everyone.

I'm at the moment in Turkey on Holiday, I have suffered the last 10 weeks with abdominal pains which the Surgeons and specialists cannot find out what is wrong with me, great NHS eh ? I should not have come away really as it seems to be getting worse with yet another sleepless night rolling about in agony on the bed, so If my posts over the last few weeks seem sparse its because of that.

I was only joking about the research Alto, I've looked it up and Billy Heath did score and Wolves won 5-0. Sorry to hear you're having your holiday ruined, hopefully you can get it resolved soon. Might be best if you can wait until you return to the UK, our NHS can be frustrating, but I'm not sure the Turkish system will be any better. But what do I know, maybe it is.

chalky_ncfc

15-09-2017, 05:39 PM

I'm sure that sinkov was only pulling your leg Altobelli,hope that you find out the reason for your pain,ten weeks is a long time when you are in agony,hope that you enjoy your break the best that you can anyhow,can i recommend getting bladdered to try to ease the pain?

Altobelli

16-09-2017, 05:37 AM

I had a feeling you was joking Sinkov, just trying to get a bit more interest in the thread as there are endless possibilities to explore and talk about that's all, what has really got me going is that guy who come on slagging us all off with Fantasy Football and everything else.

Had 3 days in Hospital about 10 weeks ago while they stuck needles in me, x-rays, scans and all the rest, was sent home with an appointment for a major scan which they said would be in 2 weeks time, it took 4, asked the scan man how long for results he said 2, it took 4, turns out my liver function is not functioning as it should with a duct swollen probably with a stone(s) trapped in there which the scan could not see, the Consultant was going to give me one of those BBC camera jobs down my throat as that would tell them just before I came away, then they decided against it and would wait till I get back off holiday.

The Turkish Hospitals seem more on the ball than us Sinkov, many English who live out here have not a bad word to say about them, even 2 having told they have heart problems and they could fix the problem straight away with operations, but not believing them, going back home and being told just the same.

I did a full health check with my mate who lives out here last year, It cost 132 pounds, you did all the tests from 8am till 1pm, went for lunch which was appreciated after fasting and came back to view all the results with an accompanied English speaking Doctor that was with you all morning, I was given the all clear apart from a speck on my lung which they said to get checked out when I returned to England the next day (which turned out to be the start of Legionella pneumophila ), my mate's blood pressure was down which they found out after stopping him using the tread mill before the blood tests had arrived back and he's since had it corrected.

With all this technology nowadays surely you should not have to wait 4 weeks for a result of a scan, I feel sorry for frail or older people than me in pain having to wait an unnecessary long time for results.

Thank you both for your comments, I don't drink that much Chalky or I would get bladdered :)

Altobelli

16-09-2017, 06:01 AM

16 SEPTEMBER

1387 King Henry V was born at Monmouth Castle. He went on to win the Battle of Agincourt against the French on St Crispin’s Day.

1400 Owain Glyndŵr, Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales, instigated the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England. This statue of Owain Glyndŵr was unveiled in Corwen, the town where he was born, on 13th September 2007.

1485 The Yeoman of the Guard, the bodyguard of the English Crown - popularly known as 'Beefeaters' - was established by King Henry VII.

1701 James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the 'Old Pretender', became the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

1795 British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch

1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, calling for the end of Spanish rule (Mexican Independence Day)

1785 Birth of Thomas Barnes, editor of The Times. Barnes took over the editorship in 1817 and did much to improve it. The newspaper was nicknamed ‘the Thunderer’ because of the forcefulness of its content.

1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, calling for the end of Spanish rule (Mexican Independence Day)

1847 The United Shakespeare Company bought the house in which playwright William Shakespeare was born at Stratford Upon Avon in Warwickshire for £3,000.It became the first building in Britain to be officially preserved.

1848 Slavery abolished in all French territories

1859 British explorer Dr. David Livingstone discovered Lake Nyasa - now Lake Malawi, in central Africa. He was from humble beginnings and was born in Blantyre, eight miles south east of Glasgow. His mother, father and four brothers and sisters lived in a single room in a tenement known as Shuttle Row, which they shared with 23 other families. Shuttle Row is now part of the David Livingstone Centre.

1861 The Post Office Savings Banks opened in Britain.

1888 Walter Bentley, British car designer, was born.

1906 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen discovers the Magnetic South Pole

1915 The opening of Britain’s first Women’s Institute, (regularly referred to as simply the WI) at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch, Anglesey, Wales. Its two aims were to re*****ise rural communities and to encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War. It is now the largest women’s voluntary organisation in the UK.

1945 World War II: Japanese troops in Hong Kong surrendered. The surrender was accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.

1947 John Cobb set a world land speed record of 394.2mph.

1947 The birth of Russ Abbot, musician, comedian and actor who first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with the British comedy showband the Black Abbots. He later forged a solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.

1960 Donald Campbell destroyed Bluebird in a crash at 350mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in north west Utah. He was only slightly hurt.

1963 Federation of Malaysia formed by Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak

1968 Britain introduced a 'two tier' postal system - First and Second Class. Letters and parcels bearing the more expensive 1st class stamps would be given priority of delivery.

1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar, Iran

1981 Two British political parties - the SDP and the Liberals - voted for an alliance.

1992 Black Wednesday, when the GB Pound Sterling was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and was forced to devalue against the German mark.

1997 Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO

2000 Cyclist Jason Queally claimed Britain's first medal of the Sydney Olympics.

2002 The world's first self cleaning glass was launched after being developed by scientists at the leading glass company of Pilkington's in St Helens.

Famous Birthday's

Karl Dönitz
(1891 - 1980)

B.B. King
(1925 - 2015)

Tim Raines
58th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Louis XVIII
(1755 - 1824)

Mary Travers
(1936 - 2009)

Edward Albee
(1928 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1862 Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis

1936 Actor Henry Fonda (31) weds socialite Frances Ford Seymour (28) at Christ Church, New York City

1967 Comedic actor Bob Denver (32) weds second wife Jean Webber

1968 Actress Sally Field weds Steven Craig

1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher

Altobelli

17-09-2017, 07:12 AM

17 SEPTEMBER

642 Arab forces under Amr ibn al-'As conquer Alexandria

1683 Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria

1701 King James II of England died whilst in exile in France.

1745 Prince Charles Edward Stewart or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' as he was better known, arrived in Edinburgh and declared his father to be the rightful King of Scotland. He could not capture Edinburgh Castle (see ©BB picture) so he set up his Court in Holyrood Palace.

1827 'Wides' in cricket were first scored in the Sus*** v Kent game at Brighton.

1862 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War 23,110 die in first battle on Union soil

1877 William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer, died. He made the earliest known surviving photographic negative in the late summer of 1835, with a photograph of the oriel window at his home at Lacock Abbey.

1900 Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed

1901 The birthday of Sir Francis Chichester, British yachtsman and aviation pioneer. He made a solo circumnavigation of the world at the age of 65 in his yacht Gipsy Moth IV.

1916 The Red Baron [Manfred von Richthofen], WWI flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France

1929 Stirling Moss, English racing driver, was born.

1939 World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. She sank in 20 minutes with the loss of 519 of her crew.

1944 The start of the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden, an attempt to secure a string of bridges through the Netherlands, in and around the Dutch town of Arnhem. Down Ampney church in Gloucestershire has a stained glass window in commemoration of the men who flew from RAF Down Ampney to Arnhem.

1944 Blackout regulations eased in Britain to allow lights on buses, trains and at railway stations for the first time since the beginning of World War II in 1939.

1961 Police made 1,314 arrests during sit-down demonstrations by CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) members in Trafalgar Square, London.

1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel

1985 The death, aged 60, of Laura Ashley, Welsh designer and fabric retailer.

1993 The British National Party won its first council seat in a by-election in East London, provoking fear in the local Asian community.

1998 There was chaos in Staffordshire, when animal rights activists release around 6,000 animals from a mink farm. Mink are now devastating British wildlife, so it was not a particularly wise or humanitarian move!

2000 Paula Yates, television personality and former wife of Bob Geldof, was found dead in bed from a suspected drug overdose. She was 40 years old.

2001 The opening of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge that spans the River Tyne between Gateshead's Quays arts quarter on the south bank, and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the 'Blinking Eye Bridge' due to its shape and its tilting method to let tall ships pass underneath.

2007 Worried savers continued to flock to some Northern Rock bank branches to withdraw their savings when the bank applied to the Bank of England for emergency funds. Chancellor Alistair Darling appealed for calm, nevertheless £2bn was withdrawn from Northern Rock accounts in just 3 days.

2012 Italy's Chi magazine pushed ahead with its plan to publish a series of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, complete with a curt dismissal of the protests raised by the royal family.

2013 A wedding service at Holy Cross Church in Sherston, Wiltshire, was delayed for an hour when an owl that was bearing the wedding rings fell asleep in the church roof.

2014 A businessman gambled £900,000, the biggest amount of money ever staked on a political event, on Scotland staying in the United Kingdom. He called it an ‘investment’ rather than a gamble, with a profit of £193,333.33 in the event of a 'No' vote, and it was!

Famous Birthday's

Hank Williams
(1923 - 1953)

Anne Bancroft
(1931 - 2005)

Phil Jackson
72nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Dred Scott
(1777 - 1858)

William Henry Fox Talbot
(1800 - 1877)

Karl Popper
(1902 - 1994)

Famous Weddings

1918 Abbott and Costello's Bud Abbott (22) weds Betty Smith

1937 Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (29) weds author Catherine A****er (24) at the Reformed Church of North Hempstead in New York

1942 Ice hockey player Maurice Richard (20) weds Lucille Norchet (17)1954 Film and theater actress Shirley MacLaine (20) weds Steve Parker in New York City

1957 Italian actress Sophia Loren (22) weds Carlo Ponti

Famous Divorces

1994 Princess Christina separates

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18-09-2017, 02:34 PM

18 SEPTEMBER

1685 The Taunton Assize trials came in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England. The trials were led by Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys. They took place in the Great Hall of Taunton Castle (now the home of the Museum of Somerset. Of more than 500 prisoners brought before the court, 144 were hanged and their remains displayed around the county.

1709 Dr Samuel Johnson, English writer and compiler of the first English dictionary was born. Published in 1755, Johnson’s dictionary was the definitive reference for over a century.

1809 The Royal Opera House opened, in Covent Garden, Central London. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House The current building is the third theatre on the site following disastrous fires in 1808 and 1857.

1811 British expeditionary army conquers Dutch Indies

1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed

1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression

1911 Britain's first twin-engined aeroplane, the Short S.39, was test flown.

1914 The Irish Home Rule Act (intended to provide self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) became law, but was delayed until after World War I.

1931 To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese

1939 William Joyce, whose upper-class accent earned him the nickname Lord Haw-Haw, made his first Nazi propaganda broadcast from Germany to the UK.

1942 The order for 'extermination asocials through labour' is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice

1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoed Junyō Maru, a Japanese cargo ship used to transport prisoners. It was the world's greatest sea disaster at the time with 5,620 dead. 723 survivors were rescued, only to be put to work in conditions similar to those of the Burma Railway where death was commonplace.

1949 The British pound was devalued by 30% by Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps.

1949 Mo Mowlam, former Northern Ireland Secretary and Labour MP, was born. She was the Member of Parliament for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and her time as Northern Ireland Secretary saw the signing, in 1998 of the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement. She died in 2005, aged 55, from a brain tumour.

1972 The first Ugandan refugees fleeing the persecution of the country's military dictatorship arrived in Britain.

1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing

1994 Warwickshire became the first side to win the County Cricket Championship, the Benson and Hedges Cup and the Sunday League title in one season.

2000 Survivors of the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail crashes that killed 39 and injured more than 650, accused Railtrack of putting costs before safety.

2012 Two unarmed female police officers PC Nicola Hughes (23) and PC Fiona Bone (32) were killed in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Mottram - Greater Manchester. It led to the arrest of a wanted man Dale Cregan. Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said it was one of the force's 'darkest days'.

2014 A referendum was held in Scotland, with one single question on the ballot paper - "Should Scotland be an independent country?" The "No" side won, with 2,001,926 (55.3%) voting against independence and 1,617,989 (44.7%) voting in favour. The turnout of 84.6% was the highest recorded for an election or referendum in the United Kingdom

2014 The world famous golf club, the Royal & Ancient at St. Andrews, voted overwhelmingly to end its 260-year ban on female members, with immediate effect.

Famous Birthday's

Greta Garbo
(1905 - 1990)

James Gandolfini
(1961 - 2013)

Lance Armstrong
46th Birthday

Domitian
(51 - 96)

Leonhard Euler
(1707 - 1783)

Jimi Hendrix
(1942 - 1970)

Famous Weddings

1907 Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie

1920 Tennis player champion Molla Mallory (36) weds stock broker Franklin Mallory

1922 Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London

1955 Actress-singer Debbie Reynolds (23) weds singer Eddie Fisher (27)

1955 Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara (27) weds Peruvian economist Hilda Gadea (34) in Mexico

Famous Divorces

1969 Actor Rod Taylor (39) divorces model Mary Hilem after 5 years of marriage

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19-09-2017, 06:56 AM

19 SEPTEMBER

1356 Led by Edward, the Black Prince, the English defeated the French, and captured the French king, John II at the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War. The battle resulted in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years' War, the other two being Crécy, and Agincourt.

1839 Birth of George Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer. A Quaker, he believed in taking care of the welfare of his workforce, and he created a model village for his employees at Bournville, Birmingham.

1851 Birth of William Hesketh Lever. He changed the process of soap manufacture by using vegetable oils instead of tallow. Like George Cadbury he cared about the welfare of his workers, and established the new town of Port Sunlight Merseyside, to house them.

1870 Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871)

1879 The famous illuminations in Blackpool were switched on for the first time, a month before electricity was generally available in London. The first display was known as 'Artificial sunshine', and consisted of just eight Arc lamps which bathed the Promenade.

1893 New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote

1905 Thomas John Barnardo, British philanthropist (Barnardo's Children's Homes), died.

1934 The birth of Brian Epstein, best known for being the manager of The Beatles until his death in 1967. Decca declined to sign the Beatles to a contract and after approaching nearly all of the major recording companies in London and being rejected, Epstein met a record producer, George Martin, who offered a contract on behalf of EMI's small Parlophone label.

1945 The Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was sentenced to hang for treason.

1946 The Council of Europe was founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. It promotes co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation.

1949 The birth of the model Twiggy. She became an icon of the 'swinging sixties' and in 1966 was voted British Woman of the Year.

1952 The United States prevented the English born film legend Charlie Chaplin from returning to his Hollywood home until he was investigated by the Immigration Services.

1960 The new traffic wardens issued the first 344 parking tickets in London. Britain's first parking ticket was issued to Dr. Thomas Creighton, who had parked his car outside a London hotel while treating a patient.

1970 The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, starring T. Rex. The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. Glastonbury Tor is at the focal point of the many mysteries that have surrounded the area for millennia.

1975 The first episode of comedy show Fawlty Towers was broadcast by the BBC.

1985 8.1 earthquake in Mexico City kills an estimated 10,000 and leaves 250,000 homeless

1986 US Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1986 Two passenger trains crashed in Staffordshire, killing two people and injuring almost a hundred more.

1997 An Intercity 125 ploughed into a freight train in Southall, west London, killing six and injuring more than 150.

1998 Robbie Williams scored his first solo UK No.1 single with Millennium.

2000 Chancellor Gordon Brown rejected a 60-day deadline to reduce petrol tax set by fuel price protesters.

2014 Alex Salmond stood down as Scotland's First Minister and Scottish National Party leader after Scotland voted 'No' to becoming an independent country.

Famous Birthday's

Antoninus Pius
(86 - 161)

Jeremy Irons
69th Birthday

Jimmy Fallon
43rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

James Garfield
(1831 - 1881)

Guy Gibson
(1918 - 1944)

Orville Redenbacher
(1907 - 1995)

Famous Weddings

1945 Actress Shirley Temple (17) weds actor John Agar (24) in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church

1959 Academy award winning actor Rod Steiger (34) weds stage and film actress Claire Bloom (28) in Los Angeles, California

1964 Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson

1998 "Full House" actor John Stamos (35) weds supermodel Rebecca Romijn (25) at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California

1999 Chinese martial artist Jet Li (36) weds actress Nina Li Chi (37) in Los Angeles

Famous Divorces

1972 Actor Phil Hartman (23) divorces Gretchen Lewis after 2 years of marriage
2016 Actress Angelina Jolie (41) files for divorce from fellow actor Brad Pitt (52) citing irreconcilable differences

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20-09-2017, 08:37 AM

20 SEPTEMBER

451 Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Chalons-sur-Marne), halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul

622 Islamic Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)

1066 The Battle of Fulford, Yorkshire. Harald III Hardrada of Norway defeated the Northern Saxon Earls Edwin and Morcar.

1258 The consecration of Salisbury Cathedral. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom at 123m/404 ft. It also has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain, the world's oldest working clock (from AD 1386) and the best surviving of the four original copies of Magna Carta.

1519 Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan killed on route)

1643 The First Battle of Newbury (English civil war). King Charles I's forces were beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Es*** and Philip Stapleton.

1854 The Russian army was defeated by the British and French at the Battle of Alma, considered to be the first battle of the Crimean War. The first six Victoria Crosses to be awarded to the British Army for acts of bravery during the fighting were won at this battle.

1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) visited the United States. It was the first tour of North America by an heir to the British throne. The four-month tour throughout Canada and the United States considerably boosted Edward's self-esteem, and had many diplomatic benefits for Great Britain.

1906 The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania was launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. She captured the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season and held the speed record for twenty-two years.

1911 White Star Line's RMS Olympic collided with British warship HMS Hawke. Olympic was the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners, that also consisted of the Titanic and Britannic. The fact that Olympic endured such a serious collision and stayed afloat, appeared to vindicate the design of the Olympic-class liners and reinforced their 'unsinkable' reputation.

1917 The first RSPCA animal clinic was opened, in Liverpool.

1930 Edward Elgar's Fifth Pomp and Circumstance March was performed for the first time.

1931 Devaluation set in when Britain came off the gold standard to prevent foreign speculation against the pound. It sparked off strikes, and in Scotland the crews of 15 navy ships nearly mutinied.

1932 Four branches of Methodism in England united to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain and Ireland. These were the Wesleyan Methodists, the Primitive Methodists, the United Methodist Free Churches and the United Methodists.

1964 The Beatles' first US tour ended with a charity concert in New York.

1967 The liner Queen Elizabeth II (QE2) was launched at Clydebank, Scotland by ...... Queen Elizabeth II. The ship's anchor was donated to Southampton by Cunard in March 2010.

1978 Police launched a massive manhunt for the killers of 13 year paperboy Carl Bridgewater. He had been shot in the head at close range at an isolated farmhouse near Stourbridge in Staffordshire.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification

1997 Elton John started a six week run at No.1 in the UK singles chart with "Candle in the Wind '97'' as a tribute to Princess Diana. It became the best-selling single of all time.

2001 The Government was considering 'targeted support' for airlines after British Airways axed 7,000 jobs in the wake of the US terrorist attacks.

2004 Legendary former Nottingham Forest and Derby County boss Brian Clough died from stomach cancer at the age of 69.

2012 Apple's new mapping service for iPhone users was launched, with many errors. It relocated London - England to London - Ontario, Paddington station vanished and Dublin was gifted a previously undiscovered airport on a 35 acre working farm. Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, was nowhere to be found while the Welsh town of Pontypridd was transplanted six miles north-west and placed where Tonypandy should have been.

2013 The RAF's last Vickers VC10 jetliners completed their final mission after 47 years of service when they took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, at 10:00 BST

2014Dr. Michael Ramscar and a team of scientists suggested that the brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive. “The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”

Famous Birthday's

Upton Sinclair
(1878 - 1968)

Red Auerbach
(1917 - 2006)

Sophia Loren
83rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Jacob Grimm
(1785 - 1863)

Eduard Wirths
(1909 - 1945)

Famous Weddings

1997 "CHiPs" actor Erik Estrada (48) weds Nanette Mirkovich

2002 "Matrix" actor Laurence Fishburne (41) weds actress Gina Torres (33) at The Cloisters museum in New York City

2002 "The Monkees" lead vocalist Micky Dolenz (57) weds Donna Quinter in Calabasas, California

2003 "Will & Grace" actress Megan Mullally (44) weds actor Nick Offerman (32) in Los Angeles

2012 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's daughter Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah (32) weds Pengiran Haji Muhammad Ruzaini (29) at the Throne Hall of Istana Nurul Iman palace in Brunei

Famous Divorces

1951 Actor Jackie Coogan (36) divorces Ann McCormack after 5 years of marriage

1983 Actor James Woods (36) divorces costume designer Kathryn Morrison after 3 years of marriage

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21-09-2017, 10:35 AM

21 SEPTEMBER

1327 Deposed King Edward II of England was murdered, with a red hot poker in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire by order of his wife, to ensure the succession of his son Edward III.

1411 The birth of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and claimant to the English throne. Although he never became king he ultimately governed the country as Lord Protector during Henry VI's madness. His conflicts with Henry's court were a leading factor in the political upheaval of mid-fif****th-century England, and a major cause of the Wars of the Roses.

1621 King James I of England gives Sir Alexander Sterling royal charter for colonisation of Nova Scotia

1745 Bonnie Prince Charles and his Jacobite army defeated the English at the Battle of Prestonpans, in Scotland.

1746 After a short siege the French, under Admiral La Bourdonnais, captured Madras, India, from the English.

1756 John Loudon McAdam, the engineer who invented and gave his name to macadamised (tarmac) roads, was born in Ayr, Scotland.

1776 Part of New York City was burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

1832 The death of Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. His works include classics such as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy. The Scott Monument in Edinburgh is the largest monument to a writer in the world.

1866 H G Wells, English writer, was born. His books included The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.

1874 The birth, at 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire of the composer Gustav Holst, most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. His house is now a museum

1898 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor

1915 Stonehenge was sold at auction to Mr C H Chubb for £6,600 as a present for his wife. Mr Chubb presented it to the nation three years later as his wife didn't think it suited her.

1922 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

1949 The Republic of Ireland beat England 2-0 at Goodison Park - England's first home defeat by a foreign football team.

1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaim People's Republic of China

1955 The Admiralty announced that Britain had formally claimed uninhabited Rockall, a rocky islet 300 miles west of Scotland, to stop the Soviets spying on missile tests.

1962 Bamber Gascoigne's University Challenge was screened for the first time.

1964 Malta became independent from Britain. The island became a republic in 1974, but retained membership of the Commonwealth.

1965 BP found oil in the North Sea.

1972 The birth of Liam Gallagher (born William John Paul Gallagher) musician and singer-songwriter. He was formerly the frontman of the rock band Oasis until the band split up in 2009 and he formed Beady Eye.

1979 An RAF Harrier plane crashed onto houses in a Cambridgeshire town, killing two men and a young boy.

1984 Police and miners clashed at a pit in Maltby, South Yorkshire, in one of the biggest pickets since the miners' strike began.

1985 Madonna scored her first UK No.1 album with Like A Virgin, ten months after its release.

1986 Prince Charles admitted that he talked to his plants.

2012 50 year old Jessica Harper, a former Lloyds Bank worker in charge of online security was jailed for five years for fraud. She submitted 93 false and doctored invoices to pay herself £2,463,750, giving large sums to friends and her three brothers to invest in property.

Famous Birthday's

Kwame Nkrumah
(1909 - 1972)

Bill Murray
67th Birthday

Faith Hill
50th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Flavius Aetius
( - 454)

Charles V
(1500 - 1558)

Jacqueline Susann
(1918 - 1974)

Famous Weddings

1945 Publisher Malcolm Forbes (26) weds Roberta Remsen Laidlaw

1996 Supermodel Christie Brinkey marries for 4th time to Peter Cook

1996 Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and magazine publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. (35) weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church in Cumberland Island, Georgia

2013 US billionaire investor and active supporter of liberal political causes George Soros (83) weds health care and education consultant Tamiko Bolton (42) at his estate in Bedford, New York

2013 Golden Globe-winning actor Andy Samberg (35) weds singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom (31) at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California

Famous Divorces

1995 Actor and host Wayne Brady (23) divorces Diana Lasso after almost 2 years of marriage

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22-09-2017, 09:34 AM

22 SEPTEMBER

1515 Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII, was born.

1598 The English playwright Ben Jonson, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, killed an actor in a duel and was put on trial for manslaughter. Jonson pleaded guilty but was released by benefit of clergy, a legal ploy through which he gained leniency by reciting a brief bible verse, forfeiting his 'goods and chattels' and being branded on his left thumb.

1692 The last people were hanged for witchcraft in Britain's North American colonies.

1735 Sir Robert Walpole became the first prime minister to occupy 10 Downing Street.

1761 The coronation of George III. In the later part of his life, George III suffered from mental illness. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent until his father's death in 1820.

1791 Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, was born. He was the inventor of the dynamo, the transformer and the electric motor. The Unit of capacitance - Farad - was named after him.

1792 French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French king of his powers

1896 Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. The record stood until 9th September 2015 when Queen Elizabeth II became the longest serving monarch of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opened in Brighton. It is now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

1914 Three British cruisers, Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy, were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats, killing more than 1,400.

1934 The worst pit disaster in Britain for 21 years killed more than 260 miners in an explosion and fire at the Gresford Mine in Wales.

1955 Independent Television (ITV) began operating. Only six minutes of advertisements were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted. The first advertisement screened was for Gibbs SR toothpaste.

1967 The liner Queen Mary began her 1000th and last Atlantic crossing. A New York docks strike meant that passengers had to carry their own luggage aboard.

1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway

1986 Surgeons at Harefield Hospital performed a heart & lung transplant operation on the world's youngest patient - a10 week old baby.

1989 An IRA bomb attack on the Royal Marines School of Music killed 11 people, (10 of them young soldiers) and injured twelve of the bandsmen.

1991 Bryan Adams made chart history when his song - Everything I Do, I Do It For You, had its twelfth consecutive week as the UK No.1.

1999 Screaming Lord Sutch's Official Monster Raving Loony Party honoured his memory with a two minute scream at a pub in Ashburton, Devon. The singer, born David Sutch, hanged himself on 16th June 1999.

1999 Singer Diana Ross was arrested on Concorde after an incident at Heathrow Airport. The singer claimed that a female security guard had touched her breasts when being frisked, and she retaliated by rubbing her hands down the security guard.

2011 CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light

2013 Sir Bradley Wiggins added the Tour of Britain title to his collection after sealing an emphatic victory in London. Wiggins, who won the Tour de France and Olympic time trial in 2012, had led since winning the third stage and began stage eight with a 26-second advantage.

2014 Tesco suspended four senior executives and called in investigators following the discovery that its profits had been artificially inflated by £250m. More than £2bn was wiped off the value of Tesco's shares.

Famous Birthday's

Anne of Cleves
(1515 - 1557)

Charlotte Cooper
(1870 - 1966)

Andrea Bocelli
59th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Nathan HaleNathan Hale
(1755 - 1776)

Irving Berlin
(1888 - 1989)

Yogi Berra
(1925 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1794 Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini

1940 "Adventures of Superman" actor George Reeves (26) weds Ellanora Needles at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California

1958 Film director Sydney Pollack (24) weds actress Claire Bradley Griswold (22)

1973 Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (50) weds Jean Forsyth Clyde

1984 Brussels Princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austrian-Este at Church of Our Lady of "De Zavel

Famous Divorces

2000 Actress Patsy Kensit (32) divorces Oasis singer Liam Gallagher (28) due to unreasonable behaviour after 3 years of marriage

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23-09-2017, 06:49 AM

23 SEPTEMBER

1122 Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V

1338 The first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War between England and France took place On This Day. It was the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannons and one hand gun.

1459 In the first major 'Wars of the Roses' battle, the Yorkists, in spite of being heavily outnumbered by 2 to 1, defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Blore Heath, Staffordshire.

1641 The Merchant Royal, a 17th century English merchant ship was lost at sea off Land's End. On board were at least 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion pounds in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all times. The wreck remains undiscovered.

1779 During the American Revolution, John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard beat British forces at the Battle of Flamborough Head (Yorkshire). It became one of the most celebrated naval actions of the American War of Independence.

1817 Spain signed a treaty with Britain to end slave trade.

1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence

1884 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing

1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1940 The George Cross and the George Medal for civilian acts of courage were instituted.

1942 The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb

1951 Crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace for news of King George VI following an operation to remove part of his lung.

1952 The star of the silent movies, Charlie Chaplin, returned to his native England after 21 years in the US.

1955 Quizmaster Michael Miles first invited contestants to 'Open the box' in the long running show Take Your Pick.

1961 The Shadows debut album 'Shadows' started a four week run at No.1 on the UK charts.

1974 The world's first Ceefax teletext service was begun by the BBC.

1976 A fire on one of the Royal Navy's latest guided missile destroyers (HMS Glasgow) killed eight men.

1986 England and Yorkshire batsman Geoff Boycott was controversially sacked from Yorkshire Cricket Club after playing for the county side for 24 years.

1987 An Australian court lifted the ban on the publication of Peter Wright's autobiography, Spycatcher.

1987 Britain ended arms sales to Iran.

1996 London police raided several suspected IRA hideouts across the city, seizing around 10 tons of homemade explosives and killing one suspected IRA member.

2000 British rower Steve Redgrave won his fifth consecutive gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games, a feat surpassed only by Sir Chris Hoy at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Redgrave is the third most decorated British Olympian with six medals, after the seven of Hoy and the seven of cyclist Bradley Wiggins.

Famous Birthday's

Augustus Caesar
(63 BC - 14)

Typhoid Mary
(1869 - 1938)

Aldo Moro
(1916 - 1978)

Famous Deaths

Sigmund Freud
(1856 - 1939)

Pablo Neruda
(1904 - 1973)

Famous Weddings

1666 Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren

1862 Russian novelist and author of "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician

1933 Gangster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline De Tolve

1989 Tennis Ace Zina Garrison (25) weds businessman Willard Jackson (25) at the Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston

1996 Actor-comedian Jim Carrey (35) weds "Dumb and Dumber" actress Lauren Holly (33) in Malibu

Famous Divorces

1915 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (33) divorces first wife Blanche Lasky after 5 years of marriage

2011 Actress Lisa Linde (39) divorces "Xmen" actor James Marsden (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

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24-09-2017, 08:12 AM

24 SEPTEMBER

1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.

1564 The birth, in Gillingham, of William Adams, the English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach the country. Adams was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's best selling novel Shōgun.

1645 The Battle of Rowton Heath took place some 2 miles to the south-east of Chester. The Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army, commanded in person by King Charles, prevented Charles from relieving the Siege of Chester. It is alleged that King Charles stood on Phoenix Tower in Chester and saw his army defeated in battle.

1776 The oldest of the British classic horse races, the St Leger, was run for the first time at Doncaster Racecourse.

1789 US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court

1842 Bramwell Bronte, brother of the Bronte sisters, died of drugs and drink. He was the model for the drunkard Hindley Earnshaw in Wuthering Weights.

1853 Liverpools' Northern Daily Times became England's first provincial daily newspaper.

1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold

1877 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion

1916 A local policeman rounded up and took into custody the crew of the German Zeppelin LZ-76 that had been forced down near Colchester.

1931 The birth of Anthony Newley, actor, singer and songwriter. He won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' He also wrote songs that others made hits including the title song for the James Bond film 'Goldfinger'.

1942 The birth of Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers. In 1963 he reached the UK No.1 with his record 'You'll Never Walk Alone', now the anthem of Liverpool Football Club. We saw him perform at Great Yarmouth in 2009. Ah ..... nostalgia!

1950 "Operation Magic Carpet" sees all Jews from Yemen move to Israel

1957 President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools

1957 BBC Television for schools began.

1967 The two 'Queens' of the Cunard Line, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, passed each other in the Atlantic for the last time.

1971 Over 100 Russian diplomats were expelled from Britain for spying, following revelations made by a Soviet defector.

1975 The world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, was successfully scaled for the first time via its southwest face by British climbers Dougal Haston and Doug Scott.

1976 The Rhodesian Government agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years. Prime Minister Ian Smith was not happy with the conditions.

1991 In Beirut, the British hostage Jackie Mann was freed by the Shi'ite Muslim Revolutionary Justice Organisation after spending more than two years in captivity. He had been kidnapped in May 1989.

1992 David Mellor resigned as heritage minister, blaming his departure on a constant barrage of hostile stories in the tabloid press.

2009 The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure was discovered buried in a field in Staffordshire. Terry Herbert, who found it on farmland using a metal detector, said that it was a metal detectorist's dream. Experts said that the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, was unparalleled in size and worth "a seven-figure sum".

2014 Radical preacher Abu Qatada, the subject of a near decade-long battle by the UK government to be deported to the Middle East to face terrorism charges, was acquitted in a Jordanian court.

Famous Birthday's

F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896 - 1940)

Ayatollah Khomeini
(1902 - 1989)

Phil Hartman
(1948 - 1998)

Famous Deaths

Paracelsus
(1493 - 1541)

Dr. Seuss
(1904 - 1991)

Famous Weddings

1487 Founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak marries Mata Sulakkhani in Batala

1948 American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds Frances Cass (40)

1953 Singer Dick Haymes (35) weds Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth (34) at The Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas

1964 Actress Jayne Mansfield (31) weds film producer and director Matt Cimber in Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico

1993 Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton

Altobelli

25-09-2017, 05:43 AM

25 SEPTEMBER

1066 England's King Harold II defeated the King of Norway (Harald Hardrada), at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire. After a horrific battle, Hardrada and most of the Norwegians were killed. Although Harold repelled the Norwegian invaders, his victory was short-lived and he was defeated and killed by the Normans at the Battle of Hastings less than three weeks later.

1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Panama Isthmus becoming first European to see the Pacific Ocean

1687 Sir Isaac Newton published his theories on gravitation. Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

1789 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

1818 The first blood transfusion using human blood took place at Guy's Hospital in London.

1852 Birth of Field Marshal Sir John French. From 1914-15 he was the supreme commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France; after that, of the Home Forces.

1885 It snowed in London - the earliest recorded winter fall despite reports that on 12th June 1791 snow was sighted over the capital.

1897 The start of Britain’s first motorized (as opposed to horse-drawn) bus service, in Bradford.

1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of the remote control

1929 Comedian Ronnie Barker was born. TV programmes included - Porridge, Open all Hours and The Two Ronnies.

1944 World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdrew from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time.

1956 A Transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated. It consisted of 4,500 miles of cable, laid in waters up to 2.5 miles deep between Gallanach Bay, near Oban and Clarenville, Newfoundland and initially carried 36 telephone channels.

1967 Britain, France and West Germany signed an agreement to co-operate on an 'airbus' airliner, intended to rival American production.

1977 In Britain, independent airline owner Freddie Laker took on the main commercial airlines with his first 'Skytrain' service between London and New York.

1983 Thirty eight republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals' lorry and smashed their way out of the Maze prison in County Down, Northern Ireland, considered one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. The escape was the biggest in British history, and the biggest in Europe since World War II when 76 Allied POW's managed to escape from German Stalag Luft III.

1996 The last of the 'Magdalene Asylums' closed in Waterford, Ireland. The asylums, for 'fallen women' and others believed to be of poor moral character, such as prostitutes, operated for much of the 19th and well into the 20th century.

1997 The British Thrust SCC car, driven by RAF pilot Andy Green, set a new world record land speed record of 714.44 mph at Black Rock Desert in Nevada. On October 15th in the same year, Thrust SSC became the first land vehicle to exceed the speed of sound when it achieved 763 mph (Mach 1.020), also at Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Thrust SSC remains the world’s first and only supersonic car.

2010 Ed Miliband won the Labour leadership after narrowly beating brother David in a dramatic run-off vote ahead of the party's conference.

2012 In what was claimed to be a world first, the Tullibardine whisky distillery in Perthshire signed a deal to turn by-products from their distillery into butanol to power cars.

Famous Birthday's

Ethel Rosenberg
(1915 - 1953)

Christopher Reeve
(1952 - 2004)

Will Smith
49th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Coco the Clown
(1900 - 1974)

Mary Astor
(1906 - 1987)

Arnold Palmer
(1929 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1845 Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi

1873 Frontiersman and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok supposedly marries Calamity Jane according to the later's daughter (disputed)

1889 Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Laura Bond

1926 Outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds Roy Thornton

1940 "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31)

chalky_ncfc

25-09-2017, 08:27 PM

Thanks Altobelli, another interesting read,I never knew that the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings was only three weeks apart,where was you when I was skiving from school because of boredom
The last of the Magdalene asylums closing as late as 1996 is a sad eye opener

Altobelli

26-09-2017, 07:47 AM

Altobelli

26-09-2017, 08:11 AM

26 SEPTMBER

1580 The Devonshire born seaman Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to circumnavigate the earth. Drake plundered a few Spanish ships en-route to keep morale high!

1687 The city council of Amsterdam voted to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) was overthrown and William ascended the English throne as William III of England, jointly with his wife Mary II of England.

1748 The birth, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars. This statue of Collingwood is at Tynemouth overlooks the River Tyne.

1815 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance

1861 The first British Open Golf Championship began at Prestwick, Ayrshire.

1879 The world's first railway dining car was introduced in Britain on the line between London and Leeds.

1887 The birth of Sir Barnes Wallis, scientist, engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in the 'Dambusters' raid to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. They practiced their techniques at the Derwent Dam in Derbyshire where there is a memorial to them.

1892www.beautifulbritain.co.ukThe death of James Keir Hardie, Britain's first socialist MP. He was (born in North Lanarkshire and elected for West Ham South. This bust of Hardie is outside Cumnock Town Hall in Ayrshire.

1901 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)

1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

1934 The liner Queen Mary was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, by ........ Queen Mary.

1938 Concerned about the prospect of war with Germany (which turned out to be a year away) British civilians were issued with gas masks.

1953 Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end.

1955 Frozen Birdseye fish fingers first went on sale in Britain.

1956 The highest score in a single match in the European Cup was won by Manchester United, who beat Anderlecht 10-1.

1973 Concorde made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time, cutting the previous record in half, and flying at an average speed of 954 mph.

1979 Compulsory metrication in Britain was abandoned.

1984 Britain agreed to transfer full sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997, ending 150 years of British rule.

1997 Queen Elizabeth II and the British Government announced that the Royal Yacht Britannia would neither be refitted nor replaced because of the high cost. She is now a floating tourist attraction in Edinburgh.

2011 The wreck of SS Gairsoppa, a UK cargo ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1941, was found in the Atlantic, around 300 miles off the coast of Ireland by US exploration firm Odyssey Marine. The wreck contained 200 tonnes of silver worth about £150m making it the largest haul of precious metal ever discovered at sea.

2013 The funeral service was held for 5 year old April Jones, in her hometown of Machynlleth, mid Wales. She was murdered by 47-year-old Mark Bridger almost a year previously, sparking the biggest missing person search in UK police history. Her body was never found. At the time of her disappearance, ribbons were tied to the railings around the town's clock tower, on shop doors and pinned to trees.

Famous Birthdays

Albert Anastasia
(1902 - 1957)

Olivia Newton-John
69th Birthday

Serena Williams
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Byron Nelson
(1912 - 2006)

Paul Newman
(1925 - 2008)

Gloria Stuart
(1910 - 2010)

Famous Weddings

1861 Political cartoonist Thomas Nast (21) weds Sarah Edwards (20) in USA

1919 German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (43) weds Auguste Zinsser in Cologne, Germany

1931 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld

1933 Director Victor Fleming (44) weds Lucile Rosson

1986 Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds assistant Kelly Rector in a civil ceremony in Italy

Famous Divorces

2016 Actress Naomi Watts and actor Liv Schreiber announce their separation after 11 years together

chalky_ncfc

26-09-2017, 11:34 AM

I was a rebel and always skiving school Chalky, something I much regret as I used to get into so much trouble, not to mention missing out on my education.

I don't know much about the Magdalene asylums so I'm a bit wary of them, just like old peoples homes as you don't know what goes on behind closed doors, I'm sure there are good things to come out of them but its the bad ones that drag the rest down.

I also regret missing out on education and its all my own fault,I had teachers there willing to educate me on the way of the world and I preferred running amok with my mates in town,I love history and stuff now,can't keep me off the History/Discovery channels

There was nothing good about Magdalene asylums, if you got pregnant out of wedlock you could have ended up in one,apart from you being labeled a prosititute it was harsher than being in prison,terrible,terrible places and in the name of God as well,its astounding that they was around so late as 96 as I always thought that they went the same way as the old workhouses

Thanks for your work in keeping me educated,always interesting

alfinyalcabo

26-09-2017, 09:24 PM

Alfie returned from his vacation ..:D

By the way Great thread .. B)

Altobelli

27-09-2017, 05:24 AM

Thanks alf, and again Chalky :)

Altobelli

27-09-2017, 05:41 AM

27 SEPTEMBER

1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River in Picardy, northern France, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

1290 Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000

1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola confirmed by Pope Paul III in Rome

1598 The birth, in Bridgwater, Somerset of Robert Blake, military commander and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. He was nicknamed 'Father of the Royal Navy'. This statue is in his home town of Bridgwater.

1672 A new British company, the 'Royal Africa Company' was given a monopoly of the African slave trade to America, with discounts for those who purchased entire shiploads.

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

1821 Mexican revolutionary forces led by Agustín de Iturbide occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw, bringing an end to the Mexican War of Independence

1822 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone

1825 The world’s first public railway service began with the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Built by George Stephenson, the track was 27 miles long, and the steam locomotive Active pulled 32 passenger wagons at ten miles per hour. Stephenson was born at this house in Wylam, Northumberland which was shared with three other families.

1849 The opening, by Queen Victoria, of Newcastle's High Level Bridge . It was designed by Robert Stephenson to form a rail link towards Scotland for the developing English railway network.

1871 The inauguration of Rochdale Town Hall, a Grade I listed building, described by art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as possessing a 'rare picturesque beauty'. It's said that Adolf Hitler admired it so much that he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.

1888 The first use of the name, 'Jack the Ripper' in an anonymous letter to the Central News Agency. He went on to kill five women, and it's believed he may have been responsible for the deaths of four more.

1905 The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

1908 Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan

1938 The 83,000 ton liner 'Queen Elizabeth' was launched at John Brown's Yard on Clydebank in Scotland by the Queen Mother. With her sister ship Queen Mary, she provided luxury liner service between Southampton and New York via Cherbourg in France.

1960 Bank Underground Station in London opened Europe's first 'moving pavement' .

1967 The Queen Mary arrived in Southampton at the end of its last transatlantic voyage.

1968 The musical Hair, (which took advantage of the end of British stage censorship by including a scene cast in the nude), had its first London performance. It played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.

1979 Gracie Fields, the Rochdale born wartime singer, died aged 81, in Canzone Del Mare, Capri. Her most famous song was 'Sally' which she sang at nearly every performance she made from 1931 onwards. This statue of her was unveiled in her home town of Rochdale.on 18th September 2016 by Roy Hudd, President of the Music Hall Association

1979 The BBC's Question Time aired for the first time, chaired by Robin Day, who stayed with the programme for ten years.

1987 Tony Jacklin led a team of 12 golfers, including Seve Ballesteros, to win the Ryder Cup. It was the first time the US team had been defeated on their home ground.

1991 The first Scrabble Championship was held in London, with 20 countries competing.

2011 David Croft died, aged 89. He was particularly noted for producing and co-writing a string of popular BBC sitcoms including Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!, Hi-De-Hi!, Are You Being Served?, You Rang M’Lord? and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

2014 Amy Hughes, a 26-year-old sports therapist, from Oswestry in Shropshire set a new world record by running 53 marathons in 53 consecutive days. The money she raised was for the Isabelle Lottie Foundation, set up after her friend's daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

2016 The late Sir Terry Wogan (who died on 31st January 2016) was honoured in a special memorial service live in Westminster Abbey, on the 50th anniversary of his first BBC radio broadcast.

Famous Birthday's

Samuel Adams
(1722 - 1803)

Bhagat Singh
(1907 - 1931)

Kathy Whitworth
78th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Clara Bow
(1905 - 1965)

Jimmy Doolittle
(1896 - 1993)

William Safire
(1929 - 2009)

Famous Weddings

1759 Political activist Thomas Paine (22) weds household servant Mary Lambert (21)

1865 Physicist Johannes van der Waals (27) weds Anna Magdalena Smit (18)

1876 Poet Frederic Mistral (46) weds Marie Louise Aimee Rivière

1920 Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies (25) weds Pattie Maie Leckie (21) at Kew Presbyterian Church in Melbourne, Australia

1934 Baseball player and manager Leo Durocher (28) weds businesswoman Grace Dozier

Altobelli

28-09-2017, 03:14 AM

28 SEPTEMBEER

935 Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia

1066 Claiming his right to the English throne, William, Duke of Normandy (or William the *******, as he was often called at the time, due to his illegitimate status ) landed at Pevensey in East Sus*** to begin his invasion of England.

1106 Henry I of England defeated his brother, Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy at the Battle of Tinchebray, in Normandy. It was a decisive victory and the battle lasted just one hour. The Duke was captured and imprisoned in England and then at Cardiff Castle until his death. England and Normandy remained under a single ruler until 1204.

1745 At the Drury Lane Theatre, London, God Save the King, the national anthem, was sung for the first time. The score used was prepared by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) leader of the orchestra and composer of Rule Britannia.

1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin siege of Yorktown

1864 'The First International' was founded in London, when Karl Marx proposed the formation of an International Working Men's Association.

1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first qualified woman physician in Britain. Along with Benjamin Britten, artist J.M.W. Turner and the poet George Crabbe, she had connections with Aldeburgh in Suffolk..

1884 Simon Marks, a Polish immigrant, and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Leeds, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain.

1887 Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing an estimated 1.5 million people

1912 Unionists in Northern Ireland signed the Solemn League and Covenant, pledging resistance to Home Rule for Ireland.

1918 World War I: The start of the Fifth Battle of Ypres. The British sustained almost 5,000 casualties but advanced the front line by up to 18 miles and captured approximately 10,000 German soldiers, 300 guns and 600 machine guns.

1923 The Radio Times was first published.

1928 Parliament passed the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.

1928 Scottish born pharmacologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered what later became known as penicillin when he found that a mould had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. His 'bacteria killer' discovery changed the world of modern medicine and has saved millions of people around the world. Fleming was born here at Lochfield Farm at Darvel in Ayrshire on 6th August 1881.

1939 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR

1946 Future England football captain Billy Wright played in his first England international.

1984 A high court judge ruled that the miners' strike was unlawful because a union ballot was never held.

1985 Riots broke out on the streets of south London after a woman was shot and seriously injured in a house search. Local people had already been very critical of police tactics in Brixton and a mood of tension exploded into violence as night fell.

1986 British boxer Lloyd Honeyghan won the world welterweight title.

1996 At Ascot, Frankie Dettori became the first jockey to win all seven races at a meeting. The odds on this happening were 25,095 to 1. Bookmakers lost over £18 million pounds as a result.

2013 Baroness Thatcher's ashes were laid to rest in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Lady Thatcher died, aged 87, on 8th April. A simple headstone bore the inscription Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013. She was Britain's first woman prime minister and the longest-serving prime minister of the twentieth century

Famous Birthday's

Confucius
551 BC

Peter Finch
(1916 - 1977)

Hilary Duff
30th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Louis Pasteur
(1822 - 1895)

Pierre Trudeau
(1919 - 2000)

Shimon Peres
(1923 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1922 Stage and film actor James Cagney (23) weds dancer Frances Vernon

1933 Sally Eilers weds Harry Joe Brown

1935 Comedian Stan Laurel (45) marries 2nd wife actress Virginia Ruth Rogers

1936 "Marx Brothers" comedian Harpo Marx (47) weds "Million Dollar Legs" actress Susan Fleming (28)

1951 Actor Franchot Tone weds actress Barbara Payton

Famous Divorces

1937 Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore

2010 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (66) divorces romance novelist Melanie Craft after six years of marriage

Altobelli

29-09-2017, 07:40 AM

29 SEPTEMBER

522 BC Darius I of Persia kills Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire

480 BC Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I

1399 The first English monarch to abdicate, Richard II, was replaced by Bolingbroke, who ascended the throne as Henry IV.

1567 War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX

1650 Henry Robinson opened the first marriage bureau, in England.

1696 After nearly 150 years of neglect, the roof of Howden Minster collapsed. The minster ruins were left where they fell until 1748 when the site was cleared, and the townsfolk took building stones for their own. St. John of Howden was one of the earliest Canons of Howden and he was treated as a saint by the local community after his death, although he has not been officially canonised. Pilgrims, including Kings Edward I, Edward II and Henry V visited the Minster to see his tomb.

1755 Robert Lord Clive, (Clive of India), founder of the British empire in India, was born.

1758 Lord Horatio Nelson was born, in the village of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. He defeated the French and her allies on numerous occasions during the age of Napoleon Bonaparte and was naval hero at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson's parents were married in St. Michael's Parish Church, Beccles, Suffolk.

1793 Tennis was mentioned for the first time in an English sporting magazine.

1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met. was inaugurated and was London's first regular police force, The officers became known as 'bobbies' after Robert Peel, the home secretary who founded the modern police force.

1885 The first practical, public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool..

1913 The birth of Trevor Howard, film, stage and television actor. Over time he became one of Britain's finest character actors whose works included such films as Mutiny on the Bounty, Von Ryan's Express, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Ryan's Daughter, Superman, Gandhi and Brief Encounter which was partially shot at Carnforth railway station and the station's buffet room. It is alleged that throughout his film career Howard insisted that all of his contracts held a clause excusing him from work whenever a cricket Test Match was being played.

1938 England, France, Germany and Italy signed the Munich Pact, under which the Sudetenland was given to Nazi Germany. In return, Hitler promised not to make any further territorial demands in Europe. World War II began the following year!

1942 The small market town of Somerton in Somerset was hit by four Luftwaffe bombs. The bombs were aimed at the Cow and Gate milk factory at nearby Etsome which was largely destroyed. Nine people were killed and a further thirty seven injured. The civilians who died are commemorated on Somerton's War Memorial -

1946 BBC launched the 'Third Programme', later to become Radio 3.

1952 British and world water speed record holder John Cobb was killed on Loch Ness in Scotland when his craft 'Crusader' broke up after hitting waves at 240 mph close to Urquhart Castle.

1956 Sebastian Coe was born. As a 1500m runner he won Olympic gold in 1980 & 1984. He headed the successful London bid (2005) to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and became chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.

1963 The Rolling Stones started their first tour, as the opening act for Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers.

1997 British scientists said they had established a link between a human brain disease - vCJD - and one found in cows - BSE.

2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, was demolished in a controlled explosion. When it closed on 31st March 2003, the first reactor had been in use for nearly 47 years.

2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual

2011 Britons basked in record-breaking temperatures of 29C (84F). The mercury peaked in the East Midlands, beating the previous 29th September high of 27.8C (82F), which was recorded in York in 1895.

Famous Birthday's

Horatio Nelson
(1758 - 1805)

Anita Ekberg
(1931 - 2015)

Jerry Lee Lewis
82nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Rudolf Diesel
(1858 - 1913)

Tom Bradley
(1917 - 1998)

Nguyen Van Thieu
(1923 - 2001)

Famous Weddings

1818 Inventor Samuel Morse (27) weds Lucretia Walker in Concord, New Hampshire

1844 Politician Boss Tweed (21) weds Mary Jane C Skaden

1926 Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer weds film producer Irving Thalberg

1930 Singer and actor Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee

1933 NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig (30) weds Eleanor Twitchell in New Rochelle, New York

Famous Divorces

2011 "House M.D." actress Olivia Wilde (26) divorces Italian prince Tao Ruspoli (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

Altobelli

30-09-2017, 12:53 PM

30 SEPTEMBER

1520 Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566)

1630 John Billington, one of the original pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower, became the first man executed in the English colonies. He was hanged for having shot another man during a quarrel.

1772 The death of James Brindley, British canal builder and one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century. The Trent and Mersey Canal was the first part of Brindley's ambitious project to use canals to link the four great rivers of England: the Mersey, Trent, Severn and Thames (the "Grand Cross" scheme). However he did not live to see it completed and died at Turnhurst within sight of his unfinished Harecastle Tunnel just nine days after the completion of his Birmingham Canal.

1788 Lord Raglan, British field-marshal was born. He lost his arm in battle, thus giving his name to a design of sleeve.

1840 The foundation stone for Nelson's Column was laid in Trafalgar Square.

1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth

1862 Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck's delivers his "Blood & Iron" speech

1888 Jack the Ripper murdered two more women - Liz Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Kate Eddowes in Mitre Square, both in London's East End. Unlike murderers of lesser fame, there is no waxwork figure of Jack the Ripper at Madame Tussauds' Chamber of Horrors, in accordance with their policy of not modelling persons whose likeness is unknown. He is instead depicted as a shadow.

1933 The birth, in Oldham, Lancashire of Barbara Knox, best known for playing Rita Tanner (née Littlewood, previously Fairclough and Sullivan) in the television soap opera Coronation Street . She has been a 'regular' since 1972 and In 1989 she won the TV Times award for best actress following her involvement in the dramatic Alan Bradley storyline.

1936 Pinewood Film Studios opened near Iver, in Buckinghamshire, to provide Britain with a film studio to compete with America's Hollywood Studios in California.

1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlawed 'the intentional bombings of civilian populations'.

1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

1939 Identity cards were issued in Britain.

1944 Calais was reoccupied by the Allies.

1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire killed 43 when an overnight sleeping-car express train from Scotland to London Euston derailed due to a driver's error when he took a turn at nearly 60 mph when the maximum speed was 15 mph. The engine and the first six carriages overturned and fell down an embankment into a field, only the last three coaches remained on the rails.

1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1951 Big crowds attended the final ceremonies which marked the official end of the Festival of Britain.

1967 The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service were replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively. BBC Radio 1 was also launched, with Tony Blackburn, a former Radio Caroline DJ, presenting the first show.

1971 The British Government named Oleg Lyalin as the Soviet defector who, the previous week had exposed dozens of Russians alleged to be spying in the UK.

1987 Keith Best, MP, was sentenced to four months in prison for trying to obtain British Telecom shares by deception.

1988 A court in Gibraltar declared that the killing of three unarmed IRA suspects by British soldiers was lawful.

2014 In the first official study of money spent on 'illegal' activities it was found that Britons spend more on drugs and prostitutes than on beer and wine. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) said that spending on illegal drugs and prostitution was worth an estimated £12.3bn to the UK economy in 2013.

Famous Birthday's

Buddy Rich
(1917 - 1987)

Marion Cotillard
42nd Birthday

Martina Hingis
37th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Edith Roosevelt
(1861 - 1948)

James Dean
(1931 - 1955)

Simone Signoret
(1921 - 1985)

Famous Weddings

1932 Actor and director Ray Milland (27) weds Muriel Frances Weber

1939 Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding (28) weds analytic chemist Ann Brookfield

1950 First Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew (27) weds lawyer Kwa Geok Choo (29) in Singapore

1968 Jazz musician Miles Davis (42) weds singer Betty Mabry (23)

1977 "Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom" author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard

Famous Divorces

1938 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (37) divorces pianist Lil Armstrong (40) after more than 14 years of marriage

2010 "CSI: Miami" actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces actress Brandi Glanville (37) due to irreconcilable differences after eight years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

30-09-2017, 04:40 PM

Cheers Altobelli, informative and interesting as usual

Altobelli

01-10-2017, 01:02 PM

01 OCTOBER

331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela

959 Edgar the Peaceable became king of all England. 'The Peaceable', was not necessarily a comment on the deeds of his life, for he was a strong leader, shown by his seizure of the Northumbrian and Mercian kingdoms from his older brother. His reign though, was a remarkably peaceable one, thanks to draconian laws that involved having one's tongue ripped out, at best, for stealing an apple. Edgar died on 8th July 975 at Winchester in Hampshire.

1207 The birth of King Henry III, the son and successor of King John. He reigned for 56 years, from 1216 until his death.

1553 The Coronation of Queen Mary I. She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism and she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions.

1688 Prince Willem III of Orange accepts invitation of take up the British crown

1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, redrew Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte

1843 The News of the World, Britain's most popular Sunday newspaper, was first published. It was, at one time, the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, but amid a public backlash after allegations of phone hacking, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7th July 2011.

1867 Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published

1868 The Midland Railway opened St. Pancras station in London. The first train arrived at 4:20am (the 10:05pm overnight mail train from Leeds). Designed by William Henry Barlow its arched engine shed (the Barlow train shed) was, at the time of opening, the largest single-span roof in the world.

1870 The first British halfpenny postage stamp, in lilac, was issued.

1906 The first hot-air balloon race was staged at Whitley, Yorkshire and was won by US Army Lieutenant Frank Lahm.

1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)

1935 Julie Andrews, English actress and singer was born.

1936 The BBC began regular TV broadcasts from Alexandra Palace, north London.

1943 World War II: The Italian city of Naples fell to Allied soldiers.

1946 Germany's Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolph Hess - captured in Scotland after mysteriously parachuting from a plane during World War II - was sentenced to life imprisonment.

1954 The UK Top 12 Pop Chart became a Top 20.

1957 A vaccine against the strain of influenza that had been sweeping around the world was made available to the British public.

1974 The first McDonalds restaurant opened in London.

1974 British boxer John Conteh became Light Heavyweight Champion of the World.

1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title in "The Thrilla in Manila"

1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union

1993 RAC patrolman Mervyn Jacobs was called out to jump start a minesweeper. It was not a problem for him. He just ran a 50 foot lead from his van!

2012 Surrey police confirmed that the late Sir Jimmy Savile was questioned over allegations of child *** abuse in 2007. In the aftermath, towns and organisations distanced themselves from their associations with the former TV presenter, commemorative plaques were removed and Savile's triple gravestone was sent to a landfill site after being removed from a Scarborough cemetery.

2014 The vehicle tax disc, first introduced in 1921, ceased to exist in paper form from 1st October, with a new electronic system being put in its place.

2015 Smoking in 'enclosed cars' containing children under 18 was banned in England and Wales, with a fixed penalty fine of £50 issued to people who smoked or who failed to prevent another person from smoking

Famous Birthday's

Bonnie Parker
(1910 - 1934)

Jimmy Carter
93rd Birthday

Mark McGwire
54th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Louis Leakey
(1903 - 1972)

E. B. White
(1899 - 1985)

Famous Weddings

1791 Prince Willem Frederick (later King of Netherlands) marries his cousin princess Frederica Louise Wilhelmine of Prussia

1884 Politician William Jennings Bryan (24) weds Mary sweetheart Elizabeth Baird

1913 Writer and poet Vita Sackville-West (21) marries diplomat Harold Nicolson (26)

1949 Television host and comedian Johnny Carson (23) weds Joan Morrill Wolcott (23) at the North Platte Episcopalian Church

1984 Actress Sigourney Weaver (34) weds filmmaker Jim Simpson (28)

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02 OCTOBER

1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders

1452 King Richard III was born. He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth (Leicestershire) where there is a memorial to him. On 25th August 2012 archaeologists began a dig, searching under a car park in Leicester for his last resting place. On 12th September they said that the human remains found showed similarities to the king's portrayal in records.

1492 King Henry VII of England invades France

1789 George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification

1900 Keir Hardy became the Labour Party's first Member of Parliament.

1901 The Royal Navy's first submarine, built by Vickers, was launched at Barrow. The company's shipbuilding division is now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions. The building, is Europe's largest ship building hall at almost 200 ft high and 900 ft long.

1904 The birth of the author, playwright and literary critic Graham Greene. His most notable works were Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair.

1909 The first rugby football match was played at Twickenham, between Harlequins and Richmond.

1925 London's first red buses with roofed-in upper decks went into service, but they had been in use in Widnes, Cheshire, since 1909.

1925 John Logie Baird (Scottish born engineer born at Helensburgh) performed the first test of a working television system. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems, his early successes earned him a prominent place in television's invention.

1928 "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", known as Opus Dei, founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá

1942 The British cruiser Curacao sank with the loss of 338 lives, after colliding with the liner Queen Mary off the coast of Donegal.

1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people

1950 Legal Aid was introduced in Britain

1951 The birth of Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known by his stage name Sting. Prior to starting his solo singing career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bass player for the rock band The Police.

1953 A photograph of William Pettit, wanted for murder, was shown on BBC TV at the request of the police - the first time in Britain that television was used to help find a wanted man.

1968 A woman gave birth to six babies in what was hailed as the first recorded case of live ***tuplets in Britain.

1981 The IRA hunger-strike at the Maze prison ended after after seven months and ten deaths.

1983 Neil Kinnock was elected leader of Britain's Labour Party, with Roy Hattersley joining him as deputy.

1991 Ron Chassidy (who had been jailed for not paying his poll tax) was released after a 'whip-round' at his local pub so that he could play in a dominoes match!

1996 Mandy Allwood lost the last five of the octuplets she had been expecting after a 19 week pregnancy. She had refused 'selective reduction' and her case provoked a media storm in Britain.

2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair warned the Taliban that it would be the target of military action unless it gave up Osama bin Laden.

2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il

2012 The decision to award the West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup was scrapped because of 'significant technical flaws' in the way the risks for each bid were calculated. FirstGroup, which beat current operator Virgin Trains to win the 13-year deal, said it had submitted its bid correctly and was disappointed at the news.

Famous Birthday's

Paul von Hindenburg
(1847 - 1934)

Mahatma Gandhi
(1869 - 1948)

Coco the Clown
(1900 - 1974)

Famous Deaths

Samuel Adams
(1722 - 1803)

Marcel Duchamp
(1887 - 1968)

Paavo Nurmi
(1897 - 1973)

Famous Weddings

1900 Belgium crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern

1909 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill (20) marries 1st wife Kathleen Jenkins

1955 Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles

1970 Scottish singer Donovan (24) weds Linda Lawrence at Windsor Registry Office

1970 Actor Christopher Plummer (40) weds actress Elaine Taylor (26) in Montreal, Quebec

Famous Divorces

1942 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (41) divorces Alpha Smith after 4 years of marriage

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03 OCTOBER

2333 BC State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao

52 BC Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia

1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd and the last independent ruler of Wales, became the first nobleman to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered; for plotting the death of King Edward I. Dafydd was dragged through the streets of Shrewsbury attached to a horse's tail then hanged alive, revived, then disembowelled and his entrails burned before him before being cut into four quarters.

1691 The Treaty of Limerick was signed, ending the Irish Rebellion against English rule.

1712 The Duke of Montrose issued a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor, the famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century. He was later imprisoned, finally pardoned in 1727 , died in 1734 and is buried in Balquhidder churchyard.

1811 The first recorded women's county cricket match - between Hampshire and Surrey at Newington.

1844 Sir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor, was born in Aberdeenshire. He was known as 'Mosquito Manson' from his pioneer work with Sir Ronald Ross in malaria research.

1896 The death of William Morris, English craftsman, painter, wallpaper and textile designer and novelist. The south transept window in St Michael church and All Angels - Lyndhurst, Hampshire was made in the William Morris workshop. It is thought that the bearded man being grabbed by the scruff of his collar in the lower left window may be a depiction of William Morris.

1906 SOS became the international distress signal, replacing the call sign CDQ, sometimes explained as ‘Come Damn Quick!’

1916 The birth, in Sunderland, of James Alfred Wight (James Herriot ), vet and author of 'All Creatures Great & Small'. His surgery was in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

1922 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

1929 The Church of Scotland merged with the United Free Church of Scotland, retaining the name Church of Scotland.

1932 Iraq gained independence from Britain. In 1958, the monarchy was overthrown and the Republic of Iraq was created.

1935 Italy invades Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

1940 Former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned from Winston Churchill's coalition Government.

1952 Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on the Monte Bello Islands, off W. Australia.

1952 News of the end of tea rationing meant the prospect of unlimited 'cuppas' for the first time in 12 years.

1956 The Bolshoi Ballet performed in Britain, at Covent Garden, for the first time.

1959 Postcodes were introduced in Britain.

1967 Sir Malcolm Sargent, British music conductor died.

1967 The first conservation area was established, at Stamford in Lincolnshire.

1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

1991 Sir Allan Green, a QC and British Director of Public Prosecutions resigned after being stopped by police for alleged kerb crawling. Sir Allan and his wife later separated, on the eve of their silver wedding anniversary and Lady Eva Green, (47) committed suicide in January 1993.

1995 O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California

2013 The cost of a National Lottery Lotto ticket doubled to £2. The rise was the first since the lottery started in 1994.

2014 Samuel Tree (68) who claimed that plastic devices he made in his garden shed could detect bombs and drugs and find the missing schoolgirl Madeleine McCann was jailed for three and a half years. His plastic 'Alpha 6' cost just a few pounds but sold for thousands.

2014 The cast and crew of the BBC's Top Gear had to abandon their vehicles and flee Argentina after they were pelted with stones. A crowd was incensed that one of their vehicles had a number plate (H982 FKL) that appeared to refer to the Falklands conflict of 1982.

Famous Birthday's

Al Sharpton
63rd Birthday

Stevie Ray Vaughan
(1954 - 1990)

Gwen Stefani
48th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Gaius Cassius
( - 42 BC)

Myles Standish
( - 1656)

Janet Leigh
(1927 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1833 Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson

1944 Comedian Jerry Lewis marries singer Patti Palmer

1953 MLB player and manager Sparky Anderson (19) weds childhood sweetheart Carol Valle

1965 Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (23) weds artist Deborah Lee

1970 75th Prime Minister of UK John Major (27) weds Norma Johnson (28) at St Matthew's Church, Brixton

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03-10-2017, 11:34 PM

04 OCTOBER

1535 The first complete English language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) was printed by London printer Miles Coverdale, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1821 The death of the engineer John Rennie. His work on canals, aqueducts, bridges and dockyards mark him as one of the greatest engineers of his age. His first works were canals, notably the Lancaster Canal and the Kennet & Avon Canal, including the infamous Caen Hill Flight. He also designed Waterloo Bridge, Southwark Bridge and 'New' London Bridge. Other works included Grimsby Docks, London Docks and the Sheerness Dockyard.

1829 John Thompson of London designed the first greeting card.

1883 The Boys' Brigade was founded, in Glasgow, by Sir William Alexander Smith. The interdenominational Christian youth organisation combines drill and fun activities with Christian values. In May 1903, Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Association, became their vice-president. By 2003, there were 500,000 Boys' Brigade members in 60 countries.

1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul

1900 In a final confrontation, some 4000 Ashantis are defeated by the British in Gold Coast (Ghana)

1911 Britain's first escalators were introduced. They connected the District Line and Piccadilly Line platforms at Earl's Court underground station in London.

1939 The birth, in London, of Jackie Collins, author and the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. In total, her books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television mini-series. She died (aged 77) on 19th September 2015 at Beverly Hills, California.

1948 The birth of Ann Widdecombe, former MP and a novelist since 2000. She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.

1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite

1958 Aviation history was made when 2 British designed and built De Havilland Comet 4 airliners operated by BOAC (now British Airways) made the first scheduled jet passenger service flights across the North Atlantic.

1963 The Beatles made their first appearance on the ITV show Ready Steady Go!

1965 The BBC announced it would begin broadcasting a new programme for immigrants.

1973 The BBC broadcast the 500th edition of Top Of The Pops. On the show were Slade, Gary Glitter and The Osmonds.

1976 British Rail began its new 125mph Intercity 'High Speed Train' service. At the time of its introduction it was the fastest diesel-powered train in regular service in the world and remained so for many years afterwards. Engineers have calculated that, with a certain amount of rewiring, the Mark 3 carriages can be made to last until at least 2035.

1983 The Scottish entrepreneur Richard Noble reached a world land speed record of 663.5mph at Nevada in his jet-powered car, Thrust II, now housed in the Coventry Transport Museum. Noble was also the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which holds the current land speed record, set at Black Rock Desert, Nevada by RAF pilot Andy Green on 15th October 1997.

1996 Following a series of 'memoir books' regarding events in the Gulf War, members of the SAS and other British forces were to sign a 'contract of silence' or face dismissal.

2000 It was reported that Harry Potter author JK Rowling had donated a six figure sum to the National Council for One Parent Families.

2001 Michael Stone was found guilty, for the second time, of the murders of Dr. Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, killed on 9th July 1996 in an attempted robbery. 9 year old Josie survived, with severe head injuries, but went on to make an excellent recovery.

2010 The death of Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, songwriter and actor.

2003 London won the coveted title of number one 'Crap Town' in the UK, held for the previous decade by Hull, . Not only was Hull stripped of its title, it completely dropped out of the top 50. Less than 2 months later, Hull was named the UK's next City of Culture, beating Leicester, Dundee and Swansea Bay to the right to hold the title in 2017.

2006 WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange

2013 Amanda Hutton (43), from Bradford, whose four-year-old son Hamzah Khan starved to death and whose mummified remains were left in his cot for nearly two years was found guilty of killing him by gross negligence. Hutton claimed she had struggled to get her son to eat and that he had died suddenly. She was jailed for 15 years.

2013 93 year old Clifford Dadson, from Cumbria become the oldest graduate in the UK after receiving an Arts degree from the Open University. He began studying when his wife, Rae, passed away in 2009 and has vowed to continue studying by signing up to a religious module with the university.

Famous Birthday's

Rutherford B. Hayes
(1822 - 1893)

Charlton Heston
(1923 - 2008)

Anne Rice
76th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Rembrandt van Rijn
(1606 - 1669)

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
(1834 - 1904)

Janis Joplin
(1943 - 1970)

Famous Weddings

1539 King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his 4th wife

1767 Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina

1795 "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" poet Samuel Coleridge (22) marries Sarah Fricker

1795 Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (22) weds Sara Fricker in Bristol, England

1802 English romantic poet William Wordsworth (32) marries childhood friend Mary Hutchinson

Famous Divorces

2016 Singer Gwen Stefani and musician Gavin Rossdale divorce after 13 years of marriage

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05-10-2017, 08:46 AM

05 OCTOBER

1582 Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy and other Catholic countries

1789 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris

1796 Spain declared war on Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.

1813 Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British

1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die

1895 The first individual time trial for racing cyclists was held on a 50 mile course north of London.

1917 Sir Arthur Lee donated Chequers in Buckinghamshire to the nation as a permanent country retreat for British Prime Ministers.

1922 Yankees and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tied World Series game

1927 At its conference in Blackpool, the Labour Party voted to nationalise the coal industry.

1930 The British airship R101 crashed at the edge of a wood near Beauvais in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 of the 54 passengers, including the British Air Minister Lord Thompson who may well have contributed to the disaster. He brought luggage on board equivalent to the weight of about 24 people, and the crash of the 777 foot craft was thought to be a result of overloading.

1933 Gordon Richards, English champion jockey, rode his 12th consecutive win in 3 days.

1936 The start of the 'Jarrow March' - around 200 unemployed shipyard workers from Jarrow in north east England began walking to London to protest about the lack of jobs. The protestors arrived on 31st October. This Bronze sculpture. The Spirit of Jarrow by Graham Ibbeson was unveiled in Jarrow Town Centre in 2001 as a memorial to the 1936 Jarrow March. Only men participated in the historic march, apart from Jarrow's female MP, Ellen Wilkinson.

1947 Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House

1958 Cliff Richard & The Shadows played their first gig together (Victoria Hall, Hanley).

1962 In Britain, an emerging pop group, 'The Beatles' released their first hit record 'Love Me Do'.

1962 Dr. No, the first James Bond film, was released. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name it starred Sean Connery as the secret agent 007. The film was produced with a low budget, the first of a successful series of 22 Bond films. A 23rd - 'Skyfall', with Daniel Craig as James Bond was premiered in London on 23rd October 2012, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the series.

1967 For the first time in Britain, a court in Brighton accepted a 'majority verdict' from a jury instead of the usual 'unanimous verdict' required previously.

1968 Police baton charged civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

1969 The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC. In all, 45 episodes were created over four series, from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. The series' theme song was the first segment of John Philip Sousa's The Liberty Bell, chosen because it was in the public domain and was free to use without charge.

1974 IRA bombs killed 5 and injured 65 in two public houses in Guildford, Surrey, England.

1975 The birth, in Reading, Berkshire of Kate Winslet, English actress and the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations. She achieved worldwide recognition for her leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at the time.

1978 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects

1984 Police and Customs in Es*** seized Britain's biggest ever haul of cannabis made in a single raid, (4.3 tons), with an estimated street value of almost £11 million.

1984 Leonard Rossiter, actor, (Rising Damp, and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin) died at the age of 57 from a heart attack.

1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London, (also known as the Paddington train crash) killed 31 people and injured more than 520 when two trains collided after one driver passed signals that were showing red.

2015 The government imposed a new law in England, which required that all supermarkets (or large businesses employing 250 or more full-time equivalent employees in total) must levy a charge of 5p per 'single-use' plastic carrier bag used by customers, including plastic bags used for deliveries.

Famous Birthday's

Chester A. Arthur
(1829 - 1886)

Robert H. Goddard
(1882 - 1945)

Ray Kroc
(1902 - 1984)

Famous Deaths

Rodney Dangerfield
(1921 - 2004)

Fred Shuttlesworth
(1922 - 2011)

Steve Jobs
(1955 - 2011)

Famous Weddings

1937 Two-time Oscar winner actor Anthony Quinn (22) weds actress Katherine de Mille (26)

1945 Actress Janet Leigh (18) weds Stanley Reames at Morris Chapel in Stockton, California

1968 "The Dirty Dozen" actor Charles Bronson (46) weds Jill Ireland

1971 Television producer Lorne Michaels (26) weds comedy writer Rosie Shuster (21)

1981 "The Hollywood Knights" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (23) weds actor Peter Horton (28) in Santa Monica

Famous Divorces

1991 Director Martin Scorsese (48) divorces producer Barbara De Fina (41) after 6 years of marriage

2007 Actress Reese Witherspoon (30) divorces actor Ryan Phillippe (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

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05-10-2017, 11:50 PM

06 OCTOBER

1536 William Tyndale, English religious reformer and translator of the Bible's New Testament, was strangled and burned at the stake, for heresy.

1769 English explorer Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, discovered New Zealand.

1829 Locomotive trials began at Rainhill near Liverpool to find an engine for use on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. On trial were Cycloped, Perseverance, Sans Pareil Novelty and the winner, Rocket, designed by George and Robert Stephenson and built by Robert Stephenson and Company. A replica of the Rocket is at York's railway museum.

1854 The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured in a series of fires and an explosion. The initial fire started in a mill and large quantities of oil in the premises added fuel to the fire. The explosion, which could be heard 10 miles away, was thought to be the result of storing 2800 tons of sulphur and 128 tons of nitrate of soda in one of the warehouses.

1891 William Henry Smith, (WHSmith) English newsagent, bookseller and statesman died.

1892 Alfred Tennyson, England's 'Poet Laureate', died.

1895 Conductor Sir Henry Wood instituted the Promenade Concerts; known worldwide as 'The Proms', at the Queen's Hall in London.

1910 The birth of Barbara Castle who rose to become one of the most important Labour Party politicians of the twentieth century. She is, to date, the only woman to have held the office of First Secretary of State.

1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides

1939 Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem, also Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.

1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb

1953 Naval and military forces were sent to British Guiana in response to what the UK Government said was a threat to the administration of the British colony.

1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

1968 The first three places in the US Grand Prix were taken by British drivers: Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and John Surtees.

1978 Ann Dadds became London Underground's first woman Tube driver.

1985 Metropolitan police officer, PC Keith Blakelock, was hacked to death by up to 40 rioters on the Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham, North London against a backdrop of unrest between the police and local black communities. Blakelock and nine other constables were awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for bravery and Sergeant David Pengelly, who fought to save Blakelock and another officer who came under attack, received the George Medal. The murder remains unresolved but investigations continue.

1997 British astronaut, Michael Foale, returned safely to earth aboard the space shuttle 'Atlantis' after four and a half months on 'MIR', the Russian space station. The touchdown was Atlantis’ final mission before she was taken out of service for another 'Orbiter Modification Down Period'. Atlantis did not fly again until May 2000 when she made her first trip to the International Space Station.

2013 Expenses documents showed that former cabinet minister Liam Fox successfully claimed 3p of taxpayers' money for a car journey of about 100 metres. The ex-defence secretary made another 15 claims of under £1 for car travel approved in 2012-13.

Famous Birthday's

George Westinghouse
(1846 - 1914)

Helen Wills Moody
(1905 - 1998)

Thor Heyerdahl
(1914 - 2002)

Famous Deaths

Walter Hagen
(1892 - 1969)

Anwar Sadat
(1918 - 1981)

Bette Davis
(1908 - 1989)

Famous Weddings

1936 Diana Mitford marries Oswald Mosley in the house of Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a guest

1953 MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas

1956 South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan

1956 Tennis player champ Ken Rosewall (21) weds Wilma McIver at St John's Church of England Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia

1977 Professional boxer George Foreman (28) weds Cynthia Lewis

Famous Divorces

1980 Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage

2006 "Friends" actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

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07-10-2017, 01:11 AM

07 OCTOBER

1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroys Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece

1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 near Bengal, India

1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement

1765 Delegates from nine of the American colonies protested against the British Stamp Act, which raised a direct tax on the colonies.

1806 The first carbon paper was patented by its English inventor, Ralph Wedgwood.

1918 www.beautifulbritain.co.ukThe death of Hubert Parry, English composer. As a composer he is best known for the choral song 'Jerusalem', based on Blake's poem that begins with the lines - 'And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England's mountains green.' The term 'dark Satanic Mills', referenced in the poem, is interpreted as referring to the early Industrial Revolution that destroyed nature and human relationships. The family's country house was two miles west of Gloucester. This memorial to Hubert Parry is in Gloucester Cathedral.

1919 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)

1920 The first women were admitted to study for full degrees at Oxford University

1922 The first royal broadcast was made, by the Prince of Wales, on 2LO, 11 days before it changed its named to the BBC.

1946 The BBC presented its first edition of Woman's Hour, a daily programme of music, advice and entertainment for those in the home. The programme included an item on how to de-slime your flannels (!) and also broadcast the first episode of the thriller serial 'Dick Barton, Special Agent'.

1957 Jayne Torvill, English ice skater, was born. With fellow skater Christopher Dean, they won a gold medal at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. The 1984 Winter Olympics led to world fame when they performed to the music of Maurice Ravel's Boléro and received twelve perfect 6.0 marks, one of five occasions when they were awarded all perfect scores for artistic impression.

1959 Three hundred people were rescued after being cut off by a blaze on Southend's pier, (the world's longest pleasure pier on England's south-east coast).

1959 The birth of Simon Cowell, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.

1966 The Rolling Stones made their last appearance on ITV's 'Ready Steady Go'.

1977 Ninety sets of Swedish identical twins travelled to Felixstowe for a brief shopping trip!

1977 The Winter Gardens at Morecambe in Lancashire became a listed building. Originally built as the Victoria Pavilion Theatre in 1897, the theatre closed to the public in the same year that it was listed. A campaign for its restoration has been ongoing since 1986. It still has a fine interior, in spite of the length of closure. Photo from March 2017.

1983 Plans to abolish the Greater London Council (GLC) were announced.

1986 A new British newspaper, The Independent, was published.

1992 The first Braille cash dispenser was installed, by the Northern Rock Building Society in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

1996 Two IRA car bombs exploded at a British military base in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, injuring 21 soldiers and 10 civilians.

2001 The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground

2004 The death of Kenneth Bigley, an English civil engineer who was kidnapped in Baghdad on 16th September 2004, along with his colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens. All were subsequently beheaded despite the attempted intervention of the Muslim Council of Britain and the indirect intervention of the British government.

2008 UK banking shares plunged on fears that more financial institutions would need government assistance to stay solvent. HBOS shares dropped 42% and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) fell 39%.

2013 Buckingham Palace held its first official football match to mark the Football Association's 150th anniversary. The competitive fixture was the idea of FA president Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge. London side Civil Service FC, the only surviving team of 11 that formed the FA on 26th October 1863, lost 2-1 against Polytechnic FC, set up in 1875. At half-time, palace footmen and women - wearing waistcoats and tail-coats - carried water, orange slices and chocolate bars on silver-plated platters onto the pitch for the players.

2013 The Scout Association announced an alternative version of its membership promise for young people who do not believe in God. As from January 2014, instead of vowing "to do my duty to God", scouts would be able to promise to "uphold our scout values"; with the new promise exisitng alongside the core scout promise, which has remained unchanged for 106 years.

Famous Birthday's

Heinrich Himmler
(1900 - 1945)

Vladimir Putin
65th Birthday

Simon Cowell
58th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Edgar Allan Poe
(1809 - 1849)

Willis Carrier
(1876 - 1950)

Leo Durocher
(1906 - 1991)

Famous Weddings

1776 Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.

1914 44th US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F. Fitzgerald's mother, Rose Fitzgerald (24)

1965 Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (48) weds actor Warde Donovan

1978 Country singer Merle Haggard (41) weds his backup singer Leona Williams (35)

1989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander

Famous Divorces

1988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson

2004 Actress Andie MacDowell (46) divorces businessman Rhett Hartzog (45) after nearly three years of marriage

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07-10-2017, 11:57 PM

08 OCTOBER

1200 Isabella of Angoulême (in western France) was crowned Queen consort of England as the second wife of King John until John's death in 1216. She had five children by the king including his heir, later Henry III. In 1220 she remarried and had a further nine children.

1480 Great standing on the Ugra river, standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Ivan III Grand Prince of all Rus, Tataro-Mongols retreat, leds to disintegration of the Horde

1744 The birth of Henry Duncan, a minister of the Church of Scotland who founded the world's first commercial savings bank, paying interest on its investors' modest savings. This statue of him is at Dumfries.

1806 Napoleonic Wars: British forces laid siege to the port of Boulogne by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve. His effective rockets were made up of an iron case containing black powder for propulsion and a conical warhead.

1856 The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River

1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes Chancellor of the German Empire

1908 The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book, was published. It has never been out of print in its entire history.

1915 The Battle of Loos, one of the fiercest of World War I, ended with virtually no gains for either side. Almost 430,000 French, British and Germans were killed. The British used poison gas for the first time in the battle.

1917 Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control

1928 The birth of the actor Bill Maynard. He appeared with comedians Terry Scott and Ronnie Barker, played in some of the Carry On films and for 9 years he was the old rogue Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the popular and long-running television series Heartbeat.

1929 Betty Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons, was born.

1952 112 people were killed and 340 injured when two express trains collided at Harrow & Wealdstone, in NW London, and a third train ran into the wreckage. The driver of the Perth train had passed a caution signal and two danger signals before colliding with the local train, which accelerated the introduction of a system that warned drivers that they had passed an adverse signal.

1965 London's Post Office Tower, once Britain's tallest building, opened. Prime Minister Harold Wilson made the first telephone call.

1967 A motorist in Somerset becomes the first person to be breathalysed in Britain.

1967 Clement Atlee died, aged 84. As Prime Minister he introduced radical reforms of the social welfare system and introduced the National Health Service.

1973 London Broadcasting Company, Britain's first legal commercial radio station, began transmitting.

1980 British Leyland launched the Mini Metro.

1987 The coroner's inquest into the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise returned verdicts of unlawful killing. The ferry disaster, in March, killed 187 people.

1990 Hectic trading in the City marked Britain's first day as a full member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System.

1994 The Sunday Times alleged that Margaret Thatcher's son Mark, had received £12 million commission from a £20 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, negotiated whilst she was Prime Minister.

1999 A survey for the UK's National Farmer's Union discovered that pop music increased egg production in chickens!

2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

2014 Motorist Jonathan Weekes (48, of Tredegar) put a blue flashing light on top of his Vauxhall Insignia and pretended to be a policeman. Unfortunately for him he pulled over a real police officer for speeding, saying 'If you had been going any faster I would have booked you.' When rumbled, Weekes drove off without any headlights on and overtook several cars at speed on narrow streets. He was given a 12-month community order after he admitted acting falsely, by suggesting that he was a police officer. In court he also admitted driving without due care and attention, was banned from driving for six months and told to pay £85 costs and a £60 surcharge.

Famous Birthday's

Juan Perón
(1895 - 1974)

Matt Damon
47th Birthday

Bruno Mars
32nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

John Hancock
(1737 - 1793)

Franklin Pierce
(1804 - 1869)

Clement Attlee
(1883 - 1967)

Famous Weddings

1824 Salt Lake City founder Brigham Young (23) weds first wife Miriam Angeline Works (18) in Port Byron, New York

1842 Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach

1846 Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (25) weds Frances Amelia Morse (20) in Amherst, Nova Scotia

1934 South Korean President Syngman Rhee (59) weds Francesca Donner (34)

1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett)

Famous Divorces

2010 Musician Ben Harper (40) divorces actress Laura Dern (43) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

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09-10-2017, 09:41 AM

09 OCTOBER

768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks

1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America

1446 The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea

1470 Henry VI of England was restored to the throne after being deposed in 1461. Six months later he was deposed again and then murdered in the Tower of London.

1779 The first 'Luddite' riots broke out in a lace factory in Loughborough as workers protested against labour-saving machinery which was likely to make them redundant. Similar riots begin at a spinning cotton factory in Manchester.

1799 The sinking of HMS Lutine off the coast of Holland, with the loss of 240 men. The ship's bell was salvaged from the wreck and was later presented to shipping insurers Lloyds of London. The Lutine Bell has been rung ever since to mark a marine disaster.

1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion

1897 Henry Stumey set off in his 4.5hp Daimler from Land's End, and became the first person to drive to John o' Groats. His 929 mile journey took him 10 days.

1913 The Glasgow built steamship SS Volturno caught fire in mid-Atlantic. Eleven ships came to her aid and rescued 520 passengers and crewmen but 130, most of them women and children, died in the incident, in unsuccessfully launched lifeboats.

1940 The birth of John Lennon, rock singer, songwriter and a founder member of The Beatles.

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program - beginning of the Manhattan project

1944 The birth of John Entwistle, (nicknamed The Ox) and bassist with The Who.

1948 English football legend Billy Wright first captained the England international team (aged 24), against Northern Ireland.

1955 Three armed men raided a Turkish bath in London, but the well heeled customers were wearing very little clothing, and the robbers' total haul was only £7.

1955 Steve Ovett, English athlete, was born.

1959 The Conservatives, under Harold Macmillan, (Supermac) won a third consecutive general election.

1961 Britain's youngest ever Conservative MP, Margaret Thatcher, was given her first governmental job.

1962 Uganda proclaimed its independence from Britain.

1968 Prime Minister Harold Wilson met Rhodesian premier Ian Smith aboard HMS Fearless in Gibraltar to discuss Rhodesia's decision to declare UDI -a Universal Declaration of Independence.

1976 The listing of the art-deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire. The hotel was built in 1933, by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). In its heyday it was 'the place' to stay and quickly attracted the wealthy middle classes. From 1988 the hotel stood derelict, but after major refurbishment the Midland re-opened its doors to the public in the summer of 2008.

1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera had its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

1988 The death of the footballer Jackie Milburn (full name John Edward Thompson Milburn). By the time Milburn left Newcastle in 1957, he had become the highest goalscorer in Newcastle United's history. He remained so until he was surpassed by Alan Shearer in February 2006.

1991 The first Sumo wrestling tournament ever held off Japanese soil in the sport's 1500 year history began 'on this day' , at the Royal Albert Hall.

1997 The campaign to ban landmines, a cause made popular by Diana, Princess of Wales was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1999www.beautifulbritain.co.ukThe new Scottish Parliament building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) held their first debate in the new building on 7th September 2004.

2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

2010 A ticket bought in the UK won a new record of £113m on the Euromillions lottery draw, making the anonymous winner the UK’s 589th richest person.

2013 Environment Secretary Owen Paterson claimed that "badgers moved the goalposts" when asked why marksmen failed to reach their badger cull target in the counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset.

2013 The Royal Mail share-offering for private investors was seven times over-subscribed, with 700,000 applications in total. Labour claimed that the shares were being sold too cheaply. Two days later the shares rose 38% to 455p in their first day of conditional dealings on the London Stock Exchange.

2014 A report rom the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) found that that populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish had declined on average by 52 per cent in the last 40 years. Almost the entire decline was down to human activity, through habitat loss, deforestation, climate change, over-fishing and hunting.

Famous Birthday's

Joe Pepitone
77th Birthday

John Lennon
(1940 - 1980)

David Cameron
51st Birthday

John Entwistle
(1944 - 2002)

Famous Deaths

Benjamin Banneker
(1731 - 1806)

Che Guevara
(1928 - 1967)

Oskar Schindler
(1908 - 1974)

Famous Weddings

1514 King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)

1901 Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr (27) weds Abby Aldrich in Warwick Neck, Rhode Island

1916 Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (21) weds Maxine Gates in Farmington, Utah

1944 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (67) weds 1930 Miss France Yvonne Blanche Labrousse (38) in Geneva, Switzerland

1962 French singer Edith Piaf (46) marries French Greek actor Théo Sarapo (26)

Famous Divorces

1973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years

1980 Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot

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10-10-2017, 11:41 AM

10 OCOTOBER

680 Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa

1580 After a three day siege, (the Siege of Smerwick) the English Army beheaded over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir in Ireland. Although the defenders eventually surrendered, most of them were then massacred on the orders of the English commander, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Arthur Grey.

1731 The birth of Henry Cavendish, the English physicist and chemist who discovered hydrogen.

1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded hurricane.

1877 William Morris, motoring pioneer and English car manufacturer, was born. The Morris name remained in use until 1984 when British Leyland's Austin Rover Group decided to concentrate on the more popular Austin brand. William Morris (1st Viscount Nuffield), endowed Nuffield College, Oxford in 1937 and the Nuffield Foundation in 1943.

1881 The Savoy Theatre, the first public building to be lit by electricity, opened with a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Patience'.

1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame

1903 Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women's Social and Political Union to fight for women's emancipation in Britain.

1928 George V opened the Tyne Bridge. It contained Britain's largest steel arch.

1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops

1957 A major radiation leak was detected at the Windscale (now known as Sellafield) nuclear plant in Cumbria after an accident three days earlier. Milk from about 500 square km. of nearby countryside was diluted and destroyed for about a month.

1961 Following a volcanic eruption, the entire population of the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha was evacuated to Britain.

1971 After being sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It was rumoured that the bridge was bought in the belief that it was London's more recognizable Tower Bridge, but this was ardently denied by the purchaser Robert McCulloch, chairman of the McCulloch Oil Corporation.

1975 Elizabeth Taylor got married for the 6th time. She re-married British actor Richard Burton at a remote location in Botswana. They divorced the following year.

1980 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made her memorably defiant speech "U-turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning" at her party's conference in Brighton.

1988 Igor Judge, a British QC, was sworn in as a High Court judge where he would be known as Mr Justice Judge.

1996 A Scottish fisherman found a message in a bottle. It had been thrown in the North Sea in 1914 to chart the currents.

1997 At the British Airways stand at the Conservative Party Conference, former prime minister Margaret Thatcher gave the airline a 'handbagging' by placing a white handkerchief over the model of an aircraft with the new style logo.

1999 Thousands gathered to watch the giant Millennium wheel become the latest landmark on the London skyline.

2010 PM David Cameron said defence spending would fall by 8% over four years. Harrier jump jets, the Navy's flagship HMS Ark Royal and planned Nimrod spy planes would be axed and 42,000 MoD and armed forces jobs cut by 2015. The RAF and navy would lose 5,000 jobs each, the Army 7,000 and the Ministry of Defence 25,000 civilian staff.

2013 The discovery of the first chemical to prevent the death of brain tissue in a neurodegenerative disease was hailed as an exciting and historic moment in medical research although 'More work is needed to develop a drug that could be taken by patients.' Commenting on the research, Professor Roger Morris, from King's College London, said: 'This finding, I suspect, will be judged by history as a turning point in the search for medicines to control and prevent Alzheimer's Disease.'

Famous Birthday's

Giuseppe Verdi
(1813 - 1901)

Fridtjof Nansen
(1861 - 1930)

Helen Hayes
(1900 - 1993)

Famous Deaths

Charlotte Cooper
(1870 - 1966)

Yul Brynner
(1920 - 1985)

Christopher Reeve
(1952 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1773 American revolution patriot Paul Revere (38) weds Rachel Walker in Boston, Massachusetts

1774 Composer Antonio Salieri (24) weds Therese Helferstorfer

1975 Actress Elizabeth Taylor (43) 6th marriage and remarriage to actor Richard Burton (49)

1987 Paralympian Rick Hansen (30) weds physiotherapist Amanda Reid

1992 Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury

Famous Divorces

1974 Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (41) divorces director-producer William Asher (53) after 11 years of marriage

2008 Actor and comedian Chris Kattan (37) divorces model Sunshine Tutt (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 months of marriage

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11-10-2017, 02:29 PM

11 OCTOBER

1138 Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000

1216 King John lost his crown and jewels whilst crossing 'The Wash', on the north-west margin of East Anglia.

1521 Pope Leo X conferred the title of 'Defender of the Faith' (Fidei Defensor) on England's Henry VIII for his book supporting Catholic principles.

1634 Burchardi flood - "the second Grote Mandrenke" kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany

1649 After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops, under the command of Oliver Cromwell, stormed the town of Wexford, Ireland, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.

1727 The coronation of King George II.

1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India

1738 The birth of Arthur Phillip, English admiral and first governor of New South Wales, who founded the first penal colony at Sydney.

1797 Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): British navy defeats Dutch fleet

1821 The birth, in Dulverton, Somerset, of George Williams the founder of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). As a young man, he described himself as a 'careless, thoughtless, godless, swearing young fellow' but he eventually became a devout Christian.

1899 The start of the Boer War between the British Empire and the Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in southern Africa.

1919 The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris. They were pre-packed lunch boxes at 3 shillings each (15p).

1937 Bobby Charlton, English footballer, was born. He played almost all of his club football (from 1956–1973) at Manchester United.

1945 Chinese civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party

1951 Gordon Richards, champion British jockey, rode his 200th winner for the sixth successive season.

1957 The largest radio telescope in the world (at that time) was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.

1962 Second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII

1966 The Post Office announced that all home and business addresses in Britain were to be allocated postcodes.

1982 The Mary Rose, which had been the pride of Henry VIII's English fleet until it sank in the Solent in 1545, was raised, by the Mary Rose Trust. It was one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. She was one of the largest ships in the English navy and was one of the earliest examples of a purpose-built sailing warship. Since the mid-1980s, the hull of the Mary Rose has been kept in a covered dry dock in Portsmouth whilst undergoing conservation.

1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland

1987 A huge sonar exploration of Loch Ness, failed to find the world famous monster, known affectionately as Nessie.

1988 Girls began to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge for the first time. To mark the occasion male students wore black armbands and the porter flew a black flag.

2014 A would-be thief tried to saw through the standing leg of the monument to Eric Morecambe, in the legendary comedian's home town of Morecambe. The bronze figure by sculptor Graham Ibbeson was unveiled by the Queen in July 1999.

Famous Birthday's

Henry John Heinz
(1844 - 1919)

Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884 - 1962)

Maria Bueno
78th Birthday

Bobby Charlton
80th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Meriwether Lewis
(1774 - 1809)

Edith Piaf
(1915 - 1963)

James Franklin Hyde
(1903 - 1999)

Famous Weddings

1938 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (37) weds longtime girlfriend Alpha Smith

1948 Fellow students Fidel Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart marry (divorced 1955)

1954 Philippine president Corazon Aquino (21) weds Tarlac governor Benigno Aquino Jr (22) in Pasay City, Philippines

1975 Future US President Bill Clinton (29) weds future US Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham (28) in a Methodist ceremony in their living room in Fayetteville, Arkansas

1987 Rock and blues singer Joe Cocker (43) weds Pam Baker

Famous Divorces

1939 Actor Jackie Coogan (24) divorces actress Betty Grable (22) after 2 years of marriage

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12-10-2017, 09:02 AM

12 OCTOBER

539 BC The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon

1279 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon

1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on Caribbean island he names San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia (OS 21 Oct)

1537 Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour was born. Jane died 13 days after giving birth to him.

1817 The launch of HMS Trincomalee. She is the oldest warship afloat anywhere in the world and is berthed at Jackson Dock, Hartlepool.

1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland began selling raincoats, now better known as - Macs. He was first employed as a clerk but before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. The essence of his patent for waterproof fabrics was the cementing together of two pieces of natural India-rubber, the rubber being made soluble by the action of naphtha, a byproduct of tar. For his various chemical discoveries he was, in 1823, elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

1845 The death of Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane. Since 2001, she has been depicted on the Bank of England £5 note.

1859 Robert Stephenson, English civil engineer, died. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer. Many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son. A replica of Robert Stephenson's Rocket -

1866 James Ramsay McDonald, Scottish statesman, was born. He became the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924. His opposition to the First World War made him unpopular, and he was defeated in 1918. However post war disillusionment quickly made his anti-war position more popular, and he returned to Parliament in 1922, the point at which Labour replaced the Liberal Party as the second-largest party.

1872 The birth at the Old Vicarage in Down Ampney (Gloucestershire - Cotswolds) of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. He was he third child and younger son of the vicar of All Saints Church. A tune he composed, used for the hymn 'Come Down, O Love Divine', is titled 'Down Ampney' in its honour.

1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.

1915 Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile

1936 The leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley, led a controversial anti-Jewish march down the Mile End Road in London which was a predominantly Jewish area of the capital.

1915 Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, was shot by a German firing squad, for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners. She was born in Swardeston, close to Norwich and there is a memorial to her outside Norwich Cathedral.

1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler postponed indefinitely 'Operation Sealion' - the planned invasion of Britain.

1948 The first Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, was produced at Cowley, Oxfordshire. 1.6 million Morris Minors were built until production ceased in 1971.

1951 The launch of Holme Moss Transmitting Station, one of the highest in the country, reaching 228m above ground and 524m above sea level. In 1951 it provided BBC television (the only TV programme at the time) but now transmits VHF, FM and DAB radio to Derbyshire, Manchester and West Yorkshire, with coverage of around 13.5 million people.

1967 Zoologist Desmond Morris stunned the world with his book The Naked Ape that compared human behaviour with animals.

1969 The opening of Preston Bus Station, one of the largest in Western Europe. Threatened with demolition since the year 2000, campaigns and applications were made numerous times to save the building. It featured on the 2012 World Monument Fund's list of sites at risk. Nevertheless, on 7th December 2012, Preston City Council announced that the bus station would be demolished, but in 2013 it was saved when English Heritage granted it the status of a Grade II listed building.

1979 The publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide comedy science fiction series by the English writer and dramatist Douglas Adams. His memorial service on 17th September 2001 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square was the first church service of any kind broadcast live, on the web, by the BBC.

1982 British armed forces held a victory parade in London following the defeat of Argentina in the Falklands War.

1984 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an assassination attempt when an IRA bomb exploded in the Grand Hotel, Brighton which was being used by delegates to the Conservative Party Conference. Five people were killed and 30 people injured, including the Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit and his wife Margaret, who was left permanently disabled.

1986 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to visit China.

1989 The remains of Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre were found on London's Bankside.

1999 The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born

2000 The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

Famous Birthday's

Luciano Pavarotti
(1935 - 2007)

Hugh Jackman
49th Birthday

Marion Jones
42nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Robert E. Lee
(1807 - 1870)

John Denver
(1943 - 1997)

Wilt Chamberlain
(1936 - 1999)

Famous Weddings

1810 First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

1822 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher

1893 Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (37) weds Margaret James Murray

1929 US military leader George Marshall (48) weds Katherine Tupper

1942 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (41) weds dancer Lucille Wilson (28)

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13-10-2017, 09:56 AM

13 OCTOBER

54 Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor

1307 French King Philip IV has Grand Master Jacques de Molay and Knights Templar arrested and charged of idolatry and corruption

1399 Henry IV (the first King of the House of Lancaster) was crowned king of England.

1853 The birth of Lillie Langtry, actress and mistress of King Edward VII, also the Earl of Shrewsbury and Prince Louis of Battenberg.

1884 Greenwich was chosen as the universal time meridian of longitude from which standard times throughout the world are calculated.

1894 The first Merseyside 'derby' football match was played at Goodison Park between Liverpool and Everton, with Everton winning 3 - 0.

1899 The start of the siege of the British garrison at Mafeking by Boer forces. The commander of the garrison, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell and his forces held firm for 217 days.

1904 The birth, in Halifax, of Wilfred Pickles OBE, actor and radio presenter. Pickles was a proud Yorkshireman and was the first newsreader to speak in a regional accent. His BBC Radio show 'Have A Go', ran from 1946 to 1967 and launched such catchphrases as 'What's on the table, Mabel?' and 'Are yer courting?', all delivered in Pickles's inimitable style.

1924 Labour Party leader Ramsay MacDonald became the first Prime Minister to make an election broadcast on BBC radio.

1925 The birth of Margaret Thatcher British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Known as 'The Iron Lady' she was the longest serving Prime Minister for more than 150 years. She was born above her father's grocer's shop: No 1 North Parade, Grantham, Lincolnshire - .

1940 Princess Elizabeth, aged 14, (now Queen Elizabeth II), made her first radio broadcast to child evacuees.

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII

1946 The birth of Edwina Currie, former Member of Parliament. She resigned as a Junior Health Minister in 1988 over the controversy of salmonella in eggs. Among her comments over the next two years were that good Christian people don't get AIDS, that old people who couldn't afford their heating bills should wrap up warm in winter, and that northerners die of ignorance and chips.

1954 Chris Chataway broke the 5,000-metres world record by five seconds in the London v Moscow match at White City, West London.

1963 The term Beatlemania was coined after The Beatles appeared at the Palladium. They made their debut as the top of the bill on ITV's 'Sunday Night at The London Palladium.'

1971 The British Army blew up border roads in Northern Ireland to crack down on IRA gun-running.

1988 The British Government failed to stop publication of the controversial book Spycatcher, written by a former secret service agent.

1988 The Queen sued The Sun newspaper after it printed a private photograph.

1992 The government announced plans to close one third of Britain's deep coal mines, putting 31,000 miners out of work.

1996 British racing driver Damon Hill, driving a Williams, won the Japanese Grand Prix to clinch his first (and only) World Championship.

2008 The government said that they would pump billions of pounds of taxpayers money into three UK banks in one of the UK's biggest nationalisations. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds TSB and HBOS would have a total of £37bn injected into them. In return for the investment, the government would get a say in how the banks were run, including controls over the bonuses paid to management.

2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile comes to a happy end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground

2014 The Royal College of Midwives took part in strike action for the first time in the organisation's 133 year history, in protest at the government's decision not to grant a 1% 'across the board' pay rise. The 4 hour strike, (from 7:00 a.m. at hospitals in England) also included nurses, paramedics, hospital porters and ambulance crews.

2014 176 people took part in the 48th World Conker Championships at Southwick, in Northamptonshire. Competitors came from overseas, including the United States, Mexico, and Italy.

2014 UKiP leader Nigel Farage hailed it an 'emotional moment' as he watched Douglas Carswell introduced to Parliament as the party's first elected MP.

2016 Queen Elizabeth II became the world's longest-reigning monarch following the death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Famous Birthday's

Arna Bontemps
(1902 - 1973)

Margaret Thatcher
(1925 - 2013)

Jerry Rice
55th Birthday

Edwina Currie
71st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Claudius
(10 BC - 54)

Milton S. Hershey
(1857 - 1945)

Bhumibol Adulyadej
(1927 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1941 NFL halfback Red Grange (38) weds flight attendant Margaret Hazelberg

1956 MLB player Roger Maris (22) weds high school sweetheart Pat Carvell at St. Anthony Padua Church

1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu

2011 Queen consort of Bhutan Jetsun Pema (21) weds Dragon King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck (31) at Punakha Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan

2012 "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" actor Alfonso Ribeiro (41) weds Angela Unkrich (31) in California

Famous Divorces

1998 Golfer champ Nick Faldo (41) divorces manager's secretary Gill Bennett after 12 years of marriage

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14-10-2017, 11:31 AM

14 OCTOBER

1066 The Battle of Hastings was fought, on Senlac Hill, near Pevensey. An English army, commanded by King Harold, was defeated by the invasion force of William of Normandy. Harold was killed and Edgar the Ætheling was proclaimed king, but never crowned. William I 'The Conqueror' and the first Norman King of England, was subsequently crowned at Westminster Abbey on 25th December 1066.

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeated King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland in Yorkshire, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. (There is a local tradition that he was born at Lochmaben and not at Turnberry Castle in Ayrshire.)

1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. She was convicted on 25th October and sentenced to death, but Elizabeth hesitated initially to order her execution concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent.

1633 King James II, youngest son of Charles I was born. His pro-Catholic stand led to his overthrow by William of Orange.

1644 The Birth of William Penn, the English Quaker leader who founded a Quaker colony named Pennsylvania in his honour.

1774 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia

1843 The British arrested the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes. O'Connell campaigned for the right of Catholics to sit in Parliament and the repeal of the Act of Union which combined Great Britain and Ireland.

1867 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan

1878 The first football match played under floodlights took place at Bramhall Lane, Sheffield, in front of a crowd of just under 20,000. Two generators positioned behind each goal powered lights on 30 ft. high wooden towers situated at each corner of the field. The light was deemed so bright that some ladies present put up their parasols to protect themselves from being burned!

1881 189 men died when the Berwickshire fishing fleet was caught in a hurricane. The tragedy, which became known locally as Black Friday, remains Scotland's worst fishing disaster. 129 of the victims came from the village of Eyemouth.

1913 Britain's worst pit disaster. More than 400 miners were killed in an explosion down a mine at Senghenydd in Glamorgan, S. Wales.

1929 The world's largest airship, the R101, made its maiden voyage.

1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations

1939 The Royal Navy battleship, HMS Royal Oak, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine while at harbour in Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland, a little more than a month after the start of World War II. 810 British seamen were killed.

1940 Cliff Richard was born. His first hit was 'Move It'.

1969 Ahead of the complete changeover to decimalization, Britain scrapped the 10 shilling note and introduced the 50 pence coin.

1982 US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs

1983 Cecil Parkinson, Trade and Industry Secretary, resigned after revelations about his affair with his former secretary Sara Keays.

1986 An historic moment for Queen Elizabeth II as she became the first British monarch to walk along the Great Wall of China.

2013 The death of Grace Jones, the oldest person in the UK, at the age of 113 years 342 days. She was the last living British person to be born in the 1800s.

Famous Birthday's

William Penn
(1644 - 1718)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969)

Beth Daniel
61st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Erwin Rommel
(1891 - 1944)

Bing Crosby
(1903 - 1977)

Famous Weddings

1806 German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar

1913 Athlete Jim Thorpe (25) weds Margaret Iva Miller at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

1914 Baseball legend Babe Ruth (19) weds Helen Woodford

1923 "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona

1961 Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O'Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles) marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21)

Famous Divorces

1988 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce & annulment

1990 Jeff Goldblum and wife Geena Davis file for divorce after nearly 2 years of marriage

2015 Ricki Lake and Christian Evans divorce after 3 years of marriage

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15-10-2017, 12:14 AM

15 OCTOBER

1581 Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine" is staged in Paris

1666 Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that Charles II had started wearing the first known waistcoat. The King was so overweight that he left the bottom button undone, a fashion custom followed to this day.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile

1864 The Church Times published ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, with music by Arthur Sullivan and words by the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould. It was written for a children’s festival.

1881 P.G. Wodehouse was born. He was famous for his Jeeves and Wooster novels.

1887 Preston North End beat Hyde 26-0 in an FA Cup tie, the highest goal score ever by an English club in a major competition, with James Ross the first player to score seven goals in a 1st Division match.

1888 A 'From Hell' letter was sent to George Lusk, then head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, claiming to be from the serial killer Jack the Ripper. It was delivered with a small box containing half of what doctors later determined was a human kidney, preserved in ethanol. One of his victim's kidneys had been removed by the killer, which gave the letter some authenticity. The letter ended with the words - 'Catch me when you can Mister Lusk.', but the Ripper was never caught.

1927 Britain's Public Morals Committee attacked the use of contraceptives, on the basis that they caused 'poor hereditary stock'.

1951 The first Liberal Party political broadcast was televised by the BBC.

1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesizes the first oral contraceptive

1953 The British nuclear test Totem 1 was detonated at Emu Field in South Australia. The main purpose of the trial was to determine the limit on the amount of plutonium-240 which could be present in a bomb and thus aid the British government's weapons programme.

1956 The last RAF Lancaster bomber was retired from service.

1959 The birth of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and ex wife of Prince Andrew. She no longer holds the title HRH and if she remarries, any use of the title Duchess of York will be lost permanently too.

1961 The human rights organization Amnesty International was established in London.

1964 Harold Wilson won the election with a majority of just 4, making him the youngest Prime Minister at the time of the 20th century.

1969 The print unions finally allowed Rupert Murdoch's purchase of 'The Sun' newspaper.

1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1973 Britain and Iceland ended the 'Cod War' with agreement on fishing rights.

1987 The worst hurricane to hit Britain since records began devastated southern England and caused at least 17 deaths.

1993 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1994 Five people were killed and 13 injured in a head-on rail collision at Cowden in Kent after the driver ran a red signal.

1997 Following a new land speed record by Andy Green in Thrust SSC the previous month, Thrust SSC became the first land vehicle to exceed the speed of sound when it achieved 763 mph (Mach 1.020) at Black Rock Desert, Nevada. The record still stands.

2001 Home Secretary David Blunkett told MPs he was introducing an emergency anti-terrorism Bill.

2013 26 year old British racing driver Sean Edwards died (as the passenger) in a crash at the Queensland Raceway in Australia. He was the son of former F1 driver Guy Edwards, who pulled Niki Lauda out of his burning Ferrari after a crash at the Nurburgring in 1976.

2017 The round £1 coin, introduced in 1983, goes out of circulation at midnight tonight. Its replacement is 12 sided and has additional security features.

Famous Birthday's

Akbar
(1542 - 1605)

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)

Roscoe Tanner
66th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Mata Hari
(1876 - 1917)

Hermann Goering
(1893 - 1946)

Carlo Gambino
(1902 - 1976)

Famous Weddings

1501 Heir to the English Prince Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon

1913 Author Beatrix Potter (47) weds solicitor William Heelis at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, London

1927 Writer Graham Greene (23) weds Vivien Dayrell-Browning at St. Mary's Church in Hampstead, North London

1948 38th US President Gerald Ford (35) weds department store fashion consultant Elizabeth (Betty) Bloomer Warren (30) at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Ford

1963 Folk singer Mary Travers (26) weds photographer Barry Feinstein

Famous Divorces

1993 Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa

1993 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (31) divorces Lisa Andrews after more than 8 years of marriage

2002 Comedian Tom Green (30) divorces actress Drew Barrymore (26) due to irreconcilable differences after less than a year of marriage

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16-10-2017, 11:43 AM

16 OCTOBER

1555 English bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burnt at the stake for heresy.

1803 The birth of Robert Stephenson, the English civil engineer who built railways and bridges. A replica of Robert Stephenson's Rocket - is on view at the York Railway Museum.

1813 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia

1834 The original Houses of Parliament were almost completely destroyed by fire. The blaze, which started from overheated chimney flues, spread rapidly throughout the medieval complex and developed into the biggest conflagration to occur in London since the Great Fire of 1666. Westminster Hall and a few other parts of the old Houses of Parliament survived the blaze and were incorporated into the New Palace of Westminster, which was built over the following decades.

1846 William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.

1847 Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was published in London. The book's author used the pseudonym Currer Bell.

1869 Girton College, Cambridge was founded and became England's first residential college for women.

1869 The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

1875 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.

1881 The first edition of The People' - later renamed 'The Sunday People'.

1900 Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, agreeing to maintain territorial integrity of China and support 'open door' policy called for by US Secretary of State

1902 Britain opened its first 'Borstal' detention centre, at the village of Borstal in Kent. The institution was designed to keep boys, especially first offenders, away from adult criminals in prisons; to teach them a trade and to reward good behaviour.

1916 In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States

1920 Gordon Richards, 26 times a champion jockey, had his first ride, at Lingfield Park.

1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.

1934 Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March

1940 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

1944 Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.

1946 Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.

1949 Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.

1958 Britain's most popular children's television programme 'Blue Peter' was first broadcast on BBC TV. The first presenters were Leila Williams and Christopher Trace.

1962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba

1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

1964 Harold Wilson became Prime Minister of a Labour Government. He was the first Labour PM in 13 years.

1974 Three prison staff were taken to hospital and dozens of prisoners were injured after rioting and fires at the Long Kesh Maze prison, Belfast.

1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II

1987 Southern Britain began a massive clear-up operation after the worst night of storms in living memory. BBC Weatherman Michael Fish faced criticism, as he had reassured viewers that the worst of the stormy weather would be across Spain and France.

1995 The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.

1996 British Home Secretary Michael Howard announced stringent new gun controls following the mass shooting in March 1996 of children at a school in Dunblane, Scotland.

1998 Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and the SDLP leader John Hume were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their part in forging the Northern Ireland Agreement which was signed in April of the same year.

1998 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a Spanish warrant requesting his extradition on murder charges

2001 Government special adviser Jo Moore apologised for sending an e-mail in which she suggested 11th September (the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York) was a good day to 'bury bad news'.

Famous Birthday's

Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)

Michael Collins
(1890 - 1922)

Angela Lansbury
92nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Marie Antoinette
(1755 - 1793)

Joachim von Ribbentrop
(1893 - 1946)

George Marshall
(1880 - 1959)

Famous Weddings

1923 General Francisco Franco (30) marries María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés (23) at Church of San Juan el Real in Oviedo

1965 Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in NYC

1979 MLB outfielder Tim Raines (20) weds his high school sweetheart Virginia Hilton

1986 Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil

1992 Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes

Famous Divorces

1924 American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien (Red) Upshaw

1984 Joyce King divorces NBA guard George Gervin (32) after nearly 8 years of marriage

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16-10-2017, 11:59 PM

17 OCTOBER

733 Battle at Tours (Poitiers): Charles Martel's Frankish and Burgundian forces beat those of al-Andalus under Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi halting Islamic influence (date disputed)

1091 A tornado struck London. It was Britain's earliest reported tornado. The wooden London Bridge was demolished, and the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in the city of London was badly damaged. Other churches in the area were demolished, as were over 600, mostly wooden, houses.

1346 At the Battle of Neville's Cross, near Durham, the Scots were routed and King David II of Scotland was captured by Edward III of England and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.

1651 Defeated by Oliver Cromwell at Worcester, Charles II of England fled to France.

1727 The birth of John Wilkes, English political agitator and advocate of press freedom who, despite being elected to Parliament four times, was not allowed to take his seat. Eventually, working, and middle-class support secured him his rightful entry to Parliament where he fought for reforms and religious tolerance.

1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 15.

1855 A steel-making process was patented, by Englishman Sir Harry Bessemer.

1860 The world's first professional golf tournament was held, at Prestwick in Scotland.

1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)

1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland

1914 German U-boats raided Scapa Flow, the main base of the British Grand Fleet, off the north coast of Scotland in the Orkney Islands.

1919 RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.

1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

1936 Newspaper owner Lord Beaverbrook promised King Edward VIII that he would arrange for the British press to remain silent on the subject of his relationship with American divorcee Mrs. Wallis Simpson.

1956 Queen Elizabeth II opened Calder Hall in Cumbria - Britain's first large scale atomic energy station.

1956 Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.

1973 The start of a major world oil crisis when oil producing Arab states increased prices by 70 per cent and cut production in protest at US support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

1978 Public pressure led ministers to reduce the number of grey seals to be culled in Scotland.

1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1980 The Queen made history by becoming the first British monarch to make a state visit to the Vatican, when she met Pope John Paul II.

1985 The House of Lords, in the Gillick case, permitted doctors to prescribe oral contraceptives to girls aged under 16 without parental consent.

1991 Four independent television companies: TV-am, Thames, TVS and TSW lost their licences to broadcast following a 'sealed bid' system of awarding the franchises by the Independent Television Commission.

1996 England international footballer Paul Gascoigne was accused of beating up his wife Sheryl at a hotel in Scotland.

2000 Four people were killed when a high speed passenger train derailed in Hatfield, just north of London. The accident was a defining moment in the subsequent collapse of Railtrack.

2001 Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

2012 Colin Farmer, aged 61 and a blind stroke victim said that he thought he was going to die when he was shot in the back in Chorley town centre with a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun fired by a police officer who mistook his white stick for a Samurai sword.

Famous Birthday's

Arthur Miller
(1915 - 2005)

Evel Knievel
(1938 - 2007)

Eminem
45th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Agrippina the Elder
( - 33)

Frederic Chopin
(1810 - 1849)

Laura Secord
(1775 - 1868)

Famous Weddings

1469 Crown prince Fernando of Aragon marries Princess Isabella of Castile

1707 German composer Johann S Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach

1749 US revolutionary Samuel Adams (27) weds Elizabeth Checkley

1826 Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)

1916 Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (33) weds Irma Seeman

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18-10-2017, 02:10 PM

18 OCTOBER

1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock

1541 The death of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland; the elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII.

1648 Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.

1674 The birth of Richard ‘Beau’ Nash, English gambler who made Bath a city of fashion; improving its streets and buildings.

1685 French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants

1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.

1826 Britain's last state lottery was held, prior to the launch of the National Lottery in 1994.

1851 Herman Melville's book Moby-Dick was first published as 'The Whale' by Richard Bentley of London.

1865 The death of Tory politician and twice Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. He dominated British foreign policy when Britain was at the height of her power. Palmerston's abrasive and arrogant style earned him the nickname Lord Pumice-stone. He lived at Romsey in Hampshire, where there is this statue of him.

1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia having paid $7.2 million

1871 The death of Charles Babbage, English mathematician, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. He is considered a 'father of the computer' as he is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

1898 The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

1910 The trial of English murderer Dr Crippen began at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London.

1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation was officially formed, to operate from Marconi House in London, under the management of John Reith. It established a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion

1945 The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1954 Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.

1957 The Queen and Prince Philip visited the US and the White House to mark the 350th anniversary of the British settling in Virginia.

1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA

1963 Harold Macmillan resigned as Prime Minister because of ill health. Sir Alec Douglas-Home became Prime Minister.

1966 The Queen granted a royal pardon to Timothy Evans, wrongly convicted and hanged in 1950 for the murder of his wife and child. The real murderer was John Reginald Christie who had been hanged for mass murder in 1953.

1977 Hilary Bradshaw became the first woman to referee a rugby match when Bracknell played High Wycombe.

1978 The birth of Mike Tindall, an English rugby player who has captained the England team and is married to Zara Phillips, the daughter of the Princess Royal and the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.

1987 Nigel Mansell won the Mexican Grand Prix.

1988 British Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, banned all broadcasts involving terrorist spokesmen. IRA spokesmen could be seen, but not heard, although their statements could be reported by the media.

1995 Red Rum, three times winner of the Grand National at Aintree, died at the age of 30, an exceptional age for a horse. He was buried at Aintree.

1998 Richard Bacon, presenter of the BBC TV programme 'Blue Peter' was sacked for taking cocaine.

2014 A flock of sheep was left feeling rather woolly-headed after accidentally munching on £4,000 worth of cannabis plants that had been dumped in their field, at the edge of Fanny’s Farm in Merstham, Surrey. By the time that the police arrived, much of the evidence had been eaten.

Famous Birthday's

Pierre Trudeau
(1919 - 2000)

Lee Harvey Oswald
(1939 - 1963)

Martina Navratilova
61st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Henry John Temple
(1784 - 1865)

Thomas Edison
(1847 - 1931)

Bess Truman
(1885 - 1982)

Famous Weddings

1869 Sardinia king Victor Emmanuel II (49) weds his mistress Rosa Vercellana (36) in Italy

1926 Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou

1952 Latin actress Maria Felix (38) weds actor and singer Jorge Negreta (40) in Mexico

1970 Actor Lee Marvin (46) weds radio producer Pamela Marvin (40)

1986 "Fleetwood Mac" member Christine McVie (43) weds keyboardist Eduardo Quintela

Famous Divorces

2000 Actress Demi Moore (37) divorces actor Bruce Willis (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage

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19-10-2017, 09:52 AM

19 OCTOBER

202 BC Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending 2nd Punic War

1216 King John died of dysentery at Newark-on-Trent , during a Civil War which was the result of his refusal to recognize the Magna Carta signed the previous year. He was known as John Lackland for losing so much territory to France and was succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

1469 Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

1512 Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).

1649 New Ross town, in County Wexford, Ireland, surrendered to Oliver Cromwell during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

1688 The birth of William Cheselden who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession.

1745 Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, died aged 77.

1781 The American War of Independence came to an end when British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered his 8,000 troops to George Washington at Yorktown, in Virginia, after a three week siege.

1789 Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

1900 Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).

1914 World War I - The start of the First Battle of Ypres. It saw the British and French defeat repeated German attempts to break their lines in an attempt to capture the channel ports.

1914 Wartime licensing laws came into operation, premises having to close at 10 p.m.

1917 The Love Field airport in Dallas is opened.

1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers

1933 Germany withdrew from the League of Nations, an intergovernmental organization, founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. I

1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

1954 The first day of the public inquiry into the crashes of two Comet airliners within months of each other heard that metal fatigue was the most likely cause. The Comet's certificate of airworthiness was withdrawn after the second crash.

1960 Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba, which remains in effect today.

1970 British Petroleum announced the first major discovery of oil under the British sector of the North Sea.

1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

1978 For the first time in Britain, the International Motor Show was held outside London, its new home being the newly-completed National Exhibition Centre (NEC) near Birmingham.

1987 Black Monday. Millions of pounds were wiped off the value of shares and other financial markets around the world. Wall Street ended the day down 22%, a greater fall than the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

1989 The 'Guildford Four' had their convictions quashed after wrongly serving 14 years in prison for the IRA bombings at Guildford and Woolwich.

1991 London's Royal Opera House had to cancel its performance, as orchestra members, pursuing an industrial dispute, refused to wear dinner jackets and turned up in jeans.

2001 It was announced that a 'serious error' was made by researchers who wasted five years testing the wrong animal brains for BSE!

2001 Dennis Yates (aged 58), a Second World War memorabilia dealer, was jailed for 10 months for handling a wartime Enigma encoding machine. It was stolen from a display cabinet at Bletchley Park (codenamed Station X) on 1st April 2000 during an open day at the former top secret site. A separate charge, of blackmailing Christine Large, the director of Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, where the Abwehr Enigma G312 machine was kept, was ordered to lie on file. Following months of ransom demands, the machine, one of only three left in the world, was returned via BBC Two's Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman.

2011 After a 10 year legal battle, police and bailiffs began clearing the illegal part of the UK's largest travellers' site, at Dale Farm, Basildon, Es***.

2012 Trenton Oldfield, aged 36, who disrupted the 2012 University Boat Race by swimming between the boat race crews was jailed for six months for causing a public nuisance. Oldfield said that he was demonstrating against government cuts.

2012 Andrew Mitchell, the government chief whip, resigned after criticism for making rude remarks to police officers at the gates of Downing Street. It was alleged that he called police officers 'plebs'and that he had said to the officers - 'I thought you guys were supposed to f***ing help us'. In 2014 Mitchell lost a libel cases against both the Sun and PC Rowland and became liable for both parties' costs, which were estimated at £2m.

2012 Big Tex, a 52-foot statue and cultural icon in Dallas is destroyed by fire during the final weekend of the 2012 State Fair of Texas.

2013 The violin that was apparently played to calm passengers on the Titanic as it sank was sold for £900,000 in just 10 minutes at auction in Wiltshire. Bidding started at £50 and the violin had a guide price of £300,000. The bandleader Wallace Hartley aged 33, was from Colne in Lancashire and is buried in Colne cemetery. The words 'Nearer My God To Thee', the alleged last song that the band played on RMS Titanic, are engraved on the plinth along with a violin and bow.

2014 The death (at the age of 66) of the British actress and presenter Lynda Bellingham. The actress was best known for her long-running role as a mother in the 1980s Oxo TV adverts.

2015 US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought

Famous Birthday's

Jaap Eden
(1873 - 1925)

Peter Max
80th Birthday

Evander Holyfield
55th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745)

Ernest Rutherford
(1871 - 1937)

Famous Weddings

1926 Pathologist Howard Florey (28) weds Ethel Reed at Holy Trinity Church in Paddington, New South Wales

1991 Filmmaker Michael Moore (37) weds movie producer Kathleen Glynn (32)

1996 "Rescue Me" actor-comedian Lenny Clarke (43) weds former TV producer Jennifer Miller (31) at Martha's Vineyard in Cambridge, Massachusetts

2012 Grammy Award winning singer Justin Timberlake (31) weds "Total Recall" actress Jessica Biel (30) at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Fasano, Italy

2012 Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg Prince Guillaume (30) weds Countess of Belgium Stephanie de Lannoy (28) in a civil ceremony at the Hotel De Ville in Luxembourg

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20-10-2017, 04:30 PM

20 OCTOBER

1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade

1603 Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed

1632 The birth of English architect Christopher Wren. He was responsible for the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral following the Great Fire of London.

1714 The Coronation of King George I.

1720 The English pirate of the Caribbean, John Rackham was captured by the Royal Navy. He is most remembered for two things: the design of his Jolly Roger flag, a skull with crossed swords, which contributed to the popularization of the design, and for having two female crew members, Mary Read and his lover Anne Bonny.

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

1818 The Convention of 1818 signed between the US and the UK which, among other things, settles the Canada–US border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

1822 The first edition of the Sunday Times newspaper.

1822 The birth of Thomas Hughes, English author who wrote Tom Brown's Schooldays.

1842 The death (from consumption) aged just 26, of Grace Darling, an English lighthouse keeper’s daughter from the Longstone Lighthouse. She rowed out on 7th September 1838, to rescue survivors of the Forfarshire off the Farne Islands and became a national heroine.The Grace Darling memorial is within St. Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland.

1864 US President Abraham Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday

1890 The death of Sir Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, writer, soldier and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa and the discovery of Lake Tanganyika. Burton was one of the first non Muslims to enter the secret cities of Mecca and Medina.

1904 The birth of Dame Anna Neagle, British actress and former chorus dancer.

1915 Prime Minister David Lloyd George granted women their 'Right to Serve', thus opening up many new areas of employment for women. Trade Unionists were concerned that the move would depress wages.

1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence

1946 'Muffin the Mule', a wooden puppet operated by Annette Mills (sister of actor Sir John Mills) first appeared in a children's television programme on BBC TV.

1955 The publication of 'The Return of the King', the 3rd and final volume of 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien

1959 Women's colleges at Oxford University were given equal rights to those of the men's.

1960 D.H Lawrence's controversial novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' put Penguin Books in the dock at the Old Bailey, London. They were accused of publishing obscene material but were eventually found not guilty.

1968 The Convention of 1818 signed between the US and the UK which, among other things, settles the Canada–US border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

1973 Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Sydney Opera House in Australia, designed by Danish architect John Utzon.

1973 President Richard Nixon fires Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

1988 The British Government announced plans to change the law so that remaining silent could incriminate rather than protect a suspect.

1996 Oscar winners 'Wallace and Gromit' disappeared after being left in a taxi in New York. Both the life-size plastic models from Britain's award winning animation film were later found safe and well!

1997 'Brown Monday' on the London Stock Exchange with £10 billion being wiped off the value of shares after British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown failed to clarify his Government's stance on the European single currency.

2010 Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the biggest UK spending cuts for decades, with welfare, councils and police budgets all hit.

2012 Two people were taken to intensive care after hit-and-runs in Cardiff left a woman dead and 13 people injured.

Famous Birthday's

Dame Anna Neagle
(1904 - 1986)

Bela Lugosi
(1882 - 1956)

Jomo Kenyatta
(1891 - 1978)

Mickey Mantle
(1931 - 1995)

Famous Deaths

Charles Babbage
(1791 - 1871)

Herbert Hoover
(1874 - 1964)

Muammar Gaddafi
(1942 - 2011)

Famous Weddings

1853 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21)

1943 British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London

1949 Constitutional lawyer Phyllis Schlafly (25) weds attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr.

1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios

1973 Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty

Altobelli

21-10-2017, 01:23 AM

21 OCTOBER

1772 The birth, at Ottery St. Mary (Devon) of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The years 1797 and 1798, during which he lived at Coleridge Cottage, in Nether Stowey, Somerset, were among the most fruitful of Coleridge's life and where he wrote his notable poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.

1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

1805 At the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson gave his famous signal, ‘England expects...’ which flew from the HMS Victory shortly after 11:00 a.m. The British won this important battle against Napoleon’s combined French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar, south-west of Spain and left Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century but Nelson was one of the day’s casualties. Nelson's flagship, Victory is now preserved at Portsmouth.

1824 Portland cement, the modern building material, was first patented by Joseph Aspdin of Wakefield in Yorkshire. Its name is derived from its similarity to Portland stone, a type of building stone that was quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset.

1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War

1868 Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, the English inventor of the military tank, was born.

1879 Thomas Edison invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours

1921 George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.

1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

1940 Geoff Boycott, Yorkshire and England batsman was born.

1940 The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

1944 World War II: US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons

1950 Korean War: Heavy fighting began between forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment at the Battle of Yongju, also known as the Battle of the Apple Orchard.

1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1956 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi was captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ending the British military campaign in Kenya.

1958 The first women peers were introduced into the House of Lords.

1960 Britain launched its first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, at Barrow. The building, is Europe's largest ship building hall at almost 200 ft high and 900 ft long.

1966 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan when tons of slush, from a nearby coal slag tip weakened by rain, slid downhill and engulfed the village school, a farm and a row of terraced houses. The tragedy occurred at the beginning of the school day and on the day before the school closed for the half-term holiday. The children are buried in Aberfan's cemetery, on the hillside above the valley.

1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.

1975 Britain's unemployment figure reached 1,000,000 for the first time since World War II.

1982 Gerry Adams & Martin McGuinness made history by becoming the first members of Sinn Fein to be elected to the Ulster Assembly.

1985 In one of Britain's worst motorway crashes, 13 people were killed on the M6 motorway in Lancashire.

1988 A Greek cruise ship sank after a collision with a freighter. All 390 British schoolchildren and 81 teachers were rescued.

1993 Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee

1994 North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.

1996 Frances Lawrence, widow of headmaster Phillip Lawrence who was stabbed to death by a group of ****agers outside his school gates, launched a 'better citizenship campaign' to promote good behaviour in schools.

1997 'Candle in the Wind' - the re-working of the hit single Elton John sang live at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, was declared the biggest selling single in music history.

2011 St Paul's Cathedral was closed to visitors for the first time since World War II because of anti-capitalist demonstrators (the 'Occupy London Stock Exchange' movement) 'camping on its doorstep'. The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles said that the decision had been taken with a heavy heart, for health and safety reasons.

2012 The death (aged 99) of William Walker, the oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, who was shot down in his Spitfire and wounded in 1940.

Famous Birthday's

Alfred Nobel
(1833 - 1896)

Carrie Fisher
(1956 - 2016)

Kim Kardashian
37th Birthday

Geoff Boycott
76th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Horatio Nelson
(1758 - 1805)

Jack Kerouac
(1922 - 1969)

Famous Weddings

1917 Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)

1929 Bank robber Willie Sutton (28) weds Louise Leudemann

1948 Science fiction pioneering author "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd wife Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld

1977 Actor Peter Boyle (42) weds Loraine Alterman at the United Nations chapel in Manhattan

1995 "Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los Angeles

Altobelli

22-10-2017, 03:06 PM

22 OCTOBER

1633 Battle of Liaoluo Bay: Dutch East India Company defeated by Chinese Ming naval forces in southern Fujian sea

1707 Four British Royal Navy ships ran aground near the Isles of Scilly. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and more than 1,400 sailors drowned in one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of Britain. It was later determined that the main cause of the disaster was the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions.

1721 Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"

1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

1877 An explosion at the Blantyre mine in Scotland killed 207 miners the youngest aged 11. It remains Scotland’s worst mining accident.

1878 The first floodlit rugby match took place, between Broughton and Swinton, at Broughton, Lancashire.

1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb

1883 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian

1907 Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to US wide run on banks

1910 American born Doctor Hawley Crippen was convicted at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London of poisoning his wife Cora. Crippen was hanged on November 23rd at Pentonville prison.

1924 Toastmasters International is founded.

1930 The BBC Symphony Orchestra played their first concert, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult at the Queen’s Hall, London.

1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

1937 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Berlin to meet German leader Adolf Hitler, to study housing conditions.

1962 President Kennedy announces that American has discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

1963 A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner flown by test pilot Mike Lithgow, crashed during stall testing with the loss of all on board. Lithgow became the holder of the World Absolute Air Speed Record in 1953 flying a Supermarine Swift.

1966 A Russian KGB master spy, George Blake, escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in London where he was serving a 40 year sentence for spying against the British Government.

1966 The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).

1972 Gordon Banks, England’s star goalkeeper, damaged his eyes in a car crash.

1974 A bomb exploded in a London restaurant near to where opposition leader Edward Heath was dining. Three members of staff were injured.

1975 The 'Guildford Four' were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting IRA bombs in pubs in Guildford and Woolwich. Fif**** years later they had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal, following an extensive inquiry into the original police investigation.

1983 The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) held its biggest ever protest against nuclear missiles in London, with an estimated one million people taking part.

1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.

1986 The world’s youngest heart transplant patient, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby from north west London, was given the heart of a five-day-old Belgian boy by Professor Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital, Middle***.

2001 Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.

2001 Towns and villages in Cambridgeshire and Es*** were on flood alert as forecasters predicted more torrential downpours following what experts said were the worst floods in 20 years.

2001 The launch of the Beautiful Britain website! The first desktop wallpaper was a picture of Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands. If you have an all time favourite desktop wallpaper from the Beautiful Britain website then I'd be interested to know, via the Contact Form.

2006 The first episode ('Everything Changes') of the cult British science fiction television programme Torchwood, a spin-off of Doctor Who. Alien hunter Ianto Jones was played by Welsh actor Gareth David-Lloyd. Remarkably, there is a shrine at Cardiff Bay in honour of Torchwood's fictional Ianto Jones who 'gave his life in defence of the children of this planet' in 2009.

2013 Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall was stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of ***ual assaults on young girls. In June, Hall, aged 83, admitted 14 counts against girls aged from nine to 17 between 1967 and 1985. The Queen directed that the honour should be "cancelled and annulled" and his name be "erased" from the register.

Famous Birthday's

Franz Liszt
(1811 - 1886)

Joan Fontaine
(1917 - 2013)

Shaggy
49th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Paul Cézanne
(1839 - 1906)

Pretty Boy Floyd
(1904 - 1934)

Arnold J. Toynbee
(1889 - 1975)

Famous Weddings

1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón (50) weds actress Eva Perón (26) at a civil ceremony in Junin

1948 Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez (21) weds labor activist Helen Fabela (20) in Reno, Nevada

1967 Actor Morgan Freeman (30) weds Jeanette Adair Bradshaw

1970 Singer James Brown (37) weds Deidre Jenkins in Barnwell, South Carolina

1981 Best-selling author Michael Crichton (39) weds broadcast journalist Suzanne Childs

Famous Divorces

2007 Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson (40) divorces actress Kate Hudson (28) due to irreconcilable differences after nearly six years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

22-10-2017, 09:09 PM

Thank you Altobelli, as interesting as ever,I've enjoyed catching up on those

Altobelli

23-10-2017, 08:39 AM

23 OCTOBER

42 BC Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.

1641 The outbreak of the Irish Rebellion began as an attempted coup d'état by Irish Catholic gentry, who tried to seize control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions for the Catholics living under English rule. However, the coup failed and the rebellion developed into an ethnic conflict between the native Irish Catholics and the English and Scottish Protestant settlers.

1642 The first major battle of the English Civil War took place at Edgehill in South Warwickshire. Charles I and Prince Rupert led the Royalists and the Earl of Es*** led the Parliamentarians. It was an inconclusive result that prevented either faction gaining a quick victory in the war, which eventually lasted four years.

1843 Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square was finally completed. It commemorates Admiral Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

1861 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.

1906 In Britain, women suffragettes, campaigning for the right to vote, held a demonstration at the House of Commons. Ten were arrested and sent to prison.

1915 Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.

1917 Lenin calls for the October Revolution.

1922 The shortest term of office this century for a British Prime Minister began on this day when Andrew Bonar Law took office. Due to ill health, he was replaced six months later by Stanley Baldwin.

1931 The birth of Diana Dors, an actress remembered for her '*** symbol' roles.

1939 The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine "Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight.

1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt

1951 Conservative leader, Winston Churchill, wound up his election campaign by denying that he was a warmonger: "If I remain in public life at this juncture it is because I believe I may be able to make an important contribution to the prevention of a 3rd World War."

1954 Britain, the US, France and the USSR agreed to end the occupation of Germany. On the same day, the Western nations agreed to allow West Germany to enter NATO.

1958 The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs.

1966 John Surtees, British racing driver, won the Mexican Grand Prix.

1967 British farmers began slaughtering cattle following a severe outbreak of 'foot and mouth' disease.

1972 Access credit cards came into use in Britain.

1973 The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

1973 A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.

1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of a 3.4-billion year old one-celled fossil, the earliest life form

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion

1987 Former Champion Jockey Lester Piggott was jailed for three years for tax evasion.

1991 The House of Lords ruled that husbands could legally be convicted of raping their wives.

1995 Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. Three days later, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison.

1998 Swatch Internet Time, a measure of 1000 "beats" per day was inaugurated by the Swatch Group.

2001 The Northern Ireland peace process reached an historic breakthrough as the IRA announced that they were decommissioning their weapons.

2009 BNP leader Nick Griffin complained to the BBC over his controversial appearance on Question Time, saying that he had faced a "lynch mob". He was robustly questioned about his views on race, immigration and the Holocaust from a largely hostile audience. He criticised Islam, defended a past head of the Ku Klux Klan but insisted that he was "not a Nazi". Critics said the show had given the BNP huge publicity and the BNP claimed 3,000 people registered to join the party during and after the broadcast.

2012 The switchover to digital televison in the UK was complete when the analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland was turned off on Tuesday night at 23:30 BST. Simultaneously BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, launched on 23rd September 1974 took its final bow with a series of graphics on Ceefax's front page.

2013 Prince George, future king and future head of the Church of England was baptised at the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace.

2014 The death, aged 72, of the 1970s singing star Alvin Stardust. He died of metastatic prostate cancer

Famous Birthday's

Louis Riel
(1844 - 1885)

Pele
77th Birthday

Weird Al Yankovic
58th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Christian Dior
(1905 - 1957)

Maybelle Carter
(1909 - 1978)

Soong Mei-ling
(1897 - 2003)

Alvin Stardust
(1942 - 2014)

Famous Weddings

1918 Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)

1943 55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (80) weds second wife Frances Stevenson

1996 American caricaturist Al Hirshfeld (93) weds Louise Kerz

2010 Singer-songwriter Katy Perry (25) weds actor-comedian Russell Brand (35) at luxury resort Aman-i-Khas in Northern India

Altobelli

24-10-2017, 05:15 PM

24 OCTOBER

1260 Qutuz, Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60), is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself

1537 Henry VIII's 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, died following the birth of future king, Edward VI.

1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized

1842 The death (from consumption) aged just 26, of Grace Darling, an English lighthouse keeper’s daughter from the Longstone Lighthouse. She rowed out on 7th September 1838, to rescue survivors of the Forfarshire off the Farne Islands and became a national heroine.The Grace Darling memorial is within St. Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland.

1857 The founding of the world's first official football club, Sheffield Football Club, in Yorkshire, by a group of former students from Cambridge University. The club's finest hour came in 1904 when they won the FA Amateur Cup, a competition conceived after a suggestion by Sheffield. They are commemorated by the English Football Hall of Fame for their significant place in football history.

1895 The birth of Jack Warner OBE, the English film and television actor who is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon in the BBC television series Dixon of Dock Green, a part he played until the age of eighty.

1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel.

1908 Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were sent to prison for ‘inciting the public to rush the House of Commons’. Two Cabinet ministers were witnesses for the defence including Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1922 George Cadbury, the English chocolate manufacturer, died aged 83.

1926 Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.

1929 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

1931 The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.

1945 The United Nations was formed with the aim to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.'

1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.

1961 Malta was granted independence from Britain.

1962 Cuban missile crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba

1969 British actor Richard Burton bought his wife, American actress Elizabeth Taylor, a 69.42 carat diamond costing more than half a million pounds. Born at Pontrhydyfen, this Richard Burton sculpture is on the Richard Burton Trail in the Afan Forest Park in Neath - Port Talbot

1976 British Formula One driver James Hunt won the Japanese Grand Prix and secured the world championship.

1983 Civil servant Dennis Nilsen, from North London, went on trial accused of six murders and two attempted murders.

1985 The birth of Wayne Rooney, English footballer. He made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player at that time to represent England.

1986 The UK government broke off diplomatic relations with Syria following revelations of complicity in a plot to blow up an El Al airliner.

1987 Heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno knocked out Joe Bugner in Britain's most hyped boxing match, held at White Hart Lane, London. Bruno took home £750,000, Bugner got £250,000.

1995 Britain's main church leaders attacked the setting up of Britain's first National Lottery, accusing it of undermining public culture and damaging society.

2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.

2003 The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, made its last commercial passenger flight amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport. Concorde was retired after 27 years due to a general downturn in the aviation industry after the 11th September terrorist attacks in 2001 and a decision by Airbus to discontinue maintenance support.

2004 Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.

2008 'Bloody Friday' saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

2012 Sir Norman Bettison resigned as chief constable of West Yorkshire Police, saying that an inquiry into his role after the Hillsborough football tragedy of 1989 was 'a distraction' to the force. At the time he was a South Yorkshire Police inspector who attended the match as a spectator and later took part in an internal inquiry. He denied claims that he helped 'concoct' a false version of events.

Famous Birthday's

Domitian
(51 - 96)

Moss Hart
(1904 - 1961)

F. Murray Abraham
78th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Tycho Brahe
(1546 - 1601)

Jackie Robinson
(1919 - 1972)

Rosa Parks
(1913 - 2005)

Famous Weddings

1867 US Admiral George Dewey (29) weds daughter of New Hampshire's war governor Susan Goodwin

1969 "Love Story" actress Ali MacGraw (30) weds film producer Robert Evans (39)

1976 Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (73) weds Mary Morgan

2013 Country music singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe (27) weds MLB pitcher John Danks (28) at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee

2015 Comedian Tig Notaro (44) weds girlfriend Stephanie Allynne in Pass Christian, Mississippi

chalky_ncfc

24-10-2017, 05:19 PM

Nice one Altobelli, thought that you had forgotten

Altobelli

24-10-2017, 05:23 PM

Nice one Altobelli, thought that you had forgotten

Just having one of those days Chalky :(

chalky_ncfc

24-10-2017, 05:31 PM

Just having one of those days Chalky :(

At least you are over the hill now (that's the day done not you personally)

Altobelli

25-10-2017, 11:55 AM

25 OCTOBER

1400 The death of Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet famous for the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

1415 In the Hundred Year's War, King Henry V's Longbowmen defeated a numerically superior French Army at the Battle of Agincourt. His victory crippled France and started a new period in the war, during which Henry married the French king's daughter and his son, Henry VI, was made heir to the throne of France.

1760 King George II died. George III Hanover, his grandson, became king. In the later part of his life, George III suffered from recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness which may have been caused by a blood disease. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent.

1800 The birth of Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician. He was a member of the supreme council of India from 1834 - 1838 and pressed for parliamentary reform and the abolition of slavery.

1828 The St Katharine Docks opened in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. They were part of the Port of London, in the area now known as the Docklands, and are now a popular housing and leisure complex.

1839 Bradshaw's Railway Guide, the world's first railway timetable, was published, in Manchester.

1854 Lord Cardigan led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. An ambiguous order from the commander, Lord Raglan, led Cardigan’s brave cavalry to charge the Russians while fire came from three different sides.

1861 The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.

1920 The Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died in Brixton Prison after 74 days on hunger strike.

1927 The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

1938 The Archbishop of Dubuque denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people."

1940 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

1944 Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a youth culture in that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

1944 The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Nuremberg

1951 Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher), aged 26, of the Conservative Party, became the youngest candidate to stand at a general election. The Conservatives won a narrow overall majority but the future British Prime Minister failed to win the seat.

1962 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.

1962 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

1964 The Beatles won five UK Ivor Novello Awards - 1963's Most Broadcast Song, and Top-Selling Single 'She Loves You', Second Best-Selling Single 'I Want to Hold your Hand', Second Most Outstanding Song 'All My Loving', and the Most Outstanding Contribution to Music.

1971 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China

1976 The new National Theatre on the South Bank in London, was officially opened after years of delays.

1978 Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool.

1995 Fans gathered outside Buckingham Palace, to sing 'Congratulations' after singer Cliff Richard formally received his knighthood.

2001 British Crime Survey revealed that the chances of being a victim of crime were the lowest for 20 years.

2004 John Peel, veteran BBC broadcaster and Radio 1 DJ died, aged 65, from a heart attack whilst in Peru on holiday. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death.

2004 Cuban President Fidel Castro announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.

2013 A dog walker found around sixty thousand pounds in banknotes (some charred after being burnt), floating in a Lincolnshire waterway (South Drove Drain in Spalding) . Six months later police were still following up a number of lines of enquiry.

2013 The former Labour home and foreign secretary, Jack Straw (67) announced that he was to stand down as MP for Blackburn at the next general election.He was elected in Blackburn in 1979 and stood in eight general elections in the constituency.

Famous Birthday's

Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)

Richard E. Byrd
(1888 - 1957)

Katy Perry
33rd Birthday

James McIlroy MBE
86th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Albert Anastasia
(1902 - 1957)

Bobby Riggs
(1918 - 1995)

Bill Sharman
(1926 - 2013)

John Peel
(1939 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1764 Future 2nd American President John Adams (28) weds Abigail Smith (19) in Weymouth, Massachusetts (marriage lasts 54 years)

1777 Governor of Virginia Patrick Henry (41) weds second wife Dorothea Dandridge

1859 US President Chester A. Arthur (30) weds Ellen Herndon (22) at Calvary Episcopal Church in NYC, New York

1915 Leader of China's 1911 revolution Sun Yat-sen (48) weds second wife Soong Ching-ling

1945 Painter Jackson Pollock (33) weds painter Lee Krasner (27)

Altobelli

26-10-2017, 10:59 AM

26 OCTOBER

0899 King Alfred the Great, Saxon King of Wes*** is believed to have died on this date. A soldier and scholar, he fought against the invading Danes and formed England's first navy. His son, Edward the Elder became King. Winchester was Alfred's capital, and he developed the town and to keep it safe from attack. This statue of him is in the town.

1640 The Treaty of Ripon was signed, by Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Scottish Covenanters. It was a major setback for Charles, and its terms were humiliating. It stipulated that Northumberland and County Durham were to be ceded to the Scots as an interim measure, that Newcastle was to be left in the hands of the Scots, and that Charles was to pay them £850 a day to maintain their armies there.

1775 King George III went before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.

1776 Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.

1825 The Erie Canal opens: Passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.

1850 Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island)

1859 The Royal Charter steam clipper was wrecked in Dulas Bay, off the coast of Anglesey, with almost 460 dead, the highest death toll of any shipwreck off the Welsh coast. The exact number of dead was not verified as the passenger list was lost in the wreck.

1861 Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months

1863 The Football Association was formed at a meeting at Freeman's Tavern in London.

1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross

1881 The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.

1901 First recorded use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris

1907 The Territorial Army was formed by the Secretary of State for War, Richard Haldane.

1929 London's world famous buses were painted red.

1936 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.

1950 The first sound and vision broadcast from the House of Commons was broadcast, showing George VI reopening the chamber after repair work carried out on damage sustained during the war.

1965 The Beatles went to Buckingham Palace to be presented with their MBEs by Queen Elizabeth II. Four years later, John Lennon sent back his MBE, stating that he was returning the award in protest against British involvement in Biafra, Nigeria, and Vietnam.

1970 Muhammad Ali faces off against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time after Ali's three year hiatus from evading to be drafted in the Vietnam War.

1977 The birth of Dame Sarah Storey, Britain's most decorated female Paralympian. Her list of major achievements (as of October 2015) include being a 21-time World champion (6 in swimming and 15 in cycling), a 21-time European champion (18 in swimming and 3 in cycling) and a holder of 72 world records. There is a sculpture to her and her husband 'Barney' Storey in their home town of Disley, Cheshire.

1977 Last natural case of smallpox discovered in Merca district, Somalia. Considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination

1984 "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.

1986 Leading politician Jeffrey Archer was forced to resign from the deputy chairmanship of the Conservative party following allegations that he made a payment to a prostitute to avoid a scandal. He denied the allegations and later fought a successful libel case.

1989 The re-built Globe Theatre in London reopened for the first time in 350 years.

1989 The British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson resigned over policy differences with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. John Major replaced him.

1992 The London Ambulance Service was thrown into chaos after the failure of a new Computer Aided Dispatch system. Its poor design and implementation led to significant delays in the assigning of ambulances, with reports of 11 hour waits. Media reports at the time claimed that up to 30 people may have died as a result of the chaos. The then-chief executive, John Wilby, resigned shortly afterwards.

2000 The long awaited report into the spread of BSE or 'mad cow disease' and its fatal human equivalent, vCJD, criticised officials, scientists and government ministers.

2001 British troops were put on standby for action in Afghanistan as Tony Blair warned that Osama bin Laden must be stopped.

2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

2002 Approximately 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater in Moscow, which had been occupied by Chechen terrorists three days before.

2012 Six care workers at Winterbourne View care home (Gloucestershire) were given prison sentences for 'particularly cruel … callous and degrading' abuse of disabled patients.' The defendents were were secretly filmed by BBC Panorama, slapping extremely vulnerable residents, soaking them in water, trapping them under chairs, taunting and swearing at them, pulling their hair and poking their eyes.

2014 Camp Bastion, the last UK base in Afghanistan, was handed over to the control of Afghan security forces, ending British combat operations in the country.

Famous Birthday's

Edward W. Brooke
(1919 - 2015)

Hillary Clinton
70th Birthday

Seth MacFarlane
44th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815 - 1902)

Hattie McDaniel
(1895 - 1952)

Igor Sikorsky
(1889 - 1972)

Famous Weddings

1789 Lexicographer Noah Webster (31) weds Rebecca Greenleaf

1953 Tennis champion Tony Trabert (23) weds beauty queen Shauna Wood at the Salt Lake Country Club in Salt Lake City, Utah

1963 Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (30) weds director-producer William Asher (42) in El Paso, Texas

1968 Lawyer and politician Rudy Giuliani (24) weds second cousin Regina Peruggi (22) in a large Roman Catholic ceremony in Bedford Park, The Bronx

2002 American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (22) weds singer-songwriter Nick Lachey (28) at Riverbend Church in Austin, Texas

Altobelli

27-10-2017, 12:29 AM

27 OCTOBER

312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross

939 Edmund I succeeded Athelstan as King of England.

1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1644 The Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War took place in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire. The combined armies of Parliament inflicted a tactical defeat on the Royalists, but failed to gain any strategic advantage.

1662 Charles II of England sold the coastal town of Dunkirk to King Louis XIV of France.

1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.

1728 The birthday of Captain James Cook, English naval officer and one of the greatest navigators in history. His voyages in the Endeavour led to the European discovery of Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands. Thanks to Cook’s understanding of diet, no member of the crew ever died of scurvy, the great killer on other voyages. In his youth he was apprenticed to a ship owner in Whitby.

1795 Pinckney's Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River

1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.

1914 Birth of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. He had a long affinity with Laugharne, spending the last four years of his life in the Boathouse -

1914 World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious was sunk off Tory Island, north-west Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, Sir John Jellicoe, proposed that the sinking be kept a secret, to which the Board of Admiralty and the British Cabinet agreed, and for the rest of the war, Audacious' name remained on all public lists of ship movements and activities.

1936 American Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor, was granted a divorce from her second husband Ernest, leaving her free to marry King Edward VIII.

1939 The birth of John Cleese, actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He appeared in BBC TV's Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, and has starred in many films including the four Monty Python films, Clockwise and A Fish called Wanda.

1952 The BBC screened part one of the 26 part series 'Victory At Sea', Britain's first TV documentary.

1958 The birth of Simon Le Bon, English musician, best known as the lead singer, lyricist and musician of the band Duran Duran.

1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba

1962 Major Rudolf Anderson of the USAF becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba.

1964 Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".

1965 An airliner crashed at Heathrow, killing 36 people.

1967 Britain passed the Abortion Act, allowing abortions to be performed legally for medical reasons.

1967 Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.

1968 An estimated 6,000 marchers, demonstrating against the Vietnam War, faced up to police outside the US Embassy in London.

1978 Four people were killed and four others seriously wounded after a gunman (Barry Williams) went on a shooting spree on the Bustleholm estate, Wednesbury and later at a service station in Nuneaton.

1980 The start of a hunger strike by Republican prisoners interned in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.

1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people

1986 The government suddenly deregulated financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operated, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

1987 Gilbert McNamee was sentenced to 25 years in prison for being an IRA bomb maker

1988 Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, ultimately resulting in the "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

1998 Welsh Secretary Ron Davies resigned after what he described as his 'inappropriate behaviour' late at night on Clapham Common, London which led to him being robbed at knife point.

Famous Birthday's

James Cook
(1728 - 1779)

Theodore Roosevelt
(1858 - 1919)

John Gotti
(1940 - 2002)

Famous Deaths

Ivan the Great
(1440 - 1505)

Akbar
(1542 - 1605)

Ivan the Great
(1462 - 1505)

Lou Reed
(1942 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1880 Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday

1910 Baseball legend Connie Mack (47) weds Katherine Holahan

1964 Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms

1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan

1984 "Jessie's Girl" singer Rick Springfield (35) weds Barbara Porter in Australia

chalky_ncfc

27-10-2017, 07:37 PM

Cheers Altobelli, 1914's sinking of HMS Audacious is particularly interesting

Altobelli

28-10-2017, 12:02 PM

Cheers Altobelli, 1914's sinking of HMS Audacious is particularly interesting

I looked on the internet for more on the Audacious also Chalky, amongst others.

With the thread seemingly getting an average of 32 views every day I would have thought more would comment on something as there must be an event at sometime that interest's someone.

chalky_ncfc

28-10-2017, 01:08 PM

I often look up events after reading about them on this thread,there have been some great titbits to get your mind thinking ,at least the tread is getting read Altobelli and that's the main thing

Altobelli

28-10-2017, 01:17 PM

28 OCTOBER

1216 Henry III was crowned. His son was England's warrior king, Edward I.

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain

1538 The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola

1636 A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

1664 The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly referred to as the Royal Marines, was established. It was originally known as The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot.

1746 Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die

1794 The birth of Robert Liston, Scottish physician who carried out Britain's first operation with the aid of an anaesthetic.

1831 English physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated the dynamo, founding the science of electro-magnetism.

1886 In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1893 HMS Havelock, the Royal Navy's first destroyer, went on trials.

1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints

1912 The birth of Sir (William) Richard Doll, English physician and cancer researcher who first proved the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.

1915 Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem "Eine Alpensinfonie" in Berlin.

1919 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto

1922 March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

1924 Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child" in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus.

1929 1929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida

1930 The birth of Bernie Ecclestone English business magnate who is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One motor racing. His early involvement in the sport was as a competitor and then manager and, in 1972, he bought the Brabham team, which he ran for fif**** years. As a team owner he became a member of the Formula One Constructors' Association.

1938 David Dimbleby, TV journalist and commentator was born.

1949 The glove puppet Sooty, with Harry Corbett, made his first appearance on BBC TV.

1958 The State Opening of Parliament was televised for the first time.

1959 The first use of a car phone, with a call from Cheshire to London. A mere twenty five people had paid the astronomical sum of £200 each for one of the phones.

1962 The opening of Britain's first urban motorway - the M62 (now M60) around Manchester.

1962 End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

1965 Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.

1971 The House of Commons backed Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath and, by a majority of 112, voted for Britain to apply to join the EEC - the European Economic Community.

1974 Sports Minister Denis Howell's wife and young son survived a bomb attack on their car. The attack was thought to be the work of the Provisional IRA and the first on a serving minister during the current IRA campaign.

1979 Chairman Hua Kuo-Feng, the first Chinese leader to visit Britain, was welcomed at Heathrow by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (Additional note - Margaret Thatcher was born at this former grocer's shop in Grantham Lincolnshire.

2000 Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble narrowly won party support to keep a Northern Ireland power sharing government alive.

2005 Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

2007 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.

2011 Commonwealth leaders pledged to amend legislation dating back to the 17th century to allow daughters of the monarch to take precedence over younger sons in the line of succession.

2011 Vincent Tabak, a 33 year old Dutch engineer with an obsession for violent *** and ****ography, was found guilty of strangling landscape architect Joanna Yeates for ***ual thrills. Her body was found, covered with leaves on Christmas morning 2010. The police initially suspected and arrested Christopher Jefferies, Yeates' landlord, who lived in a flat in the same building. The nature of press reporting on aspects of the case led to 'substantial, undisclosed libel damages' from eight newspapers being awarded to Mr. Jefferies.

2014 105 year old Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis was awarded the Czech Republic's highest state honour, the Order of the White Lion. He was aged 29 when he arranged trains to take the children out of occupied Czechoslovakia and for foster families to meet them in London.

2014 Tesco's Aberystwyth store made a blunder on a Welsh sign which was supposed to advertise 'free money' from the supermarket's cashpoint. The sign read "codiad am ddim", meaning free erections when it should read "arian am ddim" which means free money.

Famous Birthday's

Jonas Salk
(1914 - 1995)

Evelyn A Waugh
(1903 - 1966)

Bill Gates
62nd Birthday

Julia Roberts
50th Birthday

Hank Marvin
76th Birthday

Dennis Lillie
68th Birthday

Wayne Fontana
72nd Birthday

Cleo Laine
90th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Maxentius
( - 312)

John Locke
(1632 - 1704)

Abigail Adams
(1744 - 1818)

John Wallis
(1617 - 1703)

Ted Hughes
(1930 - 1998)

Famous Weddings

1533 Prince Henry of France (later Henry II) (14) marries Florentine noblewoman Catherine de' Medici (14)

1863 Painter Edouard Manet (31) weds Suzanne Leenhoff (34)

1869 Sarawak's head of state Charles Brooke (40) weds Margaret Alice Lili de Windt (20) at Highworth, Wiltshire

1981 Film director David Lean (73) weds fifth wife Sandra Hotz

2004 Economist Joseph Stiglitz (61) weds professor Anya Schiffrin (41) at the Municipal Building in New York

Altobelli

29-10-2017, 02:00 AM

29 OCTOBER

539 BC King Cyrus "the Great" of Persia marches into Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home

1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily

1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, English seafarer, courtier, writer and once a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I (he named Virginia after her) was beheaded at Whitehall. He had been falsely accused of treason and sentenced to death, commuted to imprisonment. He was released after 13 years to try and find the legendary gold of El Dorado. He failed, and returned to an undeserved fate.

1656 Edmund Halley, British astronomer, was born.

1665 Battle of Mbwila [Ambuila],: Portuguese forces defeat forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King Antonio I of Kongo / Nvita a Nkanga

1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

1843 The world's first telegram was sent, from Paddington to Slough.

1863 Eigh**** countries, including Britain, met in Geneva and agreed to form the International Red Cross. The final resolutions adopted included The foundation of national relief societies for wounded soldiers - Neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers and a protection symbol for medical personnel in the field, namely a white armlet bearing a red cross.

1886 Fred Archer rode the last of his 2746 winners at Newmarket, retiring as a jockey after 16 years.

1901 Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

1929 The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

1945 The Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment was set up in England.

1960 An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.

1961 Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.

1964 A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

1971 In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.

1972 The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

1975 More than 20 people were injured in an IRA bomb attack on a restaurant in Mayfair, London.

1975 The world’s largest mining complex was opened at Selby, Yorkshire. Selby is now an attractive market town with an ancient abbey that dates back to shortly after the Norman conquest.

1983 Yachtsman Chay Blyth had to cancel his plans to create a new world clipper record when his trimaran capsized 500 miles east of New York.

1986 The final section of the M25 was opened. The motorway around Greater London was designed to relieve traffic congestion within the capital.

1988 Two of Britain’s greatest middle distance runners, Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram, re-ran the 367 metre ‘Chariots of Fire’ race around the Great Court at Trinity College, Cambridge. Sebastian Coe was the winner in 45.52 seconds. In the original race Lord Burghley crossed the line in 42.5 seconds.

1989 Eight people died when winds of almost 100mph struck South Wales and the West of England, causing flooding, fallen trees and power cuts.

1998 Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

2003 The Conservative Party leader, Iain Duncan Smith, resigned after failing to win the backing of his fellow MPs.

2004 Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which he first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2008 TV and radio presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were suspended. All their shows were taken off air whilst the BBC investigated their prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) and comments made about the actor's granddaughter.

2010 Take That fans complained after facing major problems buying tickets to see Robbie Williams tour with the group for the first time in 16 years. The websites of official agencies including Ticketmaster, See Tickets, Ticketline and The Ticket Factory all buckled under the strain as the tickets went on sale at 0900 BST.

2012 The UK's first fourth generation (4G) mobile service was launched. 11 cities - London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow and Southampton had access to network EE's 4G from Tuesday morning, 30th October.

2012 Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.

2013 The Lonely Planet Guide named Yorkshire as one of the top places in the world to visit. It put the area third in the top 10 world regions, behind destinations in India and Australia.

2013 Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.

2014 The Serious Fraud Office initiated a criminal investigation into accounting irregularities at supermarket giant Tesco after the supermarket announced that its profits had been overstated by £263m.

2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years

Famous Birthday's

Joseph Goebbels
(1897 - 1945)

Robert Hardy
(1925 - 20170

Edwin van der Sar
47th Birthday

Matthew Hayden
46th Birthday

Robert Pirès
44th Birthday

Michael Vaughan
43rd Birthday

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
79th Birthday

Richard Dreyfuss
70th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Walter Raleigh
( - 1618)

Nathan Bedford Forrest
(1821 - 1877)

George McClellan
(1826 - 1885)

Jimmy Savile
(1927 - 2011)

Famous Weddings

437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius

1994 Impressionist Rich Little (55) weds comedian Jeannette Markey (28) at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas

2004 "Jackass" member Chris Pontius (30) weds Claire Nolan in Malibu

2011 Actress Eva Amurri (26) weds former Major League Soccer player Kyle Martino (31) in Charleston, South Carolina

Famous Divorces

1951 Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and 1st wife Nancy (Barbato) divorce due to infidelity after 12 years of marriage

2010 Country singer Randy Travis (51) divorces manager Lib Hatcher due to state of incompatibility exists between the two parties after 19 long years of marriage. One of country music's longest-lasting couples

Altobelli

30-10-2017, 01:08 PM

30 OCTOBER

1340 Battle of Rio Salado Battle (or Tarifa): King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan 'Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada, last Marīnids invasion of Iberian Peninsula

1470 Henry VI returned to the English throne after the Earl of Warwick (known as Warwick the Kingmaker) defeated the Yorkists in battle.

1485 The coronation of Henry VII of England. He founded the Yeoman of the Guard - 'Beefeaters' - to guard Royal Palaces in London.

1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England - a role formerly held by the Pope

1580 English explorer Sir Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the world when his ship, the 'Golden Hind', arrived back at Plymouth on the south coast of England.

1899 Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith

1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament)

1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration

1922 Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.

1925 In his workshop in London, Scotsman John Logie Baird achieved the transmission of the first television pictures using the head of a dummy as his image source.. He then persuaded a 15 year old office boy, William Taynton, to sit in front of a camera, becoming the first live person captured on camera.

1935 The birth of Michael Winner, former film director, producer, and food critic for the Sunday Times until his death in 2013. An active proponent of law enforcement issues he established the Police Memorial Trust after WPC Yvonne Fletcher was murdered in 1984.

1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States

1941 World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations

1942 Three British Royal Navy personel - Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and can**** assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard boarded the sinking German submarine U-559, and retrieved ***** instruments and documentation which would later lead the Bletchley Park codebreakers to crack the German Enigma code. Brown was the only one of the three to survive when the submarine sank. All three received the George Cross Medal and Tommy Brown (aged 16 and too young to be at sea at the time ) is the youngest person to have ever received that award.

1944 Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die the following year, shortly before the end of WWII

1957 The Government revealed details of plans to reform the House of Lords, which included creating the first women life peerages.

1960 English surgeon Michael Woodruff performed Britain's first successful kidney transplant, at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

1961 Because of "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb

1965 English model Jean Shrimpton wore a miniskirt to the first day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival in Australia. The event became a milestone in the advancement of the mini as the defining fashion of the 1960s.

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time

1974 The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire

1974 As a member of the California Angels, Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9 miles per hour

1979 Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer and inventor of the wartime dam busting 'bouncing bomb' died. The pilots of 617 squadron used Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire to practice their low level flying. There is a memorial to them at Derwent Dam.

1984 The 3 surviving members of the 'Beatles' Pop group were given the freedom of the City of Liverpool. Harrison refused to attend.

1990 English and French tunnellers met for the first time underneath the English Channel during the construction of the Channel Tunnel.

1995 At Winchester Crown Court, Rosemary West, the wife of serial killer Frederick West, broke her 20 month silence to plead her innocence over her husband's murders.

2001 Farmer Tony Martin, the loner who shot dead a ****age burglar, was cleared of murder but told he must spend at least another year in jail.

Famous Birthday's

Christopher Columbus
(1451 - 1506)

John Adams
(1735 - 1826)

Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972)

Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1821 - 1881)

Michael Winner
(1935 - 2013)

Otis Williams
76th Birthday

Henry Winkler
72nd Birthday

Diego Maradona
57th Birthday

Courtney Walsh
55th Birthday

Ivanka Trump
36th Birthday

Ashley Barnes
28th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Charles Tupper
(1821 - 1915)

Bonar Law
(1858 - 1923)

Steve Allen
(1921 - 2000)

William Cavendish-Bentinck
(1738 - 1809)

Sir Barnes Wallis
(1887 - 1979)

Famous Weddings

1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina

1991 Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29)

2004 Blink-182 pop punk band drummer Travis Barker (28) weds actress and First Runner Up Miss USA 1995 Shanna Moakler (29) at the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, California

2012 Actress Evan Rachel Wood (25) weds "Billy Elliott" actor Jamie Bell (26) in California

Altobelli

31-10-2017, 05:09 PM

31 OCTOBER

1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church - precipitates the Protestant Reformation

1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

1795 The birth of John Keats, English romantic poet.

1828 The birth of Sir Joseph Swan, English chemist and inventor. Both he and Edison were separately credited with the invention of the electric lamp. Edison was first, but his had a much shorter life and was therefore not practical.

1863 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato in North Island. In 1995 the Waikato Tainui tribe completed negotiations with the New Zealand government and accepted a settlement package worth approximately 1 percent of the value of the lands confiscated in 1863.

1864 Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state

1876 Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), over 200,000 killed

1888 Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop patented pneumatic bicycle tyres.

1903 Hampden Park football ground - Glasgow, was opened.

1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States

1915 For the first time during World War I, British troops wore steel helmets.

1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse

1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week

1923 The first of 160 consecutive days of 100º Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia

1926 Jimmy Savile, radio and TV entertainer was born. In October 2012 numerous allegations were made that Savile had ***ually abused up to 200 young people, dating back to 1958. In the aftermath, his gravestone at Scarborough was removed at the request of Savile's family and plaques and statues of him in other locations were removed to prevent further defacement.

1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures

1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ended. Britain had successfully avoided a possible German invasion.

1941 A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, Yorkshire killed 49.

1941 After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed

1951 Zebra crossings came into use for the first time in Britain.

1955 Princess Margaret called off her plans to marry divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend.

1956 Britain and France bombed Egypt in retaliation for the barring of their ships from the Suez Canal.

1963 An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show. A faulty propane tank connection iis blamed

1964 The Windmill Theatre off London’s Piccadilly Circus finally closed after 32 years. Their slogan ‘We Never Closed’ was a tribute to them staying open to troops during the war.

1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam."

1971 A terrorist bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London. The building has been closed to the public ever since.

1973 Three Provisional IRA members escaped from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that briefly landed in the prison's exercise yard. As the helicopter took off, one officer, in the confusion shouted 'Close the gates, close the ******* gates.' The escape resulted in all IRA prisoners held at Mountjoy Prison being transferred to the maximum security Portlaoise Prison.

1982 The Thames barrier, part of London's flood defences, was raised for the first time.

1988 Coventry became Britain's first city to introduce a by-law banning the drinking of alcohol in public places. Coventry was made famous much earlier by Lady Godiva who, in 1678, clothed only in her long hair, rode through the city after her husband agreed to repeal the taxes if she would strip naked and ride through the streets.

1997 A 19 year old British au pair Louise Woodward, was found guilty by a court in America of murdering 8 month old Matthew Eappen.

2002 A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron CEO Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice

2008 Officials asked for the Welsh translation of a bilingual road sign which in English read - "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only." When the automatic e-mail came back from Swansea council it read "Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw waith i'w gyfieithu" and this was duly printed on the road sign. Only later was it discovered that the Welsh part of the sign said "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."

2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations

2013 TV cameras were allowed to record proceedings at the Court of Appeal in England and Wales for the first time. Senior judges and major broadcasters welcomed the move, which the head of BBC News said was a "landmark moment".

Famous Birthday's

John Keats
(1795 - 1821)

Chiang Kai-shek
(1887 - 1975)

Jimmy Savile
(1926 - 2011)

Eddie Charlton
(1929 - 2004)

Michael Landon
(1936 - 1991

John Candy
(1950 - 1994)

John Evelyn
(1620 - 1706)

Tom O'Connor
78th Birthday

Vanilla Ice
50th Birthday

Matt Dawson
45th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Harry Houdini
(1874 - 1926)

Brian Cobby
(1929 - 2012)

Indira Gandhi
(1917 - 1984)

River Phoenix
(1970 - 1993)

Famous Weddings

1968 Singer Davy Jones (22) weds actress Linda Haines

1970 "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) weds singer Michelle Phillips (26) in Mexico

1980 Baptist minister Al Sharpton (26) weds back up singer Kathy Jordan

Famous Divorces

1976 NBA legend Larry Bird (19) divorces highschool sweetheart Janet Condra only 11 months after getting married

2011 Socialite and model Kim Kardashian (31) divorces basketball player Kris Humphries (26) due to irreconcilable differences only 72 days after getting married

Altobelli

01-11-2017, 11:07 AM

01 NOVEMBER

1512 The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time

1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was presented for the first time, at The Palace of Whitehall in London. The palace was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698. Seven years to the day, Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest was also presented for the first time, and also at the Palace of Whitehall.

1611 William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London

1688 William III of Orange set out from the Netherlands to invade England and to overthrow James II of England during the Glorious Revolution. William's successful invasion led to him ascending the English throne as William III of England jointly with his wife Mary II.

1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal

1762 The birth of Spencer Perceval who was later assassinated in the House of Commons. To date he is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated.

1765 Parliament enacted the Stamp Act on the 13 American colonies to help pay for British military operations there. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

1870 In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast

1800 John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.

1848 WH Smith opened its first railway bookstall, at Euston Station in London.

1858 Following the bloody events of the Indian Mutiny, Queen Victoria was proclaimed ruler of India, replacing the reign of the East India Company.

1887 The birth of L.S Lowry, English artist, famous for his matchstick figures. The Lowry theatre and art gallery is at Salford Quays. Lowry spent many holidays at Berwick-upon-Tweed and painted many scenes such as Bridge End and Berwick Harbour.

1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris

1896 A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time

1911 The first Woman's Weekly magazine was published in Britain.

1914 World War I: The Royal Navy suffered its first defeat of the war with Germany at the Battle of Coronel, fought off the western coast of Chile. HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth were both sunk, with a combined loss of 1,570 lives and no survivors from either ship.

1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

1922 The first radio licences went on sale in Britain at a cost of ten shillings (50p).

1927 Betting tax was first levied in Britain. Two days later the bookies went on strike at Windsor in protest.

1939 The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world

1941 Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography

1944 Britain's Home Guard, formed in 1939 to fight the expected German invasion, was ordered to disband.

1945 It was announced that all available evidence supported the theory that German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in Berlin.

1951 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary

1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean

1956 Premium Bonds first went on sale in Britain with the winning numbers picked at random by a machine with the acronym 'ERNIE'. The first Premium Bond was bought by the then Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd.

1959 The first stretch of the M1 motorway linking London with the North of England was opened.

1982 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio

1990 The UK's deputy Prime Minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe, resigned after disagreements over the government's European policy.

2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang

2014 A pilot was killed and another injured as Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space tourism craft crashed in the California desert. Richard Branson said - "Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together."

Famous Birthday's

Spencer Perceval
(1762 - 1812)

L. S. Lowry
(1887 -1976)

Ted Lowe
(1920 - 2011)

Alfred Wegener
(1880 - 1930)

Gary Player
82nd Birthday

Larry Flynt
75th Birthday

Sharron Davies
55th Birthday

Mark Hughes
54th Birthday

V V S Laxman
43rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972)

Walter Payton
(1954 - 1999)

Man o' War
(1917 - 1947)

Famous Weddings

1940 Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening

1954 Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii

1986 MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)

1988 US Actors Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis marry in Las Vegas

2003 "Showgirls" actress Elizabeth Berkley (31) weds artist Greg Lauren (33) at Esperanza Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Famous Divorces

1947 Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage

1954 Actor John Wayne (47) divorces actress Esperanza Baur due to drunken violence after 7 years of marriage

1982 Director Martin Scorsese (39) divorces Isabella Rossellini (30) after 3 years of marriage

2010 Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two-and-a-half years of marriage

outwoodclaret

01-11-2017, 10:26 PM

The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was followed by a tsunami and firestorm. It is central event in Voltaire’s satirical novel Candide. It’s all for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

chalky_ncfc

01-11-2017, 10:55 PM

The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was followed by a tsunami and firestorm.

That must have been a proper **** weekend tbf

Altobelli

02-11-2017, 01:33 PM

02 NOVEMBER

1470 The birth of King Edward V of England, one of the two 'princes in the Tower'. Along with his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, Edward 'disappeared' after being sent (allegedly for safety reasons) to the Tower of London. Responsibility for their deaths is widely attributed to his uncle, Richard III, but the actual events have remained controversial for centuries.

1636 The birth of Edward Colston, Bristol-born merchant and Member of Parliament. Much of his wealth, although used often for philanthropic purposes, was acquired through the trade and exploitation of slaves. He endowed schools and almshouses and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, two schools and the Colston bun (a yeast dough flavoured with dried fruit and spices).

1871 British police began their Rogues' Gallery, taking photographs of all convicted prisoners.

1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela in Angola, from Africa's east coast, 1st European to cross equatorial Africa

1896 The first motor insurance policies were issued in Britain, but they excluded damage caused by frightened horses.

1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team

1899 Boer War: The start of the Siege of Ladysmith in Natal when Boers encircled British troops and civilians inside the town. The siege lasted for 118 days.

1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submitted a declaration of intent to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The British government hoped that the formal declaration would help garner Jewish support for the Allied effort in World War I.

1920 Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress

1920 In the US, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 presidential election

1924 Almost 11 years after its appearance in America, the first crossword puzzle was published in a British newspaper, sold to the Sunday Express by C.W. Shepherd.

1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethopian Solmonic Dynasty

1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis powers

1936 The world's first regular TV service was started by the British Broadcasting Corporation at Alexandra Palace at 3:00 p.m. It was defined as 'high-definition' (with 200 lines of resolution) and was renamed BBC1 in 1964. An estimated 100 TV owners tuned in.

1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built

1950 George Bernard Shaw, the renowned playwright died, aged 94.

1951 The final phase of the largest troop airlift since the war brought in British reinforcements to quell unrest in the Canal Zone, Egypt.

1953 The foundation of the Samaritans, (the world's first crisis hotline organisation), by the Anglican priest Chad Varah, who was born in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire.

1954 The comedy series 'Hancock's Half Hour' was first broadcast on BBC Radio.

1959 The opening of Watford Gap Services, the oldest motorway services in Britain. The M1 - between Junction 5 (Watford) and Junction 18 (Crick/Rugby) opened on the same day. Watford Gap has long been hailed as the unofficial cut-off point between the two parts of the country, with 'southerners' sometimes criticised for not venturing north of it.

1959 Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 Penguin publishers were cleared of obscenity for printing the D.H. Lawrence novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. The first edition was printed privately in Florence in 1928 but the unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. The book was notorious at the time for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, with explicit descriptions of ***, and its use of then-unprintable words.

1963 Gerry & the Pacemakers reached the number one spot with 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.

1964 The first episode of the television soap opera 'Crossroads' was broadcast on ITV.

1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US

1981 Citizens Band radio (CB radio) was legally allowed in Britain

1982 The first edition of 'Countdown' the British TV game show involving word and number puzzles. It was hosted by Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman and was also the first programme to be aired on Channel 4.

1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

1988 The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT

2000 The controversial chief inspector of schools in England, Chris Woodhead, stepped down, to the delight of teachers' unions.

2012 It was announced that more than 100 post boxes, painted gold to celebrate the success of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes, would remain gold on a permanent basis. This one, at Leek in Staffordshire commemorates the Olympic rower Anna Watkin.

2012 66 year old billionaire Sean Quinn, once Ireland's richest man and the 12th richest in the UK, was taken to prison to begin a nine-week sentence for contempt of court.

2014 The death, aged 85, of Acker Bilk, the legendary jazz clarinettist. He was the first UK act to top the US charts in the 1960s and was known for performing in a flamboyant waistcoat and bowler hat.

Famous Birthday's

Marie Antoinette
(1755 - 1793)

Warren G. Harding
(1865 - 1923)

Burt Lancaster
(1913 - 1994)

Keith Emerson
(1944 - 2016)

Stefanie Powers
75th Birthday

Ken Rosewall
83rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)

Willie Sutton
(1901 - 1980)

Toni Stone
(1921 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1887 Baseball legend Connie Mack (24) weds Margaret Hogan

1896 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (19) weds first cousin Shahzadi Begum in Pune, India

2005 Irish TV and radio presenter Sile Seoige (26) weds Glen Mulcahy at St. Brendan's Church in County Offaly

2009 "*** and the City" actor Ron Livingston (41) weds actress Rosemarie DeWitt (34) in San Francisco

2012 BMX icon TJ Lavin weds longtime fiancee Roxanne Siordia (32) in Las Vegas

Famous Divorces

2006 Rocker Rod Stewart (58) divorces model Rachel Hunter (33) due to irreconcilable differences

Altobelli

03-11-2017, 06:23 PM

03 NOVEMBER

644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina

1534 England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church, a role formerly held by the Pope.

1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

1640 English Long Parliament forms

1718 The birth of John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich who gave his name to the Sandwich Islands, and (allegedly) to the 'sandwich' as a result of his reluctance to leave the gaming tables but requiring a quick and easy to eat snack.

1783 The highwayman John Austin was the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

1783 The American Continental Army is disbanded

1817 The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.

1838 The Times of India was founded, as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has the largest circulation among all English-language newspapers in the world,

1843 The statue of English Admiral Horatio Nelson was raised to the top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. The operation was completed on the 4th when the statue’s two sections were assembled. (Note:- Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe - Norfolk. His home was demolished in 1803, but was on this site outside the village.

1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture

1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T

1919 The birth of Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Scottish born journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author, also known for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

1930 The birth, in Huddersfield, of Brian Robinson, former road racing cyclist of the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the first Briton to finish the Tour de France and the first to win a Tour stage. His successes paved the way for other Britons such as Tom Simpson.

1941 English broadcaster Roy Plomley conceived the idea for 'Desert Island Discs'. The programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1942.

1942 World War II: The Battle of El Alamein. The British Eighth Army, commanded by General Bernard Montgomery, broke through the German front line having taken 9000 prisoners and destroyed 300 tanks.

1948 Lulu (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) the British actress and singer was born, in Glasgow.

1949 The BBC purchased the Shepherd's Bush Studios from the Rank Organisation.

1954 The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name

1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit

1964 Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time

1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

1975 Queen Elizabeth II opened the North Sea pipeline - the first to be built underwater - bringing ashore 400,000 barrels a day to Grangemouth Refinery on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

1976 The first £100,000 Premium Bond was won, by an anonymous person in Hillingdon.

1985 Two French agents in New Zealand pleaded guilty to sinking the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior and to the manslaughter of a photographer on board. They were sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.

1986 Ash-Shiraa reports that the US has been secretly selling weapons to Iran to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon

1996 The death of Conservative MP Barry Porter narrowed to one seat the majority held by the Conservative Party in Parliament.

1997 The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its assistance to Islamic extremist groups

2002 Lonnie Donegan, singer, musician, and legendary skiffle king, died at the age of 71.

2014 Will Cornick, aged 16, who murdered Ann Maguire while she was teaching a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, showed no emotion as he was handed a minimum of 20 years in custody. Ahead of the killing in April 2014, he had also planned to murder two other teachers, including one who was pregnant.

2014 One World Trade Center officially opens

Famous Birthday's

Charles Bronson
(1921 - 2003)

Roseanne Barr
65th Birthday

Roy Emerson
81st Birthday

Brian Poole
76th Birthday

Gerd Müller
72nd Birthday

Lulu
68th Birthday

Larry Holmes
67th Birthday

Dolph Lundgren
60th Birthday

James Prime
56th Birthday

Ian Wright
53rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Annie Oakley
(1860 - 1926)

Alfred Wegener
(1880 - 1930)

Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954)

Ian Bannen
(1928 - 1999)

Lonnie Donegan
(1931 - 2002)

Tom [Thomas] Graveney
(1927 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1963 Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (26) weds cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev (34) at the Moscow Wedding Palace

2012 Professional bull rider Luke Snyder (30) weds Jennifer Manna (34) at Big Cedar Lodge outside of Branson, Missouri

2012 Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas

Altobelli

04-11-2017, 12:44 AM

04 NOVEMBER

1576 Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp

1650 William III, King of England, Scotland and Ireland was born ..... in Holland. On the day after his 38th birthday he landed at Torbay with an army of English and Dutch troops, and when Parliament declared the throne empty, he was proclaimed king. These gilded statues of William III are in Portsmouth Dockyard and in Hull . Hull was the first large city in Britain to swear their allegiance to the new King when he deposed James II in 1685.

1677 The future Mary II of England married William, Prince of Orange. They later jointly reigned as William and Mary.

1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria

1832 The birth, in Monmouthshire, of James James, harpist and musician from Pontypridd in South Wales. He composed the tune of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau (also known as Land of my Fathers). This memorial to James James and his father Evan James, who wrote the lyrics, is in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd.

1839 The Newport Rising took place. It was the last large scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. Between 1,000 and 5,000 marched on the town of Newport in Monmouthshire, intent on liberating those who were reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel. 22 of their number were killed by the troops and upwards of 50 were wounded.

1841 First wagon train arrives in California

1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform

1852 For the first time in its history, journalists were allowed into the House of Commons to report debates.

1859 The death of Joseph Rowntree, British chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist.

1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis

1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus

1884 The birth of Henry George (Harry) Ferguson, Irish engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, for becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99.

1890 The Prince of Wales travelled by the underground electric railway from King William Street to the Oval to mark the opening of what is now the City Branch of the Northern Line. It was the first electrified underground railway system.

1900 Britain's first driving lessons were given, in London.

1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich

1922 English explorers Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered the Tomb of King Tutankhamen, in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. It had been undisturbed since 1337 BC.

1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States

1929 Violinist Yehudi Menuhin made his London debut, aged 12.

1939 President Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents

1942 The Battle of El Alamein ended with victory for the allies, after 12 days of conflict with Rommel's 'Africa Corps'.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II opened her first Parliament.

1952 The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA

1963 John Lennon utters his infamous line at a Royal Variety Performance "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…" in London

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

1974 Judith Ward was convicted of an army coach bombing on the M62 motorway in which 12 people died. She received a life term for each of those who died. Her conviction was quashed in 1992 when her lawyers argued that the trial jury should have been told of her history of mental illness.

1979 Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

1987 Millionaire Peter de Savary bought Land’s End in Cornwall.

1994 400 years of shipbuilding came to an end at the Swan Hunter Shipyard, Tyneside, with the launch of the Royal Naval Frigate 'Richmond'. The yard stood empty for a few years, before it was bought by Jaap Kroese, a Dutch millionaire.

1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States

2011 Seven people were killed and 51 injured in a 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 in Somerset. The accident happened close to junction 25 northbound and led to a 'massive fireball' at the scene.

2012 Reg Dean (from Wirksworth in Derbyshire) who was Britain's oldest man, celebrated his 110th birthday. He attributed his longevity to a 'mysterious medicine' given to him as a youth in India and to being 'a lazy-bones'. He died on 5th January 2013, aged 110 years and 63 days.

2014 Statistics from the 2011 census showed that Polish migrants had the highest employment rate of any nationality living in Britain, including the British. Results aslo showed that European migrants to the UK added £4.96bn more in taxes in the years to 2011 than they took out in public services

Famous Birthday's

Walter Cronkite
(1916 - 2009)

Art Carney
(1918 - 2003)

Matthew McConaughey
48th Birthday

Loretta Swit
79th Birthday

Rodney Marsh
69th Birthday

Matthew McConaughey
47th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Cy Young
(1867 - 1955)

Yitzhak Rabin
(1922 - 1995)

Sparky Anderson
(1934 - 2010)

Michael Crichton
(1942 - 2008)

Acker Bilk
(1929 - 2014)

Famous Weddings

1842 U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (23) weds US president Abraham Lincoln (33) in Springfield, Illinois

1911 Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma

1939 Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (22) weds inspector Sherwood Diller in Covington, Kentucky

1978 "The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)

2006 Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street

Famous Divorces

1940 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer

1993 Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett

2009 R&B singer Usher (30) divorces hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (38) due to irretrievably broken marriage after 2 years

Altobelli

05-11-2017, 01:53 PM

05 NOVEMBER

1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba

1556 Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu

1605 Guy Fawkes, born here in York was arrested when around 30 barrels of gunpowder, camouflaged with coal, were discovered in the cellar under Parliament. Robert Catesby’s small band of Catholic zealots who planned to blow up James I and Parliament were only arrested after Fawkes revealed their names when tortured on the rack. Conspirators met at the Old Lion Inn, Dunchurch, Warwickshire and plaque on 5th November to await news of the destruction of Westminster.

1854 Nine**** Victoria Crosses were won in the defeat of the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.

1872 Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100

1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile

1909 Woolworths opened its first British store, in Liverpool. Almost 100 years later, (at the end of the first week in January 2009) the last remaining stores closed for the last time.

1912 The appointment of a British Board of Film Censors. They decided on only two classifications - 'Universal' and 'Not Suitable for Children'.

1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States

1913 Vivien Leigh, British actress who won an Oscar for 'Gone With the Wind' was born.

1914 World War I: Britain and France declared war on Turkey.

1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union

1927 Britain’s first automatic traffic lights were installed at Princess Square road junction in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands.

1932 Gillespie Road London Underground station, which also served Arsenal Football Club’s Highbury ground, had its name changed to Arsenal after representations by the club.

1935 Lester Piggott, champion jockey, was born. Aged 18, he rode his first Derby winner. Piggott had 4,493 career wins, including nine Epsom Derby victories and is one is one of the most well-known English flat racing jockeys of all time. In 1987 he was convicted of tax fraud, jailed for three years and was stripped of his OBE that had been awarded in 1975.

1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war

1950 Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon in North Korea.

1956 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis

1967 At least 40 people were killed and 80 hurt after a train derailed near Hither Green, south-east London. Survivors included Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees who died on 20th May 2012, at the age of 62, from liver and kidney failure.

1971 Princess Anne was voted ‘Sportswoman of the Year’ by the British Sportswriters' Association.

1979 The trial began in Dublin, of the two men accused of the murder of Lord Mountbatten.

1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"

1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel

1991 Millionaire publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell was found dead at sea, several hours after mysteriously disappearing from his yacht off the Canary Islands.

2006 Following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by a coalition of countries including Britain and America, Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq was sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for his role in the massacre of 148 Shi'as in 1982. His execution was carried out on 30th December 2006.

2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google

2009 U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation

2013 The village of Wool, in the Purbeck district of Dorset, reported that at least 160 sheep had been stolen from nearby fields, sometime between 1st and 3rd November.

Famous Birthday's

Vivien Leigh
(1913 - 1967)

Bill Walton
65th Birthday

Bryan Adams
58th Birthday

Lester Piggott
82nd Birthday

Art Garfunkel
75th Birthday

Peter Noone
69th Birthday

Kasper Schmeichel
31st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Christiaan Eijkman
(1858 - 1930)

George M. Cohan
(1878 - 1942)

René Goscinny
(1926 - 1977)

Eamonn Andrews
(1922 - 1987)

Robert Maxwell
(1923 -1991)

Famous Weddings

1940 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn

1941 Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury

1977 43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas

2005 2004 Indianapolis 500 racecar driver winner Buddy Rice (29) weds Michelle Noonan in Arizona

Altobelli

06-11-2017, 04:13 PM

06 NOVEMBER

1429 Henry VI was crowned King of England, seven years after acceding to the throne at the age of eight months. Two years later, in Paris, he was also crowned King of France.

1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

1638 Birth of James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer who described the first practical reflecting telescope and contributed towards the discovery of calculus.

1856 The first work of fiction by the author Mary Anne Evans (later known as George Eliot) was submitted for publication. The title was 'Scenes of Clerical Life'. Her 1872 book, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language.

1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President

1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America

1892 Birth of Sir John Alcock, English aviator who flew the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919 with Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown.

1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa

1917 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution

1924 Tory leader Stanley Baldwin was elected Prime Minister. He appointed Winston Churchill, former Liberal, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1928 Arnold Rothstein, head of the Jewish mob in New York, is shot and mortally wounded. He was assassinated by George "Hump" McManus, for failing to pay a gambling debt

1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie

1935 The RAF's first monoplane fighter, the 'Hawker Hurricane' made its maiden flight. Although largely overshadowed by the Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain, and accounted for 60% of the RAF's air victories.

1938 Singer P.J. Proby was born. He was later banned from performing when his trousers regularly and 'accidentally' split on stage.

1942 The Church of England relaxed its rule that women must wear hats in church.

1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program

1968 2300 jobs were lost when British Eagle airlines stopped flying.

1970 Three times Grand National hero Red Rum, the greatest ever steeplechaser, won his first ever race, a novice event at Doncaster, at odds of 100/7.

1975 UK punk rock group, the *** Pistols, gave their first public performance at London's St Martin's College of Art. College authorities cut the concert short after a mere 10 minutes.

1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government

1986 Forty five people died after a Chinook helicopter carrying oil rig workers plunged into the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

2003 Michael Howard took over as leader of the Conservative party after Iain Duncan Smith was ousted in a no-confidence vote.

2004 The death, aged 66, of Fred Dibnah MBE - Bolton born steeplejack, industrial historian, mechnical engineer, steam engine enthusiast and television presenter. His coffin was towed through the centre of Bolton by his restored traction engine, driven by his son, followed by a cortège of steam-powered vehicles. His former home in Bolton is now the Fred Dibnah Heritage Centre. He is buried here, in Tonge Cemetery, Bolton..

2008 The Bank of England made a 1.5% cut in UK interest rates to 3%, the lowest level since 1955.

2011 Sir Alex Ferguson celebrated 25 years as manager of Manchester United, making him the longest serving manager in their history and the longest serving manager in English League football. He was knighted in 1999 for his services to the game and also holds the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen.

2012 Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate

2013 Anthony Peter McCoy (commonly known as AP McCoy) became the first jump jockey to ride 4,000 winners when he triumphed with the second of two rides at Towcester, (on Mountain Tunes in the 3:10pm race).

2014 Sheila Marsh, a 77-year-old grandmother-of-four, was granted a final wish of seeing her favourite horse for one last time - after the animal was brought to visit her in her hospital bed at Wigan Royal Infirmary. She passed away from cancer just hours after the horse, named Bronwen, was brought to see her.

2014 The Government announced that new road signs showing height and width restrictions using both imperial and metric measurements were to be introduced. "Imperial only signs can remain in place only until such time that they become life-expired, or replaced during routine maintenance."

Famous Birthday's

Suleiman the Magnificent
(1494 - 1566)

Walter Johnson
(1887 - 1946)

Emma Stone
28th Birthday

P. J. Proby
79th Birthday

Sally Field
71st Birthday

Jim Rosenthal
70th Birthday

Glenn Frey
(1948 - 2016)

Nigel Havers
66th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840 - 1893)

Arnold Rothstein
(1882 - 1928)

Gene Tierney
(1920 - 1991)

Tommy Lawton
(1919 - 1996)

Fred Dibnah
(1938 - 2004)

Clive Dunn
(1920 - 2012)

Famous Weddings

1919 "The Sheik" actor Rudolph Valentino (24) weds actress Jean Acker (26)

1935 English Prince Henry weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott

1983 Businessman Vidal Sassoon (55) weds dressage champion Jeanette Hartford-Davis

1993 Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)

1998 "Some Like It Hot" actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada

Altobelli

07-11-2017, 03:19 PM

07 NOVEMBER

1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.

1665 The first edition of the London Gazette was printed. It is the world's longest running journal and carried news of military appointments and engagements.

1687 The birth of William Stukeley, English clergyman, friend of Sir Isaac Newton and antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury.

1805 The birth of Thomas Brassey, an English civil engineering contractor who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built an incredible one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. He also built the structures associated with those railways, including docks, bridges, viaducts (such as Chirk viaduct), stations, tunnels and drainage works.

1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later

1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia

1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published

1917 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.

1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public

1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City

1935 The Royal National Institute for the Blind distributed its first Talking Books of players and records to blind & partially sighted people.

1942 The birth of Jean Shrimpton, leading English model whose face and figure, enhanced with a miniskirt, set the fashion for the 60s.

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America

1945 Group Captain H J Wilson became the first man to exceed 600 miles per hour (970 km/h), flying a Gloster Meteor jet fighter at Herne Bay. The aircraft was powered by two 3,500 lb thrust Rolls Royce Derwent V turbojets.

1953 The birth of Lucinda Green MBE, former champion British equestrian. She began riding at the age of four and is most well known for winning the Badminton Horse Trials a record six times, on six different horses.

1956 An official ceasefire during the Suez Crisis following the British and French invasion of Egypt after President Nasser had announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal.

1964 The country's first drink-driving advertisement was shown on television, with the message "Drinking and driving are dangerous."

1967 British heavyweight champion Henry Cooper beat challenger Billy Walker to become the only boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.

1973 US Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval

1974 Lord Lucan mysteriously disappeared following the murder of his children's nanny and a serious assault on his wife.

1978 The birth, in Peckham, London of the footballer Rio Gavin Ferdinand. He joined Manchester United in July 2002 for around £30 million, breaking the transfer fee record.

1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City

1990 Mary Robinson became the first woman President of the Irish Republic.

1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast

1996 A team of British, American and Australian scientists reported evidence that life on Earth originated some 350 million years earlier than previously believed.

1996 The closure of 'Butlins - Barry Island' in south Wales, Billy Butlin's last-built and smallest holiday camp. At the time of its closure it was owned by Majestic Holidays and was sold for £2.25m to Vale of Glamorgan Council who demolished the camp and sold it to Bovis Homes for housing development.

1997 Despite him being instrumental in their overnight phenomenal international success, British group 'The Spice Girls' sacked their creator and manager Simon Fuller.

1998 Families of World War 1 soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in the first ceremony of its kind to pay tribute to the 306 servicemen who died. Those soldiers now have a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore which is eventually resolved in Bush's favor by the Supreme Court

2000 Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady

2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that his global activity for the war on terrorism did not mean that domestic issues such as crime, health and education were neglected.

2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products

2012 Actor Clive Dunn, best known for his role as Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, died aged 92.

2013 A report showed that the NHS spent nearly £700 on clinical negligence cover for every live birth in England - almost a fifth of all spending on maternity.

2014 Alan Knight, a fraudster from Swansea, who pretended to be quadriplegic for two years in an attempt to evade punishment for conning an elderly and vulnerable neighbour was jailed for four and a half years.

2016 The death (aged 95) of the veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young. He spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2 and was one of the original Radio 1 DJs when the station launched in 1967.

Famous Birthday's

Agrippina the Younger
(15 - 59)

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Marie Curie
(1867 - 1934)

Leon Trotsky
(1879 - 1940)

Jean Shrimpton
75th Birthday

Joni Mitchell
74th Birthday

John Barnes
54th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Butch Cassidy
(1866 - 1908)

Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884 - 1962)

Joe Frazier
(1944 - 2011)

Alfred Russel Wallace
(1823 - 1913)

Steve McQueen
(1930 - 1980)

Howard Keel
(1919 - 2004)

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Leonard Cohen
(1934 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1597 Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal

1913 Comedian Oliver Hardy (21) marries pianist Madelyn Saloshin in in Macon, Georgia

1951 Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)

1957 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (23) weds Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva

1984 FIFA soccer player Diego Maradona (24) weds long-time fiancée Claudia Villafañe in Buenos Aires

Famous Divorces

1934 Actress Gloria Swanson (35) divorces Michael Farmer after 3 years of marriage

1957 Actress Ingrid Bergman (42) divorces Roberto Rossellini after 7 years of mariage

1982 Actress Elizabeth Taylor's 7th divorce from politician John Warner

Altobelli

08-11-2017, 03:07 PM

08 NOVEMBER

November 8th is 'The Feast of the Four Crowned Ones', still marked by some English freemasons. It commemorates four masons martyred by Emperor Diocletian for refusing to sculpt a pagan god.

392 Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion

1519 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico

1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public. It is second in size to the British Library.

1605 Robert Catesby, the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, was killed by gunshot, along with other conspirators at Holbeche House, on the border of Staffordshire. He was buried close by but the bodies of Catesby and fellow conspirator Percy were exhumed and decapitated and Catesby's head was placed on the side of the Parliament House.

1656 The birth of Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician best known for the comet named after him and for his work predicting its orbit. He also produced the first meteorological chart.

1674 The death of John Milton, blind English poet of Paradise Lost.

1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges

1734 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands

1745 Charles Edward Stuart invaded England with an army of 5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden (16th April 1746).

1802 The birth of Sir Benjamin Hall, commissioner of works at the time of Big Ben’s installation in the tower at the Houses of Parliament. The famous 13 ton bell is named after him.

1847 Bram Stoker, Irish author remembered for the classic, 'Dracula', was born. Whitby has associations with the Dracula novel.

1866 Herbert Austin, later Baron Austin, English motor car manufacturer, was born.

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays

1917 The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin

1920 Rupert Bear made his first appearance in the Daily Express. Rupert Bear Annuals have been produced since 1936 and are still in production today. The Rupert Annual is still one of the top three Annual titles sold worldwide.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government

1933 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed

1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich

1957 A report into a fire at Windscale nuclear power plant in Cumbria blamed the accident on human error, poor management and faulty instruments. The fire caused an unspecified amount of radioactive iodine vapour - iodine 131 - to escape into the atmosphere.

1957 Britain conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test, over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

1958 Melody Maker published the first British album charts.

1960 John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States

1965 The bill abolishing the death penalty became law.

1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California

1967 BBC Radio Leicester (the first of the new breed of BBC Local Radio stations) began broadcasting at 12.45 p.m. from a transmitter located on Gorse Hill above the city centre.

1972 HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda

1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million

1974 Covent Garden ceased to be the location of London’s famous flower and vegetable market as it moved across the Thames, leaving the old warehouses and Floral Hall.

1974 Britiish peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London

1987 An IRA bomb exploded shortly before a Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.

1990 The Republic of Ireland elected its first woman president, Mary Robinson. The mother-of-three had been a member of the Irish Senate for more than 20 years.

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences"

2003 The Countess of Wes*** (wife of Prince Edward) gave birth to her first child - Lady Louise Windsor, a month early at Frimley Park hospital in Surrey. The baby weighed just 4lbs 9oz (2 kg).

2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected President of The United States of America, defeating democrat Hillary Clinton despite Clinton receiving 2.9 million more votes

Famous Birthday's

Vlad the Impaler
(1431 - 1476)

Bram Stoker
(1847 - 1912)

Margaret Mitchell
(1900 - 1949)

Edmond Halley
(1656 - 1742)

Herbert Austin
(1866 - 1941)

Minnie Ripperton
(1947 - 1979)

Ken Dodd
90th Birthday

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Alain Delon
82nd Birthday

Martin Peters
74th Birthday

Roy Wood
70th Birthday

Alan Curbishley
60th Birthday

Gordon Ramsay
51st Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Doc Holliday
(1851 - 1887)

Ramsay MacDonald
(1866 - 1937)

Betty Nuthall
(1911 - 1983)

Eddie Charlton
(1929 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1766 Future Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck (28) weds Dorothy Cavendish (16)

1975 NBA legend Larry Bird (18) weds highschool sweetheart Janet Condra

1985 Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42)

1997 Bluegrass musician Alison Krauss marries Pat Bergeson

2006 Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool Nazril Idrus

Famous Divorces

1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John

1970 "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8 days after getting married

chalky_ncfc

08-11-2017, 05:22 PM

Robert Catesby
I wonder why they buried him after being shot and then decided to dig him back up and chop his head off,lack of planning if you ask me

Altobelli

08-11-2017, 09:22 PM

More on Robert Catesby below Chalky.

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http://www.elizabethfiles.com/robert-catesby/4468/

alfinyalcabo

08-11-2017, 09:27 PM

Yep....Religion has a lot to answer for..

chalky_ncfc

08-11-2017, 09:44 PM

More on Robert Catesby below Chalky.

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http://www.elizabethfiles.com/robert-catesby/4468/

Thanks Altobelli, I enjoyed reading that,not sure how Catesby managed to be the leader of the gang of plotters when he thought that drying out gunpowder in front of an open fire was a good idea though,tbh I always thought that Guy Fawkes was the main culprit but it turns out he was only looking after the explosives

chalky_ncfc

08-11-2017, 09:49 PM

Yep....Religion has a lot to answer for..

Not all people who believe in God are terrorists or nutters Alf,some of us try to act in which the good book tells us to do,Christianity is going through a sharp decline lately though

alfinyalcabo

08-11-2017, 09:53 PM

Not all people who believe in God are terrorists or nutters Alf,some of us try to act in which the good book tells us to do,Christianity is going through a sharp decline lately though

Exactly Chalky,so much so I'm now an atheist..

Altobelli

08-11-2017, 09:58 PM

Exactly Chalky,so much so I'm now an atheist..

Me also.

chalky_ncfc

08-11-2017, 10:07 PM

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I spent seven hours sat beside a lake today,my mate turns up,puts his rod out and pulls in this sturgeon within ten minutes....

I may also become an atheist before the night is out :P

Altobelli

08-11-2017, 10:37 PM

I know you must have been very P!ssed off Chalky, but I bet you was pleased for him as that's certainly no tiddler :O

Altobelli

08-11-2017, 10:43 PM

This was mine on a trip to Michigan in the 60's

http://i63.tinypic.com/10d9zit.jpg

chalky_ncfc

08-11-2017, 10:50 PM

Look at the size of that thing,can you imagine trying to reel it in,Its hard to believe that he caught it on that fly reel although that's all they had back then

Altobelli

08-11-2017, 10:53 PM

My Mrs nearly always has Sea Bass when we go to restaurants in Turkey, I always think of that picture when she does.

chalky_ncfc

08-11-2017, 11:03 PM

Due to over fishing that size fish are gone forever

Altobelli

09-11-2017, 09:21 AM

09 NOVEMBER

1494 Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence

1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul

1841 The birth of Edward VII, the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863 and they had three sons and three daughters. This statue of King Edward VII was unveiled by his father King George V in 1912 during a visit to Huddersfield with Queen Mary.

1847 In Edinburgh, Dr James Young Simpson delivered Wilhelmina Carstairs while chloroform was administered to her mother, the first child to be born with the aid of anaesthetics.

1857 The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts

1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

1888 At 3:30 a.m. in London's Whitechapel, 25-year-old Mary Kelly became Jack the Ripper's last known victim. The 'Ripper' was never caught, but the nature of the murders and of the victims drew attention to the poor living conditions in the East End of London and galvanised public opinion against the overcrowded, unsanitary slums. In the two decades after the murders, the worst of the slums were cleared and demolished.

1906 Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal

1907 The Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond yet found, was presented by the Transvaal to King Edward VII, on his birthday. The largest polished gem from the stone is named Cullinan I or the Great Star of Africa. It was the largest polished diamond in the world until 1985. Cullinan I is now mounted in the head of the Royal Sceptre which was originally made for the coronation of King Charles II in 1661, but was redesigned after the discovery of the Cullinan Diamond.

1908 Britain's first woman mayor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, was elected at Aldeburgh. She died on17th December, 1917 and was buried in Aldeburgh churchyard, Suffolk.

1915 The first Women's Institute (WI) meeting in England was held in the main bar of 'The Fox Goes Free' public house at Singleton in West Sus***.

1938 Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate Kristallnacht

1940 The death of Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War II.

1953 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, died in New York, aged 39. His heavy drinking and wild living contributed to his early demise. He had a long affinity with Laugharne, (Carmarthenshire) spending the last four years of his life in the Boathouse. He is buried in the over-spill graveyard of St. Martin's Church, Laugharne and his grave is marked with a white cross. His wife, Caitlin, is buried in the same grave and her name appears on the reverse side of the cross.

1960 Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of John F. Kennedy

1961 Brian Epstein went to a lunchtime session at The Cavern in Liverpool to see for himself why his record shop was receiving so many requests for records by a group that had apparently made none. He later became their manager.

1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published

1979 Four men were found guilty of killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater. Eigh**** years later their convictions were quashed.

1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran

1985 Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union

1989 Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany

1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud set out on their unassisted crossing of the Antarctic. For 97 days they fought pain, starvation and snow blindness until they were eventually airlifted out after completing the first and the longest, unsupported journey in Polar history. They walked more than 1,350 miles across some of the most hostile terrain in the world, averaging more than 14 miles a day at temperatures as low as -45°C.

1992 The opening of the Victoria Shopping Centre in Harrogate. Described by Bill Bryson, in his book Notes from a Small Island as “heartbreakingly awful, the worst kind of pastiche architecture – a sort of Bath Crescent meets Crystal Palace with a roof by B&Q. The figures perched along the top look as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.

1994 Chemical element Darmstadtium discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, German

1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing - largest civil settlement in US history

1999 Pop singer Gary Glitter was charged with seducing and ***ually humiliating a 14-year-old girl. He was cleared on those charges but was jailed for downloading thousands of items of child ****ography. 7 years later a Vietnamese court found him guilty of committing obscene acts with minors and he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. In October 2012, Glitter was taken from his London home into custody for questioning about the *****phile allegations surrounding the late Jimmy Savile and was released on bail.

2012 The death of the 71 year old actor Bill Tarmey, who played Jack Duckworth in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street for more than 30 years.

Famous Birthday's

Benjamin Banneker
(1731 - 1806)

Hedy Lamarr
(1914 - 2000)

Mary Travers
(1936 - 2009)

Tom Fogerty
(1941 - 1990)

Jill Dando
(1961 - 1999)

Phil May
73rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Neville Chamberlain
(1869 - 1940)

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Charles de Gaulle
(1890 - 1970)

Art Carney
(1918 - 2003)

Bill Tarmey
(1941 - 2012)

Famous Weddings

1887 Painter Grandma Moses (27) weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York

1899 US Admiral of the Navy George Dewey (61) weds Mildred McLean Hazen at the rectory St. Paul's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.

1931 Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer

1935 "Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico

1968 Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson (19)

Famous Divorces

1931 Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage

1968 Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (26) divorces first wife Marlynn Myers after 4 years of marriage

2004 Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage

Altobelli

10-11-2017, 04:19 PM

10 NOVEMBER

1619 René Descartes has the dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy"

1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English

1683 The birth of George II, King of England from 1727 to 1760.

1697 William Hogarth, painter, best known for his series, 'The Rake's Progress', was born.

1810 The birth of George Jennings, an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public flush toilets. He specialised in designing toilets that were 'as perfect a sanitary closet as can be made'.

1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney was wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster resulted in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.

1871 Henry Morton Stanley, (Welsh journalist and explorer) having been sent out to Africa by his newspaper to find the Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the immortal words, ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?' Henry Stanley was born John Rowlands. His mother abandoned him as a very young baby and he was eventually sent to St. Asaph Union Workhouse for the Poor. A memorial plaque to him has been erected in St. Asaph Cathedral, reputed to be the smallest ancient cathedral in Great Britain. This bronze statue of Stanley was unveiled in March 2011, in Denbigh, the town of his birth. It caused controversy because of Stanley's inhumanity and racist views. The sculpture shows the outstretched hand, the moment when Henry Morton Stanley finally met up with Livingstone.

1885 German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world's first motorcycle

1913 Battersea elected the first coloured mayor in London, John Archer, born in Liverpool of Jamaican parents. The honour of Britain's first black mayor goes to Allen Glaser Minns (Dr. Allan Glaisyer Minns?) who was elected Mayor of Thetford, Norfolk in 1904.

1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air

1925 Richard Burton, legendary Welsh actor, was born, at Pontrhydyfen, This Richard Burton sculpture is on the Richard Burton Trail in the Afan Forest Park in Neath - Port Talbot.

1942 Buoyant after the desert victory at El Alamein, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: 'This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.'

1944 The birth of Tim Rice, best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz.

1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery

1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston

1958 British speed enthusiast Donald Campbell broke the water speed record of 248mph on Coniston Water. He died in 1967 (also on Coniston Water) and is buried in the new parish churchyard at Coniston.

1960 Bookshops all over England sold out of Penguin's first run of 200,000 copies of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

1968 England and Yorkshire fast bowler Fred Trueman announced his retirement. This bronze statue of him is in the canal basin at Skipton, North Yorkshire, the town where he lived for many years.

1980 Outspoken left wing MP Michael Foot defeated Denis Healey in a shock result to become the new leader of the Labour party.

1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0

1984 The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack

1986 The legendary jockey, Sir Gordon Richards, died aged 82.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall

1997 Louise Woodward, British child-minder, was freed from jail in the United States after her conviction for murdering a baby was reduced to manslaughter. Her sentence was cut to 279 days, the exact length of time she had already spent in jail.

2002 Viewers of the UK music channel VH1 voted 'I Will Always Love You' as the most romantic song ever.

2010 Tens of thousands of people protested against plans to treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England. The Conservative Party headquarters were stormed and outside, placards and banners were set on fire and missiles were thrown.

2012 The BBC's director general, George Entwistle, resigned in the wake of a Newsnight child abuse broadcast which wrongly implicated ex-senior Tory Lord McAlpine.

2014 The first UK TV adverts featuring the use of an electronic cigarette (vaping) were shown. While e-cigarette adverts have been on television for some time, showing the device itself was banned until a change in advertising rules which came into force 'On This Day'.

Famous Birthday's

George II
(1683 - 1760)

Martin Luther
(1483 - 1546)

John Thompson
(1845 - 1894)

Jane Froman
(1907 - 1980)

Roy Scheider
(1932 - 2008)

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Greg Lake
(1947 - 2016)

Tim Rice
72nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Arthur Rimbaud
(1854 - 1891)

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(1881 - 1938)

Leonid Brezhnev
(1906 - 1982)

Pat Eddery
(1952 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1926 Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden

1963 Actress Doris Roberts (33) weds novelist William Goyen (48)

1965 Netherlands 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg

1973 Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully (45) weds Sandra Hunt

1977 Actor Bryan Cranston (21) weds writer Mickey Middleton

Famous Divorces

1975 Journalist Ben Bradlee (54) divorces Antoinette Pinchot after 19 years of marriage

2004 Talk show host Ricki Lake and Rob Sussman divorce after 10 years of marriage

Altobelli

11-11-2017, 12:38 PM

11 NOVEMBER

1620 The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship in what is now Provincetown Harbour near Cape Cod. It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony and was written by those who had fled to America in the ship the Mayflower to escape religious persecution from King James VI of Scotland (James I of England). Note:- The Pilgrim Fathers were thwarted in their first attempt to sail to America when they left from Havenside, near Boston, Lincolnshire in September

1675 German mathetician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function

1724 The highwayman Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, was hanged in London. He had attracted attention for attacking the nation's leading policeman and 'Thief Taker' Jonathan Wild with a pocket knife. The policeman was also a successful gang leader and became the most infamous criminal in Britain during the 18th century. The attack by Blake left Wild incapacitated for weeks, and his grip over his criminal empire started to slip during his recuperation. Like Blake, he too was later hanged for his crimes.

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England

1807 Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the name "Gotham" with New York City

1880 Australian Bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol

1887 Work started on building the Manchester Ship Canal at Eastham, Merseyside. At one time the Manchester end of the canal ended at an area now known as Salford Quays, a residential area with shopping precincts and home to the Lowry Theatre, the Imperial War Museum North and the TV studios - Media City UK.

1911 Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through

1918 At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ended; a war that had lasted for 4 years and 97 days. Germany, bereft of manpower, supplies and food, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. The war left 9 million soldiers dead and more than 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria, Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, some 6 million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

1919 Britain introduced a two minute silence at 11:00 a.m. to remember those who died in World War I.

1921 The first British Legion Poppy Day.

1921 The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery

1926 The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established

1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator

1946 Stevenage was officially designed as Britain’s first New Town, one of ten which were planned to relieve London’s post-war housing problems.

1953 The BBC television programme Panorama was first broadcast.

1954 Thousands of elderly people took part in a rally in London calling for an increase in their pensions.

1965 The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, illegally severed its links with the British Crown.

1975 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr - 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs

1987 Irises, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh was sold for £27m at Sotheby's, a world record at that time for a work of art.

1992 The Church of England General Synod voted to allow women to be ordained to the priesthood.

1997 Britain's Labour Party admitted to accepting a £1m donation from Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, but claimed it would be repaid and that it had nothing to do with the Government's decision to exempt motor racing from the ban on tobacco-related sports sponsorship.

1998 In the first joint engagement of its kind, the Queen and the Irish president, Mary McAleese, unveiled a peace tower in memory of the Irish dead of the First World War.

2004 Yasser Arafat's death through unidentified causes confirmed by Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas elected PLO chairman minutes later.

2011 Sean Quinn, an entrepreneur who was once the richest man in Ireland declared himself bankrupt over debts of £1.7 billion to the former Anglo-Irish Bank. Mr. Quinn ran a multi-billion empire until it collapsed due to massive, secret stock market gambles.

2013 Sean Conway, 32, made history by completing a marathon swim from Land's End to John O'Groats. He left Cornwall on 30th June, swimming along the west coast to the most northerly point of the UK mainland. He swam around 10 miles a day, slept on a yacht or in accommodation onshore and raised thousands of pounds for the War Child charity in the process.

2013 Hundreds of people attended the funeral of 99 year old Harold Jellicoe Percival (from Lytham St. Annes), a war veteran they never knew who died with no close friends or relatives around him. Veterans' groups and other military supporters campaigned, including via Twitter and Facebook, to acknowledge Mr. Percival's career as ground crew with the RAF's Bomber Command. He was also a distant relative of former Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated - (1812).

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Henry IV
(1050 - 1106)

Paracelsus
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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George S. Patton
(1885 - 1945)

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Raemer Schreiber
(1910 - 1998)

Leonardo DiCaprio
43rd Birthday

June Whitfield
92nd Birthday

Demi Moore
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Famous Deaths

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Nat Turner
(1800 - 1831)

Typhoid Mary
(1869 - 1938)

Ned Kelly
(1854 - 1880)

Martin Luther King Sr
(1899 - 1984)

Yasser Arafat
(1933 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1100 Anglo Norman King Henry I marries Princess Matilda of Scotland at Westminster Abbey

1838 Emma Wedgwood accepts English naturalist Charles Darwin's marriage proposal

1858 20th US President James Garfield (26) weds Lucretia Rudolph (26) in Hiram, Ohio

1860 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina

1944 Blues musician B.B. King (19) marries his first wife Martha Denton

Altobelli

12-11-2017, 01:40 AM

12 NOVEMBER

764 Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, capital of Chinese Tang Dynasty, occupy for fif**** days

1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament

1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism

1595 The death of Admiral Sir John Hawkins chief architect of the Elizabethan navy. Among his many other roles, he rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that withstood the Spanish Armada in 1588.

1660 English author John Bunyan was arrested for preaching without a licence. He refused to give up preaching and remained in jail for 12 years.

1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined

1847 The first public demonstration of the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic was given by James Simpson, at Edinburgh University.

1911 Birth of Reverend Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, the voluntary group who counsel those in distress. Originally established at St Stephen’s Church, London, it provides a service day and night, every day of the year. (Reverend Chad Varah died on 8th November 2007, aged 95.)

1912 The remains of English explorer Robert Scott and his companions were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Scott's party had reached the South Pole on 17th January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. Scott and his four comrades all perished on the return journey from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold. This Antarctic 100 memorial at Cardiff Bay overlooks the point from which Scott's ship the SS Terra Nova left Cardiff on its ill-fated voyage.

1919 The first flight from England to Australia started at Hounslow, with Ross and Smith in a Vickers Vimy. They landed safely on 13th December 1919.

1927 Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party, paving way for Joseph Stalin

1928 The birth, in South Africa of Bob Holness, English radio and television presenter. He is best known for presenting the British version of the quiz show Blockbusters, but also presented the quiz shows Take a Letter, Raise the Roof and Call My Bluff.

1933 The first photograph of the ‘Loch Ness monster’ was taken by Mr Hugh Gray. He managed to take five pictures altogether but after processing, four of them were blank and the fifth was not confirmed as being Nessie.

1936 In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic

1941 World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city

1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands (WWII)

1944 The RAF launched 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sank the German battleship Tirpitz, the last of the major German battleships.

1968 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools

1970 Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan killing up to 500,000 - deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded

1974 A salmon was caught in the Thames, the first since around 1840. It was an 8lb 4 1/2oz female and she was discovered entangled in the protective nets around West Thurrock power station It was regarded by Thames Water authority as a vindication of the £100m they had spent on effluent control.

1984 It was announced, by Chancellor Nigel Lawson, that the pound note, after being in circulation for more than 150 years, would be phased out and replaced with the pound coin.

1979 Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran

1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web

1997 Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

1997 Train robber Ronnie Biggs, was celebrating after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him, for the 2nd time. The court in Rio de Janeiro ruled that because Biggs' crime was committed more than 20 years previously he could not be extradited.

2001 Greece held 12 plane-spotting British 'spies' to carry out further inquiries. All were arrested for allegedly taking photographs at an air show at a military base.

2014 Police killer Harry Roberts was released from prison. Roberts, now aged 78, was jailed for life for murdering three unarmed officers in Shepherd's Bush, west London, in 1966.

2015 Out Magazine names Barack Obama 'Ally of the Year', Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine

2015 Storm Abigail, the first storm to be officially named by the Met Office, was upgraded to amber, with winds forecast of up to 90mph in the Western Isles, parts of Argyll and the north west Highlands and Orkney from 9:00pm on the 12th to midday on Friday 13th.

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Auguste Rodin
(1840 - 1917)

Sun Yat-sen
(1866 - 1925)

Bukka [Booker T. Washington] White
(1909 - 1977)

Grace Kelly
(1929 - 1982)

Errol Brown
1943 - 2015)

7167
Charles Manson
83rd Birthday

Anne Hathaway
35th Birthday

Booker T Jones
72nd Birthday

Neil Young
71st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Percival Lowell
(1855 - 1916)

William Holden
(1918 - 1981)

Jonathan Brandis
(1976 - 2003)

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Warren Clark
(1947 - 2014)

Famous Weddings

1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.

1656 English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock

1963 Singer and actor Robert Goulet (30) weds actress Carol Lawrence (31)

1964 Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn weds actor Neil Nephew

1969 Director Blake Edwards (47) weds "The Sound of Music" actress Julie Andrews (34) in Beverly Hills

Altobelli

13-11-2017, 01:06 AM

13 NOVEMBER

1002 English king Aethelred II ordered the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1093 Malcolm III of Scotland, son of King Duncan, died at Alnwick, Northumberland, during his fifth attempt to invade England.

1312 Birth of Edward III, King of England from 1327.

1553 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under "Bloody" Mary I

1642 First English Civil War: At the Battle of Turnham Green (Middle***), the Royalist forces withdrew in the face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London. Charles and his army retreated to Oxford for secure winter quarters.

1779www.beautifulbritain.co.ukThomas Chippendale, English cabinet-maker died. (Note:- He was born in Otley, Yorkshire and there is a statue to him outside the former Grammar School.

1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"

1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was born.

1887 'Bloody Sunday' in London when violence erupted in Trafalgar Square at a Socialist rally attended by Irish agitators.

1901 The Caister (Norfolk) Lifeboat Disaster. Eight bodies were subsequently recovered at the scene with another, that of Charles Bonney George being washed away, only to be recovered months later in April of the following year. The victims are all buried in Caister Cemetery where a monument raised by public donation was raised to them in 1903.

1910 The birth of Pat Reid British Army officer and author. He was a prisoner of war at Colditz Castle and was one of the few to escape. He wrote about his experiences in two best-selling books, which became the basis of a film, TV series and even a board game.

1916 The Battle of the Somme (World War 1) ended. By the end of the battle, the British Army had suffered 420,000 casualties including nearly 60,000 on the first day alone. The French lost 200,000 men and the Germans nearly 500,000. The battle epitomised the futility of trench warfare and the indiscriminate slaughter of so many men.

1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City

1933 1st modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat packers in Austin, Minnesota

1936 King Edward VIII told the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, that he intended to marry twice divorced Mrs. Simpson.

1940 Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre

1947 Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, resigned after admitting he had disclosed tax proposals to a reporter several minutes before presenting his Budget speech.

1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles

1954 Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup, held in Paris, in front of around 30,000 spectators.

1956 The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1969 Britain's first live quintuplets this century were born, at Queen Charlotte's maternity hospital in London.

1974 Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror

1979 The Times newspaper was published for the first time in nearly a year. The paper's disappearance from news stands followed a dispute between management and unions over manning levels and the introduction of new technology.

1980 US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn

1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, killing 25,000

1987 With a view to encouraging 'safe ***', or AIDS prevention, the BBC screened its first condom 'commercial' (without a brand name).

1995 18 year Leah Betts was on a life-support machine after taking a single ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party. She died three days later without ever regaining consciousness.

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Edward III
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John Dickinson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ken Shuttleworth
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Whoopi Goldberg
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Famous Deaths

George Grenville
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Camille Pissarro
(1830 - 1903)

Elsa Schiaparelli
(1890 - 1973)

Thomas Chippendale
(1718 - 1779)

Famous Weddings

1160 Marriage of Louis VII of France with Adele of Champagne.

1929 Writer E. B. White (30) weds literary editor Katharine Angell (37)

1934 Actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (23) weds "All Quiet on the Western Front" actor Lew Ayres (25)

1960 US Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt (divorced 1968)

1987 MLB baseball player Cal Ripken Jr (27) weds Kelly Geer at Towson United Methodist Church in Maryland

Famous Divorces

1922 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (55) divorces socialite Catherine Tobin after 33 years of marriage

2011 Torrei Hart divorces actor and comedian Kevin Hart (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

Altobelli

14-11-2017, 06:12 PM

14 NOVEMBER

1680 Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)

1687 The death of Eleanor 'Nell' Gwyn, long-time mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of two of his illegitimate children.

1770 James Bruce, Scottish traveller and travel writer, discovered what he believed to be the source of the Blue Nile. Bruce admitted that the White Nile was the larger stream but that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and thus he was the discoverer of its source.

1862 President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg

1864 Franz Müller, a German tailor, who had murdered Thomas Briggs in the first murder committed on a British train (on 9th July) was publicly hanged at Newgate prison.

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours

1896 The speed limit for horseless carriages in Britain was raised from 4 mph (2 mph in towns) to 14 mph. It was marked by the first London to Brighton Car Run, which only became a regular and official event from 1927, when it was sponsored by the Daily Sketch.

1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation

1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light

1911 George V and Queen Mary landed at Gibraltar, the first time a reigning British monarch had visited a British Commonwealth country.

1922 BBC radio was first broadcast from Alexandra Palace. The first programme was broadcast at 6 pm from 2LO London (later the BBC). A news bulletin, repeated again at 9 pm, and a weather report were the entire programme.

1936 The birth of Freddie Garrity, singer, frontman and the comical element in the 1960s pop band, Freddie and the Dreamers. The group disbanded in the late 1960s but he formed a new version of Freddie and the Dreamers and toured regularly for the next two decades until 2001, when he was diagnosed with emphysema. He died on 19th May 2006.

1940 449 German Luftwaffe bombers dropped 503 tons of bombs and 881 incendiaries onto the City of Coventry, killing over 500 civilians and destroying the medieval cathedral. A new cathedral was built adjacent to the old, and the bombed cathedral was left as a memorial.

1941 The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank off Gibraltar after being hit by a torpedo from German U-boat, the U-81.

1948 Birth of Prince Charles (Charles Philip Arthur George), Prince of Wales and an enthusiastic and concerned environmentalist.

1952 Britain’s first music chart was published, in the New Musical Express, with Al Martino’s ‘Here in my Heart’ at No. 1.

1957 The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested

1969 The BBC began colour television programmes.

1973 Bobby Moore made his 108th and final appearance for England.

1973 Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey.

1977 Firefighters held their first national strike, over a 30% pay demand. More than 10,000 troops were called in to cover emergencies.

1983 The first Cruise missiles arrived at Greenham Common, a US airbase.

1991 In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide

2011 Coronation Street become the first prime time television show in the UK to feature product placement, when a Nationwide Building Society cash machine was shown in the episode, after ITV signed a deal with the company. The law was changed in February after commercial broadcasters, hit by falling advertising revenues, lobbied the Government. (Note:- Coronation Street is now filmed at Media City UK in Salford Quays, but was formerly filmed at the Granada studios on Quay Street, Manchester -.

2013 A standards of living report by price comparison website Uswitch.com, which examined every aspect of life in different parts of Britain, named Solihull, home to Land Rover's main production plant and former 'Good Life' actress Felicity Kendal as the best place to live in the UK.

2014 The 3,000th edition of the BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which was first broadcast on 29th January 1942. The guest for the 3,000th show was 95 year old Eric 'Winkle' Brown, the Navy Fleet Air Arm’s most decorated pilot and the record holder for the most flight deck landings.

2014 *****phile Angus Sinclair (aged 69), who says he may have attacked hundreds of victims, was jailed for life (and ordered to spend at least 37 years behind bars) for raping and murdering 17 year-olds Helen Scott and Christine Eadie in 1977. Sinclair had met his victims in Edinburgh's "World's End" pub before raping and strangling them. He became the first person north of the border to be tried for the same crime twice after Scotland scrapped its double jeopardy law.

2014 The Care for the Wild charity estimated that badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire had cost the equivalent of £5,200 for each badger killed. Official figures show the cost of £3,350 for every animal killed, but the welfare charity said that this did not include the cost of policing.

2014 Parliamentary authorities defended their decision to ask a gardener to remove each leaf manually from trees outside the House of Commons. A Commons spokesman said: “If we waited for the leaves to fall off it would waste a lot of time raking them up. It is more time efficient.”

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Claude Monet
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Aaron Copland
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Shirley Crabtree
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Freddie Garrity
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Condoleezza Rice
63rd Birthday

Prince Charles
69th Birthday

Adam Gilchrist
46th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Alexander Nevsky
(1220 - 1263)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
(1646 - 1716)

Booker T. Washington
(1856 - 1915)

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Warren Mitchell
(1926 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1677 Prince William of Orange (27) marries English princess Mary Stuart (15)

1855 Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart (22) weds Flora Cooke in Fort Riley, Kansas

1951 Musician Louis Jordan (43) weds dancer Vicky Hayes

1964 MLB right fielder Roberto Clemente (30) weds Vera Zabala at San Fernando Church in Carolina

1973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey

Famous Divorces

1983 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (35) divorces Sarah Hugill after more than 11 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

14-11-2017, 08:38 PM

Thanks Altobelli, the 2014 story about Parliament is staggering,who makes those decisions?

Altobelli

15-11-2017, 09:41 AM

Altobelli

15-11-2017, 10:22 AM

15 NOVEMBER

1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco

1577 English explorer and navigator Sir Francis Drake began his voyage to sail around the world.

1688 The Glorious Revolution began when William of Orange landed at Brixham to overthrow King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland).

1708 William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister, was born. The Burton Pynsent monument. at Curry Rivel, Somerset was designed by Capability Brown and erected by Pitt as a monument to Sir William Pynsent. Pysent left his entire estate to Pitt in gratitude for Pitt opposing a ten shilling tax on a hogshead of cider which would have affected Pysent's business.

1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system

1859 The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece

1884 European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference, formalizing European powers "Scramble for Africa"

1897 The birth of Aneurin Bevan, often known as Nye Bevan, Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government. He spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, to provide medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons.

1899 The SS St. Paul became the first ship to receive radio messages, transmitted from the Needles wireless station off the Isle of Wight.

1899 Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers while covering the war as a reporter for the Morning Post. He escaped a few weeks later.

1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade

1922 Children's Hour was first broadcast on the radio. It established a tradition of drama and story-telling and built up a devoted audience of over three million at its peak.

1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations

1928 The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew, practically the whole male fishing population of the small town of Rye.

1932 The birth of Petula Clark, singer, actress, and composer which a career spanning seven decades.

1939 In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial

1942 World War II: The first flight of the German Heinkel He 219 took place. Had it been available in quantity, it might have had a significant effect upon the strategic night bombing offensive of the Royal Air Force. Only 294 of all models were built by the end of the war and they saw only limited service.

1948 Mackenzie King retires after 22 years as Prime Minister of Canada

1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi

1968 The liner Queen Elizabeth completed her final passenger voyage when she landed at Southampton. She was sold to a US group who planned to moor her in Florida as a tourist attraction. She was replaced by the new liner the QE2.

1969 ATV (Midland) screened the first colour TV commercial in Britain; for Birds Eye Peas. It cost £23 for the off peak 30 second slot.

1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States

1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea

1971 Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004

1977 The birth of Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.

1985 Britain and the Republic of Ireland signed a deal giving Dublin a role in Northern Ireland for the first time in more than 60 years. Unionists accused Mrs. Thatcher of treachery.

1991 In the wake of increased sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, Britain called up 1,400 reserve troops for full-time active duty.

1994 The launch of Britain's first Internet newspaper, The Electronic Telegraph.

1998 Britain and America called back their fighter planes after Iraq agreed to allow UN weapons inspectors back into the country.

2002 Moors murderer Myra Hindley, the woman who came to personify evil , died in prison, aged 60.

2014 Pensioner Kelvin Sibthorpe got his hopes up when he discovered he'd been the victim of pension mis-selling, which meant he could be entitled to a 'windfall'. The windfall entitled him to only an extra 18p a month in pension payments. It would consist of seven years of back payments, coming to a grand total of £10.08.

Famous Birthday's

William Pitt the Elder
(1708 - 1778)

William Herschel
(1738 - 1822)

Gerhart Hauptmann
(1862 - 1946)

Erwin Rommel
(1891 - 1944)

Edward Asner
88th Birthday

Petula Clark
85th Birthday

Alexander O'Neal
64th Birthday

Gustavo Poyet
50th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Justinian I
( - 565)

Johannes Kepler
(1571 - 1630)

Lionel Barrymore
(1878 - 1954)

Myra Hindley
(1942 - 2002)

Cynthia Payne
(1932 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1986 Golfer Byron Nelson (74) weds advertising copy writer Peggy Simmons (42)

1997 TV host and actor William Shatner (66) weds former Ford model Nerine Kidd (38) in Pasadena, California

2005 Emperor Akihito's daughter Princess Sayako (36) weds Yoshiki Kuroda (40) at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan

Famous Divorces

2010 "Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (48) divorces writer Noah Baumbach (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

15-11-2017, 11:25 AM

Someone still living in the 19th Century Chalky, when the coffers are full and its not your money it will always be wasted especially by Government, Who the hell rakes leaves nowadays ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30055912

They have employed contractors to look after the trees and gardens,presumably its a contract for a couple of years or more it just seems like whoever is in charge is just being a complete pain in the arse,145 trees to pick the leaves off is going to take ages,just let them drop like they have for millions of years ffs

Altobelli

16-11-2017, 01:36 AM

16 NOVEMBER

534 Second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus published

1272 Whilst travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward became King of England upon the death of Henry III, but he would not return to England for almost two years to assume the throne.

1532 Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca

1724 Jack Sheppard, Stepney born highwayman, was hanged at Tyburn in front of 200,000 spectators.

1776 British troops capture Fort Washington during American Revolution

1811 John Bright son of a Quaker cotton spinner, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. He was an MP for Durham, Birmingham and Manchester and as a Quaker and pacifist he was opposed to slavery and to the Crimean War. He campaigned to abolish the Corn Laws (1846) and was also a campaigner for free trade. The John Bright Group employed thousands of Rochdale people in the textile industry for more than 180 years.

1822 American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1848 Frédéric Chopin gave his last public performance at London’s Guildhall. He played on, despite illness and an uninterested audience who spent most of the evening in the refreshment areas.

1849 A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor

1857 Twenty four Victoria Crosses were awarded in the Second Relief of Lucknow (British India). It was the most awarded in a single day.

1896 Birth of Oswald Mosley, English politician who was successively a Conservative and Labour Member of Parliament before forming the British Union of Fascists. Provocative marches through the Jewish East End of London prior to the Second World War led to major confrontations. He was interned during the war and later lived in exile in France.

1904 English engineer John Ambrose Fleming received a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). It drove the expansion and commercialisation of radio broadcasting, television, radar, sound recording, large telephone networks, and analogue and digital computers until the invention of the transistor.

1907 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, set sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York City.

1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens

1920 Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited

1928 In London, obscenity charges were brought against Radclyffe Hall for her crusading lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness.

1934 The death of Alice Hargreaves (nee Liddell) who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and her ashes were buried in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels Lyndhurst and the plaque

1938 Willie Hall of Tottenham Hotspurs scored five goals for England against Ireland with his three goals in 3 minutes, setting a record for the fastest ever in an international match.

1938 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland

1940 New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison

1940 World War II: In response to the heavy bombing of Coventry two days previously, the Royal Air Force bombed Hamburg. Much of Coventry was destroyed, including the Cathedral.

1940 Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world

1942 The jockey Willie Carson was born, in Stirling. He was British Champion Jockey five times (in 1972, 1973, 1978, 1980 and 1983) and had a total of 3,828 wins, making him the fourth most successful jockey in Great Britain.

1945 Founding of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

1948 Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel

1960 The TV personality with a reputation for outspokenness, Gilbert Harding, died as he left the BBC's Broadcasting House in London.

1961 Frank Bruno, British boxer, was born.

1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline

1976 Seven men who took part in an £8m bank robbery raid at the Bank of America in Mayfair, London, received jail terms totalling nearly 100 years. Only £1/2m was recovered. The judge said the sentence ensured that the thieves would not enjoy the fruits of their haul.

1982 Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight

1983 More than 20 English football supporters were arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence.

1995 The Queen Mother, aged 95, had her right hip replaced in an operation in London.

2010 Clarence House announced that Prince William (second in line to the throne) would marry long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton in 2011.

2014 A couple who had been married for 65 years died moments apart. Harry Stevenson (88) died just minutes after care home staff informed him of the death of wife, Mavis (89), at the Derby care home.

Famous Birthday's

W. C. Handy
(1873 - 1958)

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Burgess Meredith
(1907 - 1997)

Joel H. Hildebrand
(1881 - 1983)

Frank Bruno
56th Birthday

Willie Carson
74th Birthday

Griff Rhys Jones
63rd Birthday

Waqar Younis
45th Birthday

Paul Scholes
42nd Birthday

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Jacob Joseph Worton, twin actor (Baby's Day Out), born in Newark, Delaware
24th Birthday

7206
Adam Robert Worton, twin actor (Baby's Day Out), born in Newark, Delaware
24th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Henry III, King of England
(1207 - 1272)

Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged
(1702 - 1724)

Louis Riel, hanged
(1844 - 1885)

Doris Speed
(1899 - 1994)

Arthur Askey
(1900 - 1982)

Reg Varney
(1916 - 2008)

Edward Woodward
(1930 - 2009

Clark Gable
(1901 - 1960)

Cluny MacPherson
(1879 - 1966)

Famous Weddings

1683 Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henriette Amalia

1754 British PM William Pitt the Elder (46) weds Lady Hester Grenville (34) in Argyle Street, London

1933 Ramon Magsaysay, latter President of the Philippines (26) weds Luz Banzon (18) at Lourdes church in Manila

1981 Luke marries Laura on TV soap "General Hospital" (16 million watch)

1987 Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz

Famous Divorces

1973 Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) divorces Gertrude Blugerman after 31 years of marriage

1993 James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa

2010 Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne (25) divorces "Sum 41" lead singer and guitarist Deryck Whibley (29) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

2011 Second season American Idol winner Rubben Studdard (33) divorces Surata Zuri McCants due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

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17-11-2017, 01:06 PM

17 NOVEMBER

1292 John Balliol became King of Scotland. He was stripped of all his powers by Edward I, thus earning himself the Scottish nickname 'Toom Tabard'. Toom means empty, so it was likening Balliol to an empty suit.

1558 The Elizabethan era began when Mary I, England's first queen (also known as 'Bloody Mary'), died at St James's Palace London. She was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I.

1603 The trial of Sir Walter Raleigh began. Falsely accused of treason, he had been offered a large sum of money by Lord Cobham, a critic of England’s King James I, to make peace with the Spanish and put Arabella Stuart, James’s cousin, on the throne. Raleigh claimed he turned down the offer, but Lord Cobham told his accusers that Raleigh was involved in the plot.

1800 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building

1810 Sweden declared war on its ally Britain during the Napoleonic Wars to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever took place! The declaration of war was the result of an ultimatum by France to the Swedish government that France and its allies would declare war against Sweden if Sweden did not meet the French demands to declare war on Britain, confiscate all British ships and seize all British products. The war existed only on paper, and Britain was still officially allowed to station ships in the Swedish port of Hanö and trade with the Baltic nations.

1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia

1855 David Livingstone became the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present day Zambia-Zimbabwe. Livingstone was born at Blantyre on the outskirts of Glasgow, where there is also a statue to him -

1869 England’s James Moore won the first cycle road race, an 83 miles race from Paris to Rouen.

1869 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated

1871 The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York

1880 The first three women to graduate in Britain received their Bachelor of Arts degrees at London University.

1882 The Royal Astronomer witnessed an unidentified flying object from the Greenwich Observatory. He described it as a circular object, glowing bright green.

1887 The birth of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English soldier who was a painstaking planner, which contributed to his most successful battle in North Africa when he broke through Rommel’s lines during the Second World War.

1919 King George V proclaimed Armistice Day, later to be known as Remembrance Day.

1922 Britain elected its first Communist Member of Parliament, J T Walton-Newbold standing for Motherwell, Scotland. He eventually joined the Labour Party.

1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI is expelled to Malta on British warship

1955 Anglesey became the first authority in Britain to introduce fluoride into the water supply.

1959 Two Scottish airports, Prestwick and Renfrew, became the first to offer duty free goods in Britain. Heathrow followed soon after.

1962 President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region

1964 Britain said that it was banning all arms exports to South Africa.

1969 Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the US meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides

1970 Stephanie Rahn became the Sun newspaper's first 'Page Three Girl'.

1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse

1973 Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

1982 Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing

2014 The family of murdered schoolgirl April Jones (aged 5) watched the demolition of the house owned by her killer Mark Bridger. The rented home was bought by the Welsh government in August and is where Bridger is believed to have killed and dismembered April after snatching her outside her parents’ home in Machynlleth, mid Wales, on 1st October 2012. Detectives believe that Bridger dismembered her body at the cottage and disposed of her remains at numerous locations around the countryside. At the time of her disappearance, ribbons were tied to the railings around the town's clock tower, on shop doors and pinned to trees.

2014 Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister, gave his final press conference and parliamentary speech before handing over to Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first female First Minister.

2014 According to Dutch scientists, a single 10-second kiss can transfer as many as 80 million bacteria. The research was published in the journal Microbiome.

2014 The Anglican General Synod formally enacted legislation allowing women to be nominated and appointed as bishops. The first woman bishop - the Rt. Rev. Libby Lane, was consecrated Bishop of Stockport in a ceremony at York Minster 10 weeks later, on 26th January 2015.

Famous Birthday's

Louis XVIII
(1755 - 1824)

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Bernard Montgomery
(1887 - 1976)

Peter Cook
(1937 - 1995)

Martin Scorsese
75th Birthday

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Gordon Lightfoot
79th Birthday

Danny DeVito
73rd Birthday

Rod Clements
70th Birthday

Terry Fenwick
58th Birthday

Jonathan Ross
57th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Thomas Pelham-Holles
(1693 - 1768)

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Catherine the Great
(1729 - 1796)

Auguste Rodin
(1840 - 1917)

Calico Jack, English pirate
(1682 - 1720)

Dick Lilley
(1866 - 1929)

Jimmy Ruffin
(1936 - 2014)

Famous Weddings

1749 Founding Father of the United States Roger Sherman (28) weds first wife Elizabeth Hartwell in Massachusetts

1934 Lyndon B. Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor

1950 Writer Jack Kerouac (28) weds Joan Haverty

1978 Gerald Lascelles, British aristocrat and son of Princess Mary weds 2nd wife Elizabeth Collingwood in Vienna

2003 Singer Blake Shelton (27) weds Kaynette Williams in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Famous Divorces

1995 Retired MLB player Johnny Bench (47) divorces Laura Cwikowski after nearly 8 years of marriage

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18-11-2017, 01:31 PM

18 NOVEMBER

1307 William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head

1477 Caxton’s book, the Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, was published. It was the first printed book in England bearing a date.

1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, replacing earlier basilica, world's largest Christian basilica

1836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, who collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan to produce light operas, was born.

1852 The state funeral of the Duke of Wellington took place at St Paul’s Cathedral. It was one of the biggest ever held in London. Known as the Iron Duke, he was Tory Prime Minister from 1828-30. His hereditary title was derived from the Somerset town of Wellington and was created for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington. The Wellington Monument is located on the highest point of the Blackdown Hills, 1.9 miles from the town of Wellington.

1883 American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times

1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt

1906 Birth of Sir Alec Issigonis, born in Turkey of a Bavarian mother and a Greek father. He came to Britain in 1922 and made his way slowly in the motor industry, designing the Morris Minor in 1948, the first British car to sell more than a million. In 1959 he had his greatest triumph when he unveiled the Mini Minor which ten years later became the first British car to sell over two million.

1910 More than 100 were arrested by police when suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons at Westminster, London.

1916 General Douglas Haig called off the first Battle of the Somme in Europe after five months of futile battle, which included the first use of tanks. The Allied advance of just 125 square miles claimed 420,000 British and 195,000 French casualties. German losses were over 650,000.

1926 George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, 'I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.' The Nobel prize is awarded annually for outstanding contributions in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences.

1928 Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey Mouse's birthday

1943 440 Royal Air Force planes bombed Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.

1963 The first push-button telephone goes into service

1967 A ban on the movement of farm animals across the whole of England and Wales came into effect at midnight, in a bid to curb the spread of foot and mouth disease.

1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives, including over 270 children

1983 The world's first all-girl ***tuplets were born, to Mrs. Janet Walton at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. They were named Hannah, Lucy, Ruth, Sarah, Kate and Jenny.

1987 The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 30 people. The blaze began in the machinery below a wooden escalator in King’s Cross Underground station and soon filled the tunnels with dense, choking smoke and intense heat.

1988 War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers

1991 Church envoy Terry Waite was freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987.

1993 Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution

1993 In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives

2002 United Nations weapons inspectors arrived in Iraq. It had been alleged that Iraq was producing weapons of mass destruction but no evidence was ever found. Nevertheless, on 20th March 2003, an alliance of primarily U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq with the authority of President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

2003 The Local Government Act 2003, repealing the controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, became effective. Section 28 stated that a local authority 'shall not intentionally promote homo***uality or publish material with the intention of promoting homo***uality' or 'promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homo***uality as a pretended family relationship.'

2014 Benjy, a bull branded gay, was saved by charity donations, including £5,000 from Sam Simon, the co-creator of the Simpsons. Benjy, from County Mayo, Ireland, had been destined for the abattoir after showing more interest in breeding with other bulls than cows.

2014 Tony and Jan Jenkinson were 'fined' £100 by the Broadway Hotel in Blackpool after they wrote a damning review about it on TripAdvisor. After their stay, the couple found that their credit card had been debited, as the hotel had a 'no bad review policy' included in its terms and conditions. The money was later refunded and the policy changed.

2014 Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne (murdered in 2000 by Roy Whiting ) shut her social network account after she had endured "over 10 years of online unrelenting stalking and harassment". Sara's husband Michael Payne, who had fought a battle with alcohol since the murder of his eight-year-old daughter, died in October 2014, aged just 45.

Famous Birthday's

Louis-Jacques Daguerre
(1787 - 1851)

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Sojourner Truth
(1787 - 1883)

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William Schwenck Gilbert.. (Gilbert & Sullivan)
(1836 - 1911)

Carrie White.. (oldest US woman )
(1874 - 1990)

Hank Ballard
(1927 - 2003)

Owen Wilson
49th Birthday

Mickey Mouse
89th Birthday

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Linda Evans
75th Birthday

Kim Wilde
57th Birthday

Peter Schmeichel
54th Birthday

Luke Chadwick
37th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Chester A. Arthur
(1829 - 1886)

Niels Bohr
(1885 - 1962)

James Coburn
(1928 - 2002)

Chester A. Arthur
(1829 - 1886)

Jim Jones
(1931 - 1978)

Jonah Lomu
(1975 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1794 2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby

1948 KFC founder Colonel Sanders (58) weds his long-time employee Claudia Price

1952 "Rock Around The Clock" rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley (27) weds Barbara Cupchak

1962 Singer Barry White (18) weds childhood sweetheart Betty Smith

1966 MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (55) weds actress Mary Jo Tarola

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19-11-2017, 04:40 PM

19 NOVEMBER

1530 The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and catholic princes

1600 The birth of Charles I, King of England and Scotland who believed that the king ruled by Divine Right, until his action in dissolving Parliament led to the civil war with Cromwell and his eventual execution.

1620 The ship Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod, America. Its 87 passengers were a Protestant sect, known as The Pilgrim Fathers. (Note:- The Pilgrim Fathers were thwarted in their first attempt to sail to America when they left from Havenside, near Boston, Lincolnshire in September 1607.

1805 Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west

1850 Lord Tennyson became Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland. This statue of Tennyson with his Siberian wolfhound Karenina is on Cathedral Green in Lincoln, the county of his birth.

1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."

1895 American inventor Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil

1905 The SS Hilda, a steamship owned by the London and South Western Railway sank, with the loss of 125 lives when she struck ground at the entrance to Saint-Malo harbour.

1911 Doom Bar (previously known as Dunbar sands or Dune-bar) in Cornwall claimed two ships in a single day, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew, except the captain. There have been over 600 beachings, wrecks and capsizings at Doom Bar since records began early in the 19th century, with about 300 ships being wrecked.

1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures

1924 The birth of the actor William Russell. His big break was the title role in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot on ITV in 1956. The series was sold to American NBC network and became the first UK television series to be shot in colour.

1933 The marriage of Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist. Considered by many as the greatest contralto singer ever, she married Albert Wilson and shortly afterwards the couple moved to Silloth in Cumbria. Mrs. Wilson's Coffee House & Eaterie in Silloth celebrates her life, features historic photographs and is decorated as it would have been at the time.

1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army

1947 George VI created Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George's elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II), the following day.

1949 Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player, was born.

1951 The white football became official.

1959 The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel

1960 The first VTOL (vertical take off and landing) aircraft P.1127, made by the British Hawker Siddeley Company was flown, untethered, for the first time. It's first conventional flight, (i.e. a horizontal take off) was on 13th March 1961.

1967 The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, stood by his decision to devalue the pound saying it would tackle the 'root cause' of Britain's economic problems. The Bank of England spent £200m in a single day trying to shore up the pound from its gold and dollar reserves.

1969 Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal

1969 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon

1976 The death of Sir Basil Spence, the Scottish architect, most notably associated with designing Coventry Cathedral.

1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time

1985 Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States

1987 A 1931 Bugatti Royale was sold for £5.5 million at an auction at the Royal Albert Hall, a record at that time for a car.

1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album

1994 Britain's first National Lottery draw. It had a jackpot of £7M and was shown live on BBC television. A £1 ticket gave a one in 14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

1996 A fire broke out in the Channel Tunnel, injuring 34 people and disrupting rail services.

1997 McCaughey septuplets born to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy

1997 Police confiscated indecent videos and pictures of children in a series of raids on the homes and offices of British pop star Gary Glitter. Exactly six years later, American pop star Michael Jackson was arrested in California on charges of child molestation.

1998 Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million

2009 Floods in Cumbria brought devastation to towns such as Cockermouth. In just 24-hours the total rainfall at Seathwaite was 31.44cm (12.4 inches); a UK record for a single location in any given 24-hour period. William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, on Main Street and his house was one of many historic houses in the region to be affected by the floods.

2012 Two snap bags of the class A drug cocaine were identified by the police officer father of children who had been trick-or-treating in the Royton area of Oldham. Magistrates heard that Donald Junior Green, 23, was mortified by his 'terrible mistake'.He was given a 12-month community order and 130 hours community work.

2012 Father Christmas was left dangling from the ceiling for 30 minutes after his beard became trapped while abseiling inside a Reading shopping centre as part of a Christmas lights switch-on show.

Famous Birthday's

Charles I
(1600 - 1649)

James Garfield
(1831 - 1881)

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Indira Gandhi
(1917 - 1984)

Ray Collins (Mothers of Invention)
(1937 - 2012)

Ted Turner (Founder of CNN)
79th Birthday

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Calvin Klein
75th Birthday

Dennis Taylor
68th Birthday

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Meg Ryan
56th Birthday

Jodie Foster
55th Birthday

Chris Eagles
32nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Man in the Iron Mask
(c. 1640 - 1703)

Franz Schubert
(1797 - 1828)

Emma Lazarus
(1849 - 1887)

Joe Hill (Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder)
(1879 - 1915)

Tom Evans (English bass guitarist Badfinger)
(1947 - 1983)

Durlyn Eddmonds (murderer, executed at 45)
(1952 - 1997)

Walter Stewart (murderer, executed at 42)
(1956 - 1997)

Famous Weddings

1834 US President Franklin Pierce (30) weds Jane Pierce (28) in Amherst, New Hampshire

1923 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (56) weds artist Maude Noel

1939 Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds "Freshies" actress Dorothy Arnold at St. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco

1954 Actress Vera-Ellen (33) weds millionaire Victor Rothschild at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Los Angeles

1986 Hall of Famer boxing champ Muhammad Ali (44) weds Yolanda Williams

Famous Divorces

2004 Singer Jermaine Jackson (49) divorces Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (35) after 9 years of marriage

Number 1 Single and Album 50 years ago.

Single: Massachusetts - Bee Gees

Album: THE SOUND OF MUSIC - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

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20-11-2017, 01:38 PM

20 NOVEMBER

284 Roman soldier Diocletian proclaimed Emperor by the army

762 Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire

868 St. Edmund, Saxon king of East Anglia, was martyred by the Vikings, who tied him to a tree, shot at him with arrows, then beheaded him. He gave his name to the town Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk.

1620 The birth of Peregrine White a child of William and Susanna White, Mayflower passengers. He was the first English child born in the Plymouth Colony at Cape Cod Harbour.

1695 Zumbi last leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is executed

1759 The British fleet, under Admiral Hawke, defeated the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay, thwarting an invasion of England.

1787 Birth of Sir Samuel Cunard, a ship owner born in Nova Scotia who came to Britain in 1838 and, together with two partners, established what became the Cunard Line in 1839. Their first ship, the Britannia, set sail the following year taking 14 days and 8 hours to cross the Atlantic.

1805 Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio premieres in Vienna

1815 The Treaty of Paris was signed, following the defeat and second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo in June 1815 ended his rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile on the island of Elba.

1820 An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Es*** 2,000 miles from the coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

1906 Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce formed Rolls-Royce. In 1931, the company bought up Bentley Motors.

1908 Birth of Alistair Cooke, British-born US-based broadcaster and journalist who began his famous commentaries, Letters from America, in 1938.

1917 First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI

1944 World War II: The end of the 'blackout' in London. After five years in the dark, the lights were switched back on in Piccadilly Circus, the Strand and in Fleet Street.

1945 Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg

1947 Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Duke of Edinburgh) at Westminster Abbey. The BBC made the first tele-recording of the event, which was broadcast in the US 32 hours later.

1951 Snowdonia in Wales was designated a National Park. It was the third area to be designated 'National Park', the first being the Peak District

1962 In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation

1969 Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971

1969 Brazilian soccer icon Pele scores his 1,000th goal

1969 Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam

1970 The ten-shilling note (50p) was officially withdrawn by the Bank of England.

1974 The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System

1977 Egyptian President Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Begin and speaks before the Knesset

1979 Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was stripped of his knighthood after admitting to being a spy for Russia, thereby exposed as the Fourth Man in the Burgess, Maclean and Philby spy scandal.

1984 McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger

1885 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released

1986 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS

1990 Margaret Thatcher failed by four votes, to gain outright victory over Michael Heseltine, for leadership of the Conservative Party.

1992 Fire severely damaged the 'Brunswick Tower', at Windsor Castle when a spotlight ignited a curtain. The castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of Queen Elizabeth II. The question of how the funds required should be found raised important issues about the financing of the monarchy, and led to Buckingham Palace being opened to the public for the first time to help to pay for the restoration.

2001 President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building

2007 Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 went missing. The Child Benefit data on them included the name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25 million people. Chancellor Alistair Darling said there was no evidence the data had gone to criminals - but urged people to monitor bank accounts "for unusual activity".

2012 32 year old Kweku Adoboli, a City trader who lost £1.4bn of Swiss bank UBS's money was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of two counts of fraud.It was Britain's biggest banking fraud and a 'a gamble or two away from destroying Switzerland's largest bank'.

2013 Hull was chosen as the UK's city of culture for 2017, beating off challenges from Dundee, Leicester and Swansea..

2014 Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine was stopped on his way to work at the BBC by a police officer holding a speed radar gun. The device showed that he had been cycling at 16mph through Hyde Park, where the limit is 5mph.

2014 The UK's first bus powered entirely by human and food waste went into service between Bristol and Bath. The 40-seat 'Bio-Bus' runs on biomethane gas generated through the treatment of sewage and food waste.

Famous Birthday's

Edwin Hubble
(1889 - 1953)

Robert F. Kennedy
(1925 - 1968)

Duane Allman
(1946 - 1971)

Bo Derek
61st Birthday

Joe Biden
75th Birthday

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Veronica Hamel
74th Birthday

Famous Deaths

7224
Tom Horn (American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged to death at 42)
(1860 - 1903)

7223
Leo Tolstoy
(1828 - 1910)

Francisco Franco
(1892 - 1975)

Famous Weddings

1895 Businessman Harvey Firestone (26) weds composer Idabelle Smith (21)

1900 Archaeologist Hiram Bingham (25) weds Tiffany heiress Alfreda Mitchell in Honolulu, Hawaii

1932 Blues musician Muddy Waters (19) weds Mabel Berry

1937 Actor Jackie Coogan (23) weds actress Betty Grable (20) at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Los Angeles

1944 Model agency executive Eileen Ford (22) weds businessman Gerard W. Ford (20) in San Francisco, California

Famous Divorces

2007 Linda Bollea (46) divorces professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (53) after 23 years of marriage

2013 Business magnate Rupert Murdoch (82) divorces Wendi Deng (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage

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21-11-2017, 09:57 AM

21 NOVEMBER

164 BC During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah

1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, [O.S. Nov 11]

1695 The death of Henry Purcell, English composer and organist. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers and no other native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar.

1791 Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to General and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

1818 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times

1840 Victoria Adelaide Marie Louise, Princess Royal and first child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, was born.

1843 Thomas Hancock patented vulcanized rubber. In 1825 he had produced the first toy balloons in Britain, consisting of a bottle of rubber solution and a condensing syringe.

1871 The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is fired

1877 Thomas Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph), the 1st machine to play and record sound

1905 Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in Annalen der Physik, revealing the relationship between energy and mass

1906 China prohibits the opium trade

1913 The birth of twins Roy Boulting and John Boulting, known collectively as the Boulting brothers. They were English filmmakers who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

1916 HMHS Britannic, the largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line and sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic was sunk, with the loss of 30 lives. There were a total of 1,066 people on board, with 1,036 survivors taken from the water and lifeboats, about two hours after the ship sank at 9:07 am. She was the largest ship lost during the First World War.

1918 At the end of World War I, the German Fleet was surrendered to Britain at its northern naval base at Scapa Flow.

1920 The Irish Republican Army shot and killed 31 people in Dublin in what became known as the country's first 'Bloody Sunday'. The death toll included four**** British informants, four**** Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.

1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator

1922 Ramsay MacDonald was elected leader of the Labour Party.

1936 The world's first gardening programme, 'In Your Garden, with Mr. Middleton', was broadcast by the BBC.

1945 The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise

1953 The British Natural History Museum announced that the 'Piltdown Man' skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized skulls ever found, was a hoax.

1958 Work began on the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland. It was the longest suspension bridge outside the United States and the fourth-largest in the world at the time of its construction. It was awarded Historic Scotland's Category A, listed structure status in 2001.

1959 American DJ Alan Freed, who popularized the term "rock and roll" , is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he'd participated in the payola scandal

1967 The number of animals slaughtered in the latest epidemic of foot and mouth disease reached a record high of 134,000.

1970 General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup

1971 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army

1974 The IRA exploded two bombs in two Birmingham Pubs, killing 19 people and injuring 180 others. The Birmingham Six, as they were called by the media, were sentenced to life in prison for the crime but were subsequently acquitted.

1985 United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations

1986 National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair

1994 Princess Anne left England for a 7 day tour of South Africa and Mozambique. It was the first official visit to South Africa by a member of the Royal Family for 50 years.

2001 UK pop mogul Jonathan King was jailed for seven years for *** attacks on five boys.

2003 An acoustic guitar on which the late Beatle George Harrison learned to play, fetched £276,000 at a London auction.

2012 Bishop Justin Welby called the rejection of women bishops a 'very grim day', as bishops prepared for an emergency meeting on the issue. The ordination of women bishops in the Church of England was passed in the Houses of Bishops and Clergy of the general synod, but failed to gain the required two-thirds majority in the House of Laity.

2014 The Normandy Veterans Association formally disbanded On This Day. At a service in St Margaret's Church, in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, the Rector accepted the National Standard of the Normandy Veterans Association into safe keeping.

2014 The Liberal Democrats registered the worst ever performance in a by-election by a governing party. In Rochester and Strood, the party's candidate, Geoff Juby, received 349 votes, just 0.87% of the total. The seat was won by Mark Reckless from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), giving them their second elected MP at Westminster.

2014 Residents and businesses on the Isles of Scilly were able to receive superfast fibre optic broadband following the completion of an project by BT and Superfast Cornwall to lay fibre on the islands, located 28 miles off the Cornish coast. Fibre has been deployed on all five of the inhabited islands, with undersea cables linking St Mary’s, Tresco and Bryher, and microwave links connecting St Agnes and St Martins.

Famous Birthday's

7234
Voltaire
(1694 - 1778)

7233
henrietta (Hetty) Green, (American financier, Witch of Wall Street)
(1834 - 1916)

Tom Horn
(1860 - 1903)

Stan Musial
(1920 - 2013)

Goldie Hawn
72nd Birthday

Bjork
52nd Birthday

Andy Caddick
49th Birthday

Justin Langer
47th Birthday

Famous Deaths

J. B. M. Hertzog
(1866 - 1942)

Quentin Crisp
(1908 - 1999)

Anne McCaffrey
(1926 - 2011)

Famous Weddings

1982 Singer Joni Mitchell (39) weds bassist Larry Klein in Malibu, California

1983 NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt

1983 Actor Ed Harris (33) weds actress Amy Madigan (33)

1987 Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

2013 Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (34) weds actor Brian Hallisay (34)

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22-11-2017, 02:26 PM

22 NOVEMBER

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India

1594 The death of Sir Martin Frobisher, the English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. His knighthood was awarded for service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.

1718 Edward Teach, the English pirate who sailed under the name of Blackbeard, was killed in battle off the coast of North Carolina, with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard..

1764 History credits James Hargreaves with inventing the first Spinning Jenny, but it had been designed and built years before by an obscure artisan from Leigh called Thomas Highs.

1774 Robert Clive, English soldier often referred to as 'Clive of India', died, possibly from an overdose of opium. It may have been suicide, but suicide was regarded as a sin, and if this had been admitted by his family he would not have been allowed a church burial. As it is, his grave was unmarked and remains so.

1808 Birth of Thomas Cook, the English travel agent. He began his pioneering tour business, Thomas Cook & Son, when he organized the first publicly advertised railway excursion from Leicester to a temperance meeting at Loughborough (11 miles away) on 5th July 1841. This statue of Thomas Cook is outside Leicester Railway Station, on London Road.

1819 The birth, in Nuneaton, of Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot. She was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

1869 The clipper Cutty Sark was launched In Dumbarton, Scotland. She was one of the last clippers ever built, and is the only one still surviving today. She is preserved as a museum ship, located near the centre of Greenwich, in south-east London.

1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth

1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight

1943 World War II: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

1946 The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by a British company.

1954 The Humane Society of the United States is founded

1955 RCA Records make its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley's contract

1963 The death of the author Aldous Huxley, best known for his novels including Brave New World.

1963 In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of the President

1968 The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).

1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University

1971 Five ****agers, all from Ainslie Park School in Edinburgh, and their female instructor died in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.

1977 1st three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what eventually becomes the Internet

1977 The world's first supersonic airliner, Concorde, was given permission to fly into New York's Kennedy Airport following an agreement over noise levels.

1986 Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history

1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom

1988 In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed

1990 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership that had begun in 1979

1995 Britain's most prolific female serial killer, Rosemary West, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.

1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery

1997 Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of Australian rock band INXS and partner of British television star Paula Yates, was found dead in a hotel in Sydney.

2002 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest

2003 England's rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final in Sydney.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany

2013 Police arrested 63 year old Paul Flowers, former chairman of the Co-operative Bank, in connection with an ongoing drugs supply investigation that plunged the group into crisis.

Famous Birthday's

Abigail Adams
(1744 - 1818)

Thomas Cook (British founder and CEO of Thomas Cook & Son travel agency Cook Travel Bureau)
(1808 - 1892)

Charles de Gaulle
(1890 - 1970)

Floyd Sneed (rock drummer, Three Dog Night-Joy to the World)
75th Birthday

Terry Gilliam
77th Birthday

7258
Ron McClure (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
76th Birthday

Billie Jean King
74th Birthday

7257
Jamie Lee Curtis
59th Birthday

Boris Becker
50th Birthday

Scarlett Johansson
33rd Birthday

Marouane Fellaini
30th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Robin Hood, dies
1247

Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (Blackbeard, dies in battle at 38)
1718

George Washington Gale Ferris (inventor, Ferris wheel, dies)
(1859 - 1896)

Aldous Huxley
(1894 - 1963)

John F. Kennedy
(1917 - 1963)

Mae West
(1893 - 1980)

C. S. Lewis
(1898 - 1963)

7256
Michael Conrad, (actor, Hill Street Blues, dies of cancer at 58)
(1925 - 1983)

Bill Bixby, US actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59
(1934 - 1993)

Famous Weddings

1964 Actress Rosemary Clooney weds actor José Ferrer for the second time in Los Angeles, California

1965 Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes

1997 "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (38) weds actress Abigail Cruttenden (29)

1998 "Titanic" actress Kate Winslet (23) weds assistant film director Jim Threapleton (25) at All Saints Church in Reading, England

2003 Actress Carmen Electra (31) weds rocker Dave Navarro (36) at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California

Famous Divorces

2011 Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (27) divorces rock band Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half year of marriage

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23-11-2017, 03:16 PM

23 NOVEMBER

1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates

1499 The Pretender to the throne, Flemish impostor Perkin Warbeck, was hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV.

1644 Areopagitica, a pamphlet by John Milton, decrying censorship, is published

1852 Britain's first four pillar boxes came into service on the Channel Island of Jersey. The idea came from English novelist Anthony Trollope who worked for the General Post Office in London before becoming a writer.

1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1867 The Manchester Martyrs (William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien, all members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood) were hanged in Manchester for killing a police officer whilst freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.

1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving

1887 Boris Karloff, English actor famous for his roles in horror films, was born.

1889 The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco

1896 The first Royal Command Performance for the British Sovereign. The event was in the Red Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, before H.M. Queen Victoria.

1905 British Liberal Party leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman advocated Home Rule for Ireland, by instalments, in a controversial speech in Scotland.

1910 American born Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London after being found guilty of poisoning his wife and dismembering her body.

1915 ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag’, the famous First World War song, was published, by Felix Powell and George Asaf, who were really two brothers from Wales.

1924 Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, is first published

1936 Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success

1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days arift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor

1954 The birth of Ross Brawn, English motorsport engineer and Formula One team principal. He worked as the technical director of the championship-winning Benetton and Ferrari Formula One teams.

1959 French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".

1962 British surgeon John Charnley developed a technique at Wrightington Hospital Lancashire that revolutionised hip replacement operations. He was later knighted for his efforts and his work became the standard procedure across the world.

1963 The BBC broadcast the first ever episode of Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell as the Doctor, and Ann Ford as his first female companion. It is the world's longest running science fiction drama.The producer, Sydney Newman, thought the Daleks, designed by Ray Cusick, were ‘bug-eyed monsters’ and totally wrong for the series. Roath Lock studios in the Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay is the home of Doctor Who and its spin-off, 'Class'.

1976 British comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Queen Elizabeth II. There is a statue of Eric Morecambe on the promenade at Morecambe, Lancashire.

1976 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment

1978 A Birmingham nightclub was ordered to open its doors to black and Chinese people.

1979 In Dublin, Thomas McMahon was found guilty of the murder of Lord Mountbatten, and given a life sentence.

1981 Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17, giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua

1984 Almost 1,000 passengers were trapped in smoke filled tunnels for three hours after a fire at Oxford Circus underground station.

1990 The death of the author Roald Dahl. He was born in Cardiff, (to Norwegian parents). Roald Dahl Plass is a public plaza in the heart of Cardiff Bay. His notable works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG (Big Friendly Giant

1992 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada

1993 English artist Rachel Whiteread won both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year. She was the first woman to win Turner prize. and 2001 she became the third artist to provide a sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, an inverted 11 ton resin cast of the plinth itself.

2001 The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary

2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country

2014 Veteran sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (aged 75) spoke of the 'warm and friendly' reception he received after claiming third place in his class of the singlehanded transatlantic Route du Rhum race, from St Malo in France to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Sir Robin, a grandfather of five, was the first person ever to sail single-handed and non-stop, around the world, in 1969.

2016 Thomas Mair was found guilty of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox (16th June 2016). He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.

Famous Birthday's

Franklin Pierce
(1804 - 1869)

7272
Billy the Kid
(1859 - 1881)

Harpo Marx
(1888 - 1964)

Lew Hoad
(1934 - 1994)

Alan Mullery
76th Birthday

Merv Hughes
56th Birthday

Miley Cyrus
25th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen] Hanged at 48 in Pentonville
(1862 - 1910)

André Malraux
(1901 - 1976)

7273
Roald Dahl
(1916 - 1990)

Mary Whitehouse
(1910 - 2001)

Larry Hagman
(1931 - 2012)

7274
Andrew Sachs
(1930 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1929 Academy Award-winning Shirley Booth marries comic actor Ed Gardner

1940 RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth’s Anglican Church

1940 Film director David Lean (32) weds actress Kay Walsh (29)

1955 Physicist William Shockley (45) weds psychiatric nurse Emmy Lanning

1963 "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (39) weds Lena Horne's daughter Gail Jones

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24-11-2017, 02:46 AM

24 NOVEMBER

380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople

1542 The English army defeated the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss. It started as a family dispute when Henry VIII of England broke from the Roman Catholic Church and asked James V of Scotland, his nephew, to do the same, but James ignored his uncle's request.

1639 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System

1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

1806 The birth of Reverend William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman and the alleged inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823. The William Webb Ellis Cup is presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup.

1815 Birth of Grace Darling, an English lighthouse keeper’s daughter from the Longstone Lighthouse who rowed out to rescue survivors of the Forfarshire off the Farne Islands and became a national heroine. She died of consumption, aged 26. The Grace Darling memorial is within St. Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland.

1831 Michael Faraday read his first series of papers at the Royal Society in London on ‘Experimental Research into Electricity’.

1859 Charles Darwin published his controversial and groundbreaking scientific work 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'. Darwin was born in Shewsbury, Shropshire. The Quantum Leap sculpture in Shrewsbury was created to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth. This statue to Darwin is outside Shrewsbury library, a building that was once his former school.

1874 American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire

1939 Imperial Airways and British Airways merged to become BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), which later merged with British European Airways and returned to one of the previous names, British Airways.

1941 The birth of Pete Best, British musician, principally known as the original drummer in The Beatles, until he was eventually replaced by Ringo Starr.

1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas

1951 Austin and Morris Motors agreed to merge.

1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria

1955 The birth of Ian Botham, former England Test cricketer and Test team captain. He played mainly for Somerset and the County Ground at Taunton has a stand called the Sir Ian Botham Stand.

1962 ' That Was the Week That Was' went out live from the BBC, introduced by a new presenter, David Frost, and with some material written by an equally unknown John Cleese.

1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attacks in New York City smog, smoggiest day in city's history

1972 One of only eight 1933 pennies minted was auctioned at Sotherbys for £7,000.

1974 Police charged 6 men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings 3 days previously.

1987 Free eye tests were abolished by the Conservative government.

1991 Freddie Mercury, English rock singer, died at the age of 45, just one day after he publicly announced that he was HIV positive.

1993 The last 14 bottles of Scotch whisky salvaged from the SS Politician, wrecked in 1941 and the inspiration of the book and film, Whisky Galore, were sold at auction for £11,462.

2005 New laws came in force in England and Wales allowing 'round-the-clock drinking'.

2008 Chancellor Alistair Darling cut VAT, but took borrowing to record levels in moves that he said were needed to save the UK from a deep and long-lasting recession.

2010 Weather forecasters predicted that the UK would be entering a prolonged cold spell which could bring one of the earliest significant snowfalls since 1993. A few days later more than a thousand schools were closed across the UK and snow caused travel chaos in Scotland and the north of England.

2014 Cherry Campbell, aged 9, who plays the title role in CBeebies show Katie Morag became the youngest-ever winner at the Bafta Children's awards.

2014 NHS workers, including nurses, midwives and ambulance staff, staged four-hour strikes in England and Northern Ireland as part of a pay dispute. They were protesting about the decision not to implement a 1% rise for all staff as recommended by a pay review body.

Famous Birthday's

Zachary Taylor
(1784 - 1850)

7281
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
(1896 - 1962)

Ted Bundy
(1946 - 1989)

Famous Deaths

7282
Diego Rivera
(1886 - 1957)

Lee Harvey Oswald
(1939 - 1963)

7280
Freddie Mercury
(1946 - 1991)

Famous Weddings

1190 Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.

1979 Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (57) weds photographer Jill Krementz (39)

1980 Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri

1984 MLB pitcher Roger Clemens (22) weds Debra Lynn Godfrey

2000 Actor, screenwriter and director Jon Favreau (34) weds physician Joya Tillem (30) in Sonoma, California

Famous Divorces

1976 Singer-songwriter Donna Summer (27) divorces actor Helmuth Sommer after 5 years of marriage

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25-11-2017, 10:24 PM

25 NOVEMBER

1120 Henry I's only legitimate son, William, was drowned when The White Ship (la Blanche-Nef) carrying him from Normandy to England sank off Barfleur. This set up a conflict, known as the Anarchy, for the English crown between Stephen and Henry's daughter, Matilda.

1177 Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force

1703 The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reached its intensity which it maintained through to 27th November. Winds gusted up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people died.

1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States

1823 The first pleasure pier, The Chain Pier at Brighton, opened. It closed in 1896 and was destroyed in a storm in the same year.

1835 Birth of Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born US industrialist and philanthropist who rose from telegraph boy to iron and steel multimillionaire. He devoted his vast wealth to libraries and universities including the Carnegie Hall in New York which opened in 1891.

1839 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

1896 William Marshall became the first person in Britain to receive a parking summons after leaving his car in Tokenhouse Yard in the City of London, but the case was dismissed.

1932 British Equity, the actors' union, voted for a 'closed shop' to begin operating in 1933.

1937 An inter-regional spelling competition became the first British quiz programme to be broadcast.

1940 World War II: The first flight of the deHavilland Mosquito aircraft. The Mosquito was one of the few operational, front-line aircraft to be constructed almost entirely of wood and, as such, was nicknamed 'The Wooden Wonder' or Mossie to its crews. When it entered production in 1941 it was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world.

1952 The play, The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, opened in London, at the Ambassador's Theatre where it remained for 21 years. By Saturday 12th April 1958 it had become the longest running production of any kind in the history of British Theatre.

1953 Hungary, led by their talented footballer Ferenc Pushkas, beat England 6-3 at Wembley to become the first foreign team to achieve an away win at Wembley.

1969 John Lennon returned his MBE in protest against British involvement in Biafra and British support of US involvement in Vietnam.

1981 The inquiry into the Brixton riots in April blamed serious social and economic problems affecting Britain's cities.

1983 World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England

1984 Band Aid rock stars gathered at Sarm Studios in London to record 'Do They Know It's Christmas', to aid famine relief in Ethiopia.

1991 Winston Silcott became the first of the 'Tottenham Three', convicted for the 1985 killing of a policeman in Tottenham, North London, to have his conviction overturned.

2005 Former football star George Best died in hospital at the age of 59 after suffering multiple organ failure. He was a talented and charismatic player and became one of the first celebrity footballers. Best's subsequent extravagant lifestyle led to various problems, most notably alcoholism, which he suffered from for the rest of his adult life. A common description of his place in football history is summed up by the quote 'Maradona good; Pelé better; George Best.'

2012 34 year old former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton announced his retirement from boxing following his loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko in Manchester. Quote by Hatton "A fighter knows and I know it isn't there any more. I have got to be a man and say it is the end of Ricky Hatton."

2013 It was announced that Clare's Law, which enables people to check the police record of their partners, would be expanded (in March 2014) to cover all of England and Wales. The policy is named after Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend George Appleton at her Salford home in February 2009

Famous Birthday's

Karl Benz
(1844 - 1929)

7308
Joe DiMaggio
(1914 - 1999)

John F. Kennedy Jr.
(1960 - 1999)

Famous Death's

7307
Upton Sinclair
(1878 - 1968)

7306
Anthony Burgess
(1917 - 1993)

Fidel Castro
(1926 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1795 US President William Henry Harrison (22) weds Anna Symmes (20) in North Bend, Ohio

1908 Vaudeville performer Will Rogers (29) weds Betty Blake

1913 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House

1923 Film director Frank Capra (26) weds actress Helen Howell in San Francisco, California

1961 Racing car driver Mario Andretti (21) weds high school sweetheart Dee Ann Hoch (19)

Famous Divorces

2002 Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) divorces "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 months of marriage

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26-11-2017, 07:02 PM

26 NOVEMBER

43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed

1645 English Civil War - The third siege of Newark, which lasted from 26th November 1645 to 8th May 1646. Newark was important to both sides, as two important roads ran through the town - the Great North Way and Fosse Way. Newark castle was deliberately destroyed as a fortress in 1648.

1703 Henry Winstanley, the engineer who built the first Eddystone lighthouse, was among those who died when it was destroyed in the Great Storm that claimed 9000 lives and lasted from the 25th to the 27th November.

1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)

1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America

1805 The offficial opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wales. It is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain, a Grade I Listed Building and a World Heritage Site.

1836 The death of John Loudon McAdam. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials. Modern road construction still reflects McAdam's influence. He had extensive responsibilities in the north of England including the road from Penrith to Greta Bridge (A66), the road from Penrith to Cockermouth (also the A66) and the road from Penrith to Carlisle (A6). Whilst in the area he lived here - 1, Cockell House, Penrith

1864 Oxford professor Charles Dodgson presented a little girl called Alice Liddell with a handwritten manuscript of a story she had inspired him to write. It was called Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Dodgson's tale was published in 1865 as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll'. Alice's shop in Oxford at 83, St. Aldates was the inspiration for a whole chapter in the Alice in Wonderland stories. Lewis Carroll was born at Daresbury and this is the site of the former parsonage where he was born. There is also a Lewis Carroll window in the parish church of All Saints in Daresbury.

1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America

1867 Mrs. Lily Maxwell of Manchester became the first ever woman to vote in a British election, due to a mistake in the electoral register. She had to be escorted to the polling station by a bodyguard to protect her from those opposed to women’s suffrage.

1908 The birth of Lord Forte (Charles Forte), British business magnate and Chairman of Trusthouse Forte, one of the largest hotel and restaurant groups in the world.

1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands

1922 Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon, Carter’s sponsor, became the first men to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun near Luxor since it was sealed 3,000 years previously. Having escaped detection by tomb robbers, it was complete with gold statues and a gold throne inlaid with gems.

1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hit a Woolworth's store on New Cross High Street in Lewisham and killed 168 shoppers.

1945 The release of the classic romantic film Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The film was partially shot at Carnforth railway station and buffet room.

1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood

1953 Peers backed the Government's proposals for commercial television.

1954 Donald Campbell's new Bluebird K7 (a turbo jet engined hydroplane) was handed over to him On This Day. Campbell set seven world water speed records in Bluebird K7 and it was in her that he was killed on Coniston Water on 4th January 1967 whilst attempting another water speed record, his target being 300 mph. He is buried in Coniston graveyard.

1968 The new Race Relations Act made it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services to people because of their ethnic background.

1970 In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record

1983 The Brinks Mat security warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed of £25 million worth of gold bars weighing three tons. The gang gained entry to the warehouse from an insider security guard called Anthony Black. The robbers expected to steal £3 million in cash, but when they arrived, they found the gold bullion, most of which was never recovered.

1987 Drawings of English bank notes by US artist James Boggs were declared works of art and not illegal replicas of UK currency by an Old Bailey jury.

1988 Mrs. Rita Lockett of Torquay, Devon, spent £10,000 to repeat her daughter’s wedding two months after the event, because she did not like the video. The couple went through the reception with all 200 wedding guests wearing the same outfits and having to listen to the same speeches, this time with a professional video crew on hand.

1992 It was announced that as from 1993 the Queen would make arrangements to pay income tax, the first British monarch to do so since the 1930s.

1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland

2014 The Save the Children charity was criticised for giving former Prime Minister Tony Blair an award for his anti-poverty work in Africa. Critics said that his role in the Iraq war should disqualify him from receiving the honour.

Famous Birthday's

Albert B. Fall
(1861 - 1944)

Charles M. Schulz
(1922 - 2000)

Robert Goulet
(1933 - 2007)

Tina Turner
78th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Sojourner Truth
(1787 - 1883)

Philippe de Broca
(1933 - 2004)

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Michael Bentine
(1922 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1894 Russian emperor Nicholas II (26) weds Alexandra Feodorovna (22) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia

1924 Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico

1958 Model Bettie Page (35) weds Armond Walterson in Florida

1962 Singer Tina Turner (23) weds Ike Turner (31) in Tijuana, Mexico

1977 Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (53) weds businessman Arthur Hardwick Jr at the Sheraton Inn in Cheektowaga, New York

alfinyalcabo

26-11-2017, 07:07 PM

Arsenal mugged us again in injury time ...Grrr

Altobelli

26-11-2017, 07:19 PM

I look at it a different way alf.

However unfair it was, be it bad Refereeing or cheating we mugged ourselves.

We had the best of the first half but yet again was found lacking in scoring the important goal(s) when being on top, we left it too late with the Sub, and what was Tarky thinking even laying a hand on him in the first place, yes it's done a lot and most get away with it but we are Burnley and should not be messing about with below standard Refs who cannot control a thermostat let alone a Premier League game and thrive on giving an innocuous decision to make them look good especially at a crucial moment in the game.

The Bedlington Terrier

26-11-2017, 07:38 PM

These sort of games are way beyond the likes of Lee Mason who is one cheating, horrible little man.

How s-h-i-t is Mason?

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Altobelli

27-11-2017, 05:15 PM

27 NOVEMBER

27 November is Lancashire Day

1095 Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade

1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives

1582 William Shakespeare, aged 18, married Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter in 1583 and a twin boy and girl in 1585. The boy died aged 11. Anne Hathaway's cottage .

1811 The death of Andrew Meikle, a mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat.

1835 James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England

1874 The birth of Chaim (Azriel) Weizmann, first president of Israel, who was a chemistry professor in Geneva where he became active in the World Zionist Movement. After settling in Britain in 1904 he assisted the British munitions industry during the First World War when he devised a way of extracting acetone (needed for cordite) from maize. In return, the British government promised to help his cause and establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

1895 At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies

1897 The death of James Bateman, British landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He created the famous themed gardens at Biddulph in Staffordshire. The garden is a rare survival of the interim period between the Capability Brown landscape garden and the High Victorian style. Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England.

1914 Miss Mary Allen and Miss E F Harburn became the first two trained policewomen to be granted official status in Britain when they reported for duty at Grantham, Lincolnshire.

1920 The birth of Harry "Buster" Merryfield, English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses.

1920 "The Mask of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film

1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held

1925 Ernie Wise, 'straight man' to comedian Eric Morecambe, was born.

1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)

1944 Between 3,500 and 4,000 tons of explosives stored in a cavern beneath Staffordshire detonated, killing 68 people and wiping out an entire farm. The explosion was heard over 100 miles away in London, and recorded as an earthquake in Geneva.

1965 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space

1966 The first Lancashire Day to commemorate the day in 1295 when Lancashire first sent representatives to Parliament, to attend the Model Parliament of King Edward I. The county has two AONBs (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) - The Forest of Bowland and Arnside/Silverdale

1967 President de Gaulle said ‘Non’ to British entry into the Common Market.

1975 Ross McWhirter, TV presenter and co-editor of The Guinness Book of Records, was assassinated by two Provisional IRA gunmen after he had offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for several high-profile bombings.

1976 The four millionth 'Mini' car left the production line.

1987 A young man in Somerset tried seven times to kill himself following a row with his girlfriend. He threw himself in front of four cars, and jumped under the wheels of a lorry. He tried to strangle himself and jumped from a window. The real victims were a driver of one car who suffered a heart attack, a policeman who injured his back trying to restrain the man, and a doctor who was kicked in the face when the struggling man reached hospital.

1990 John Major won his second ballot for leadership of the Conservative Party and became Prime Minister. (Mrs. Thatcher had resigned as Prime Minister 5 days previously.)

2000 A 10-year-old schoolboy, Damilola Taylor, died after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers near his home in Peckham, south London.

2005 President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term

2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France

2008 The Queen Elizabeth II liner (the QE2) retired from active Cunard service. It was planned for her to begin conversion to a floating hotel; however, she remains moored at Port Rashid (Dubai) facing an uncertain future.

2012 Police admitted that the late Sir Cyril Smith, former MP for Rochdale, was a *** abuser of boys in the late 1960s. Despite not being charged, after inquiries in 1970, 1998, and 1999, the CPS stressed that changes in procedure meant a prosecution would be pursued today.

2013 The death of actor, Lewis Collins, aged 67. He was the quintessential British hard man, best known as Bodie in the TV the series 'The Professionals'.

2014 A new treatment for bladder cancer was shown to completely cure some people, in the first significant breakthrough in the disease for 30 years. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London discovered that an antibody allowed cancer cells to be picked up by the immune system and eradicated before they could spread.

2014 A consortium made up of 'Stagecoach' and 'Virgin' won the franchise to run the East Coast mainline rail route. The firms promised to invest £140m in the route over eight years, and to pay the government £3.3bn for the contract.

2014 Australian Test batsman Phillip Hughes died aged 25, two days after being struck on the top of the neck by a ball during a domestic match in Sydney. He also played for Hampshire, Middle*** and Worcestershire. His final innings score was adjusted to show him being 63 not out, after an update from Cricket Australia.

2014 The American wife of London financier Sir Chris Hohn was awarded £337m by a High Court judge in a divorce case. The sum was thought to be the biggest of its kind made by a judge in England. The couple separated following 17 years of marriage.

2014 The car registration plate "25 O" was sold at auction for £518,000, setting a new British record.

2014 The death, aged 94, of the acclaimed British crime writer PD James. Her books Her books (e.g Death Comes To Pemberley) sold millions of copies around the world during her 50-year career, with many made into television films.

Famous Birthday's

Anders Celsius
(1701 - 1744)

Ernie Wise
(1925 - 1999)

Bruce Lee
(1940 - 1973)

Jimi Hendrix
(1942 - 1970)

Trevor Leonard Ward-Davies 'Dozy', (English musician, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
(1944 - 2016)

John Alderton
77th Birthday

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Matthew Taylor
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Horace
(65 BC - 8 BC)

Ada Lovelace
(1815 - 1852)

Alan Freeman
(1927 - 2006)

Lewis Collins
(1946 - 2013)

Gary Speed
1969 - 2011)

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Len Shackleton
(1922 - 2000)

Harvey Milk
(1930 - 1978)

Famous Weddings

1960 Actress Lana Turner marries for the 6th time to Frederick May

1971 MLB center fielder Willie Mays (40) weds Mae Louise Allen in Mexico City

1980 British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)

1993 Actress Teri Garr (44) weds building contractor John O'Neil (42) at the Twin Dolphins Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

2010 US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell (25) weds Melanie Juneau in Texas

Famous Divorces

2006 "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only 4 months after getting married

2006 Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage

2013 Actor Ashton Kutcher (35) divorces actress Demi Moore (51) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

Altobelli

28-11-2017, 02:24 PM

28 NOVEMBER

1520 Three ships under the command of explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific

1582 In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence

1628 John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, was born.

1660 At Gresham College in Central London, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray founded what was later known as the Royal Society, an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in science.

1757 The birth of the poet William Blake. His work included a poem that began 'And did those feet in ancient time', which became the words for the anthem Jerusalem.

1814 The Times newspaper was, for the first time, printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer. It signalled the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election

1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours

1905 The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded by Arthur Griffith in Dublin.

1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered one of the most technically challenging concertos in the standard classical repertoire

1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading

1919 Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP, holding a safe Plymouth seat for the Conservative Party in a by-election caused by her husband's elevation to the peerage.

1935 The Miles quadruplets (Ann, Ernest, Michael and Paul) were born in Cambridgeshire and were the first British quads to survive infancy.

1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy

1967 All horse racing in Britain was suspended 'indefinitely' to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University

1968 The death of the children's author Enid Blyton. She wrote more than 800 books over 40 years including Noddy, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven.

1971 An English farmer uncovered a major immigrant smuggling operation when he rammed a plane which had landed at a disused airfield on his farm in Kimbolton, 10 miles from Huntingdon. The pilot escaped but police officers arrived soon after the incident and detained the five occupants of the plane.

1990 Margaret Thatcher made her last speech outside 10 Downing Street following her resignation as Prime Minister.

1993 The Northern Ireland peace process and Prime Minister John Major's credibility were dealt a blow when secret government contacts with the IRA were publicly disclosed.

1997 MPs in the House of Commons approved a Private Member's Bill, introduced by Labour MP Michael Foster, to ban fox hunting.

1999 Eleven people were injured when a nude swordsman attacked churchgoers at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in London.

2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with missiles

2006 A modern spy drama unfolded following the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London when traces of polonium-210 radiation were found at central London addresses.

2011 British company Captive Media announced details of its urinal mounted, urine-controlled games console for men. It called it the first 'hands-free' video gaming console of its kind, with games on offer including a skiing challenge, and a multiple choice pub quiz. A noted side effect was that the toilets became markedly cleaner, as a new premium was set on accuracy.

2013 A Newport man (James Howells) searched a landfill site in South Wales hoping to find a computer hard drive he threw away, worth over £4m. The drive contained 7,500 *******s, a virtual form of currency for use online. The drive was not found.

2013 The grand unveiling of TV's Coronation Street (Weatherfield) at its new home on Salford Quays, across the water from the BBC. In January 2014 the soap left its long established Quay Street site in Manchester city centre, which was sold for £26.5m.

2014 Jordan Winn was jailed for 13 months after he was caught driving at nearly 100mph in a 30mph zone. Winn blamed his Staffordshire bull terrier, who he said was in the footwell of his Volvo S60, for sitting on the accelerator pedal.

Famous Birthday's

William Blake
(1757 - 1827)

Henry Bacon
(1866 - 1924)

Berry Gordy
88th Birthday

Hugh McKenna, (rocker, Alex Harvey Band)
68th Birthday

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Ed Harris
67th Birthday

Jeff Fahey
64th Birthday

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Alessandro Altobelli
62nd Birthday

Martin Clunes
56th Birthday

Famous Deaths

James Naismith
(1861 - 1939)

Enrico Fermi
(1901 - 1954)

Jeffrey Dahmer
(1960 - 1994)

Jerry Edmonton, (Canadian drummer, Steppenwolf)
(1946 - 1993)

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Leslie Nielsen
(1926 - 2010)

Famous Weddings

1582 Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

1936 Paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (43) weds librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew

1938 Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony

1962 Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds film producer Anthony Cox

1986 NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-NY Jets football game

50 Years Ago Album and Single # 1s

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - BEATLES.

LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN - LONG JOHN BALDRY

Altobelli

29-11-2017, 02:22 PM

29 NOVEMBER

526 Antioch, modern day Syria, struck by an earthquake, killing about 250,000

800 Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III

1530 Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London.

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle

1781 The crew of the British slave ship Zong, murdered 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance. The resulting court cases, brought by the ship-owners, sought compensation from the insurers for their lost cargo. The court established that the deliberate killing of slaves could, in some circumstances be legal. It was a landmark in the battle against the African slave trade of the eigh****th century, and inspired abolitionists such as Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson, leading to the foundation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787.

1849 Sir John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, was born. His inventions included the Fleming Valve and many related devices that led to the development of modern electronics.

1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time

1898 C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles, was born.

1899 FC Barcelona Association football club is founded

1907 British nurse Florence Nightingale, aged 87, was presented with the Order of Merit by Edward VII for her work tending the wounded during the Crimean War. This portrait hangs in the Church of St. Margaret in East Wellow, Hampshire, the burial place of the Nightingale family.

1934 In Britain, the first live radio broadcast of a royal wedding - the marriage of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina at Westminster Abbey in London.

1935 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat', a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

1940 The city of Liverpool endured nearly eight hours of bombing, which left 166 people dead and 2,000 people homeless. At the time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the tragedy as "the single worst civilian incident of the war."

1944 The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas

1947 The UN approved Britain's plan for a partition of Palestine.

1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

1956 Panic-buying broke out at garages across the country as the government gave details of its petrol rationing plans. Petrol had been in short supply since the President of Egypt, Gamal Abdul Nasser, took over the running of the Suez Canal four months previously.

1962 Britain and France announced a joint agreement to design and build Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner.

1963 The Beatles record I Want To Hold Your Hand was released, with advance orders of one million in the UK alone.

1965 Housewife Mary Whitehouse began her Clean Up TV Campaign by setting up the National Viewers and Listeners' Association to tackle 'bad taste and irresponsibility'.

1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game

1975 British racing driver Graham Hill was killed in an aircraft crash at Arkley, Hertfordshire.

1986 The death of Cary Grant, British-born American actor. He was considered one of Hollywood's definitive leading men and was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute.

1995 On his historic visit to Britain, US President Bill Clinton praised British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton for their joint efforts to bring peace in Northern Ireland.

2001 George Harrison, musician, actor, songwriter and former lead guitarist with the Beatles died of lung cancer, aged 58. Often referred to as the 'quiet Beatle', Harrison became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as to their Western audiences.

2009 Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington

2013 The consecration of the Rev. Pat Storey as the UK and Ireland's first woman bishop, at a service at Christ Church Cathedral - Dublin.

2013 A double engine failure caused a police helicopter to crash into the Clutha Vaults pub in Glasgow. Ten people died in the accident; all three on board, six on the ground and another person died two weeks later from injuries received.

2015 Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 after Andy Murray beat Belgium's David Goffin to clinch the decisive point in Ghent.

Famous Birthday's

Christian Doppler
(1803 - 1853)

Louisa May Alcott
(1832 - 1888)

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C. S. Lewis
(1898 - 1963)

Ryan Giggs
44th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Giacomo Puccini
(1858 - 1924)

Dorothy Day
(1897 - 1980)

George Harrison
(1943 - 2001)

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Natalie Wood, American actress drowns at 43
(1938 - 1981)

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Irene Handl
(1901 - 1987)

Famous Weddings

1916 Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin

1927 Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (23) marries first wife fellow author and editor Helen Palmer (28)

1934 Prince George, Duke of Kent weds princess Marina of Greece and Denmark

2003 Composer and former Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman (50) weds actress Bridget Fonda (39) at First Congressional Church in Los Angeles

2008 "Without a Trace" star Roselyn Sanchez (35) weds actor Eric Winter (32) at Fort San Cristobal in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Altobelli

30-11-2017, 06:20 PM

30 NOVEMBER

St Andrew’s Day. He is the patron saint of Scotland, also of golfers and fishermen.

1016 Cnut the Great (Canute), King of Denmark, claimed the English throne after the death of Edmund II, often known as Edmund Ironside. The cognomen 'Ironside' was given to Edmund because of his valour in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut the Great.

1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die

1782 In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.

1872 The first football match between England and Scotland took place, at Hamelton Crescent Glasgow. It ended in a 0-0 draw.

1874 Birth of Sir Winston Leonard Churchill, British statesman, journalist, historian and Nobel prize-winner for literature. He was a descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough, and was born born in Blenheim Palace. The great wartime Prime Minister, with his highly quotable speeches, was considered by many as ‘the greatest living Englishman’.

1913 Charlie Chaplin made his film debut without the moustache and cane in 'Making a Living'.

1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (Engine No. 4472) became the first to officially exceed 100mph. She recently underwent went major restoration at the National Railway Museum in York. There was a series of test runs in January 2016 on the East Lancashire Railway, ahead of an official launch at King’s Cross railway station in London.

1936 The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire. The spectacular blaze was seen miles away. Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, it was originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851.

1944 HMS Vanguard, Britain’s largest, and last ever battleship, was launched at Clydebank.

1947 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel

1954 1st meteorite known to strike a person - American Ann Hodges in Sylacauga, Alabama (she survives)
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1955 Floodlights were used for the first time at Wembley Stadium, during an international game with Spain.

1960 Gary Lineker, footballer, and former England captain, was born. Despite his long career, Lineker was never cautioned by a referee for foul play, a feat equalled only by Billy Wright, John Charles and Sir Stanley Matthews.

1968 The Trade Descriptions Act came into force making it a crime for a trader to knowingly sell an item with a misleading label or description.

1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression

1982 Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history

1982 A letter bomb exploded inside No. 10, Downing Street, injuring a member of staff. The package was sent by animal rights activists. Margaret Thatcher was at home when the device exploded but she was not hurt in the blast.

1983 Seaweed contaminated by heavy radioactivity was discovered in Cumbria, near the Sellafield nuclear plant.

1987 At Christie's auctioneers in London, a painting by Edgar Degas, 'The Laundry Maids', was sold for £7.48 million.

1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm

1999 British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merged to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace company in the world.

2011 Up to two million public sector workers from 30 trade unions went on strike over reforms to their pensions, hitting public services as diverse as health, refuse and tax collection. Thousands of schools were closed and ports and airports were affected as border control staff walked out. It was the biggest day of strike action in more than 30 years, with warning of more stoppages to follow if ministers refused to negotiate on the dispute.

2013 Dr. David Hessayon, the author, who sold more than 50 million of his 'Gardening Expert' guidebooks announced his retirement at the age of 85. He has three honorary doctorates and was made an OBE in 2007.

2013 The Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson, who appealed his conviction for assaulting a police officer, claiming that he did not know what a modern policeman looked like, had his case thrown out by a judge who ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £620. Gibson was also disqualified from driving for 12 months for drink-driving and was fined a total of £2,350 for the offences.

Famous Birthday's

Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745)

Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)

Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

Richard Crenna
(1926 - 2003)

Ridley Scott
80th Birthday

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Mandy Patinkin
65th Birthday

Gary Lineker
57th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)

Evel Knievel
(1938 - 2007)

James Baldwin, (writer, Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
(1924 - 1987)

Paul Walker
(1973 - 2013)

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Zeppo Marx
(1901 - 1979)

Tiny Tim
(1925 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1940 "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut

1945 Actress Bette Davis (37) weds artist William Grant Sherry

1973 Sci-fi author Issac Asimov (53) weds second wife psychoanalyst and Sci-fi author Janet Jeppson (47)

1996 Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey

1996 "All My Children" actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii

Altobelli

01-12-2017, 03:13 PM

01 DECEMBER

1135 England's King Henry I died. He had fallen ill seven days earlier after eating too many lampreys (jawless fish resembling eels). He was 66, and had ruled for 35 years.

1581 Edmund Campion (later St. Edmund) and three other Jesuits were martyred. He was tried on a charge of treason for promoting Catholicism and was hanged in London.

1642 The 1st English Civil War : A victory for Parliamentarian Forces when Colonel Sir William Waller stormed Farnham Castle in Kent. It became his base for the remainder of the war.

1761 Birth of Madame Marie Tussaud (Grosholz), Swiss-born French waxworks modeller. During the French Revolution she made death masks from the severed heads of the famous. In 1800, separated from her husband, she toured Britain with her waxworks, eventually setting up a permanent exhibition in London.

1821 The birth of the architect Cuthbert Brodrick. Aged 29, Brodrick entered and won a competition for the design of Leeds Town Hall, one of the largest town halls in the United Kingdom. He also designed The Grand Hotel in Scarborough. At the time of its grand opening in 1867, it was the largest hotel and the largest brick structure in Europe.

1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens

1862 In his State of the Union Address, President Abraham Lincoln speaks about ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation

1868 The opening of London's Smithfield meat market.

1885 First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas

1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual went on sale, with 'A Study in Scarlet' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which first introduced the detective, Sherlock Holmes.

1895 Henry Williamson, author of the classic book 'Tarka The Otter', was born.

1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1919 Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected November 28

1930 The birth of the singer Matt Monro, who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30 year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls and stadiums throughout the world.

1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, Stalin uses as excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38

1942 The Beveridge Report, written by Sir William Beveridge, proposed a welfare state for Britain, offering care to all from the cradle to the grave. It revolved around a compulsory National Insurance scheme to provide all adults with free medical treatment, unemployment benefit and old age pensions.

1952 The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of ***ual reassignment surgery

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama

1960 Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson

1965 The Government put forward a plan to improve the lot of both farmers and consumers by encouraging intensive farming.

1966 Britain issued its first special edition Christmas stamps. In 2006 the stamps were heavily criticized as they depicted no Christian images on any of the Christmas stamps.

1969 A statue of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was unveiled in the House of Commons.

1969 Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II

1982 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)

1987 The Department of Trade inspectors were ordered into the giant Guinness company to investigate allegations of misconduct which ended up with four arrests being made, including the chairman Ernest Saunders. Guinness shares plunged by £300m.

1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)

1990 Britain and France were joined for the first time in thousands of years as the last wall of rock separating two halves of the Channel Tunnel was removed.

2010 Large parts of the UK were brought to a standstill by the early freeze. Temperatures plunged again overnight to -16C (3F) in the Scottish Highland after one of the coldest starts to December in more than 20 years. Some 4,000 schools were closed, the Forth Road Bridge was closed for the first time since it opened in 1964 and Edinburgh and Gatwick airports were shut. The Met Office issued heavy snow warnings for Scotland and north-east, eastern and south-east England.

2013 Official industry figures showed that some of Britain’s biggest wind farms were, at times, taking electricity out of the National Grid to run basic power supplies on site, rather than actually supplying electricity to households. Renewable power plant capacities from RWE are viewable on a real-time interactive map.

2014 Dr. Myles Bradbury was jailed for 22 years after abusing children who had cancer or grave blood disorders. He pleaded guilty to 25 offences against boys aged 10 to 16, including ***ual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images. About 800 more families were told that their children could have been at risk during the five years that Bradbury worked for the hospital.

2014 Christopher Law, the former owner of Britain’s last surviving temperance bar (Fitzpatrick’s, in Rawtenstall, Lancashire was prosecuted for drink-driving.

Famous Birthday's

Georgy Zhukov
(1896 - 1974)

Mary Martin
(1913 - 1990)

Pablo Escobar
(1949 - 1993)

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Matt Monro
(1932 - 1985)

Lou Rawls
91933 - 2006)

Billy Paul
(1936 - 2016)

Mike Denness
(1940 - 2013)

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Richard Pryor
(1940 - 2005)

Woody Allen
82nd Birthday

Bette Midler
72nd Birthday

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Gilbert O'Sullivan
70th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Leo X
(1475 - 1521)

David Ben-Gurion
(1886 - 1973)

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(1900 - 1990)

Famous Weddings

1927 Chinese political and military leader Chiang Kai-shek (40) weds Soong Mei-ling (28) in Shanghai

1973 NFL running back Gale Sayers (30) weds second wife Ardythe Bullard

1982 Martial artist Jackie Chan (28) weds actress Lin Feng-jiao (29) in Los Angeles

1990 Film director John Carpenter (36) weds producer Sandy King

1996 Model-actress Angie Everhart (27) weds actor Ashley Hamilton (22) at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles

Famous Divorces

1994 Cindy Crawford & Richard Gere announce they are seperating

2008 "CSI" actress Marg Helgenberger (50) divorces actor Alan Rosenberg (58) due to irreconcilable differences after 19 years of marriage

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02-12-2017, 12:28 PM

02 DECEMBER

1697 The rebuilt St Paul’s Cathedral, the work of Sir Christopher Wren, was opened. The previous cathedral had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

1755 The second Eddystone Lighthouse (located off the coast of Devon) was destroyed by fire. Four lighthouses have been built on the site. The light was lit on the fourth, (Douglass's lighthouse, designed by James Douglass) in 1882 and it is still in use.

1763 Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States

1769 Britain's first cremation took place, in St. George's burial ground, London.

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris

1816 The Spa Fields Riots. A large crowd, who had gathered to demand political reform, decided to march on London.

1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America

1823 Monroe Doctrine: U.S. President James Monroe proclaims U.S. neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns Europe not to get involved in U.S. affairs

1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West

1867 At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States

1899 Sir John Barbirolli, English conductor with the 'Halle Orchestra', was born.

1899 John Cobb, British racing driver was born. He made money as a director of fur brokers and could therefore afford to specialise in large capacity motor-racing. He was born and lived in Esher, Surrey, near the Brooklands race track. He broke the land speed record at Bonneville on August 23, 1939, achieving 367.91 mph. Without this being beaten he raised the record to 394.19 mph in 1947. He died in 1952, attempting to break the world water speed record on Loch Ness in the jet speedboat Crusader at a speed in excess of 200 mph.

1907 The Professional Footballer’s Association was formed, after a meeting at the Imperial Hotel, Manchester.

1917 World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin

1927 Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile

1927 1st Model A Ford sold, for $385

1929 Britain’s first 22 public telephone boxes came into service. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and installed as part of a new scheme for policing and were made available for general use in the Barnes, Kew and Richmond Districts. The red K6 phone boxes have become a British icon and many can be found in tourist cities, such as these boxes at Cambridge. Note:- The 100,000 BT phone box was installed at Dunsop Bridge in the "exact centre of Great Britain and 401 associated islands".

1929 First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien

1939 New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens

1943 The first Bevin Boys, aged between 18 and 25 were directed into the mining industry. Many miners had been called up to the armed forces, resulting in a grave shortage of coal.

1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism

1966 The Mini skirt, the symbol of the Swinging Sixties, was banned from the Houses of Parliament at Westminster.

1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado

1982 The film Gandhi received its premiere in London. It won 8 Oscars.

1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart

1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín

1995 28 year old Nick Leeson was sentenced for financial dealings which contributed to the fall of Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank. He admitted to a judge in Singapore two charges of fraud connected with Baring's £860m ruin.

1997 Representatives of 41 countries met in London to discuss the whereabouts of gold and other valuable assets seized by the Nazi government from Jews in Germany and other occupied countries before and during World War II.

1997 Former wrestler Big Daddy (real name Shirley Crabtree) died in Halifax, aged 67. He was often partnered against Giant Haystacks (Martin Ruane), who died in 1998, aged 52.

1998 Conservative leader William Hague sacked his leader in the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne, for going behind his back to negotiate a deal with the Labour Government over the scrapping of Hereditary Peers.

1999 The United Kingdom devolved political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.

2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

2012 Under a Freedom of Information request a draft report from Transport for London (TfL) showed that the Hammersmith Flyover, used by 90,000 vehicles a day, could have experienced a "sudden and catastrophic collapse". Salt water from repeated gritting had rotted internal steel cables yet the road remained open for several more weeks.

Famous Birthday's

Georges Seurat
(1859 - 1891)

Gianni Versace
(1946 - 1997)

Monica Seles
44th Birthday

Britney Spears
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

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John Brown (American abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59)
(1800 - 1859)

Aaron Copland
(1900 - 1990)

Philip Larkin
(1922 - 1985)

Shirley Crabtree, (British professional wrestler )
(1930 - 1997)

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Anthony Valentine
(1939 - 2015)

Pablo Escobar
(1949 - 1993)

Famous Weddings

1886 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt (28) weds second wife Edith Kermit Carow (25) in London

1926 Film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock (27) weds director Alma Reville (27) at Brompton Oratory in London

1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)

1965 Comedian Tony Hancock (40) weds publicist Freddie Ross (35)

2000 Mexican singer Thalia (29) weds co-owner of Casablanca Records Tommy Mottola (51) at St. Patrick

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03-12-2017, 05:33 PM

03 DECEMBER

1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia

1775 First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred

1795 Sir Rowland Hill, postal pioneer and founder of the 'Penny Post' was born.

1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state

1820 Thomas Beecham, English manufacturer and inventor of Beecham's pills, was born. The Beecham's Building on Westfield Street in St. Helen's is the former headquarters of the pharmaceutical company

1836 Three people were killed at Great Corby, near Carlisle in Cumbria, in the first fatal railway derailment.

1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences

1868 Gladstone became Prime Minister for the first time. He won office for three more terms.

1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, died, aged 45 on the island of Samoa.

1909 King Edward VII dissolved Parliament and taxes on alcohol, tobacco and cars were suspended as no budget had been passed. Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and had a reputation as a 'playboy prince'. This statue of King Edward VII, was unveiled by his father King George V in 1912 during a visit to Huddersfield with Queen Mary.

1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show

1926 In an episode as puzzling and intriguing as any in her many novels, Agatha Christie disappeared from her Surrey home and was discovered on the 14th December staying under an assumed name at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. She said she had no recollection of how she came to be in Yorkshire.

1927 Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released

1936 The Royal Family cancelled all engagements as news broke of Edward VIII's determination to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1944 Britain 'stood down' the Home Guard - formed in 1939 to defend Britain from invasion by Germany. They were officially disbanded in December 1945.

1948 The birth of John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne, English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. He rose to prominence as lead singer of the band Black Sabbath and became known as the 'Prince of Darkness'.

1961 The whole of south East England was plunged into darkness for two hours, due to an error by an electrician.

1963 The launch of Britain's second nuclear submarine, HMS Valiant.

1967 At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

1976 An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but will play a concert only two days later

1977 Wings started a nine week run at No.1 with Mull of Kintyre. It was the first single to sell over 2 million in the UK.

1979 In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert

1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran

1984 British Telecom was privatised. The shares immediately made massive gains.

1984 Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured

1988 Junior Health minister Edwina Currie provoked outrage by saying that most of Britain's egg production was infected with the salmonella bacteria.

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over

1992 Two bombs exploded in the centre of Manchester injuring 65 people. Miraculously no-one was killed, but much of the city centre had to be rebuilt.

1992 A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague

1994 The Playstation was released in Japan

2007 Gillian Gibbons, a 54 year old teacher from Liverpool was released after eight days in custody and handed over to British officials in Sudan after being jailed for letting her class name a teddy bear Muhammad.

2009 The death of Richard Todd, British actor, immortalized in the film Dam Busters (1955) as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, VC.

2012 St James's Palace announced that the Duchess of Cambridge was expecting a baby. The baby, the couple's first, would be born third in line to the throne, after Prince Charles and Prince William.

2015 RAF Tornado jets carried out their first air strikes against 'so-called Islamic State' in Syria, hours after MPs had voted (397 votes to 223) in favour of UK action in Syria.

Famous Birthday's

George McClellan
(1826 - 1885)

7397
Andy Williams
(1927 - 2012)

Mel Smith
(1952 - 2013)

Franz Klammer
64th Birthday

Ozzy Osbourne
69th Birthday

Eamonn Holmes
58th Birthday

Daryl Hannah
57th Birthday

Julianne Moore
57th Birthday

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Frank Sinclair
46th Birthday

Daniel Bedingfield
38th Birthday

David Villa
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Diocletian
( - 311)

Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850 - 1894)

Pierre Auguste Renoir
(1841 - 1919)

Cow Cow Davenport
(1894 - 1955)

Oswald Mosley
(1896 - 1980)

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Jimmy Jewel
(1909 - 1995)

Famous Weddings

1931 Silent film actress Clara Bow (26) weds actor and politician Rex Bell (28) in Las Vegas

1940 Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France

1984 Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin

1993 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (31) weds Charisse Simon (26)

2005 NBC correspondent Hoda Kotb (41) weds New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga in the Dominican Republic

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04-12-2017, 06:10 PM

04 DECEMBER

1154 The only Englishman to become a pope, Nicholas Breakspear, became Adrian IV.

1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad

1586 Queen Elizabeth I conferred the death sentence on Mary Queen of Scots after discovering a plot to assassinate her and bring about a Roman Catholic uprising. Queen Mary stayed at this house in Jedburgh in 1566 to hold a Circuit Court. She fell gravely ill and almost died there. As her later troubles closed in, she is said to have remarked "Would that I had died in Jedburgh."

1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.

1791 The Observer, Britain’s oldest Sunday newspaper, was first published.

1795 The birth of Thomas Carlyle at this house in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. The philosopher, writer, historian and teacher was considered one of the most important social commentators of his time.

1798 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger announced the introduction of Income Tax to help finance the war against France.

1865 Birth of Edith Cavell at Swardeston ( 4 miles south of Norwich). An English nurse in Brussels 1914-15, she was accused of helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium over the Dutch border and was executed by the Germans. There is a statue of her outside Norwich Cathedral.

1872 Crew from the British brigantine Die Gratia boarded a deserted ship drifting in mid Atlantic. The captain's table was set for a meal aboard the US ship Marie Celeste but the Captain, crew and passengers were all missing.

1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)

1930 Ronnie Corbett, comedian partnered with Ronnie Barker, was born.

1937 The first issue of the Dandy comic. With a fan club of over 350,000, Desperate Dan proved a durable character. A copy of this first edition is worth between £850 and £1,000. The closure, on 4th December 2012, coincided with its 75th anniversary and the final print edition included a pullout reprint of the very first edition of the comic.

1948 George Orwell completed the final draft of the book Nine**** Eighty Four which was published on 8th June 1949.

1952 At least 4,000 people died in a week, from breathing difficulties, during a severe London smog.

1956 The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time

1961 Birth control pills became available on the NHS.

1971 The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by a flare gun set off during a Frank Zappa concert, mentioned in Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water".

1976 Benjamin Britten, considered to be Britain's leading composer, died aged 63. He had been fighting ill health after a heart operation in 1973. This memorial window to him is in Aldeburgh Parish Church, Suffolk. The Aldeburgh Festival of music was started in 1948 by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Every year the Aldeburgh Festival has many of its concerts at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, 5 miles from Aldeburgh where Britten and Pears lived.

1980 English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbanded, following the death of drummer John Bonham on 25th September.

1997 Europe's health ministers voted to ban tobacco advertising throughout the European Union although they agreed that motor-racing, which relied heavily on sponsorship and advertising by tobacco companies, should be exempt for another 8 years.

2008 The Bank of England cut interest rates by one percentage point, from 3% to 2% - the lowest level since 1951. The move followed a dramatic cut in November in an attempt to help the slowing economy.

2008 Karen Matthews, the mother of nine-year-old Shannon, was convicted of kidnapping her own daughter. Matthews, 33, and her co-accused Michael Donovan, 40, were found guilty of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice. The trial at Leeds Crown Court heard that the pair kept Shannon 'drugged, subdued and hidden from the public' so that they could claim £50,000 in reward money.

2012 The highest lottery prize ever to remain unclaimed (£63.8m) eventually went to good causes as the winer did not come forward by the deadline of 23:00 GMT.

2013 One of Edinburgh’s new trams (No. 264) completed the first test run along Princes Street, flanked by teams of engineers. It was the first time since 1956 that a tram had run on Princes Street. Council bosses said that it was another indication that they were back in control of the troubled project.

2014 Knutsford council, in Cheshire, approved plans to widen the town's pavements. 220 years previously, spinster Lady Jane Stanley had paid for narrow pavements to be laid in the town, to prevent lovers from strolling arm in arm.

2014 The death, aged 85, of Jeremy Thorpe, former Liberal partyleader.

Famous Birthday's

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Crazy Horse
(1840 - 1877)

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Edith Louisa Cavell
(1865 - 1915)

Francisco Franco
(1892 - 1975)

Ronnie Corbett
(1930 -2016)

Dennis Wilson (Photo at foot of post)
(1944 - 1983)

Jay-Z
48th Birthday

Jeff Bridges
68th Birthday

Pamela Stephenson
68th Birthday

Paul McGrath
58th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Thomas Hobbes
(1588 - 1679)

Robert Jenkinson
(1770 - 1828)

Hannah Arendt
(1906 - 1975)

Frank V Zappa
(1940 - 1993

Famous Weddings

1878 Novelist Bram Stoker (31) weds Florence Balcombe (20) in Dublin, Ireland

1973 NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle (47) weds activist Carrie Cooke

1976 Actress Elizabeth Taylor (44) marries for the 7th time to politician John Warner (49)

1979 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)

1999 Philippe, Duke of Brabant and heir apparent to Belgium throne marries the honourable Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz

Famous Divorces

2015 Actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas divorce after 19 years of marriage

50 Years ago Album and Single # 1s

THE SOUND OF MUSIC - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

BABY NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU - FOUNDATIONS

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05-12-2017, 04:25 PM

05 DECEMBER

771 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman

1349 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacred during Black Death riots

1456 Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti)

1697 The first Sunday service was held in the new St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1717 English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides 1st record of Blackbeard's appearance, and the source for his name

1757 Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander

1766 James Christie, the founder of the famous auctioneers, held his first sale in London. Christie's main London salesroom is on King Street in St. James's, where it has been based since 1823.

1830 The birth of Christina Georgina Rossetti, the English poet who wrote a variety of romantic and children's poems. She also wrote the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.

1839 The postage rate in Britain was changed to a standard charge of 4d (4 old pence) a half ounce instead of being charged by distance.

1848 US President Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming gold discovery in California

1863 The rules of Association Football were published.

1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented

1899 The death of Lancashire businessman and philanthropist Henry Tate (sugar refining and the Tate Gallery)

1905 The roof of Charing Cross Railway Station in London collapsed, killing five people.

1913 Britain forbade the selling of arms to Ireland.

1928 England beat Australia by a record 675 runs in the Test at Brisbane.

1932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America

1933 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition of alcohol) repealed (5:32 PM EST)

1943 World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow

1944 German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht

1952 -8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die

1956 Miss Rose Heilbron QC was appointed Recorder of Burnley to become Britain’s first woman judge.

1958 The Queen dialled Edinburgh and spoke to the Lord Provost from Bristol, to inaugurate the first direct dialled trunk call, known as STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

1958 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened the Preston bypass in Lancashire. It was the first stretch of motorway in Britain and is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.

1967 The Beatles' clothing store "Apple" opens at 94 Baker Street, London

1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release album "Band on the Run"

1973 During a petrol shortage, the government imposed a 50mph speed limit to save fuel.

1974 Final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC TV

1985 Great Britain performs nuclear test

1989 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher defeated Sir Anthony Meyer in the first challenge to her leadership of the Conservative Party.

1991 Robert Maxwell's business empire collapsed with huge debts of more than £1bn and revelations about misappropriation of money in pension funds.

1993 The record by Mr Blobby, a pink-and-yellow spotted BBC television star, reached number one in the charts.

2005 The Civil Partnership Act came into effect in the United Kingdom. It gave same-*** couples rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage. In addition a formal process for dissolving partnerships was put in place, akin to divorce.

2007 Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall, killing eight people before taking his own life

2008 O.J. Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery

2012 The Audit Commission announced that English councils had increased their reserves by £4.5bn over the previous five years to £12.9bn despite cuts to funding. The money set aside was the equivalent of almost a third of their spending on services.

2013 Reforms in Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement included that those in their twenties would have to work until they were 70, under sweeping changes to the basic state pension.

2013 The death, aged 95, of Nelson Mandela, the towering figure of Africa's struggle for freedom and a hero to millions around the world.There are more streets named after Nelson Mandela in the UK than anywhere in the world outside South Africa. He also shares one of London’s most high profile public spaces in Parliament Square, with his statue alongside great figures from British history, such as former prime ministers Winston Churchill and Robert Peel.

2014 Scotland lowered the legal drink-drive limit in Scotland, from 80mg to 50mg in every 100ml of blood, lower than elsewhere in the UK.

Famous Birthday's

Martin Van Buren
(1782 - 1862)

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George Armstrong Custer
(1839 - 1876)

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Walt Disney
(1901 - 1966)

George Savalas
(1924 - 1985)

Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards
54th Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
(1756 - 1791)

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

Alexandre Dumas, (French writer, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 68
(1802 - 1870)

Nelson Mandela
(1918 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1926 Gangster Carlo Gambino (24) weds his first cousin Catherine Castellano

1932 "East of Eden" director Elia Kazan (23) weds playwright Molly Day Thatcher (25)

1943 Singer and actress Dinah Shore (27) weds actor George Montgomery (27)

1945 Actor Eddie Albert (39) weds actress Margo (28)

1947 "Spider-Man" creator Stan Lee (24) weds Joan Clayton Boocock

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06-12-2017, 03:06 AM

06 DECEMBER

The Feast day of Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus. He is the patron saint of children. The name Santa Claus is a phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch Sinterklaas.

1240 Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev

1421 Henry VI, youngest King of England to accede the throne (at 296 days), was born.

1732 The birth of Warren Hastings, first Governor General of Bengal who established the foundations of British administration in India. He was impeached for corruption on his return to England in 1785, but was later acquitted.

1745 Charles Edward Stewart (commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender) and his army began their retreat from Derby during the second Jacobite Rising.

1768 The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published, in Edinburgh.

1865 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery

1888 The birth of William Thomson Hay (known as 'Will' Hay); English comedian, actor, film director and amateur astronomer. His half hour weekly Will Hay Programme began in August 1944, and was broadcast live from the Paris Cinema, which still exists in a basement just off Piccadilly Circus.

1897 The world's first fleet of motorised taxi cabs started operating in London.

1916 David Lloyd George became Prime Minister. He was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, near Manchester, to Welsh parents, but the tiny village of Llanystumdwy was his childhood home. This building, in Llanystumdwy, is one of the very few museums in Britain which celebrates the life of a former Prime Minister.

1921 Irish independence was granted for the 26 southern states that became known as the Irish Free State. Six counties which formed Ulster (Northern Ireland) remained as part of the UK.

1963 English call-girl Christine Keeler, one of the models named in the scandal involving British Secretary of State for War John Profumo, was jailed for 9 months for perjury arising from the trial of an ex-boyfriend.

1975 The Balcombe Street siege in Central London was watched by millions on television. It ended when the four IRA gunmen, who had taken a couple hostage following a gun battle and chase, finally gave themselves up without a shot being fired.

1977 The birth of Andrew Flintoff, English and Lancashire cricketer. His nickname 'Freddie' or 'Fred' comes from the similarity between his surname and that of Fred Flintstone. He developed deep vein thrombosis after surgery to his knee and announced his retirement from all cricket on 16th September 2010.

1982 The 'Droppin Well' bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonated a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.

1983 Surgeons successfully completed the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain. Swedish journalist, Lars Ljungberg underwent the transplant, receiving the organs of a woman from the south of England who had died the previous day.

1994 The Queen gave the go ahead for oil drilling to take place in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The move came after studies showed there could be up to £1bn of oil lying beneath the castle.

1998 Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela

2005 David Cameron beat David Davis to the leadership of the Conservative Party.

2006 NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars

2012 The SA Agulhas set off from London on the start of the world’s first ever attempt to cross the Antarctic in winter. On 25th February 2013, Sir Ranulph Fiennes had to pull out of the expedition due to frostbite. On 18th June 2013, after encountering a crevasse field extending up to 60 miles, with temperatures close to -90c and operating in near permanent darkness the team officially halted its mission and decided to focus only on scientific experiments.

2013 Communities on the east coast of England began assessing the damage caused by the previous night's worst tidal surge for 60 years. Thousands had abandoned their homes, 1,400 properties were flooded and seven cliff-top homes collapsed into the sea at Hemsby - Norfolk. It was the start of a winter of severe floods and storms that affected many parts of Britain. These show severe cliff erosion at Skipsea Sands in East Yorkshire.

2015 Exactly two years later, communities in Cumbria and the Scottish Borders began assessing the damage caused by the previous night's rain storms that broke river banks and flooded properties in towns and villages, including Appleby, Cockermouth, Keswick and Hawick. Residents were evacuated from their homes and all trains between England and Scotland were cancelled. This new addition to the garden wall at a house in Appleby, on the banks of the River Eden, gives an indication as to river level.

Famous Birthday's

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
(1805 - 1861)

John Singleton Mosby
(1833 - 1916)

Agnes Moorehead
(1900 - 1974)

Famous Deaths

Jefferson Davis
(1808 - 1889)

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Werner von Siemens
(1816 - 1892)

Honus Wagner
(1874 - 1955)

Tunku Abdul Rahman
(1903 - 1990)

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Roy Orbison
(1936 - 1988)

Famous Weddings

1491 King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne

1930 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia

1941 King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels

1962 Actor Sean Connery (32) weds actress Diane Cilento on Gibraltar

1975 US Senator Bob Dole (52) weds former senator Elizabeth Hanford (39)

Famous Divorces

1938 Actress Bette Davis (30) divorces musician Harmon Nelson (31) due to cruel and inhuman manner after more than 6 years of marriage

1982 US Senator Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce

1988 Actor and comedian Robin Williams (37) divorces Valerie Velardi after 10 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

06-12-2017, 03:29 PM

This is the bit of this forum that I missed the most,still as entertaining as ever Altobelli

Altobelli

07-12-2017, 12:06 PM

I'm pleased its still keeping you happy Chalky, I was a bit worried when you went awal, glad you are back fella :)

Altobelli

07-12-2017, 01:12 PM

07 DECEMBER

43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae

521 The birth of Saint Columba, the Irish Christian who made his missionary trip to Scotland in 563. Columba is credited as bringing a revival of Christianity to Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. He died on the Scottish island of Iona and was buried in 597 AD by his monks in the abbey he had created there.

1545 The birth of Henry Stuart. He was the first cousin and second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of her son King James VI. He was murdered at Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh in 1567.

1703 The greatest windstorm "The Great Storm" ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die

1732 The first Covent Garden Opera House, then called the Theatre Royal, opened in London to an elite crowd, for a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, a tribute to Gay, who had died three days previously.

1817 The death of William Bligh, rear-Admiral who was captain of the HMS Bounty at the time of the mutiny.

1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri

1889 The first performance at the Savoy, London, of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 'The Gondoliers', their last real success. It ran for a very successful 554 performances, closing on 30th June 1891.

1909 Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry

1940 The birth, in Liverpool, of the comedian Stan Boardman who broke into television via Opportunity Knocks and The Comedians.

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

1955 Clement Atlee resigned as leader of the opposition Labour Party, following months of speculation. Hours later he was made an Earl by the Queen; the first Labour leader to accept a hereditary peerage. Mr Attlee led his party for 20 years and had a seat in the House of Commons for 33 years. In 1942 he became deputy prime minister in the war cabinet under Sir Winston Churchill. During his six years as prime minister from 1945 to 1951 he oversaw sweeping changes to the welfare state, with the introduction of the National Health Service and the nationalisation of many key industries - the Bank of England, civil aviation, coal, telecommunications, transport, electricity, iron and steel.

1965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054

1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati

1979 Cabinet minister Lord Soames was named transitional governor of Rhodesia to oversee its progress into legal independence. In 1964, the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia Ian Smith had rejected British conditions for independence. Rhodesia became a British colony in 1923, and was dogged by violence and international alienation during its struggle for independence.

1979 Production of MG Midget sports cars came to an end. 73,899 of the last version were produced and the last 500 cars were painted black.

1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States

1983 Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while they are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.

1983 A cat climbed to a height of 160ft up an industrial chimney, holding up the work of Lancashire's chief steeplejack and chimney demolisher Fred Dibnah.

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasir Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time

1988 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless

1993 Protesters lost a 20 year fight to save a 250 year old chestnut tree in east London. Twenty protesters were arrested after they clashed with 200 police officers sent to ensure a court order to cut down the tree was enforced and that the planned motorway extension could go ahead.

1999 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the file-sharing service Napster for copyright infringement

2001 The Taliban regime gave up its stronghold in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The fall of Kandahar came after the Afghan capital Kabul had been retaken in November. An ebullient Tony Blair, Prime MInister at the time, said - 'That regime is effectively now disintegrated. The terror camps can be shut down, and I think that is a fantastic thing.'

2012 Jacintha Saldhana, a nurse at King Edward VII hospital - London, who took a hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge from two Australian radio presenters posing as the Queen, was found dead at her home after committing suicide

Famous Birthday's

Mário Soares
(1924 - 2017)

Ellen Burstyn
85th Birthday

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Stan Boardman
80th Birthday

Johnny Bench
70th Birthday

Geoff Lawson
60th Birthday

Larry Bird
61st Birthday

Colin Hendry
52nd Birthday

John Terry
37th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Cicero
(106 BC - 43 BC)

1817 William Bligh (British naval officer of "Bounty") dies at 63

Thomas Nast
(1840 - 1902)

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Harry Morgan
(1915 - 2011)

Billy Bremner
1942 - 1997)

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Greg Lake
(1947 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1646 Princess Louise Henriette (19) of Nassau marries Frederick Henry Elector of Brandenburg

1929 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France

1940 Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarry in San Francisco (divorced 1939)

1996 Former Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker (71) weds retired Kansas GOP Senator Nancy Kassebaum (64) in Washington, D.C.

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2003 Queen of hip-hop soul, Mary J. Blige (32) weds record producer Kendu Isaacs in Bergen County, New Jersey (JULY 2016 MARY J BLIGE FILES FOR DIVORCE)

Altobelli

08-12-2017, 06:03 PM

08 DECEMBER

1542 The birth of Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish Queen who ascended to the throne when she was just 6 days old and was crowned nine months later. A rebellion led to her abdication and later Elizabeth I imprisoned her for a plot to restore the Roman Catholic religion and to take the throne from her. After 19 years in custody, Mary was tried and executed for treason.

1863 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South

1863 The world’s first heavyweight boxing championship took place at Wadhurst, Kent, between Tom King (England) and John C Heenan (US). The fight lasted for 24 rounds and King was the champion. Heenan was America's heavyweight champion under the London Prize Ring, or bare-knuckle rules, but retired after his defeat by the English heavyweight.

1864 The opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel when he was aged just 24. A plaque on the bridge commemorates Brunel's work. There have been over 500 suicides since the bridge was opened, including the tragic death of Charlotte Bevan and her new-born baby Zaani Tiana, whose bodies were discovered at the foot of the gorge on 3rd and 4th of December 2014 respectively.

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1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas

1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron

1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine

1941 The US, Britain and Australia declared war on Japan following the Pearl Harbour attack the previous day. The attack sank 9 ships of the American fleet and 21 ships were severely damaged. The overall death toll reached 2,403, including 68 civilians.

1941 President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

1941 The birth of Sir Geoff Hurst, English footballer. He made his mark in World Cup history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4–2 win over West Germany at the old Wembley stadium.

1952 Her Majesty the Queen announced that she would permit her coronation to be televised.

1955 Turkish government of Menderes forms

1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped

1965 The new Race Relations Act came into force making racial discrimination unlawful in public places.

1965 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council

1966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space

1967 The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK

1980 Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before his death

1980 John Lennon, former member of the Liverpool group The Beatles, was shot dead by Mark David Chapman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apartment.

1981 Arthur Scargill became leader of 'The National Union Of Mineworkers'. Scargill’s last official connections with his old union expired at the end of 2011. His honorary presidency of the NUM was terminated and so was his last remaining paid employment, as an adviser to the NUM’s Yorkshire and Lancashire Area Trust Funds.

1983 The House of Lords voted in favour of allowing live broadcasts from its chamber.

1993 Daisy Adams of Church Gresley, Derbyshire, thought to be Britain's oldest person at the time, died aged 113 years and 161 days.

1993 Storm hits western Europe, 11 killed in England

1995 Head teacher Philip Lawrence, aged 48, died after being stabbed outside his west London school while protecting a pupil who was being assaulted.

2004 The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations

2011 Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced an end to the ban on women serving on submarines. Female officers would begin serving on Vanguard class nuclear-powered submarines towards the end of 2013 and on the new Astute class submarines from 2015.

2013 Northumberland National Park and the adjoining Kielder Water and forest park, were declared Europe's largest "dark sky park". The award recognises the profound darkness that makes nearly 580 square milesof the county an ideal territory from which to stare up at the night sky.

2014 A £6,000 diamond and sapphire band engagement ring, stolen from a handbag on Caroline Marshall's wedding day in West Sus***, was replaced by Ashraf Ahmed (a Dubai-based jeweller), who was so moved that he gave the bride an identical ring.

Famous Birthday's

Mary Stuart
(1542 - 1587)

Eli Whitney
(1765 - 1825)

Lee J Cobb
(1911 - 1976)

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Samuel "Sammy" Davis Jr
(1925 - 1990)

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David Carradine
(1936 - 2009)

Jim Morrison
(1943 - 1971)

Gregg Allman, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band), born in Nashville, Tennessee (guitarist/vocalist, Allman Brothers Band), born in Nashville, Tennessee
(1947 - 2017)

James Galway
78th Birthday

Bobby Elliott (rock drummer, The Hollies), born in Burnley, Lancashire
76th Birthday

Bill Bryson
66th Birthday

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Teri Hatcher
53rd Birthday

Sinéad O'Connor
51st Birthday

Geoff Hurst
76th Birthday

Amir Khan
31st Birthday

Raheem Sterling
23rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
(1935 - 1967)

John Lennon
(1940 - 1980)

John Glenn
(1921 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1872 Religious leader Brigham Young (71) weds his fifty-fifth wife Hannah Tapfield in Salt Lake City, Utah

1950 NBA player Bob Cousy (22) weds his college sweetheart Missie Ritterbusch

1953 Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker (58) weds second wife Olive Palmer (51) at Park Road Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada

2007 "Happy Days" actor and legendary bachelor Scott Baio (46) weds longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan at a luxury high-rise in Los Angeles

2007 Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough (34) weds longtime girlfriend Leigh Boniello at St. James Cathedral in Orlando, Florida

Famous Divorces

2010 "Heart" rock singer Nancy Wilson (56) divorces "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown" director Cameron Crowe (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

08-12-2017, 08:11 PM

I'm pleased its still keeping you happy Chalky, I was a bit worried when you went awal, glad you are back fella :)

Its always an interesting read Altobelli...

1864 is so sad to read,I wonder what made that poor woman take such tragic and devastating action,the answer is probably lost in the time

Altobelli

08-12-2017, 08:52 PM

Here you go Chalky

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/09/chain-failings-led-death-charlotte-bevan-newborn-baby-coroner-rules

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/07/charlotte-bevan-death-serious-case-review

chalky_ncfc

08-12-2017, 09:22 PM

Bloody hell,now that's a shock,I had the impression that it was in Victorian times,a very sad story indeed

Thanks for the link Altobelli

alfinyalcabo

08-12-2017, 09:29 PM

Bobby Elliott (rock drummer, The Hollies), born in Burnley, Lancashire
76th Birthday

He still lives locally in Colne in a large detached house with views over the top reservoir in Foulridge

Altobelli

09-12-2017, 02:21 AM

09 DECEMBER

536 Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.

1212 Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz

1608 The birthday of John Milton, English poet, in Cheapside, London. His works included Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.

1783 The first executions took place at Newgate Prison.(now the site of the Central Criminal Court aka the Old Bailey), Prior to this, public executions were carried out at Tyburn gallows, which involved carting the prisoners from Newgate Prison through the crowded streets.

1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, Charge of the Light Brigade was published. The Charge of the Light Brigade had been led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25th October 1854 in the Crimean War. The poem emphasized the valour of the cavalry in carrying out their orders, even though they knew that blunders had been made by those in command. Quote from the poem - 'Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.'

1868 The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1902 The birth of Richard Austen (‘Rab’) Butler, progressive British Conservative politician born in India who was Minister of Education, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary but never the role he was most tipped for, that of Prime Minister. Instead he served no less than four Prime Ministers.

1934 Dame Judi Dench, actress, was born.

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1936 Australia all out 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck

1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy

1941 Hitler orders US ships are to be torpedoed

1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

1960 The first episode of Coronation Street was screened on ITV. It is the world's longest-running television soap opera. A closing date for conducted tours of 31st December 2015 has been confirmed as the site has been sold for redevelopment.

1967 Jim Morrison arrested on stage for disturbing the peace

1967 Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes President of Romania (overthrown 1989)

1968 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.

1973 Talks on Northern Ireland ended in an historic agreement to set up a Council of Ireland. British Prime Minister Edward Heath, Irish premier Liam Cosgrave, and representatives of the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, signed the agreement, at Sunningdale, in Berkshire.

1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana

1987 England's cricket tour in Pakistan hung in the balance as a row erupted between captain Mike Gatting and the umpire Shakoor Rana who accused Gatting of cheating.

1990 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland's 1st direct presidential election in Poland

1992 Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia

1992 The separation was announced of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Prince Charles and Princess Diana). They married in 1981.

1995 British soldier, Sgt. Timothy Cowley, was freed by police, 119 days after being kidnapped by Colombian bandits.

1996 Horrett Campbell, 33, a paranoid schizophrenic who attacked three children and four women with a machete at an infant school teddy bears' picnic in July was found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder. The court was told that Campbell had imagined he heard the children at St Luke's infants school, in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, taunting him when he walked past the playground.

1997 There were problems for Richard Branson in his attempt to fly around the world in a hot-air balloon when the envelope ( the balloon section) of his Virgin Global Challenger broke loose from the gondola and flew off on its own from Marrakech, Morocco.

2010 A car containing Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall was attacked amid violence after MPs voted to raise university tuition fees in England. A window was cracked and their car hit by paint, but the couple were unharmed. In angry scenes, protesters battled with police in Parliament Square and were contained on Westminster Bridge for a time by officers.

2011 Prime Minister David Cameron insisted he put Britain's interests first by vetoing a new European Economic Treaty.

2012 The death of the British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore, aged 89. He was the presenter of the BBC's Sky At Night for over 50 years, from its first airing on 24th April 1957, making him the longest-running host ever of the same television show.

2014 A notebook which showed the early work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, was bought by Swansea University for £104,500. He had a long affinity with Laugharne, (Carmarthenshire) spending the last four years of his life in the Boathouse.

2014 A classic Winnie the Pooh illustration by EH Shepard, first published in 1928, sold at Sotherby's for £314,500.

Famous Birthday's

John Milton
(1608 - 1674)

Margaret Hamilton
(1902 - 1985)

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr
(1909 - 2000)

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Broderick Crawford
(1911 - 1986)

Grace Hopper
(1906 - 1992)

Kirk Douglas
100th Birthday

Judi Dench
83rd Birthday

Beau Bridges
73rd Birthday

Joan Armatrading
66th Birthday
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John Malkovich
63rd Birthday

Donny Osmond
60th Birthday

Jermaine Beckford
34th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Ralph Bunche
(1904 - 1971)

1993 Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland footballer, coach, dies at 67

Archie Moore
(1913 - 1998)

Jenni Rivera
(1969 - 2012)

2012 Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and author, dies from an infection at 89

Famous Weddings

1883 Poet Rabindranath Tagore (22) weds Mrinalini Devi in an arranged marriage

1956 NBA player Bill Russell (22) weds college sweetheart Rose Swisher

1956 Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser (26) weds Tamie Beggs (20)

1967 Lyndon B. Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House

1983 Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Willy Brandt weds Brigitte Seebacher

Famous Divorces

1929 Businessman Howard Hughes divorces 1st wife Ella Rice after 4 years of marriage

1937 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) divorces first wife Faye Albertson after 20 years of marriage

1982 Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce

Altobelli

10-12-2017, 10:30 PM

10 DECEMBER

1394 The birth of King James I of Scotland. He reigned from 1406-1437 and was murdered at Perth in February 1437.

1520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant

1541 Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley

1688 King James II flees London

1799 Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so

1845 The Scottish civil engineer, Robert Thompson, patented pneumatic tyres. He was one of Scotland’s most prolific, but now largely forgotten, inventors. Tyre manufacture had to be by hand and they proved too expensive to be economically viable until Dunlop developed the process in 1888.

1868 Whitaker’s Almanac reference book was published for the first time. It's still in print, and is published annually.

1868 The first traffic lights were installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they used semaphore arms and were illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1898 Spanish-American War formally ended by the Treaty of Paris; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam

1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy

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1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie

1907 Author Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was the first time it had been bestowed on an English writer.

1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clashed with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that had been subjected to vivisection.

1917 The first postmark slogan was stamped on envelopes in Britain: ‘Buy British War Bonds Now’.

1919 The Smith brothers Capt. Ross Smith and Lt. Keith Smith (Australians), became the first aviators to fly from Britain to Australia.

1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st

1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity

1936 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divoree Wallis Simpson

1941 World War II: The Royal Navy's ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.

1942 Hitler names Anton Mussert "leader of the Dutch people"

1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo

1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

1979 Twenty year old stuntman Eddie Kidd accomplished a "death-defying" motorcycle leap when he crossed an 80ft gap over a 50ft sheer drop above a viaduct at Maldon, Es***. He jumped the Great Wall of China in 1993, but his career ended after he suffered serious head injuries in 1996 at a Hell's Angels rally in Warwickshire.

1987 Two dangerous prisoners escaped by helicopter from the Gartree maximum security prison in Leicestershire.

1990 The first of the hostages held in the Gulf for four and a half months arrived in Britain, after their release by Saddam Hussein. A total of 100 British hostages were freed and landed at Heathrow airport, with the promise of a further 400 to follow.

1991 The leaders of the 12 EC nations agreed on the treaty of Maastricht, pledging closer political and economic union.

2001 Prime MInister Tony Blair backed Home Secretary David Blunkett over his call for ethnic minority groups to make more effort to fit in with the British identity.

2003 The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of Angela Cannings, jailed for life for the murder of her two baby sons. She had always maintained that the two boys died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death.

2016 Terrorist bomb attacks outside a stadium in Istanbul kill 38 and injure 166

Famous Birthday's

James I
(1394 - 1437)

William Lloyd Garrison
(1805 - 1879)

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Ada Lovelace
(1815 - 1852)

Famous Deaths

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Alfred Nobel
(1833 - 1896)

Walter Johnson
(1887 - 1946)

Augusto Pinochet
(1915 - 2006)

Richard Pryor
(1940 - 2005)

Max Clifford
(1943 - 2017)

Famous Weddings

1843 Author and religious leader Mary Baker Eddy (22) weds building contractor George Washington Glover (32) in Tilton, New Hampshire

1947 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (30) weds bass player Ray Brown (21)

1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer

1994 Former Senate Majority Leader Mitchell (61) weds sports marketing executive Heather MacLachlan (35) at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City

2005 "Audioslave" drummer Brad Wilk (37) weds "Seven Year Bitch" former lead vocalist Selene Vigil near the frozen waters of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe

Famous Divorces

1997 Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel (59) divorces Linda Joan Bork after 38 years of marriage

Altobelli

11-12-2017, 11:13 PM

11 DECEMBER

1282 The death of the last native Prince of Wales - Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd.

1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)

1688 James II fled to France, never to return and was forced to abdicate after William of Orange had landed in England on 5th November.

1769 Venetian blinds were patented (in London) by Edward Beran.

1792 France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state

1877 English photographer Eadweard Mubridge won a long standing bet for a millionaire by proving that a horse's four feet are all off the ground simultaneously once every stride. He used multiple cameras around the track, each taking a single frame via a series of trip wires.

1895 The death, at Much Wenlock in Shropshire of William Penny Brookes. He was an English surgeon, magistrate, botanist, and educationalist especially known for inspiring the modern Olympic Games, the Wenlock Olympian Games and for his promotion of physical education and personal betterment. He was born at this house in Much Wenlock, was buried in the graveyard at Holy Trinity Church where there is this plaque and a memorial to him.

1903 The first wildlife preservation society was formed in Britain to protect fauna. It was called the Society for the Preservation of Wild Fauna of the Empire.

1913 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum

1914 The Royal Flying Corps, which later became the RAF, adopted the red, white and blue roundel to identify its aircraft more easily during World War I. See the roundel on a static WWII Spitfire F Mk IX - BS435 : F-FY at the Southport Woodvale Rally.

1914 In the Battle of the Falklands, all British ships survived whilst four German cruisers were sunk.

1917 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot

1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)

1936 After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. Edward planned to marry divorcee Mrs. Wallis Simpson and, before he left for France, he made a final radio broadcast to the nation. He was succeeded by his brother, George, who became George VI.

1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)

1952 Derek Bentley, aged 19, and 16 year old Christopher Craig, were found guilty of the murder of a policeman in south London. Because of his age, Craig was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure, while Bentley, who did not fire the gun, was sentenced to hang. Despite a public outcry, the sentence was carried out on 27th January 1953.

1967 Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, was rolled out of its hangar for public viewing for the first time.

1967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group - Grapefruit

1975 An Icelandic gunboat opened fire on unarmed British fishery support vessels in the North Atlantic Sea, heightening the 'Cod War'.

1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick

1997 Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases

1979 Rhodesia reverted to British rule after Parliament passed a bill to end 14 years of illegal independence from Britain.

1986 Church leaders condemned a radio campaign about Aids for 'condoning promiscuity'.

1987 Charlie Chaplin’s famous memorabilia were sold at Christie’s in London. His cane and bowler went for £82,500 and his boots for £38,500.

1990 The Government set aside £42M to British haemophiliacs who became infected with the HIV virus after being treated with contaminated Factor VIII

2005 A huge fire continued to burn at Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It was the largest of its kind in peacetime Europe and the noise of the explosions could be heard as far away as the Netherlands.

2012 HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering

2014 Ray Teret, a 73 year old DJ friend of *****phile Jimmy Savile, was jailed for 25 years for a catalogue of historical *** offences against young girls. He was convicted of seven rapes and 11 indecent assaults against schoolgirls in the 1960s and 1970s

2014 World's 1st ***** transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa (THINGS MIGHT BE LOOKING GOOD FOR YOU ALF)

Famous Birthday's

Leo X
(1475 - 1521)

Annie Jump Cannon
(1863 - 1941)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1918 - 2008)

David Gates, (rock vocalist, Bread-Baby I'm A Want You), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
77th Birthday

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Donna Mills
77th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Bettie Page
(1923 - 2008)

7507Ravi Shankar
(1920 - 2012)

Keith Chegwin
(1957 - 2017)

Famous Weddings

1924 Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (60) marries artist Georgia O'Keeffe (37) in Cliffside Park, New Jersey

1946 "Bill Haley & His Comets" rock and roll musician Bill Haley (21) weds Dorothy Crowe

1993 Canada's PM Stephen Harper (34) weds Laureen Teskey (30)

1999 Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane marries Rhona Gemmell

2010 "Good Charlotte" lead vocalist Joel Madden (31) weds fashion designer and actress Nicole Richie (30) at Beverly Hills, California

50 Years ago Album and Single # 1s

No Change This Week:

THE SOUND OF MUSIC ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

BABY NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU FOUNDATIONS

Altobelli

12-12-2017, 05:33 PM

12 DECEMBER

627 Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius beats Sassanid forces during Byzantine-Sassanid War

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1724 The birth of Admiral Samuel Hood, first Viscount, British naval commander and a skilful tactician. He was known particularly for his service in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars and he acted as a mentor to Horatio Nelson.

1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution

1800 Washington, D.C., established as the capital of the United States of America

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1889 Robert Browning, English poet, died. He was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His grave now lies immediately adjacent to that of Alfred Tennyson.

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1896 Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London. On the same day, in 1901, Marconi carried out the first transatlantic radio transmission from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St John’s, Newfoundland, a distance of 1800 miles.

1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada

1908 The start of the first Australian Rugby League tour of Britain. The seven-month tour was almost a disaster due to small gate-takings.

1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada

1925 Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rezā Shāh Pahlavi takes over

1939 HMS Duchess sank after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.

1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr

1948 Britain introduced National Service for all men aged between 18 and 26. It extended the British conscription of World War II into peacetime.

1955 Christopher Cockerell patented his prototype of the hovercraft. He had tested his theories using a hair-dryer and tin cans and found his work to have potential, but the idea took some years to develop, and he was forced to sell personal possessions in order to finance his research. Hovertravel is the only scheduled passenger hovercraft service in Europe and it operates between Southsea, Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1963 Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped

1964 Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)

1965 The Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)

1966 English sailor Francis Chichester arrived at Sydney in his ketch Gipsy Moth IV - half way in his bid to become the first man to sail solo around the world. On 28 May 1967, after 226 days, he arrived back in Plymouth and became the first person to achieve a true, solo, circumnavigation of the world from West to East via the great capes. The voyage was also a race against the clock as Chichester wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed clipper ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century.

1975 The six-day Balcombe Street siege ended peacefully in London after four IRA gunmen freed their two hostages and gave themselves up to police.

1975 Sara Jane Moore pleds guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford

1982 $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC

1982 30,000 women formed a 9 mile human chain that encircled Greenham Common air base in Berkshire, in protest against the proposed siting of US Cruise missiles there.

1988 Britain’s worst rail crash for 20 years killed 35 and injured 113 people when a packed express train ran into the back of a stationary commuter train near Clapham Junction.

1988 The first satellite pictures were beamed to London's betting shops to allow them to watch the races live from many race courses.

1992 Princess Anne remarried and became Mrs. Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland. She was previously married to Mark Phillips (1973).

2000 United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore

2001 Roy Whiting was found guilty of the abduction and murder of eight year old Sarah Payne, and sentenced to life in prison. The high profile case led to 'Sarah's Law', by allowing controlled access to the *** Offenders' Register, so that parents with young children could know if a child ***-offender was living in their area.

2001 Winona Ryder is arrested on shoplifting charges in Beverly Hills, California

2006 Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.

2012 Ofcom announced that Internet shopping was more popular in the UK than in any other major country, with an annual average spend of £1,083 a year, compared with the second highest (Australia) at £842.

2013 Blockbuster, the DVD and games rental chain that went into administration in January, announced that all the remaining 91 UK stores, employing 808 people, would have to close by 16th December.

2013 Daniel Severn, a 27 year old burglar who had 80 convictions for 32 court appearances was jailed for two years and four months. The court heard that Severn became trapped while trying to raid someone's house and ended up with his head resting on the toilet for an hour and a half, with one foot trapped in the window that he had used to gain entry. When he had tried to call for help he dropped his phone in the bath. Severn was told "It would be funny if it were not such a serious offence."

2013 Doctors in Derby and Nottingham analysing the Ian Fleming novels showed that James Bond drank the equivalent of one and a half bottles of wine every day. They said that he was not the man to trust to deactivate a nuclear bomb and that his love of the bottle would have left him impotent and at death’s door. Excluding the 36 days that Bond was in prison, hospital or rehab, the spy downed 1,150 units of alcohol in 88 days, four times the recommended maximum intake for men in the UK.

2014 A 20 year study of the Darwin Awards (named after the naturalist Charles Darwin that reviewed the most foolish way people have died, found almost 90 per cent were 'won' by males.

2015 COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels

Famous Birthday's

John Jay
(1745 - 1829)

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars, born in Butleigh, England
(1724 - 1816)

Edvard Munch
(1863 - 1944)

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Edward G Robinson
(1893 - 1973)

Sammy Davis, Sr
(1900 - 1988)

Frank Sinatra
(1915 - 1998)

Dionne Warwick
77th Birthday

Bill Nighy
68th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Robert Browning
(1812 - 1889)

John Thompson
(1845 - 1894)

Ike Turner
(1931 - 2007)

Peter Boyle
(1935 - 2006)

Famous Weddings

1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham

1991 Actor Richard Gere (42) weds supermodel Cindy Crawford (25) in Las Vegas

1998 TV personality Melissa Rivers (30) weds horse breeder John Endicott at The Plaza Hotel in New York City

2001 Actress Ashley Judd (33) weds race car driver Dario Franchetti (28) at Skibo Castle in Scotland

2008 Fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger (57) weds former model Dee Ocleppo in Greenwich, Connecticut

Famous Divorces

2014 Actor and comedian Nick Cannon (37) files for divorce from singer Mariah Carey (48) after 6 years of marriage

Altobelli

13-12-2017, 04:07 PM

13 DECEMBER

1577 Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth with his flagship Pelican, plus 4 other ships and 160 men, on an expedition to the Pacific. His other ships were lost or returned home shortly after the voyage began but the Pelican, renamed the Golden Hind, pushed on alone up the coast of Chile and Peru. Continuing northwards, the California coast was claimed in the name of Queen Elizabeth. He crossed the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and eventually returned to Plymouth on September 26th 1580 with treasure worth £500,000. He became the first Englishmen to sail around the world and the Queen knighted him aboard his ship at Deptford, on the river Thames.

1774 First incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire

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1833 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Port Deseado, Patagonia

1847 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (under the pseudonym Ellis Bell) was published, as was Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (under the pseudonym Acton Bell). In choosing to write under pseudonyms, the sisters drew an immediate veil of mystery around them, and people speculated as to the true identity of Currer Bell (i.e. Charlotte Brontë), and Ellis and Acton Bell. Find out more about Haworth and the Brontës on the Beautiful Britain website.

1867 Twelve people were killed when Irish terrorists blew up the outer wall of Clerkenwell Prison, London in an attempt to rescue a jailed colleague.

1904 The first electric train came into service on London's Metropolitan Railway.

1909 The British Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII.

1937 Japanese troops conquer and plunder Nanjing (Nanjing Massacre)

1939 The Battle of the River Plate, the first naval battle in the Second World War and the only episode of the war developed in South America. Action by Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles of the New Zealand Division, drove the great German battleship Admiral Graf Spee to seek shelter off Montevideo in Uruguay for repairs to its fuel system. Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee scuttled his damaged ship rather than face the overwhelmingly superior force that the British had led him to believe was awaiting on his departure. On 19th December, he committed suicide, over the Graf Spee's ensign, as a symbolic act of going down with his ship.

1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial

1961 The Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein

1961 "The Young Ones" directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley and Carole Gray premieres in London

1963 Capital records signs right of first refusal agreement with The Beatles

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1966 Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78

1972 More than 300 British victims of the Thalidomide drug were offered a compensation deal said to be worth £11.85m. A year later the 11 year battle over Thalidomide compensation ended with a £20 million court settlement.

1973 The British Government ordered a 3 day working week following an Arab oil embargo and industrial action by the country's miners.

1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)

1976 The first oil was brought to Britain, by tanker, from the North Sea Brent Oil Field , located 116miles north-east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands.

1989 A deaf choir from South Wales gave what was claimed to be the first concert using sign language. Performed in unison with a leading male voice choir, it enabled members of the audience who were deaf, to enjoy the concert at the Gwyn Town Hall in West Glamorgan.

1995 Hundreds of black and white youths went on the streets of Brixton, in south London attacking police, ransacking shops and burning cars after the death of a black man (Wayne Douglas, aged 26. ) in police custody.

1995 Christopher Reeve released from physical rehab center after his fall from his horse in a riding competition

2002 The enlargement of the European Union. It was announced that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia would become members from 1st May 2004.

2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit, during Operation Red Dawn by US forces

2004 Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.

2013 Prince Harry and his 'Walking With the Wounded' team reached the South Pole. Among those was Sgt Duncan Slater who lost both his legs in a blast in Afghanistan in 2009. The expedition's director said 'We came down here, determined to get 12 men and women, all injured in conflict, to the South Pole, and this is what we have done. The feeling is incredible.'

2014 Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, a conference and events venue since 1887, closed for the last time. The final concert was by the Bombay Bicycle Club, an indie rock band from London.

Famous Birthday's

Henry IV of FranceHenry IV of France
(1553 - 1610)

Lillian Board
(1948 - 1970)

Dick Van Dyke
92nd Birthday

Christopher Plummer
88th Birthday

Paula Wilcox
68th Birthday

John Francome
65th Birthday

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Steve Buscemi
60th Birthday

Taylor Swift
28th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Samuel Gompers
(1850 - 1924)

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Grandma Moses
(1860 - 1961)

Alice Marble
(1913 - 1990)

Famous Weddings

862 Boudouin Iron Arm & Count of Flanders, elopes with Princess Judith, daughter King Charles of West Francia

1951 British PM Margaret Thatcher (26) weds businessman Denis Thatcher (36) at Wesley's Chapel in City Road, London

2003 Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti (68) weds Nicoletta Mantovani at Modena Italy's Teatro Comunale

Famous Divorces

2001 Oscar winning-actress Kate Winslet (26) divorces assistant film director Jim Threapleton (28) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 years of marriage

2010 "Dexter" actress Jennifer Carpenter (31) divorces actor Michael C. Hall (40) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

13-12-2017, 08:19 PM

Thank you Altobelli

Altobelli

14-12-2017, 04:10 PM

14 DECEMBER

644 Uthman ibn Affan, companion of Muhammad, appointed 3rd Caliph of Islam

1287 During St. Lucia's Flood in Northwest Netherlands the Zuiderzee seawall collapses with loss of over 50,000 lives. Fifth largest recorded flood in history

1542 Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots. She was queen of Scotland until 24th July 1567 and was queen consort of France from 10th July 1559 to 5th December 1560.

1861 Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria died, at the early age of 42 of typhoid fever. His death plunged the Queen into a deep mourning that lasted for the rest of her life. The Prince laid the foundation stone of the Royal Dock at Grimsby which once had the largest fishing fleet in the world.

1895 The birth of King George VI, the second son of George V and Mary. He succeeded Edward VIII when Edward abdicated and ruled Britain during the war years.

1896 The Glasgow Underground Railway was opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's expedition is the 1st to each the South Pole

1918 The first woman elected to Parliament was Constance, the Countess Markievicz who won for Sinn Fein, contesting a Dublin seat. She was unable to take her seat as she was in Holloway Prison, London. The 1918 General Election was also the first time that women in Britain had the vote.

1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC

1920 The first scheduled airliner disaster in aviation history occurred when an airliner with six passengers and two crew took off from Cricklewood Airport, London, for a flight to Paris. Barely airborne, the plane crashed into a house in neighbouring Golders Green, killing the crew and two passengers. The others escaped from the wreckage.

1922 The man who would play a significant part in the history of British broadcasting, John Reith, was appointed General Manager of the fledgling BBC.

1932 Leeds and Wigan competed in the first floodlit rugby league match, at London’s White City Stadium.

1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York

1947 Stanley Baldwin, three times Conservative Prime Minister, died.

1955 Hugh Gaitskell was elected leader of the Labour Party, following the resignation of Clement Attlee.

1959 The shortest murder trial in British legal history. In 30 seconds, at Winchester Assizes, Brian Cawley pleaded guilty to the murder of Rupert Steed and was later sentenced to life imprisonment.

1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"

1984 Miners' leader Arthur Scargill was found guilty of obstruction during a picket at a Yorkshire coal works earlier in the year. He was fined £250 and ordered to pay £750 in costs.

1995 Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments ending the conflict in former Yugoslavia

2011 Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel agency announced that it would close 200 UK branches over the next two years as part of its UK business turnaround plan, 125 more than previously announced. This statue of Thomas Cook is outside Leicester Railway Station where Cook began his pioneering tour business in 1841.

2011 The UK jobless total reached a 17-year high in the three months to October, hitting 2.64 million. Youth unemployment, which covers 16-24 year olds, hit its highest level since records began in 1992.

2011 Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen (aged 85) and Duke of Edinburgh (aged 90) would mark their 2012 Diamond Jubilee with a five-month 'four corners' tour of the UK.

2012 Yorkshire, beat off the challenge of bids from Florence and Edinburgh with Leeds set to host the prestigious start of the Tour de France cycle race in 2014. Yorkshire took the Grand Depart to its heart. Day 1 started in Leeds on 5th July 2014 and took in the town of Skipton. The day's stage continued through the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Ripon, before ending the day in Harrogate.

2013 The death of the 81 year old actor Peter O’Toole, who starred in Sir David Lean’s 1962 film classic Lawrence of Arabia. The film earned him the first of eight Oscar nominations, with others coming for such films as Becket, The Lion in Winter and Goodbye, Mr Chips.

Famous Birthday's

Tycho Brahe
(1546 - 1601)

George VI
(1895 - 1952)

Jimmy Doolittle
(1896 - 1993)

Miranda Hart
45th Birthday

Michael Owen
38th Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Vlad the Impaler
(1431 - 1476)

George Washington
(1732 - 1799)

Roger Maris
(1934 - 1985)

7545
John Arlott
(1914 - 1991)

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Peter O'Toole
(1932 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1490 Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria

1780 US founding father Alexander Hamilton (25) weds Elizabeth Schuyler (23) at Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

1984 Singer and actress Bette Midler (39) weds Martin Von Hasselberg at Starlight Chapel in Las Vegas

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1985 "The Cosby Show" actress Phylicia Rashad (37) weds former NFL wide receiver and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad (36)

2005 Bollywood actor Fardeen Khan (31) weds Mumtaz's daughter Natasha Madhvani at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai, India

chalky_ncfc

14-12-2017, 06:14 PM

1961
On this day in history in a mythical place far,far away called Nottingham, a baby was born and his proud parents decided to name him chalky_ncfc,fifty six years later his only thoughts are of his birthday in 2028 when he can retire

Altobelli

14-12-2017, 06:58 PM

Happy Birthday Chalky, we are pleased that you grace our board as much as you do.

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chalky_ncfc

14-12-2017, 07:57 PM

Thank you Altobelli, that's very kind of you,keep up the good work with this thread,you may not get many replies but I for one,and I'm sure others,enjoy reading it

alfinyalcabo

14-12-2017, 08:01 PM

I really enjoy it and a happy birthday to you Chalky .. :star:

Altobelli

15-12-2017, 08:11 PM

15 DECEMBER

533 Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, under King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron

1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut, in present-day Iran, part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia

1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope

1612 German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope

1791 US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution

1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death

1906 The opening of the Piccadilly tube line on London's Underground. It was the longest underground line at the time, running from Finsbury Park to Hammersmith.

1913 Suffragettes caused a dynamite explosion at Holloway Prison where Emmeline Pankhurst and Lady Constance Lytton were detained.

1942 The birth, in Tottenham, of Dave Clark, English musician with 'The Dave Clark Five'. Their single 'Glad All Over' knocked The Beatles' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' off the top of the UK singles charts in January 1964. They had 12 Top 40 UK hits between 1964 and 1967 and disbanded in late 1970. In 2008, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the band, The Dave Clark Five was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in the United States.

1958 The last steam locomotive was made at Crewe. Engine number 92250 was the 7,331st locomotive built since the works opened.

1961 In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including war crimes, charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homo***uality is not a mental illness

1974 New speed limits were introduced. Speed limits on motorways would remain at 70mph , but on dual carriageways they would become 60mph and on all other roads 50mph as the government tried to curb fuel use.

1979 Chris Haney and Scott Abbott develop the board game Trivial Pursuit

1982 Reputed to be Robin Hood's tree, the 'Major Oak' in Sherwood Forest, was fitted with a fire alarm.

1982 There were scenes of jubilation as the gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain were opened for the first time in 13 years. There were tight restrictions, which included a ban on any British or foreign tourists crossing.

1984 'Do They Know It's Christmas' by Band Aid entered the chart at No.1 and stayed at the top for 5 weeks. At the time it was the biggest selling single ever in the UK, with sales of over three and a half million.

1987 A company in Bedford became the first to be fined (£500) for failing to register personal computer records under the Data Protection Act.

1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks

1993 The British and Irish prime ministers John Major and Albert Reynolds signed the historic Joint Declaration for Peace which they hoped would end 25 years of bombing and murder in Northern Ireland.

1994 Former 800m Commonwealth gold-medallist Diane Modahl was found guilty of taking a banned drug, but was cleared a year later on appeal.

1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland

2004 The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, resigned after an email implicated him in using his Government position to grant favours to his ex-lover.

2013 Andy Murray was awarded the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year. Earlier in the year Murray had become the first Briton in three quarters of a century to win the men’s singles competition at Wimbledon.

2014 Jonathan Paul Burrows, a London hedge fund manager who regularly avoided buying a train ticket on his commute to the City, was banned for life from working in any regulated financial industries. In total, Mr Burrows was believed to have dodged £42,550 in fares.

2015 Forty three year old astronaut Major Tim Peake became the first Briton to serve a mission on the International Space Station. He took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 11:03am GMT, alongside Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.

Famous Birthday's

Nero
(37 - 68)

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Gustave Eiffel
(1832 - 1923)

J. Paul Getty
(1892 - 1976)

Chico Mendes
(1944 - 1988)

Dave Clark, rock drummer (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), born in London, England
78th Birthday

Don Johnson
68th Birthday

Joe Jordan
66th Birthday

Frankie Dettori
47th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Afonso de Albuquerque
( - 1515)

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Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief who helped led his people to victory in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, killed by US Police aged 58 or 59
( - 1890)

1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri

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1944 Glenn Miller, American bandleader and jazz composer (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood), dies in a suspected plane crash at 40

Walt Disney
(1901 - 1966)

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1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63

2013 Joan Fontaine, British-American actress, dies of natural causes at 96

Famous Weddings

1875 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (41) weds Jeanne-Emilie Baheux Puysieux in Newport, Rhode Island

1933 Actor Gary Cooper (32) weds actress Veronica Balfe (20) in Park Avenue, New York City

1944 Country music star Hank Williams (21) weds Audrey Sheppard. It was her second marriage and his first.

1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon

1983 Author Roald Dahl (67) weds Liccy Crosland (45) at Brixton Town Hall in South London

Famous Divorces

1942 Actress Mary Astor (36) divorces film editor Manuel del Campo (29) after more than 4 years of marriage

2008 Pop singer Madonna (50) divorces film director Guy Ritchie (40) due to unreasonable behavior after almost 8 years of marriage

2010 Nip/Tuck actor Dylan Walsh (47) divorces actress Joana Going (47) due to irreconcilable differences after 6 years of marriage

Altobelli

16-12-2017, 02:35 PM

16 DECEMBER

755 An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during Chinese Tang Dynasty

1431 King Henry VI of England crowned king of France

1485 The birth of Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s wives. At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later. Catherine subsequently married Arthur's younger brother, the recently-succeeded Henry VIII, in 1509.She bore him six children but only one survived (Mary I), and Henry divorced her against the Pope’s wishes, in his pursuit for a male heir.

1598 Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - in the final battle of the war Korean navy decisively defeats the Japanese

1653 Following the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell failed to get the Parliament he wanted and became Lord Protector, turning himself into an uncrowned king for the next four years. He was buried in Westminster Abbey but after the Royalists returned to power, they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.

1773 Taxes by Britain on tea and other commodities led Samuel Adams and 150 ‘Sons of Liberty’ disguised as Mohawk Indians to hold what became known as the Boston Tea Party. 342 tea chests worth £18,000 were tossed off Griffin’s Wharf into Boston Harbour. The War of Independence had begun.

1784 The birth at this house in Llanfihangel-y-pennant, near Dolgellau, of Mary Jones. At the age of 15 she walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one of her own. The walk inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

1775 The birth of Jane Austen, English novelist whose works of romantic fiction made her one of the most widely read writers in English literature. She was enthralled by Lyme Regis and collated material for her last novel Persuasion which was published posthumously and is said to be the most autobiographical of all her novels. Lyme Regis was probably less busy than this when she visited in 1804!

1882 Sir Jack Hobbs, renowned cricketer and the first of his sport to be knighted, was born. He played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches from 1908 to 1930. Hobbs is widely regarded as cricket's greatest-ever opening batsman and holds world records in first-class cricket for scoring the most runs and the most centuries.

1913 Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week

1914 German warships attacked the seaside resort of Scarborough, believing it to be a major British port. Hartlepool and Whitby were also targeted. It was the first successful bombing on British shores for 250 years. Over five hundred shells of varying calibres were fired into Scarborough and on to the Grand Hotel. The attacks resulted in a total of 592 casualties, many of them civilians, of whom 137 died. There was public outrage towards the German navy for an attack against civilians and against the Royal Navy for its failure to prevent the raid.

1916, A public display of Baden Powell's new book 'The Wolf Cub's Handbook' was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, nine years after the foundation of his Boy Scouts Association.

1920 8.5 earthquake rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000

1927 Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW v South Australia

1929 Barnes Wallis saw his R100 airship carry out its first test flight. After departing from Howden in Yorkshire, she flew slowly to York then set course for the Government Airship Establishment at Cardington, Bedfordshire, cruising at around 50 mph on four engines.

1944 The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes. By 21st January, the Germans had been pushed back to their original line, having lost some 120,000 men in the offensive.

1946 French fashion designer Christian Dior and his backer Marcel Boussac found fashion house Christian Dior

1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK

1969 MPs voted by a big majority for the permanent abolition of the death penalty for murder.

1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing

1971 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released

1973 US kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by grandfather John Paul Getty

1977 The Queen unveiled the new underground link from central London to Heathrow; the first from a capital city to its major airport.

1979 4 British Army soldiers are killed by a PIRA landmine near Dungannon, County Tyrone. Another British Army soldier was killed by a PIRA landmine near Forkill, County Armagh

1985 John Gotti assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family after ordering the executions of Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti

1988 Junior Health minister Edwina Currie resigned after her earlier comments (3rd December) when she said that most of Britain's egg production was infected with the salmonella bacteria.

1994 Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI

1995 The official adoption of the name "Euro"

1998 Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - the United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq

1991 Britain named Stella Rimington as the first woman to head its security service, MI5.

1998 USA & Britain combined bombing attacks on Iraq after UN weapons inspectors were expelled from the country, contrary to assurances given by Saddam Hussein.

2001 Thousands of campaigners took to the streets of Edinburgh to protest against a bill to end hunting with dogs, the uncertain future of rural schools and the handling of the foot and mouth crisis. It was the largest demonstration of its kind ever witnessed in Scotland.

2012 Tour de France and Olympic time trial champion Bradley Wiggins was voted the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. At the same event Lord Coe, the Olympics 2012 chief, was awarded the BBC Lifetime Achievement Award.

2013 Figures showed that the UK paid more than £27m in aid to China last year. China, which has poured billions into its flagship space programme, has a GDP of £5.2 trillion compared with Britain’s £1.5 trillion.

2013 A Hillsborough pre-inquest hearing was told that a police video of the tragedy had an 'unexplained 10-minute gap in the middle'. New inquests into 96 fans’ deaths would commence in March 2014 and consider the emergency services' response for the first time.

2013 Lloyd’s of London appointed its first female Chief Executive, Inga Beale, who had three decades of international insurance and reinsurance experience.

2014 Bernard Manning, son of the controversial late comedian of the same name, said that he would put the 'World Famous Embassy Club' in Harpurhey, Manchester up for sale. The club was said to have inspired Peter Kay's TV show Phoenix Nights. The club features a mosaic of Mr. Manning senior, in which his ashes are mixed with the grouting.

Famous Birthday's

Catherine of Aragon
(1485 - 1536)

Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770 - 1827)

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Jane Austen
(1775 - 1817)

Steven Bochco, (Producer Hill St Blues)
74th Birthday

Bobby George
72nd Birthday

Christopher Biggins
69th Birthday

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Joel Garner
65th Birthday

Dennis Wise
51st Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Wilhelm Grimm
(1786 - 1859)

Colonel Sanders
(1890 - 1980)

1976 George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies

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Lee Van Cleef
(1925 - 1989)

Famous Weddings

1944 Gen Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie

1991 NBA center David Robinson (26) weds Valerie Hoggatt at a Baptist church ceremony in San Antonio, Texas

2000 Tennis player Todd Martin (30) weds Amy Martin in New Jersey

Famous Divorces

1809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Joséphine by French Senate

1999 Actress Linda Hamilton (43) divorces director James Cameron (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

2005 American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces singer-songwriter Nick Lachey (31) due to irreconcilable differences

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17-12-2017, 06:17 PM

17 DECEMBER

1398 Timur (Tamerlane) captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies which include elephants

1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition

1778 The birth, in Penzance, of Sir Humphrey Davy, English inventor of the safety lamp for miners which allowed miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases. Davy refused to patent the lamp, and its invention led to him being awarded the Rumford medal in 1816. The medal has been awarded every alternate year since 1800 by the Royal Society for outstandingly important discoveries by a scientist working in Europe.

1788 Russian army of Grigory Potemkin occupies Ocharov

1843 A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was published.

1849 Thomas and William Bowler, felt hat makers, sold their first 'bowler' to William Coke, which he purchased at James Lock & Co. in London.

1862 General Ulysses S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee

1903 The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

1917 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first English woman physician, died and was buried in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She was the founder of the first hospital staffed by women and the first woman mayor in the United KIngdom.

1925 The death of Albert Neilson Hornby (A. N. Hornby), one of the best known sportsmen in England during the 19th century. Hornby was the first of only two men to captain the country at both rugby and cricket. He is also remembered as the England cricket captain whose side lost the Test match at home against the Australians in 1882 which gave rise to the Ashes (Quote: - English cricket has died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.) He is buried in Acton churchyard in Cheshire

1927 Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours

1933 Members of the public were allowed to walk through the recently completed Mersey Road Tunnel, prior to its opening to traffic.

1936 The birth of Tommy Steele, English singer and actor. Most of Steele's 1950s recordings were covers of American hits, such as 'Singing the Blues' and 'Knee Deep in the Blues'.

1941 German troops led by Erwin Rommel begin retreating in North Africa

1941 World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.

1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals

1954 The British Petroleum Company (BP) was formed.

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1957 The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show airs on NBC due to lack of national sponsorship

1964 "Goldfinger", 3rd James Bond film, starring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman premieres in London

1967 Alec Rose, aboard Lively Lady, completed his solo 14,500 mile sail from Britain to Australia, having been at sea for 155 days. He returned successfully to Portsmouth on 4th July 1968 and was knighted the next day by the Queen.

1968 An 11-year-old girl (Mary Bell) was sentenced to life in detention after being found guilty at Newcastle Assizes of the manslaughter of two small boys. It was said that she strangled the boys, aged four and three, 'solely for the pleasure and excitement of killing'.

1976 Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates rejected Opec's recommended 15% oil price increase and chose to impose a lower price rise of 5%.

1983 Three police officers and three members of the public were killed and many others injured after a car bomb attack in London. Police believe the IRA planted the bomb in a side street near Harrods department store in Knightsbridge.

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson, in an operation performed at a Cambridge hospital, became the world’s first heart, lungs and liver transplant patient .

1986 American mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski is arrested at a ro*******

2003 Former school caretaker Ian Huntley was convicted of the murders of 10 year olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The judge said that the killings did not meet the criteria for a 'whole-life tariff', but that the 40-year term offered 'little or no hope' of his release.

2004 The opening of 'The Sage - Gateshead', a concert venue and centre for musical education, located on the south bank of the River Tyne.

2011 The Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton brought in children to play the seven dwarfs in its pantomime production of Snow White, apparently because dwarf actors were seen as too expensive. But in a statement, the producer said: 'This was a response to audience discomfort with what was considered by some to be exploitative casting.'

2012 The Queen's centenarian 'birthday card team' was expanded to cope with a surge of 100-year-olds. Figures showed a 70 per cent rise in just 10 years of people aged over 100 and how more than 104,000 First World War babies are still alive

2013 Alex Salmond's ‘Team Scotland’ delegation to the Ryder Cup in Chicago spent spent almost half a million pounds during their short stay, according to official figures obtained by The Telegraph.

2013 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term

2014 The Rev Libby Lane, a parish priest from Crewe, was chosen to be the Church of England’s first female bishop. Her appointment brought to an end 22 years of resistance to the promotion of female priests.

2014 Dominique Harrison-Bentzen (22) slept rough on the streets of Preston, Lancashire, to raise money for homeless man Robbie after he had offered her his last £3 for a taxi home when she lost her bank card. Dominique raised more than £21,000 to help him after she put posts on Facebook and Twitter, asking people to help raise money to give Robbie a home.

2014 Birmingham was named as one of the top 10 cities in the world by travel handbook company Rough Guide. It was the only UK location on the list. The list does not rank the chosen cities.

2015 José Mourinho is sacked as manager of British Premier football club Chelsea

Famous Birthday's

Mackenzie King
(1874 - 1950)

1943 Dave Dee, British musician (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire (d. 2009)

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Ray Wilson
82nd Birthday

Tommy Steele
81st Birthday

Pope Francis
81st Birthday

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Bernard Hill
73rd Birthday

Manny Pacquiao
39th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Simón Bolívar
(1783 - 1830)

William Thomson
(1824 - 1907)

2010 Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)

Kim Jong-il
(1942 - 2011)

Famous Weddings

1600 Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici

1915 Journalist Benito Mussolini marries Rachele Guidi in Treviglio Lombardy

1918 Philippine Senator (and later 2nd President) Manuel L. Quezon (40) weds first cousin Aurora Aragon (30) in Hong Kong

1955 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (47) weds Cecilia Suyat

1969 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show

1993 Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds designer Barbara Feltus (27)

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1994 Actress Heather Locklear (33) weds Bon Jovi lead guitarist Richie Sambora (35) at The American Cathedral in Paris, France

1994 Queen of Pop Celine Dion (26) weds her manager Rene Angelil (52) at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Canada

Famous Divorces

2007 Actor Dermot Mulroney (44) divorces actress Catherine Keener (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 17 years of marriage

Altobelli

18-12-2017, 03:42 PM

18 DECEMBER

218 BC Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian army heavily defeat Roman forces on Italian soil

1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China

1559 Queen Elizabeth I of England sent aid to the Scottish Lords to drive the French from Scotland.

1603 First fleet of the Dutch East India Compnay under Admiral Steven van der Haghen departs for the East-Indies

1707 The birth at Epworth, Lincolnshire, of Charles Wesley, English hymn writer of more than 6,000 hymns. He was an evangelist like his brother John, who was the founder of Methodism. Their father was an Anglican cleric and they lived here . This window in Epworth Methodist Church features the two brothers. Charles ministered for part of his life in The New Room Chapel in Bristol, which is the oldest Methodist Chapel in the world (originally built in 1739) and the cradle of the early Methodist movement.

1779 The birth, in London, of Joseph Grimaldi, English creator of the original white faced clown. He was introduced to the stage at Drury Lane at the age of three and began to appear at the Sadler's Wells theatre. As Music Hall became popular, he introduced the pantomime dame to the theatre and was responsible for the tradition of audience participation.

1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify US constitution

1792 Radical political writer Thomas Paine was tried for treason, in his absence, for publishing 'The Rights of Man' in which he supported the French Revolution and called for the abolition of the British Monarchy.

1852 George Hamilton-Gordon becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after the downfall of the Conservative government of Edward Smith-Stanley

1892 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres

1912 The Piltdown Man was discovered in Sus*** by Charles Dawson. It was claimed to be the fossilized skull and remains of the earliest known European, but in 1953 it was proved to be a hoax. The skull was that of an orang-utan.

1916 The Battle of Verdun, the longest engagement of World War I, ended after 10 months and massive loss of life. 23 million shells had been fired and 650,000 were killed.

1919 Pioneering aviator John Alcock, a Captain in the RAF, died in an aircraft accident whilst flying the new Vickers Viking amphibian to the Paris airshow. Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten-Brown were the first to make a non-stop transatlantic flight. A few days after the flight both Alcock and Brown were honoured with a reception at Windsor Castle during which King George V knighted them and invested them with their insignia as Knight Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, but after Alcock's death, Brown never flew again.

1946 Clement Atlee's Labour government won the vote on state ownership. It led to the nationalizing of the railways, ports and mines. Labour MPs triumphantly sang 'The Red Flag'.

1956 Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai

1957 World's 1st full scale nuclear power plant begins to generate electricity, at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania

1964 "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)

1964 During funeral service held for soul singer Sam Cooke, fans cause damage to funeral home

1971 US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)

1971 Three members of the Irish Republican Army die when the bomb they were transporting explodes prematurely in King Street, Magherafelt, County Derry.

1974 The Government said that it would pay £42,000 compensation to relatives of the 13 men killed in the Bloody Sunday riots in Londonderry (30th January 1972).

1980 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike

1987 Ivan Boesky, the former US ‘King of Arbitrage’ was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for insider stock exchange dealings. Some of Boesky’s revelations led to the investigation by the Department of Trade and Industry in Britain into Guinness’s takeover of Distillers.

1989 The Labour Party abandoned its policy on trade union 'closed shops' in line with European legislation.

1997 A bill giving Scotland its own parliament for the first time in three centuries was unveiled in Glasgow. Work commenced in June

1999 on the Scottish Parliament Building. It was built at a cost :- £414 million (ten times over the original budget).

2002 Fashion designer Calvin Klein announces he is selling his company to shirt-maker Phillips-Van Heusen for $430 million

2011 The last US troops withdraw from Iraq, formally ending the Iraq War

2012 The Queen attended a historic cabinet meeting at Downing Street, the first monarch to do so since 1781. Later, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced that the southern part of the British Antarctic Territory, an unnamed area almost twice the size of the UK would be called Queen Elizabeth Land.

2012 Comet stores closed their doors for the last time, bringing the electrical retailer's 79 year history to an end.

2012 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy

2012 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan

2013 The death, aged 84, of the criminal Ronnie Biggs who was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train on 8th August 1963. Biggs was given a 30-year sentence but escaped from Wandsworth prison in 1965. In 2001 he returned to the UK seeking medical helpp, but was sent to prison. He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after contracting pneumonia. Coincidentally Biggs' death occurred hours before the first broadcast of a two-part BBC television series 'The Great Train Robbery'.

2013 The Bank of England announced its plans to press ahead with switching to plastic banknotes, starting with the new Sir Winston Churchill £5 note in 2016. The decision will mark the beginning of the end of 320 years of paper notes from the Bank.

2015 The closure of Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, the last remaining deep coal mine in Britain.

Famous Birthday's

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1779 Joseph Grimaldi, English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history", born in London (d. 1837)

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1856 J. J. Thomson, English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906), born in Manchester, England (d. 1940)

Franz Ferdinand
(1863 - 1914)

Joseph Stalin
(1878 - 1953)

Ty Cobb
(1886 - 1961)

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1916 Betty Grable, great legs/actress (Gay Divorcee), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d 1973)

1934 John Bingham, Lord Lucan, British peer suspected of murdering his nanny who disappeared, born in London (presumed dead)

Keith Richards
74th Birthday

Steven Spielberg
71st Birthday

Ray Liotta
63rd Birthday

Brad Pitt
54th Birthday

Robson Green
53rd Birthday

Christina Aguilera
37th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Bobby Jones
(1902 - 1971)

Joseph Barbera
(1911 - 2006)

1919 John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean), dies in crash at 27

Václav Havel
(1936 - 2011)

2010 James Pickles was an English barrister and circuit judge and who later became a tabloid newspaper columnist. He became known for his controversial sentencing decisions and press statements (b 1925)

2016 Zsa Zsa Gabor [Sari Gabor], Hungarian-born actress (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 99

Famous Weddings

1915 28th US President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before marries second wife Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of native American Pocahontas

1926 Actor George Murphy (24) weds ballroom dancing partner Juliette Henkel

1932 Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (19) weds Raymond Parks (29) in Montgomery, Alabama

1962 Pop singer Little Eva (19) weds James Harris

1966 Actor Strother Martin (47) weds Helen Meisels

Famous Divorces

1923 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (22) divorces Daisy Parker after 5 years of marriage

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1968 Actor Peter Sellers (43) divorces actress Britt Ekland after 4 years of marriage

50 Years ago Album and Single # 1s

THE SOUND OF MUSIC - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

Altobelli

19-12-2017, 06:07 PM

19 DECEMBER

1154 Henry II was crowned, at Westminster Abbey.

1606 English entrepreneurs set sail in the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery to establish a colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thir**** colonies that became the United States.

1776 Thomas Paine publishes his 1st "American Crisis" essay beginning"These are the times that try men's souls" (date disputed)

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1783 William Pitt the Younger became the youngest British Prime Minister, at the age of 24 years, 6 months and 21 days.

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1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is published, 6,000 copies sold

1848 Emily Brontë, English author of Wuthering Heights, died of tuberculosis at the tender age of 30. This commemorative plaque is in St Michael and All Angels church - Haworth. Emily is buried in the Bronte family vault in the church. Find out more about Haworth and the Brontës.

1851 The renowned artist, Joseph Turner, died. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner was also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting.

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1900 General Horatio Kitchener offers protections to all Boers who will surrender and asks the Dutch community of Pretoria to convey this offer, leaders in the field refuse to surrender

1915 World War I: British, Australian and New Zealand troops began their withdrawal from Gallipoli after failing to defeat the Turks.

1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was sold, in London.The Silver Ghost is considered the most valuable car in the world. In 2005 its insured value was placed at more than £22 million. By 2011 it was valued at almost £37 million.

1932 The BBC World Service began broadcasting, as the BBC Empire Service.

1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army

1941 World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sank the HMS Valiant (launched 1914) and HMS Queen Elizabeth (launched 1913) in Alexandria harbour.

1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

1950 Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion

1958 1st radio broadcast from space, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Christmas message "to all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to men everywhere"

1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)

1971 Stanley Kubrick's X-rated film "A Clockwork Orange" based on the book by Anthony Burgess and starring Malcolm McDowell premieres

1972 Ugandan leader General Idi Amin gave British workers an ultimatum; to accept reduced pay or be expelled.

1972 Frank O'Farrell lost his job as manger of Manchester United, following a 5–0 defeat to Crystal Palace. George Best, once again, announced his retirement, on the same day. Not a good week for United.

1975 Ron Wood joined The Rolling Stones

1978 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India

1979 "Kramer vs Kramer" directed by Robert Benton and starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep is released (Best Picture 1980)

1981 The 8 man crew of the Penlee Lifeboat all lost their lives attempting to rescue the crew of the coaster Union Star that was wrecked in violent seas off the coast of Cornwall.

1984 Britain and China signed an agreement in Beijing, in which Britain agreed to transfer full sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Kremlin

1994 Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW

1997 Former Conservative party leader William Hague married his fiancée Ffion Jenkins at a ceremony in Westminster.

2003 Libyan leader Gaddafi agreed to allow weapons inspectors into Libya 'immediately and unconditionally' to oversee the elimination of its arsenal of chemical weapons.

2006 Steve Wright, was arrested, charged and remanded in custody, accused of murdering five prostitutes over a six week period. The bodies of all five women were found dumped in remote locations around Ipswich in Suffolk, sparking a massive police investigation.

2012 The verdict of accidental death of the 96 victims who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium football disaster was quashed in the High Court, clearing the way for a new inquest into the deaths. New medical evidence commissioned by the attorney general revealed that 58 victims "definitely or probably" had the capacity to survive beyond the 3.15pm cut-off point imposed by the original coroner. In a further 12 cases, the cause of death remained unclear. The Chair of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, Anne Williams (who died of cancer on 18th April 2013) and whose 15-year-old son Kevin died in the tragedy was at the hearing.

2012 UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate

2013 Michael Adebolajo (29) and Michael Adebowale (22) were found guilty of murdering soldier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich barracks in south-east London in May. Fusilier Rigby was struck with a car before hacked to death. Adebolajo had claimed he was a 'soldier of Allah' and the killing was an act of war. Adebolajo was given a whole-life term and Adebowale was jailed for a minimum of 45 years. This bronze plaque and drum commemorating Lee Rigby were unveiled on 29th March 2015 at the Middleton Memorial Gardens, in his home town of Middleton, Greater Manchester.

2013 Ornate plasterwork at the Apollo Theatre in London fell from the ceiling during a performance and after a flash flood thunderstorm. The collapse brought down a lighting rig and a section of balcony, trapping 2 people and injuring around 88, including 7 with serious injuries.

2014 The death (aged 70) of Mandy Rice-Davies, famous for her role in the 1960s 'Profumo affair' that almost toppled the British government in 1963.

2016 At least 48 people die after drinking bath lotion in Irkutsk, Siberia, thinking it contained alcohol

2016 Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead at an art gallery in Ankara by Turkish gunman

2016 Truck driven into a Christmas market in Berlin kills 12, injures 48

2016 US electoral collage votes 304 to 227 to nominate Donald Trump for President over the objections of seven faithless electors

Famous Birthday's

1902 Ralph Richardson, English actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), born in Cheltenham, England (d. 1983)

Leonid Brezhnev
(1906 - 1982)

1922 Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)

1923 Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)

Edith Piaf
(1915 - 1963)

1941 Maurice White, singer-songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2016)

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1943 Sam Kelly [Roger Michael Kelly], English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Porridge), born in Manchester, England (d. 2014)

Robert Urich
(1946 - 2002)

Gary Cahill
32nd Birthday

Jake Gyllenhaal
37th Birthday

Ricky Ponting
43rd Birthday

Richard Hammond
48th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Emily Brontë
(1818 - 1848)

Robert A. Millikan
(1868 - 1953)

1993 Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49

1997 Jimmy Rogers, American blues musician (Muddy Waters' Band) dies at 73

James Bevel
(1936 - 2008)

Famous Weddings

1895 Poet Robert Frost (21) weds Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts

1912 Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel

1919 Composer and songwriter Cole Porter (28) weds socialite Linda Lee Thomas (36)

1931 Propagandist Joseph Goebbels (34) weds Magda Ritschel (30) at Günther Quandt's farm in Mecklenburg, Germany

1975 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (45) weds Beverly Zile

Famous Divorces

1995 Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce

Altobelli

20-12-2017, 06:56 PM

20 DECEMBER

1192 Richard the Lion-Heart was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty that ended the Third crusade.

1522 Suleiman the Magnificent accepts surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle in Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.

1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown, Virginia

1699 Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1

1780 Britain declares war on Holland

1803 French flag lowered in New Orleans to mark the formal transfer of the Louisiana Purchase from France to USA for $27M

1805 Thomas Graham, the Scottish chemist who discovered the principle of dialysis, was born.

1812 "Grimm's Fairy Tales" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is published

1830 Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium

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1879 Thomas Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park

1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses

1910 The British General Election produced a tied vote, with the Liberal Party and the Tory Party each winning 272 seats.

1917 Cheka formed - Soviet state security force and forerunner to the KGB, under Felix Dzerzhinsky after decree by Lenin

1920 An English born comedian named Leslie Townes, who later changed his name to Bob Hope, became an American citizen on this day. He had lived in the United States since 1908 and became one of America's true ambassadors for show business and charity.

1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early

1926 The birth of Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister. His resignation on 1st November 1990 was widely considered to have precipitated Thatcher's own downfall three weeks later.

1928 Harry Ramsden started his fish and chip restaurant in a hut at White Cross - Guiseley, near Bradford in West Yorkshire. It soon became the most famous fish and chip restaurant in the world. In 2012 the restaurant was acquired by the fish and chip chain 'Wetherby Whaler' and they gave this name to the new restaurant.

1928 The England cricket team scored a record 636 against Australia in Sydney, including 251 scored by Walter Hammond. England won the Test match by eight wickets.

1943 "Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem

1955 Cardiff was officially named the capital of Wales.

1957 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for National Service

1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR

1960 The National Liberation Front, better known as the Viet Cong, is officially formed in South Vietnam

1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners

1967 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam

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1967 Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull

1969 Rolf Harris had the Christmas No.1 of 1969 and the last No.1 of the 1960s with 'Two Little Boys'. The song stayed at No.1 for six weeks. On 4th July 2014 84 year old Harris was jailed for 5 years 9 months for 12 indecent assaults against four girls - including one aged 'just seven or eight'. He was also stripped of his CBE and his OA (Order of Australia).

1979 The introduction of Britain's Housing Bill - forcing local councils to sell their houses to any tenants who wished to buy them.

1984 The Summit tunnel fire; the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derailed near the town of Todmorden, in West Yorkshire. The tunnel, is 1.6 miles (2.6 km) in length, was built in the late 1830s and is located between Littleborough and Walsden. When completed in 1841, it was the longest railway tunnel in the world.

1988 Animal rights terrorists fire bombed Harrod's department store in London.

1990 The Maerdy Colliery, employing 320 men, closed. It was the last remaining coal mine in the Rhondda Valley, an area which once produced 9 million tonnes a year, and where more than 50,000 miners had worked in 54 pits.

1995 The Queen urged Prince Charles and Princess Diana to seek 'an early divorce'.

2004 A gang of thieves stole £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.

2007 Elizabeth II became the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.

2012 Mayan prophecies predicted that the world would end on Saturday morning 22nd December 2012.

Famous Birthday's

Harvey Firestone
(1868 - 1938)

Robert Menzies
(1894 - 1978)

Uri Geller
71st Birthday

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1946 Dick Wolf, American television series creator (Miami Vice, Law & Order), born in NYC, New York
71st Birthday

Jenny Agutter
65th Birthday

Jonah Hill
34th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Moss Hart
(1904 - 1961)

John Steinbeck
(1902 - 1968)

Max Robinson
(1939 - 1988)

1993 Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74

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2001 Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)

2010 Brian Hanrahan, British journalist (b. 1949)

Famous Weddings

1832 Inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (32) weds Constance Mundy

1919 Actress Gloria Swanson (20) weds businessman Herbert K. Somborn

1949 "Gone with the Wind" actor Clark Gable (48) weds socialite Sylvia Ashley (45)

1964 Fashion designer Ralph Lauren (25) weds Ricky Anne Loew-Beer in NYC, New York

1989 Business magnate Richard Branson (39) weds Joan Templeman in British Virgin Islands

Famous Divorces

1984 Actress Kate Jackson (36) divorces business executive David Greenwald after 2 years of marriage

2005 Actress Renee Zellweger (36) annuls her marriage to country-music singer Kenny Chesney (37) citing fraud, after 4 months of marriage

2007 "Hot in Cleveland" actress Valerie Bertinelli (47) divorces guitarist Eddie Van Halen (52) due to irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

chalky_ncfc

20-12-2017, 07:38 PM

1192.... Richard the Lionheart captured "On his way home" I've absolutely no idea why I find this funny but I almost spat my tea out

Thanks again Altobelli

Altobelli

21-12-2017, 09:02 PM

21 DECEMBER

1118 The birth, in London's Cheapside, of Thomas à Becket, Lord Chancellor of England, Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr.

1620 The Pilgrim Fathers arrived at Plymouth Rock , Massachusetts aboard The Mayflower. Passengers & crew increased to 103 after 2 births on the voyage from Plymouth, England. They had originally set sail from Southampton on 5th August but were beset with problems.

1804 The birth of Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield and British Prime Minister. He became the first Conservative Prime Minister in 1868, but was defeated at the next election. He was Prime Minister again in 1874 with a substantial majority.

1842 Pentonville Prison, Islington, was opened. Pentonville became the model for British prisons. A further 54 were built to the same design over six years, and hundreds more were built throughout the British Empire.

1844 At 8:00 p.m. On This Day, the Rochdale Pioneers commenced business at their co-operative, now this museum on Toad Lane, Rochdale, thus starting the Co-operative movement, often referred to simply as the Co-op.

1846 Robert Liston, Scottish surgeon, used anaesthetic (ether) for the first time in a British operation, at University College Hospital, London, to perform an amputation of a leg. Liston was known as 'the fastest knife in the West End' at a time when speed was essential to reduce pain and improve the odds of survival of a patient.

1872 The Challenger expedition, when HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth. The scientific exercise covered almost 70,000 nautical miles, laid the foundation of oceanography and more than 4,000 previously unknown species were discovered. The expedition was hailed as 'the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fif****th and six****th centuries.'

1880 An act passed by the House of Keys on the Isle of Man granted women the vote, provided they were widows or spinsters with a property rated annually at £4 or over. The first opportunity to vote was in April, the following year. In 1901, Norwegian women were allowed to vote, but in local elections only.

1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts

1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium

1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World

1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin

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1919 J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia

1929 Coco the Clown first appears for Bertram Mills Circus in Manchester, England

1933 Fox Films signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract

1937 The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre

1941 German submarine U-567 sinks

1961 Gangster Joe Gallo is sentenced to 7 to 14 years in state prison for extortion

1962 President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan agreed that the UK would buy nuclear missiles from the US to form a multilateral NATO nuclear force.

1963 Under soil heating was used for the first time, at the Leeds Rugby League ground for their match against Dewsbury.

1963 Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer, died. He is widely regarded as cricket's greatest-ever opening batsman.

1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in Calif

1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)

1977 The Trades Union Congress General Council narrowly voted to reject firemen's demands for a public campaign against a 10% limit on wage increases. The union decided by 20 votes to 17 not to support the firemen who were in their sixth week of strike action.

1988 A Pan American jumbo jet bound for New York was blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb and crashed onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground. It remains the deadliest aviation incident ever to take place in the United Kingdom. The Garden of Remembrance are at Dryfesdale Cemetery, Lockerbie.

1990 In a German television interview, Saddam Hussein declared that he would not withdraw from Kuwait by the UN deadline.

1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States

1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

2012 The youngest female drivers faced 'significant increases in their insurance costs' after a ban on different car insurance prices for men and women. A European court ruling the previous year found that gender discrimination in insurance was against the law.

2103 A poll showed that 1 in 10 people aged 25 to 34 in Britain thought that Father Christmas was mentioned in the Biblical account of the birth of Jesus.

2013 The death, aged 87, of former BBC sports broadcaster David Coleman. He first appeared on air for the BBC in 1954, covering 11 Olympic Games - from Rome in 1960 to Sydney 2000 and six football World Cups. Coleman presented some of the BBC's leading sporting programmes, including Grandstand and Sportsnight and was the host of Question of Sport for 18 years.

2014 A former senior military intelligence officer disclosed that a British soldier was investigated for touching a Taliban fighter on the nose with a sheet of paper during a routine interrogation as he had broken rules concerning the touching of detainees during questioning. The £31 million inquiry, chaired by Sir Thayne Forbes, a former High Court judge, listed several instances of what was judged to be 'ill-treatment during questioning'.

Famous Birthday's

Walter Hagen
(1892 - 1969)

1916 John Boon, publisher (Mills and Boon), born in King's Lynn, Norfolk (d. 1996)

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1940 Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1995)

1946 Carl Wilson, rock vocalist and guitarist (Beach Boys), born in Hawthorne California (d. 1998)

Samuel L. Jackson
69th Birthday

Jane Fonda
80th Birthday

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Chris Evert
63rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Frank Kellogg
(1856 - 1937)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896 - 1940)

George S. Patton
(1885 - 1945)

2000 Alfred J. Gross, American inventor (invented the walkie-talkie), dies at 82

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2014 Billie Whitelaw, English actress, dies at 82

Famous Weddings

1762 British Explorer Captain James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts

1886 Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA Juliette Gordon Low (26) weds William Mackay Low in Savannah, Georgia

1947 Actress Estelle Getty (24) weds Arthur Gettleman

1958 Actress Ingrid Bergman (43) weds producer Lars Schmidt

1959 Shah of Persia Mohammed Reza Pahlavi marries Farah Pahlavi Diba

Famous Divorces

1945 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn divorce after 5 years of marriage.

2010 "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (51) divorces actress Georgina Sutcliffe (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

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22-12-2017, 05:26 PM

22 DECEMBER

1550 The death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell). Shorty before the Battle of Bosworth (Richard - then aged 16) was taken to see King Richard III at his encampment. The King informed the boy that he was his son, and told him to watch the battle from a safe vantage point, telling him that, if he won, he would acknowledge him as his son. If he lost, the boy was told that he had to forever conceal his identity. King Richard was killed in the battle, the boy fled to London and was apprenticed to a bricklayer, but kept up the Latin he had learned by reading during his work.

1696 The birth of James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia.

1715 James Edward Stuart, son of James II, the deposed Catholic King of England, landed at Petershead in north-east Scotland, after his exile in France, to lead a Jacobite rebellion against England. The rebellion failed.

1716 Lincoln's Inn Theatre in London put on England's first pantomime which included the characters Harlequin, Columbine and Pantaloon.

1790 Supposedly impenetrable Turkish fortress of Izmail stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)

1849 The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by firing squad is called off at the last second

1877 Thomas Edison's phonograph is announced by Scientific American

1880 The death of George Eliot (real name Mary Anne Evans), English novelist and poet and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She visited Gainborough in 1859, staying in this house and renamed the town St. Oggs in her novel The Mill on the Floss

1885 Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan

1909 The birth of Patricia Hayes, English comedy actress. She featured in many comedy shows and films between 1940 and 1996, including Hancock's Half Hour, The Benny Hill Show, Till Death Us Do Part and a A Fish Called Wanda. Her most famous TV appearance was in the title role of the 1971 TV Play Edna, the Inebriate Woman for which she won a BAFTA award.

1919 The Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) came into being. It was signed by King George V. Ireland was divided into two parts, each with its own parliament.

1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a wartime conference

1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler signed the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. It was the world's first, long-range weapon and was developed specifically to target London and later Antwerp. Over 3,000 V-2s were launched as military rockets against Allied targets during the war.

1943 The children's writer, Beatrix Potter, died. Her house at Hill Top, Sawrey is open to the public.

1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan

1949 The birth, in the Isle of Man, of the twin brothers Maurice and Robin Gibb, musicians with The Bee Gees.

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1951 The birth of Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster. Until his death on 9th August 2016 he was the richest person in Britain, with a wealth of £6.7 billion.

1956 Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Columbus, Ohio

1962 Pop group the Tornados started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with their record Telstar. It was the first major hit from a UK act in the American charts.

1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends

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1964 American comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity

1965 The government introduced an 'experimental' speed limit of 70mph on motorways in England. The limit is still in force.

1965 Richard Dimbleby, British broadcaster, died.

1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed

1973 Elton John started a two week run at No.1 on the UK chart with the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The album featured the song Candle in the Wind that was later re-written after the death of Princess Diana.

1974 The Provisional IRA threw a bomb onto the 1st floor balcony of the home of the Conservative leader and former Prime Minister Edward Heath. He arrived home 10 minutes after the bomb exploded.

1978 Kenney Jones becomes The Who's new drummer

1987 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from heroin

1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu

1990 Lech Wałęsa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president

1997 An independent inquiry into the BSE disaster and the devastation it wreaked on British farming was announced by the government.

2000 The American singer Madonna married British film maker Guy Ritchie at an exclusive ceremony in Skibo Castle near Dornoch in Sutherland, hours after their son was christened.

2001 Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

2010 Repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell policy", a 17-year-old policy banning homo***uals serving openly in the US military, signed into law by President Barack Obama

2012 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus

2012 8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan

2012 Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

2014 Six people were killed by an out-of-control bin lorry in Glasgow. A 'Fatal Accident Inquiry' into the incident showed that the driver (58-year old Harry Clarke) had a history of health issues including fainting and dizziness dating back to the 1970s and that he had lied on his HGV renewal application form.

2014 A grey seal was spotted in a farmer's field in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, 20 miles inland. The disorientated animal was captured and transferred to a wildlife centre in Nantwich, Cheshire.

2016 Ebola vaccine VSV-EBOV is found to be 70-100% effective in a study published in The Lancet, becoming the world's first proven vaccine against Ebola

Famous Birthday's

1696 James Oglethorpe, British soldier, politician, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia, born in Godalming, Surrey, England (d. 1758)

Frank Kellogg
(1856 - 1937)

1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian opera composer (La bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly), born in Lucca, Italy (d. 1924)

Connie Mack
(1862 - 1956)

1903 Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across US in 86 days in 1960

Geraldine Page
(1924 - 1987)

1949 Maurice Gibb, English rocker (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever), born in Douglas, Isle of Man (d. 2003)

1949 Robin Gibb, English rocker (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever), born in Douglas, Isle of Man (d. 2012)

Noel Edmonds
69th Birthday

Ralph Fiennes
55th Birthday

Dan Petrescu
50th Birthday

Famous Deaths

1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery

1738 Constantia Jones, British prostitute, executed on theft allegations at 30

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Beatrix Potter
(1866 - 1943)

Chico Mendes
(1944 - 1988)

Samuel Beckett
(1906 - 1989)

1965 Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913)

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2014 Joe Cocker, English rock musician (With a Little Help from My Friends), dies of lung cancer at 70

Famous Weddings

1915 Biologist Alexander Fleming (34) weds Sara McElroy

1936 Filmmaker Billy Wilder (30) weds first wife Judith Coppicus

1960 NFL quarterback Fran Tarkenton (20) weds Anna Elaine Merrell at First Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia

1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower

1968 Author and cooking show host Ina Garten (20) weds dean Jeffrey Garten

Famous Divorces

2006 "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sandra Oh (35) divorces Oscar-winning Sideways director Alexander Payne (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

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23-12-2017, 01:20 AM

23 DECEMBER

962 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist

1688 As part of the Glorious Revolution to overthrow King James II of England (James VII of Scotland), the KIng fled to Paris 'On This Day' after being deposed in favour of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.

1690 English astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered

1732 The birth, in Preston, Lancashire, of Sir Richard Arkwright, the youngest of 16 children. A self-made man, he was a leading entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution and the cotton spinning industry. He was the creator of the modern factory system, especially in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire which also had the world's first water-powered mill.

1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress

1812 Samuel Smiles, social reformer and author was born, in Haddington, East Lothian. He contributed to the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle and the Leeds Times where he was editor for 4 years. He was author of the book Self Help (1859). It sold over 250,000 copies and was followed by other self-improvement books such as Thrift (1875). The books were the tools of Victorian virtues.

1815 "Emma" By Jane Austen by published by John Murray in London

1834 English architect Joseph Hansom, who designed the Town Hall at Lutterworth, Leicestershire patented the horse drawn taxi, known as the Hansom Cab. He went on to sell the patent to a company for £10,000 but the sum was never paid. The first Hansom Cab travelled down Hinckley's Coventry Road in 1835. They were exported worldwide and became a feature of the 19th-century street scene.

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1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping

1888 The birth, in Hull, of the film magnate J. Arthur Rank. He was founder of the Rank Organisation, now known as The Rank Group Plc.

1905 The earliest recorded British beauty show was held at Newcastle Upon Tyne, in north-east England.

1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched

1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland

1921 Gangster Carlo Gambino enters the United States as an illegal immigrant on the SS Vincenzo Florio

1937 The first flight of the Vickers Wellington, a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber designed at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. It was widely used as a night bomber in the early years of the Second World War, before being displaced as a bomber by the larger four-engine "heavies" such as the Avro Lancaster.

1943 Gen Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day

1952 Alain Bombard arrives in Barbados after 65 days at sea proving his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive with almost no provisions, despite having lost 25 kg (65 lbs) in weight

1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts

1956 The United Nations Emergency Force took over in Egypt after British and French forces withdrew from Port Said and Port Fuad, thus ending the Suez Crisis.

1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies

1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion

1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"

1963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die

1964 The government announced that Dr. Richard Beeching, who instigated major and controversial changes to the rail network, was to quit his post.

1970 The Mousetrap reached its 7511th consecutive performance to break the world record for the longest running play.

1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannibalism

1981 Geoffrey Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Cricket with 8033

1987 The first ‘Scrooge’ award by the Low Pay Unit was made to a Wiltshire stable-owner who paid a qualified groom only £28 a week. The runner-up was a doctor employing a telephonist for 30p an hour. The prize was a copy of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

1992 The BBC investigated a leak which led to the Queen's Christmas speech being published in the Sun newspaper, ahead of its broadcast on the BBC. The leak led to a clampdown on the future advance availability of the speech to the world's press.

1994 Fearing arrest by the FBI, Whitey Bulger flees Boston, and successfully hides from law enforcement for the next 16 years

2011 The Duke of Edinburgh was taken to Papworth hospital in Cambridgeshire after complaining of chest pains, and was treated for a blocked coronary artery. The procedure was declared a success but he was kept in for four nights so that doctors could keep a check on his recovery.

2013 Former MP Denis MacShane was jailed for six months for expenses fraud after admitting submitting 19 fake receipts amounting to £12,900. MacShane said 'cheers' as the sentence was delivered, before adding, 'quelle surprise' as he was led from the dock. He became the fifth MP to get a prison sentence after the 2009 expenses scandal.

2013 Grandfather John McCafferty (71) entered the record books as the world's longest-surviving heart transplant patient at 30 years, 11 months and 11 days. At the time of his heart transplant in 1982 he was told that he might expect to live for another five years if the procedure was a success.

2014 The death, aged 84, of Jeremy Lloyd who created comedy sitcoms including 'Are You Being Served?' and 'Allo 'Allo!

2014 The death of 51 year old mulitple sclerosis patient Debbie Purdy. Ms. Purdy won a landmark ruling in the House of Lords in 2009 which resulted in guidelines on assisted suicide being published by the Government.

2014 Ashley Stansfield, 48, a prisoner released on licence, was sentenced to spend Christmas in jail after he was punished for taking a job which started at 6.15 in the morning, 45 minutes before his night-time curfew expired.

Famous Birthday's

Zenobia
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Joseph Smith Jr
(1805 - 1844)

Cy Denneny
(1891 - 1970)

Famous Deaths

Thomas Malthus
(1766 - 1834)

Hideki Tojo
(1884 - 1948)

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1996 Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69

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2006 Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)

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Oscar Peterson
(1925 - 2007)

Famous Weddings

1847 Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie Bowell (24) weds Harriet Moore

1951 MLB centerfielder Mickey Mantle (20) weds author Merlyn Mantle (19) in Commerce, Oklahoma

1961 Actor Martin Sheen (21) weds Janet Templeton

1977 Future President of Chile Michelle Bachelet (26) weds architect Jorge Dávalos

1979 Stevie Ray Vaughan (25) weds Lenora "Lenny" Bailey (div. 1988)

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23-12-2017, 05:03 PM

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24-12-2017, 01:25 AM

24 December - Christmas Eve

1914 World War 1 - Not a shot was fired, as German & British soldiers played football & handed out drinks, cigars & souvenirs. It was possibly the most poignant moment of the 'Great War' & for several days afterwards the two sides appeared reluctant to fire on the men they had met face to face. Will we ever learn from history of the futility of war?

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1166 The birth of King John, youngest son of Henry II, who was forced by the barons to sign the Magna Carta. When he tried to revoke his authorization, civil war broke out. He was jokingly nicknamed 'Lackland' as it seemed unlikely that John would ever inherit substantial lands.

1565 Compromise of the Nobles in Habsburg Netherlands closes against inquisition

1650 Edinburgh Castle surrendered to troops commanded by Oliver Cromwell.

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1777 Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook

1814 The war of 1812 between the US and Britain was brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.

1828 William Burke who, with his partner William Hare, dug up the dead and murdered to sell the corpses for dissection, went on trial in Edinburgh. The other bodysnatcher, William Hare, had turned King’s evidence and was not therefore brought to trial.

1832 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia

1851 Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes

1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" opera premieres in Cairo

1889 Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake

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1893 Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine

1904 The London Coliseum opened with the first revolving stage in Britain.

1914 A German monoplane dropped a single bomb on Dover, the first ever to be dropped on British soil. It landed on a rectory garden lawn and blew out the house windows.

1922 The BBC broadcast 'The Truth About Father Christmas' by Phillis M Twigg, the first play written for radio in Britain.

1932 Colin Cowdrey, MCC President and former England test captain, was born. His career lasted from 1950 to 1976. He was the first cricketer to play in 100 Test matches and he toured Australia a record six times, between 1954-55 and 1974-75.

1933 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)

1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered in Berkeley, California

1943 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces

1955 Author Aldous Huxley takes LSD for the first time

1963 Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus

1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek

1965 A meteorite weighing about 100 lb (45kg) was the largest to fall on Britain and landed in the village of Barwell, Leicestershire.

1966 Soviet spacecraft Luna 13 lands on Moon

1974 Former UK minister John Stonehouse was found in Australia after apparently faking his own death.

1979 The first European Ariane rocket was launched. It had been officially agreed upon at the end of 1973 after delicate discussions between France, Germany and Britain. The project was Western Europe's second attempt to develop its own launcher, following the unsuccessful Europa project.

1988 Three North Sea oil fields were shut down after a giant floating storage vessel, the Medora, broke free of its moorings in gale-force winds.

2013 Alan Turing, the World War Two codebreaker at Bletchley Park was granted a Royal pardon over his homo***uality conviction. The work done at Bletchley Park, particularly the codebreaking feats of Alan Turing, were credited with shortening the Second World War by several years. In August 2014 a film 'The Imitation Game' was released, based on the biography 'Alan Turing: The Enigma'.

2013 Several thousand passengers were stranded at Gatwick Airport following stormy weather. The airport said electricity sub-stations on the airfield had flooded with water from the River Mole.

Famous Birthday's

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Howard Hughes
(1905 - 1976)

Ava Gardner
(1922 - 1990)

1932 [Michael] Colin Cowdrey, English cricket player, born in Ootacamund British India (d. 2000)

1932 Cynthia Payne, English brothel madam, born in Bognor Regis, West Sus*** (d. 2015)

1945 Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], heavy metal musician (Motorhead), born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (d. 2015)

1963 Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress (The Royale Family), born in London (d. 2016)

Stephenie Meyer
44th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Vasco da Gama
( - 1524)

John Muir
(1838 - 1914)

Karl Dönitz
(1891 - 1980)

1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Look Back in Anger, Luther, dies at 65

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1997 Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77

2000 Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)

2008 Harold Pinter, British playwright (The Birthday Party, The Homecoming), dies at 78

2012 Jack Klugman, American actor, dies at 90

2016 Richard Adams, English author (Watership Down), dies at 96

Famous Weddings

1914 Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie

1917 Famous pilot Jimmy Doolittle (21) weds high school sweetheart Josephine E. Daniels

1935 Chemist Percy Lavon Julian weds sociologist Anna Roselle Johnson

1936 Paleoanthropologist Mary Nicol (23) weds archaeologist Louis Leakey (33) in England

1943 Actor and comedian Carl Reiner (21) weds singer Estelle Lebost (29)

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25-12-2017, 11:08 PM

25 DECEMBER

1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus

440 Church leaders agreed to fix the date of the birth of Christ. Previously some people had celebrated it in May, others in January.

597 England adopts Julian calendar

800 Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman Emperor

1066 William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England, was crowned at Westminster Abbey. To press his claim to the English crown, William had invaded England in October 1066, leading his army to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.

1176 The first Eisteddfod (Festival of the Arts) took place at Cardigan Castle.

1492 Christopher Columbus' flagship the Santa María runs aground and sinks on the north coast of Hispaniola. The crew are left to found a colony as Columbus returns to Spain

1643 Christmas Island (a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean) was discovered and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company.

1652 The Puritan government ordered all Churches to remain closed on Christmas Day.

1741 Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale

1800 The first Christmas tree in Britain was erected at Queen’s Lodge, Windsor by the German-born Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. She brought the idea over from Germany where the first reports of Christmas trees go back to 1521.

1809 Physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal surgery in the U.S, an ovariotomy to remove a 22 lb ovarian tumor

1832 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver

1833 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia

1834 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on the Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile

1835 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand

1864 The traditional swim in the ice-cold Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park was initiated.

1865 Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army was born, in South Hackney, London, She was the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became the Salvation Army in 1878.

1866 The US yacht Henrietta sailed into Cowes harbour on the Isle of Wight, and thus became the winner of the first Transatlantic Yacht Race.

1868 Despite bitter opposition, US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)

1896 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa

1914 The Christmas truce between British and German troops continued. At 2 a.m. a German band went along the trenches playing Home Sweet Home and God Save the King.

1932 King George V made the first Royal Christmas broadcast to the Empire, during his speech his chair collapse. Queen Elizabeth II made her first Christmas broadcast in 1952, and her first television Christmas message was broadcast in 1957.

1950 The Stone of Scone, the Scottish coronation stone which had been in Westminster Abbey for 650 years was stolen by Scottish nationalists. The Stone, weighing 458lb (208kg) was said to have been taken from Scotland by Edward I.

1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder

1977 Charlie Chaplin, the English born comic genius of silent films, died, aged 88.

1989 Show trial of Romanian Commuinst dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on charges of genocide and personal enrichment. The couple are found guilty and executed by firing squad the same day.

1990 The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech

2003 Scientists failed to make contact with the British built Mars probe Beagle 2, which should have landed on the Red Planet 'on this day'. Beagle 2 was named after HMS Beagle, which twice carried Charles Darwin during expeditions which would later lead to the theory of natural selection. Beagle 2 was officially declared lost on 6th February 2004. As of 2010 only 19 of 38 launch attempts to reach Mars have succeeded.

2010 The body of landscape architect Joanna Yeates was found, covered with leaves in Failand, North Somerset. A post-mortem examination determined that she had been strangled. The police initially suspected and arrested Christopher Jefferies, Yeates' landlord, who lived in a flat in the same building. The nature of press reporting on aspects of the case led to 'substantial, undisclosed libel damages' from eight newspapers being awarded to Mr. Jefferies. ITV commissioned a drama about Jefferies' arrest entitled 'The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies' which was aired on 10th and 11th December 2014.

2012 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan

2012 8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines

2013 Earlier storms across southern England, stretching through Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent, led to extensive power cuts, with around 50,000 homes remaining without power through the Christmas period. Southern Electric said that it would guarantee a £75 payment for any customer who was without electricity for any time on Christmas Day.

2014 The parcel delivery company City Link, which employed 2,727 people, went into administration.

Famous Birthday's

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Isaac Newton
(1642 - 1727)

1863 Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (Pathé Brothers, 1896), born in Paris, France (d. 1957)

1899 Humphrey Bogart, American actor (Casablanca - "Here's looking at you, kid"), born in NYC, New York (d. 1957)

1908 Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)

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Anwar Sadat
(1918 - 1981)

1944 Kenny Everett [Maurice James Christopher Cole], Seaforth Lancashire, British DJ and TV personality (Kenny Everett Show) (d.1995)

1949 Sissy Spacek
68th Birthday

Annie Lennox
63rd Birthday

Chris Kamara
60th Birthday

Stuart Hall
88th Birthday

1940 Pete Brown, English musician and songwriter (Cream), born in Ashtead, Surrey
76th Birthday

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
63rd Birthday

Marcus Trescothick
42nd Birthday

Alastair Cook
33rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Charlie Chaplin
(1889 - 1977)

Nicolae Ceausescu
(1918 - 1989)

1995 Dean Martin [Dino Paul Crocetti], American singer and actor (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), dies at 78

James Brown
(1933 - 2006)

2008 Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (Santa Baby), dies at 81

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2016 George Michael [Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou], English singer-songwriter and pop superstar (Wham!, I Want Your ***), dies of suspected heart failure at 53

Famous Weddings

1871 Inventor Thomas Edison (24) marries 1st wife Mary Stilwell (16)

1871 Writer Ambrose Bierce (29) weds Mary Ellen Day

1949 British actor Cary Grant (45) weds actress Betsy Drake (26)

1950 Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart

1997 Actress Rue McClanahan (64) weds actor-producer Morrow Wilson (58) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria

Famous Divorces

1945 Actor John Wayne (38) divorces Josephine Saenz (37) after 12 years of marriage

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - BEATLES

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26-12-2017, 11:20 PM

26 DECEMBER

1135 The Coronation of King Stephen, grandson of William the Conqueror. Stephen's reign was marked by civil war and unsettled government. He was succeeded in 1154 by Henry II.

1492 1st Spanish settlement La Navidad (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas) in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus

1716 Thomas Gray, English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University, was born.

1791 The birth of Charles Babbage, English mathematician, philosopher, and mechanical engineer who originated the idea of a programmable computer.

1860 The first ever inter-club football match took place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Hallam's Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Sandygate has been recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the 'Oldest Ground in the World'.

1874 Boxing Day was officially recognized in Britain as a Bank Holiday. The name originates from the custom of Christmas boxes being given to a lord's serfs and dates back to the middle ages.

1900 A relief crew arrived at the the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, only to find that the previous crew of three lighthouse keepers had all disappeared without a trace. The mystery has never been resolved, but rumours and myths still abound.

1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes 1st black heavyweight champion

1913 A large Hippodrome was opened at Golders Green as a variety hall to take advantage of the newly arrived London underground.

1932 The BBC presented the first televised pantomime, Dick Whittington.

1943 A Royal Navy convoy, including the battleship Duke of York and cruiser Jamaica, attacked and sank the mighty German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, of North Cape, Norway. She was the last major German battleship.

1948 The first annual Reith Lecture on the BBC. They were inaugurated to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John Reith, the corporation's first director-general.

1959 The first charity walk took place, along the Icknield Way (Buckinghamshire & Norfolk), in aid of the World Refugee Fund.

1963 The Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" in the United States

1964 Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley claim last victim

1970 British Olympic medallist Lillian Board, MBE, died after losing her battle against a virulent form of cancer. The twice European Gold medallist and Olympic silver medallist who helped set four world records on the track, died late in the afternoon after she slipped into a coma on Christmas Eve.

1978 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail

1988 Crash investigators uncovered wreckage which they hoped would hold the key to the Lockerbie air disaster of 21st December. Two men, said to be Libyan intelligence agents were later put on trial for planting the bomb.

2001 A man captured as he tried to ignite explosives hidden in his trainers aboard an American Airlines jet was identified as Richard Reid, a 28-year old unemployed British citizen.

2011 The 11 year old racehorse Kauto Star created history with a fifth 'King George VI Chase' victory at Kempton Park. The previous record of four wins had been held by the legendary Desert Orchid since 1990.

2004 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and edges of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people

2012 The death of Con Shiels, aged 96, the last survivor of the Jarrow March of 1936, a protest against unemployment and poverty during the Great Depression.

2013 Nottingham's official Robin Hood (Tim Pollard) and Maid Marian (Sally Chappell) announced the birth of their baby girl, Scarlett Louise. As Robin and Marian, Mr. Pollard and Ms. Chappell promote tourism and take part in civic events including the annual Robin Hood Pageant.

2013 More people accessed the BBC iPlayer on tablets than on computers for the first time, after thousands had unwrapped new devices for Christmas. Over the festive period, there were 1.96 million requests for Doctor Who's Christmas special The Time of the Doctor, in which Peter Capaldi arrived to succeed Matt Smith.

Famous Birthday's

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Charles Babbage
(1791 - 1871)

Mao Zedong
(1893 - 1976)

Steve Allen
(1921 - 2000)

Famous Deaths

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Harry Truman
(1884 - 1972)

1974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80

1999 Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)

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2000 Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)

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2001 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)

2005 Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)

Reggie White
(1961 - 2004)

Gerald Ford
(1913 - 2006)

Famous Weddings

1613 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's "Eclogue"

1793 The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.

1843 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (42) weds Virginia Loyall

1931 SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten

1941 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (24) weds convicted drug dealer Benny Kornegay

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27 DECEMBER

1512 Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World

1657 Flushing Remonstrance petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland protesting ban on Quaker worship

1773 The birth of Sir George Cayley, English pioneer of the study of aerodynamics. In 1853 he built the first successful glider to be flown by a man, his reluctant coachman! One of his later inventions was the caterpillar tractor.

1831 English naturalist Charles Darwin sailed from Plymouth on board his ship, HMS Beagle. His scientific voyage of discovery lasted five years and led to the publication (in 1859) of his highly controversial book The Origin of Species which fuelled the 'creation versus evolution' debate. In recognition of Darwin's outstanding work, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, next to his friend and eminent scientist John Herschel and close to Isaac Newton. Darwin was born in Shrewsbury -

1836 At least 8 people were killed at Lewes, Sus***, in Britain's worst avalanche disaster.

1904 The first performance in London of James Barrie’s most famous work, Peter Pan. A Broadway production was mounted in 1905 and the play has since seen adaptation as a pantomime, a stage musical, a television special, and several films, including a 1924 silent film, a 1953 animated Disney full-length feature, and a 2003 live action production with state of the art special effects.

1918 A British sovereign welcomed an American President to Britain for the first time when King George V and Queen Mary met President and Mrs. Wilson at Charing Cross Railway Station and then escorted them to Buckingham Palace. A state banquet was held at the palace and President Wilson visited Carlisle, his mother’s home.

1927 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled

1937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1939 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake in Erzincam, Turkey

1945 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.

1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia

1965 Thir**** people were killed when Britain's first North Sea drilling rig (Sea Gem) capsized.

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1967 Leonard Cohen releases his debut album "Songs of Leonard Cohen" on Columbia Records

1975 The *** Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts came into effect in Britain.

1977 Thousands of people flocked to UK cinemas to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars.

1978 The Amundsen - Scott South Pole Station recorded a temperature of −13.6 °C (7.5 °F), making it the highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole.

1979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown

1984 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was voted Woman of the Year, on Radio 4's Today programme. According to a Gallup Poll she was the woman most admired by the American people; the third consecutive year that the 'Iron Lady' had received that honour.

1997 Windsor Castle was reopened to the public following restoration work. 100 rooms of the palace were damaged in a fire in 1992.

1997 A leading protestant paramilitary, Billy Wright, was shot dead at the maximum security Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Wright was the leader of a dissident paramilitary group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, one of several Protestant militias that wanted Northern Ireland to remain in British hands.

2003 The death of actor Alan Bates. He appeared in almost 70 films including the children’s story Whistle Down the Wind, the drama A Kind of Loving, Far From the Madding Crowd, Women In Love, Spartacus and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

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2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber.

2012 The death, at the age of 83, of Gerry Anderson, the creator of hit TV shows including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Joe 90. His other creations included UFO, Space: 1999, Supercar and Fireball XL5.

Famous Birthday's

Johannes Kepler
(1571 - 1630)

Louis Pasteur
(1822 - 1895)

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Marlene Dietrich
(1901 - 1992)

1952 David Knopfler, British singer-songwriter (Dire Straits), born in Glasgow, Scotland
65th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Gustave Eiffel
(1832 - 1923)

Benazir Bhutto
(1953 - 2007)

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2003 Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)

2007 Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan is assassinated at 54

Carrie Fisher
(1956 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1925 Inventor George Gallup (24) weds Ophelia Smith Miller

1950 Actor Henry Fonda (45) weds socialite and third wife Susan Blanchard (22) in New York City

1953 Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (22) weds Joan Heise at St. Frances de Chantal Parish in Wantagh, New York

1972 Actor Billy Dee Williams (35) weds Teruko Nakagami

2006 Supermodel Niki Taylor (31) weds NASCAR driver Burney Lamar (26) at The Grande Colonial Hotel in La Jolla, California

Famous Divorces

2011 "New Girl" actress Zooey Deschanel (31) divorces "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben Gibbard (35) due to irreconcilable differences

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28-12-2017, 05:21 PM

28 DECEMBER

1065 Westminster Abbey was consecrated. Its founder Edward the Confessor could not attend due to illness. He died on 5th January l066 and was buried in a shrine before the High Altar in his new church.

1612 First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realising it is a planet

1694 Mary II, joint sovereign of England, Scotland and Ireland, died from smallpox, leaving William III to reign alone.

1734 The death of Robert Roy MacGregor, usually known simply as Rob Roy, the famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century. He is buried in Balquhidder churchyard - see picture.

1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital

1836 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico

1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad

1879 The Tay railway bridge collapsed whilst the Edinburgh to Dundee train was crossing. The original crossing was the longest railway bridge in the world but during the storm the wind was said to have blown the iron girders in the central section away 'like matchwood. The engine and carriages plummeted into the icy river below killing 59 people. In 1979 British Rail commissioned a special train to take people across the new bridge at the exact time of the original accident ....... 19:15 GMT. On 28th December 2013 granite memorials to commemorate the disaster were unveiled on both sides of the river.

1904 The first weather reports relayed by wireless telegraphy were published in London.

1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy, killing nearly 80,000

1918 Constance Markievicz, Irish Sinn Féin politician and suffragette, whilst detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the House of Commons.

1932 Roy Hattersley, Labour MP & former Labour deputy leader, was born.

1934 The first Test Match for women’s cricket was between Australia and England and was held at Brisbane. England beat Australia 2–0 in a three-Test series, with the final match drawn.

1934 Dame Maggie Smith, British actress was born. She made her stage debut in 1952 and has won numerous awards for acting, both for the stage and for film, including five BAFTA Awards, plus the BAFTA Fellowship Award. She currently stars in the drama, Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, the Dowager-Countess of Grantham, for which she has won an Emmy.

1943 The birth of Richard Whiteley. He was best known for his twenty three years as host of the game show Countdown. At the time of his death in 2005 Whiteley was believed to have clocked more hours on British television screens than anyone else alive.

1943 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.

1950 Derbyshire's Peak District became Britain’s first National Park.

1957 The Stanley abattoir in Liverpool (one of Britain's largest) closed down after foot and mouth disease was found in cattle.

1963 'That Was The Week That Was', television’s first satirical show, was broadcast for the last time. It was taken off air while still commanding huge audiences because 1964 was to be election year and it was felt that the show could influence voters.

1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival

1968 Beatles' "White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

1968 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport

1971 Hashish now falls under the Dutch Opium Law (Opiumwet)

1972 Kim Il-song becomes president of North Korea

1972 Martin Bormann's skeleton is found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)

1974 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed

1975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die

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1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut

1980 A shake-up of broadcasting franchises paved the way for the launch of breakfast TV. The Independent Broadcasting Authority announced that the breakfast contract would go to TV-am and would launch in 1983.

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1983 Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's record of 29

1993 Customs officials at Felixstowe seized £70m of Colombian cocaine thought to be linked to the Mafia.

2003 The British Government announced plans to tighten airline security by allowing armed guards on some British flights to the USA.

2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children

2015 Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation

Famous Birthday's

Woodrow Wilson
(1856 - 1924)

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1872 Pío Baroja y Nessi, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer), born in San Sebastián, Basque Country (d. 1956)

1943 Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)

Nigel Kennedy
61st Birthday

Terry Butcher
59th Birthday

1945 Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
72nd Birthday

Roy Hattersley
85th Birthday

Maggie Smith
83rd Birthday

Denzel Washington
63rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Rob Roy
( - 1734)

Ante Pavelić
(1889 - 1959)

1983 Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39

Susan Sontag
(1933 - 2004)

2010 Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer (oldest von Trapp child), dies at 97

2015 Lemmy [Ian Kilmister], British heavy metal musician (Motörhead), dies from terminal illness at 70

2016 Debbie Reynolds, American actress (Kathy Selden-Singin' in the Rain, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies of a stroke at 84 one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher also passed away

Famous Weddings

1936 British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale

1936 Football player Bronko Nagurski (28) weds childhood sweetheart Eileen Kane in International Falls, Minnesota

1950 Author John Steinbeck (48) weds actress Elaine Anderson (36)

1956 Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (23) weds actor Gig Young (43)

1956 Singer Patti Page (29) weds choreographer Charles O'Curran in Las Vegas, Nevada

Famous Divorces

1942 Actress Janet Leigh (14) divorces childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18) 4 months after getting married

2010 Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage

2012 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (82) divorces Lois Driggs Cannon due to irreconcilable differences after 23 years of marriage

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29-12-2017, 09:07 PM

29 DECEMBER

1170 Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas à Becket, was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights, believing they were acting on direct orders from King Henry II. The disgraced knights and their families did a number of penances, one of which was to build a Chantry chapel in the centre of Watchet and the building of St Decuman’s Church, which Richard Brito and Reginald FitzUrse then gave to Wells Cathedral. Their families went on to give land to atone for their relations’ evil deed.

1675 Parliament ordered the closing of all coffee houses on the basis that they were centres of malicious gossip about the Government.

1766 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof clothing (i.e. the Macintosh or simply Mac), was born, in Glasgow. For his various chemical discoveries he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1823.

1809 The birth, in Liverpool, of William (Ewart) Gladstone, four times British Prime Minister. His first election in 1868 allowed him to carry out major reforms. He was elected once more in 1880 and then again in 1866. When his Home Rule Bill was defeated, he resigned, but became Prime Minister, for a fourth term, in 1892. He resigned again two years later, this time when his Home Rule Bill was rejected by the Lords. He died of cancer on 19th May 1898 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

1812 Patrick Bronte married Maria Branwell at St. Oswald's Church in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. A copy of their marriage certificate is to the left of the altar rail in the church. Their four children Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne were born at this house in Thornton, West Yorkshire.

1835 The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States

1845 Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union

1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants

1860 HMS Warrior, Britain's first seagoing iron-clad warship, was launched. She froze to the slipway when she was launched during London's coldest winter for 50 years and six tugs were required to haul her into the river. In later years Warrior was saved from being scrapped by the efforts of the Maritime Trust. The restoration took 8 years. Today, the ship is used as a venue for special events, and can be privately hired as a wedding venue.

1890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD

1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)

1895 The beginning of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal in South Africa. It was intended to trigger an uprising by the primarily British expatriate workers (known as Uitlanders) but no uprising took place, yet it was an inciting factor in the 2nd Boer War.

1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari

1918 The Sunday Express was published for the first time.

1928 The birth, in Oldham, of actor Bernard Cribbins, OBE. He has a career spanning over half a century and came to prominence in films in the 1960s. He was also a regular performer on Jackanory on BBC TV between 1966 and 1991. He was Wilfred Mott, companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who and he currently stars as Jack in the series Old Jack's Boat, set in Staithes and broadcast on the CBeebies TV channel.

1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minnesota, to New Orleans

1933 New York Yankees refuses to release Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds

1938 The birth, in Bingley, of Harvey Smith, controversial English showjumper. He competed in two Summer Olympics. His best Olympic finish was fourth, in the individual show jumping event at Munich in 1972.

1940 London suffered its most devastating air raid when Germans firebombed the city. Hundreds of fires caused by the exploding bombs engulfed areas of London, but fire fighters showed a valiant indifference to the bombs falling around them and saved much of the city from destruction. The next day, a newspaper photo of St. Paul's Cathedral standing undamaged amid the smoke and flames seemed to symbolize the capital's unconquerable spirit during the Battle of Britain.

1955 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13

1975 New legislation introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status in the workplace, and in society, came into force in the UK.

1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica

1986 Lord Stockton, the former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, died aged 92.

1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment

1997 British journalist Dawn Alford, of the Daily Mirror, who claimed a Cabinet Minister's son had sold her drugs, was arrested on suspicion of possessing cannabis, hoisted (as the saying goes) by her own petard!

1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu

2012 Tony Greig, the 66 year old former England Test cricket captain turned commentator died after suffering a heart attack in Sydney. Greig scored 3,599 runs at an average of 40.43, took 141 Test wickets and was named one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1975.

2012 Bradley Wiggins, who won the Tour de France and an Olympic gold, was knighted in the New Year Honours list. Paralympic cyclist Sarah Storey, born in Disley became a dame after taking four gold medals. The most decorated sailor in Olympic history, Ben Ainslie, was also knighted. In all, 78 awards were linked to the 2012 Olympics or Paralympics.

2013 A painting bought for £400 and featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow was revealed to be a Van Dyck portrait worth about £400,000. Father Jamie, who runs a retreat house in Whaley Bridge, on the edge of the Peak District, said that he was planning to sell the piece by the 17th Century Flemish artist to buy new church bells.

2014 Christopher Hooson (33) who stole an Android tablet from a Whitley Bay charity shop, only to try and donate it to them eight days later as it did not work, was recognized by staff from his CCTV images. He was ordered to pay £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.

2016 US President Barack Obama retaliates against Russia for hacking American computer systems and trying to influence the 2016 presidential election by ejecting 35 Russian spies and imposing sanctions

Famous Birthday's

Charles Goodyear
(1800 - 1860)

Andrew Johnson
(1808 - 1875)

1809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Liberal: 1868-74, 1880-86, 1892-94), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1898)

1920 Syd Dernley, British hangman (1949-54), born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire (d. 1994)

Mary Tyler Moore
(1936 - 2017)

1947 Cozy Powell, England, rock drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, ELP) (d. 1998)

Bernard Cribbins
89th Birthday

Jon Voight
79th Birthday

Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
76th Birthday

Marianne Faithfull
71st Birthday

Yvonne Elliman
66th Birthday

Aled Jones
47th Birthday

Jude Law
45th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Thomas Becket
(1117 - 1170)

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1916 Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45

Harold Macmillan
(1894 - 1986)

1995 Lita Grey, second wife of Charlie Chaplin, dies of cancer at 87

2003 Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)

2012 Tony Greig, English cricket captain, all-rounder (1972-77) and commentator, dies from a heart attack at 66

Famous Weddings

1954 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (24) weds Joan Archer

1957 "Steve and Eydie" singer duo Steve Lawrence (22) weds Eydie Gorme (29) at the home of Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas

1984 MLB player Paul O'Neill (21) weds his childhood sweetheart Nevalee Davis in Columbus, Ohio

1984 MLB player Mark McGwire (21) weds Kathlene Hughes

1990 Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley

Famous Divorces

2003 Retired NFL quarterback John Elway (43) divorces first wife Janet Buchan after 18 years of marriage

2006 One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush (24) divorces actor Chad Michael Murray (25) for the reason of fraud after 5 months of marriage

2006 NBA basketball star Michael Jordan (43) divorces Juanita Vanoy (47) due to irreconcilable differences after 17 years of marriage

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30-12-2017, 06:14 PM

30 DECEMBER

1460 The Wars of the Roses: The defeat and death of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and claimant to the English throne, at the Battle of Wakefield.

1703 Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die

1850 The birth of John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. He invented the horizontal seismograph that enabled him to detect different types of earthquake waves, and estimate their velocities. Along with two other British scientists he founded the Seismological Society of Japan.

1851 The artist JMW Turner, who died on 19th December was buried, at his own request, in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, next to Sir Joshua Reynolds, the English portrait artist.

1865 Author Rudyard Kipling was born, in India, but was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. His best known fictional works are Jungle Book and Just So Stories. He celebrated British imperialism with tales and poems of British soldiers in India and in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1879 The first performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, 'The Pirates of Penzance', at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, Devon.

1887 A petition, signed by more than 1 million women in Britain, was sent to Queen Victoria calling for public houses to be closed on Sundays.

1896 Filipino nationalist José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila by the Spanish

1906 The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan

1918 John E Hoover decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover

1919 Lincoln's Inn, one of four 'Inns of Court' in London to which barristers belong and where they are called to the Bar, admitted its first female students.

1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR

1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society

1932 The completion of the electrification of the London to Brighton railway line.

1932 Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG

1937 Gordon Banks, English goal keeper, was born, in Sheffield. The International Federation of Football History & Statistics named Banks the second best goalkeeper of the 20th century, after the Russian Lev Yashin. On 22nd October 1972 Banks lost the sight in his right eye in a motoring accident and announced his retirement in August 1973. He was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. His consistent performances in goal led to the re-wording of a common English phrase to 'As safe as the Banks of England.'

1939 Bradman scores 267 SA v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century

1942 The birth of Guy Edwards, former racing driver. He is most renowned for being one of the drivers who saved Niki Lauda from his burning car during the 1976 German Grand Prix. Edwards was later awarded a Queen's Gallantry Medal for his bravery.

1946 Football league players threatened to strike over the proposed maximum wage of £11 a week.

1950 Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union

1954 British athlete Chris Chataway became the first winner of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.

1956 The last passenger train service ran on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. It had been in operation for 63 years.

1968 -48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)

1974 Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)

1979 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up

1986 According to new plans by the government, more than 200 canaries would be 'phased out' of Britain's mining pits. New electronic devices would replace canaries as detectors of harmful gasses, because they were said to be cheaper in the long run and more effective.

1987 Premier Mugabe elected President of Zimbabwe

1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)

1988 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard

1995 Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982

2013 Forestry Commission figures showed that more than five million trees had been felled in Scotland since Alex Salmond came to power in 2007, to make way for wind farm developments, with fewer than 1.6 million planted to replace them. Findings showed that there were almost as many wind turbines north of the Border as in all the rest of the UK. You cannot appreciate their enormity until you see the sections being transported by road!

2014 Tommie Rose, a 15year old schoolboy, who made £14,000 from his school tuck-shop to pay future university fees for a business studies degree was threatened with suspension, as his shop breached the school's healthy-eating guidelines.

Famous Birthday's

Titus
(39 - 81)

1865 Rudyard Kipling, English author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), born in Bombay, British India (d. 1936)

1945 Davy Jones, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville), born in Manchester, England (d. 2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_q2aB5G6o
Gordon Banks
80th Birthday

1947 Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
70th Birthday

1959 Tracey Ullman, Slough England, singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
58th Birthday

Tiger Woods
42nd Birthday

LeBron James
33rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Vincent Massey
(1887 - 1967)

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Sonny Liston
(1932 - 1970)

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Saddam Hussein
(1937 - 2006)

Famous Weddings

1816 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft

1852 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)

1857 Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville

1879 Composer John Philip Sousa (25) weds Jane van Middlesworth Bellis

1896 Filipino Nationalist Jose Rizal (35) weds girlfriend Josephine Bracken (20) before his execution in Fort Santiago, Manila

Famous Divorces

1955 Actor Gregory Peck (39) divorces real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (44) after 13 years of marriage

Altobelli

31-12-2017, 01:28 AM

31 December

31st December - (New Year’s Eve, and Hogmanay in Scotland)

406 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning invasion of Gallia

1384 The death of John Wycliffe, the first translator of the Bible into the English language. He was rector of St. Mary's Church, Lutterworth for the 10 years prior to his death. This monument to him is in the church.

1695 The window tax was imposed in Britain. It resulted in many being bricked up, evidence which remains to this day. An example is here at the house in Market Weighton where William Bradley, the world's tallest Englishman was born -. The story goes that Bradley, a typicaly frugal Yorkshireman, did not want to pay extra window tax, so he had the windows painted on the outside of the building. As for the house, it was specially built for Bradley, with extra high rooms and doorways.

1720 The birth, in Rome, of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart), also known as the ‘Young Pretender’. He landed in Scotland, with his followers, in 1745, capturing Edinburgh and setting up court at the Palace of Holyrood. His decision to march on London brought him head on with an army led by the Duke of Cumberland, and defeat at Culloden.

1738 The birth of Charles Cornwallis, the British soldier whose surrender to George Washington (1781) ended the War of Independence.

1744 English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)

1759 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and started brewing Guinness at the St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin. Ten years later Guinness exported his ale for the first time, when six and a half barrels were shipped to Britain.

1775 Battle of Quebec in American Revolutionary War; Americans defeated trying to take British stronghold

1781 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens

1783 Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern US states

1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada

1861 22,990mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in India in 1861, a world record

1890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot

1892 The first hostel for homeless men, Rowton House, opened in Bond Street, Vauxhall. There was strict discipline, with rules against cooking, card playing, etc.

1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)

1904 First New Year's Eve celebration held in Times Square (then Longacre Square), in New York City

1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize

1923 The chimes of Big Ben were broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

1937 Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor, was born. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts.

1938 Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70

1939 Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99

1942 Football manager Alex Ferguson was born, in Glasgow. With 25 years as manager of Manchester United, he was the longest serving manager in their history and also the longest serving of all the current League managers. He stepped down as manager of Manchester United on 8th May 2013 after 27 seasons. Under his leadership the team won 38 trophies, including 13 league titles, two Champions Leagues, five FA Cups and four League Cups.

1948 Malcolm Campbell, British racing driver, died, after a series of strokes. He was one of the few land speed record holders of his era to die of natural causes. Campbell broke nine land speed records between 1924 and 1935. He set his final land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on 3rd September 1935, becoming the first person to drive an automobile at more than 300mph.

1955 The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.

1958 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista tells his Cabinet he is fleeing the country

1960 The British coin, the farthing, in use in Britain since the 13th Century, ceased to be legal tender at midnight.

1961 Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name

1964 Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record, (at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia, 276.33 mph), the only man to break both land and water speed records in the same year. He remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve The Beatles

1973 The three-day week began in Britain as a result of power strikes. It led to the downfall of Prime Minister Edward Heath and his government.

1973 Johan Cruyff chosen European Football Player of theYear

1974 Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac

1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado

1984 Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash

1987 A total of 31 people received New Year's Honours for helping to save an estimated 350 passengers when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized, near Bruges, on 6th March, claiming 193 lives. The George Medal, one of the highest civilian awards for gallantry, was awarded to head waiter Michael Skippen who died trying to get passengers to safety.

1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President

2014 Neil Brittlebank (from Redditch) and Kevin Beresford (from East Ardsley in Yorkshire) won the dubious honour of being two of the dullest men of the year, as awarded by the Dull Men's Club. Mr Beresford produces books and calendars about roundabouts, while Mr Brittlebank, collects bricks.

2014 Same *** marriage came into effect in Scotland earlier in December and the first weddings were held at 00:01 on Hogmanay. (Note:- Following the usual 15-day notice period for marriages, Hogmanay (New Year's Eve) was the first day that same-*** weddings could take place.)

2014 The death (aged 99) of Arthur Valerian Wellesley, the 8th Duke of Wellington, whose ancestor won the Battle of Waterloo. His death came a day before the bicentenary year of the Battle of Waterloo.

Famous Birthday's

Jacques Cartier
(1491 - 1557)

George Marshall
(1880 - 1959)

1892 Jason Robards Sr, American actor (Acapulco, Isle of the Dead), born in Hillsdale, Michigan (d. 1963)

1929 Peter May, English cricketer (dashing batsman of 50's), born in Reading (d. 1994)

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John Denver
(1943 - 1997)

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1948 Donna Summer, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)

Anthony Hopkins
80th Birthday

Alex Ferguson
76th Birthday

Andy Summers, English rock guitarist (Police-Roxanne), born in Blackpool, Lancashire
75th Birthday

Ben Kingsley
74th Birthday

Alex Salmond
63rd Birthday

Val Kilmer
58th Birthday

Heather McCartney, British artist and daughter of Paul McCartney
55th Birthday

Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of Donald Trump and Ivana Trump, born in NYC, New York
40th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Commodus
(161 - 192)

Roberto Clemente
(1934 - 1972)

1948 Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63

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Natalie Cole
(1950 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1910 Editor Maxwell Perkins (26) weds Louise Saunders at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in North Plainfield, New Jersey

1940 Actress Bette Davis (32) weds New England innkeeper Arthur Farnsworth at 15,000-acre ranch in Lake Montezuma, Arizona

1950 Heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Marciano (27) weds Barbara Cousins in Brockton

1955 Actor Gregory Peck (39) weds philanthropist Veronique Passani (23)

1973 MLB executive Tony La Russa (29) weds Elaine Coker

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My 62nd Birthday

chalky_ncfc

31-12-2017, 06:11 AM

Here's a fact about today for you Altobelli

Today is the only day when all the children in the world was born in the 21st century and all of the adults was born in the 20th century

Altobelli

31-12-2017, 01:43 PM

Nice Fact, Thank You Chalky :)

Altobelli

01-01-2018, 09:42 PM

01 JANUARY

1660 Samuel Pepys began writing the Diary which he kept for nine years, writing in an early form of shorthand.

1772 The London Credit Exchange Company issued the first traveller’s cheques, accepted in 90 cities and guaranteed against theft.

1781 The first all-iron bridge in the world, Iron Bridge in Shropshire was opened to traffic. The bridge was built by Abraham Darby III, from a design by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard.

1833 Britain claimed sovereignty of the Falkland Islands

1894 The opening of the Manchester Ship Canal linking Manchester to the River Mersey. Queen Victoria later formally opened the canal, on 21st May 1894. After the dockyards closed in 1982, Manchester Docks was transformed into Salford Quays, now the home to the Lowry theatre , retail outlets, the Imperial War Museum North and Media City UK, home to the BBC and ITV studios.

1923 Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.

1948 British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.

1951 The first episode of the BBC’s radio serial The Archers - farming folk of Ambridge. It is the world's longest running radio 'soap'. By 18th December 2011 it had reached 16,600 episodes.

1960 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars

1962 The Beatles had an audition for Decca Records, who turned them down and signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.

1964 Jimmy Savile presented the very first Top of the Pops, the longest running music show in the world. He also co-hosted the last, on 30th July 2006. After Savile's death in October 2012, numerous allegations were made that he had ***ually abused hundreds of young people, dating back to 1958. Police also confirmed that Savile had been questioned over allegations of child *** abuse in 2007. His gravestone at Scarborough was removed at the request of Savile's family and plaques and statues of him in other locations were removed to prevent further defacement.

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1965 Stanley Matthews was knighted, the first professional footballer to receive this honour.

1973 The UK became a fully-fledged member of the European Economic Community.

1985 Michael Harrison, the son of former Vodafone chairman Sir Ernest Harrison, made the first ever mobile phone call in Britain. He called his father from London's Parliament Square on the newly-launched Vodafone network using an 11lb (5kg) Transportable Vodafone VT1, which boasted around 30 minutes of talk time. A few days later, a crowd gathered at St Katherine's Dock in London to watch comedian Ernie Wise make the first public mobile phone call using the same device. All were far from portable and cost around £2,000 - equivalent to roughly £5,000 today.

1995 Fred West, the 53 year old Gloucestershire builder charged with 12 murders, was found dead in his prison cell.

2009 61 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.

2014 Right wing newspapers gathered at airports to interrogate an expected influx of millions of unemployed Romanians and Bulgarians after transitional controls were lifted. They were greeted by two new entrants, both of whom already had jobs.

Famous Birthday's

Paul Revere
(1735 - 1818)

1879 E. M. Forster, English writer and novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), born in Marylebone, Middle*** (d. 1970)

J. Edgar Hoover
(1895 - 1972)

Hank Greenberg
(1911 - 1986)

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1912 Kim Philby, British spy and Soviet mole who was a member of the "Cambridge Five", born in Ambala, Punjab, India (d. 1988)

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1919 J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, American novelist (Catcher in the Rye), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)

Jack Wilshere
25th Birthday

Famous Deaths

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Hank Williams
(1923 - 1953)

1949 Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63

Grace Hopper
(1906 - 1992)

Cesar Romero
(1907 - 1994)

2013 Patti Page [Clara Ann Fowler], American pop singer, dies at 85

Famous Weddings

414 King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia

1772 US founding father Thomas Jefferson (30) marries Martha Wayles Skelton (23)

1811 Writer James Fenimore Cooper (21) weds Susan Augusta de Lancey in Mamaroneck, New York

1824 US President James Knox Polk (28) weds Sarah Childress (20) in Murfreesboro

1888 55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (25) weds first wife Margaret Owen

Altobelli

02-01-2018, 10:13 PM

02 DECEMBER

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

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1879 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG

1890 Record 19.2 feet alligator shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny

1903 US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1938David Bailey, English photographer, was born. Along with photographers Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, he captured and helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s.

1969 Australian Rupert Murdoch beat off a rival bid to win control of the News of the World, his first Fleet Street newspaper.

1971 Sixty six spectators were crushed to death and more than 200 others injured at the Ibrox football ground in Glasgow at the end of a Rangers v Celtic derby. The official inquiry into the disaster concluded that someone, possibly a child being carried on his father's shoulders, fell whilst exiting the ground, causing a massive chain reaction pile up of people. It was the second major loss of life at the Ibrox, the previous one being in 1902 when 25 people died and 517 were injured when a Stand collapsed after heavy rain. A statue of John Greig, who spent his career with Rangers, as a player, manager and director commemorates those killed in the 1971 tragedy.

1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins

1982 Erica Rowe became the first sports 'streaker' when she ran across the Twickenham ground at the England v Australia rugby match waving her bra in the air. She was arrested, with policemen covering her 40" breasts with their woefully undersized helmets.

1987 The publishers of Enid Blyton's Noddy books bowed to pressure groups and agreed to expunge racism by changing the golliwog characters to gnomes.

2013 Thieves in Manchester dug a 100ft (30m) long 4ft high tunnel directly under a cash machine, using machinery to cut through concrete. They escaped with only £6,000 because the machine had not been re-filled after the New Year bank holiday. A similar plot was foiled in the same area in 2007, and police believe it may have been carried out by the same gang.

Famous Birthday's

James Wolfe
(1727 - 1759)

Isaac Asimov
(1920 - 1992)

1936 Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1992)

Tommy Morrison
(1969 - 2013)

Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)
50th Birthday

Famous Deaths

James Longstreet
(1821 - 1904)

Emil Jannings
(1884 - 1950)

Erroll Garner
(1923 - 1977)

1983 Dick Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65

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1998 Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)

2009 Jett Travolta, son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, dies of a seizure at 16

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2011 Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)

Famous Weddings

1815 Leading Romantic poet Lord Byron (27) marries Anne Isabella Milbanke (22) by special licence, at Seaham Hall in County Durham

1845 Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat

1890 Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget

1928 Photographer Ansel Adams (25) weds Virginia Best in Yosemite Valley

1937 Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner

Altobelli

03-01-2018, 05:09 PM

03 JANUARY

1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

1842 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia

1911Police, with the army in attendance, stormed a house in London's East End where it was thought a gang of wanted anarchists were hiding. Newspapers dubbed the incident 'The Siege of Sidney Street'. When the fugitives shot at police, the Scots Guards were summoned from the Tower of London, and Winston Churchill, who was then Home Secretary, arrived on the scene to find the house in flames. No firefighters were sent in to put out the blaze, and the house eventually collapsed, burning the anarchists to death.

1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator

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1942 The birth, in Gorton, Manchester of actor John Thaw, who starred in the TV dramas The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC. A heavy drinker, and a smoker from the age of 12, Thaw was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in June 2001. In early January 2002 he was told that the cancer had spread and he died on 21st February 2002, seven weeks after his 60th birthday.

1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was hanged for treason, in London. The Irishman had broadcast propaganda from Nazi Germany during the Second World War to both Britain and the United States. The broadcasts started on 18th September 1939 and continued until 30th April 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army.

1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland

1961 The production of the millionth Morris Minor, designed by the Greek born Sir Alec Issigonis. He considered the Morris Minor to be a vehicle that combined many of the luxuries and conveniences of a good motor car, but at a price suitable for the working classes.

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared ****ographic in NJ

2013 Data released by the Met. Office showed that the previous 12 months had been the second wettest on record in the UK, with England recording its wettest year ever since records began in 1910.

2015 A 51,000 tonne car carrier ship (Hoegh Osaka) became stranded on Bramble Bank in the Solent between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. The ship was carrying 1,200 Jaguar sports cars, Land Rover 4x4s, 65 BMW Minis, 105 JCB diggers and a single Rolls-Royce Wraith – worth an estimated £260,000 – all destined for the Middle East. The vessel was eventually righted and towed to Southampton on 22nd January

Famous Birthday's

1883 Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister (L-1945-51), born in Putney, London (d. 1967)

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J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892 - 1973)

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1905 Ray Milland, Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales (d. 1986)

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1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Danish-American comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2000)

1936 David Vine, British sport commentator (d. 2009)

1942 John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)

1945 Stephen Stills, songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash), born in Dallas, Texas
73rd Birthday

1946 John Paul Jones [John Baldwin], English rock bassist and songwriter (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven), born in Sidcup London
72nd Birthday

Mel Gibson
62nd Birthday

Michael Schumacher
49th Birthday

Famous Deaths

1903 Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)

Jack Ruby
(1911 - 1967)

Joy Adamson
(1910 - 1980)

Edward W. Brooke
(1919 - 2015)

1946 William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason

Famous Weddings

1783 US Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall (27) weds Mary Willis Ambler in Hanover County, Virginia

1923 German politician Hermann Goering (30) weds Carin Hulda (34)

1939 MLB catcher Roy Campanella (18) weds Bernice Ray

1986 British golfer Nick Faldo (28) weds manager's secretary Gill Bennett

1987 Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC

Famous Divorces

1990 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (41) divorces singer/dancer Sarah Brightman (29) after almost 7 years of marriage.

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

No Changes

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - BEATLES

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

Altobelli

04-01-2018, 08:53 PM

04 JANUARY

1642 Under the orders of King Charles I, armed soldiers entered Parliament. The English Civil War started shortly afterwards.

1813 Birth of Sir Isaac Pitman, English inventor of the first major shorthand system. Pitman founded a company called Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, which became one of the world's leading educational publishers and training businesses. In 1837-38 he became a teetotaller and vegetarian, practices to which he attributed his health and his ability to work long hours.

1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government

1890 The Daily Graphic was launched; the first daily illustrated paper. It merged with the Daily Sketch in 1926. .

1932 Gandhi was arrested and his National Congress of India declared illegal by the British administration. The warrant for Gandhi's arrest merely said that he was being arrested 'for good and sufficient reasons.'

1958 Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole

1967 Donald Campbell, 46 year old son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, died in his attempt to break his own world water speed record on Coniston Water in the Lake District. This plaque is in the village of Coniston. His boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted at high speed, and Campbell died instantly and is buried in Coniston graveyard. The wreckage of Campbell's craft was recovered by the Bluebird Project between October 2000, when the first sections were raised, and June 2001 when Campbell's body was recovered. It is intended to return a rebuilt Bluebird to Coniston before permanently housing her at the nearly Ruskin museum.

1990 307 dead and 700 injured after overloaded passenger train collides with empty freight train in Pakistan

2017 The last ABC cinema closed its doors. The Bournemouth cinema (which opened in June 1937) had only kept its name by a quirk of positioning in the town. It closed with a final screening of 'Back to the Future', which was chosen by its audience.

Famous Birthday's

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Louis Braille
(1809 - 1852)

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1930 Iain Cuthbertson, British actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB) (d. 2009)

Don Shula
88th Birthday

Rick Stein
71st Birthday

Mick Mills
69th Birthday

James Milner
32nd Birthday

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Floyd Patterson
(1935 - 2006)

Famous Deaths

Albert Camus
(1913 - 1960)

Erwin Schrödinger
(1887 - 1961)

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T. S. EliotT.
(1888 - 1965)

1986 Phil Lynott, Irish rock musician (Thin Lizzy), dies of an overdose at 36

2011 Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (b. 1947)

Famous Weddings

1827 Naturalist and entomologist Thomas Say (39) secretly weds natural science illustrator Lucy Way Sistare (26)

1926 Composer Irving Berlin (37) weds heiress Ellin Mackay in a simple civil ceremony

1997 Czech Republic's first president Vaclav Havel (60) weds Czech actress Dagmar Havlova (43) in Prague, Czech Republic

1997 "Smothers Brothers" actor-singer Dick Smothers (58) weds Denby Franklin (47) in Las Vegas

2012 Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry (66) weds PR executive Amanda Sheppard (29) in Turks and Caicos Island

Famous Divorces

2004 Britney Spears has her surprise marriage annulled less than 55 hours after tying the knot with childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

2008 Australian pop diva Natalie Imbruglia (32) and "Silverchair" frontman Daniel Johns (28) announce their divorce stating "we have simply grown apart through not being able to spend enough time together"

Altobelli

05-01-2018, 05:45 PM

05 JANUARY

1886 "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson published by Longmans, Green & Co.

1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day

1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer, died of a heart attack off South Georgia. At his wife's request he was buried there. It was his fourth expedition, aimed at circumnavigating the Antarctic in what he described as the one remaining object of Antarctic journeying; the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole.

1941 Amy Johnson, record-breaking English aviator, died whilst flying an aircraft from Blackpool to Kidlington (Oxfordshire) in foggy conditions as her role in the Air Transport Auxiliary that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between UK departments. Her plane was found, 100 miles off course, in the muddy water of the Thames, but her body was never recovered. Reportedly out of fuel she had been seen alive in the water, but a rescue attempt failed and the incident also led to the death of her would-be rescuer, Lt. Cmdr. Walter Fletcher. Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930 and she also set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. She was born on 1st July 1903 at this house on St. Georges Road in Hull which has a commemorative blue plaque.

1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"; he was killed in a plane crash 29 days later

1960 The last journey of the Mumbles Railway, the oldest in the world. It was set up in 1804 as a goods railway running from Swansea to Mumbles Head, Wales, and began carrying passengers in 1807. The railway still holds the record for the highest number of forms of traction of any railway in the world - horse-drawn, sail power, steam power, electric power, petrol and diesel.

1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival release their second album "Bayou Country", featuring singles "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Proud Mary"

1971 One-day cricket was born when 46,000 turned up to watch England play Australia at Melbourne. The test match had been rained off for several days previously. Australia won by 5 wickets (with 42 balls remaining)

1971 Body of US heavyweight Charles "Sonny" Liston (36) found; he had been dead for an estimated 6 days.

1981 Peter Sutcliffe, a 35-year-old lorry driver from Bradford, suspected of carrying out 13 murders across West Yorkshire over a period of five years, was formally charged in court.

1993 The oil tanker 'Braer' was wrecked in hurricane force winds off the Shetland Islands, discharging large amounts of crude oil.

1993 Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG

2001 A report funded by The Department of Health found that the convicted serial killer, former GP Harold Shipman, may have killed in excess of 300 of his patients.

2013 The death in Wirksworth - Derbyshire, of Britain's oldest man, Reg Dean aged 110 years and 63 days. He was a former church minister and lived through two world wars and 24 British prime ministers.

Famous Birthday's

Konrad Adenauer
(1876 - 1967)

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1855 King C. Gillette, American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 1932)

George Reeves
(1914 - 1959)

Chuck Noll
(1932 - 2014)

Robert Duvall
87th Birthday

1946 Diane Keaton, American actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl), born in Los Angeles, California
72nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

1922 Ernest Shackleton, British-Irish polar explorer (Endurance, Antarctica), dies of a heart attack at 47

Calvin Coolidge
(1872 - 1933)

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Amelia Earhart
(1897 - 1939)

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1941 Amy Johnson, British pilot who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia, dies during a ferry flight at 37

1994 Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator for 40 yrs), dies at 81

2003 Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)

Momo***u Ando
(1910 - 2007)

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2014 Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, Portuguese footballer (top goalscorer-1966 World Cup), dies from heart failure at 71

Famous Weddings

1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English King Henry VIII to re-marry

1808 Explorer William Clark (37) weds Julia Hancock in Fincastle, Virginia

1911 British PM Neville Chamberlain (41) weds Anne de Vere Cole

1985 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (22) weds Lisa Andrews

1985 NFL football player Reggie White (23) weds Sara Copeland

Famous Divorces

1967 Actor Lee Marvin (42) divorces Elizabeth Ebeling after 14 years of marriage

Altobelli

06-01-2018, 02:39 AM

06 JANUARY

1412 The birth of St Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans. She was a great heroine of French history and believed that she had a divine mission to drive the British from France. She died at the stake after being captured by the Burgundians and sold to the British.

1839 The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.

1916 World War I - The British Government introduced conscription, to replace the many thousands killed in the trenches in France.

1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy

1928 Four people were drowned, and many paintings in the basement of the Tate Gallery were severely damaged, when the Thames flooded. The water was deep enough to fill the moat of the Tower of London.

1930 Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours

1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling

1971 Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days

1975 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an estimated $30,000 damage

1983 The Royal Navy arrested a Danish trawler captain (Kent Kirk) for illegally entering British waters in the first confrontation of the ' fish war'. The move followed Denmark's refusal to agree to proposals for a new EEC fishing regime.

1987 The first episode of TV's Inspector Morse was broadcast. It was based in Oxford.

2014 54 year old Stephen Gough, the so-called 'Naked Rambler' was jailed for 16 months after a jury took just two minutes to find him guilty of breaching an antisocial behaviour order designed to prevent him from appearing nude in public. Gough has been convicted for dozens of offences, mainly in Scotland, where he was repeatedly arrested during attempts to walk from Land's End to John o'Groats without clothes.

2015 The death was announced of D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan (aged 90). In June 2014 he sparked a police search when he left the care home in Hove to join fellow veterans and attended the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France. His wife Irene (aged 88) died just days after her husband. They left their entire state, estimated at being worth around £600,000 to the RNLI.

Famous Birthday's

John Smith
(1580 - 1631)

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Loretta Young
(1913 - 2000)

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1946 Syd Barrett, English guitarist and early vocalist of the band Pink Floyd, born in Cambridge, England (d. 2006)

Terry Venables
74th Birthday

Rowan Atkinson
62nd Birthday

Nancy Lopez
61st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Louis Braille
(1809 - 1852)

Theodore Roosevelt
(1858 - 1919)

Victor Fleming
(1889 - 1949)

1934 Herbert Chapman, Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)

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1989 Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign

1993 Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54

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2012 Robert Holness, English radio and television presenter, dies at 83

2015 Lance Percival, English actor and comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 81

Famous Weddings

1759 US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation

1836 Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio

1903 Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (23) weds Mileva Maric

1945 Future US President George H. W. Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye NY

1945 US First Lady Barbara Bush (19) weds 41st president George H. W. Bush (20) at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York

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07 JANUARY

1536 Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I, died, at Kimbolton Castle in Cambridgeshire where she had lived since Henry annulled their marriage. The Pope had declined the request for an annulment, but Henry married his mistress Anne Boleyn regardless, a chain of events that led to England's break with the Roman Catholic Church.

1805 The famous pugilist Tom Cribb had his first public fight. It was against Tom Maddox at Wood Green. Cribb was declared the winner after an incredible 76 rounds.

1927 A telephone service began operating between London and New York. A three-minute call cost £15. Nevertheless 31 different people made a call on the first day.

1945 Second World War - General Montgomery held a press conference in which he claimed credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge (also known as the Ardennes Offensive). The defeat left many German units severely depleted of men and equipment. America suffered 89,000 casualties, their bloodiest battle of World War II

1965 Identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray were in custody, charged in connection with running a protection racket. When they died (1995 and 2000 respectively) their funerals were like those of royals, rather than those of notorious criminals.

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1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

1990 Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

2000 Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was released from jail after serving less than half of his 18-month sentence. He had been imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after his libel case against the Guardian Newspaper and Granada Television collapsed.

2014 Figures from 'Care for the Wild' showed that pilot culls of badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire had cost more than £7m - equivalent to more than £4,000 per badger killed. The government scheme was to test how effective, humane and safe a cull could be in their attempt to stop the spread of bovine TB.

Famous Birthday's

Millard Fillmore
(1800 - 1874)

William Peter Blatty
(1928 - 2017)

Nicolas Cage
54th Birthday

Lewis Hamilton
33rd Birthday

Eden Hazard
27th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Catherine of Aragon
(1485 - 1536)

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Nikola Tesla
(1856 - 1943)

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1988 Trevor Howard, British actor (Brief Encounter, Superman, The Third Man), dies of bronchitis at 71

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2015 Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb], French cartoonist and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, dies in a terrorist attack at 47

2015 Rod Taylor, Australian actor (Time Machine, The Birds), dies at 84

Mário Soares
(1924 - 2017)

Famous Weddings

1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont

1880 Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (19) weds Antonina Korsak

1911 Actress Mary Pickford (19) weds actor Owen Moore (25)

1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld

Famous Divorces

1985 Actress-singer Janet Jackson (18) divorces fellow R&B singer James DeBarge (21) only 4 months after getting married

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08 JANUARY

1800 London opened its first soup ******** for the poor.

1815 Britain lost the last battle it ever fought against the US in the War of 1812 when General Sir Edward Pakenham and his men were defeated at New Orleans.

1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1942 The birth of Stephen Hawking, possibly the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. He wrote A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. His book sold at least 25,000,000 copies, was no doubt read by many thousands but maybe understood by only hundreds! In 2014 the film 'The Theory of Everything' was released. It dealt with his former wife's relationship with her ex-husband, his diagnosis of motor neuron disease, and his success in physics.

1966 The Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC

1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

1982 Spain reopened the frontier of the British colony of Gibraltar. In return, Britain agreed to open negotiations on Gibraltar’s future, and ended its opposition to Spain joining the EEC.

1989 47 people were killed and over 80 injured when a British Midland 737-400 jet crashed on the M1 motorway. Remarkably nobody travelling on the motorway was hurt. The plane had developed a problem in its left engine shortly after it took off from Heathrow. The pilots mistakenly believed that the fault was in the right hand engine which they shut down, leading to the crash, just yards from the runway of East Midlands Airport.

2001 The High Court ruled that the identities and whereabouts of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993 would be kept secret for the rest of their lives. Venables was subsequently returned to prison in March 2010 for other offences and it was decided that he would stay in prison 'for the foreseeable future', as he would be likely to reveal his identity if released. A mere 18 months later it was reported that the Parole Board for England and Wales had approved the release of Venables, who was subsequently released from prison on 3rd September 2013.

2015 Oldham Athletic abandoned a controversial attempt to sign the convicted rapist Ched Evans, claiming that a backlash from sponsors and death threats caused it to withdraw the offer.

Famous Birthday's

Elvis Presley
(1935 - 1977)

1941 Graham Chapman, English comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus), born in Leicester, England (d. 1989)

Shirley Bassey
80th Birthday

Stephen Hawking
76th Birthday

Kim Jong-in
35th Birthday

David Bowie
(1947 - 2016)

Famous Deaths

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Marco Polo
(1254 - 1324)

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Galileo Galilei
(1564 - 1642)

Eli Whitney
(1765 - 1825)

1941 Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the Boy Scout movement, dies at 83

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2017 Peter Sarstedt, British musician (Where do you go to my lovely), dies at 75

Famous Weddings

1811 US Vice President John C. Calhoun (28) weds Floride Bonneau (19)

1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto

1951 Actor Burgess Meredith (43) weds ballerina Kaja Sundsten

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1973 Actor Michael Caine (40) weds model Shakira Baksh (25) at Candlelight Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

2005 Rapper and actor Nas (32) weds R&B singer Kelis (25) at Morningside Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia

Famous Divorces

1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown

1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas

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09 JANUARY

1799 Income tax was introduced into Britain by William Pitt the Younger, to raise funds for the Napoleonic War. The rate was two shillings in the pound.

1806 Lord Nelson, naval commander and hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, was buried beneath the dome of St Paul's cathedral, in London, after a grand and solemn procession along the river to Whitehall and thence to the City. Nelson was born on this site - a former rectory :. A plaque on the wall on Creake Road.

1816 Sir Humphry Davy tested his Davy safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. In January 1819, Davy was awarded a baronetcy, at the time the highest honour ever conferred on a man of science in Britain. A year later he became President of the Royal Society.

1854 Birth of Jenny, Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of Lord Randolph and mother of Winston.

1854 The first free lending Library opened, on Marylebone Road, London.

1888 The London Financial Guide was launched. It became The Financial Times on 13th February.

1898 The birth, in Rochdale, Lancashire, of Dame Gracie Fields, internationally famous singer. This statue of her was unveiled in her home town of Rochdale. on 18th September 2016 by Roy Hudd, President of the British Music Hall Society.

1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, planted the British flag 112 miles from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.

1929 Alexander Fleming successfully treated his assistant Stuart Craddick’s infection with a penicillin broth, at St Mary’s, Paddington.

1947 Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the black dahlia, is last seen alive.

1972 British miners began their first strike since 1926, campaigning for improved pay and conditions. A season of power cuts followed.

1997 The lone yachtsman, Tony Bullimore, feared drowned after his boat, (Exide Challenger) capsized in the Southern Ocean five days previously, was found safe and well.

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

2015 A New York judge sentenced the extradited radical preacher Abu Hamza to life in prison for supporting terrorist organisations. The Muslim cleric rose to prominence for his fiery sermons at a north London mosque prior to the protracted extradition battle. The US justice department and Theresa May, the UK home secretary, hailed the sentence.

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2016 The Flying Scotsman, (engine no. 60103) and the first steam engine to be officially recorded at 100mph carried its first passengers, after a 10 year restoration that cost £4.2M. Test run services were carried out on the East Lancashire Railway, between Bury and Rawtenstall, for two successive weekends.

Famous Birthday's

Richard Nixon
(1913 - 1994)

1920 Clive Dunn, British actor, (d. 2012)

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1925 Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY) (d. 1989)

Bob Denver
(1935 - 2005)

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1939 Susannah York, English actress (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Superman), born in London, England (d. 2011)

Jimmy Page
74th Birthday

Joan Baez
77th Birthday

Catherine, Duchess of CambridgeCatherine, Duchess of Cambridge
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Victor Emmanuel II
(1820 - 1878)

Katherine Mansfield
(1888 - 1923)

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Albert Stevens
( - 1966)

1995 Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57

2009 Dave Dee, British musician (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), dies of cancer at 67

2016 Ed Stewart, British DJ and broadcaster (Crackerjack), dies of a stroke at 74

Famous Weddings

1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester invalid

1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass

1988 English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli

2005 "Motley Crue" lead singer Vince Neil (43) weds Lia Gerardini at the Four Seasons hotel in Las Vegas

2007 "Ugly Betty" actress Ashley Jensen (37) weds actor and writer Terence Beesley in a ceremony in the woods of Big Sur, California

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

VAL DOONICAN ROCKS BUT GENTLY - VAL DOONICAN

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

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10 JANUARY

1839 Indian tea was auctioned in Britain for the first time. Previously, only China tea had been available, at great expense. After the introduction of Indian tea, prices fell and tea became so affordable that it was soon the national drink.

1840 Sir Rowland Hill introduced the Penny Post to Britain. Mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than being paid by the recipient. On its first day, 112,000 letters were posted in London alone. Additional note:- The Penny Black public house in Northwich, Cheshire - is a Grade II listed, Tudor style building that was formerly the district's post office.

1863 The first section of the London Underground railway was opened, by Prime Minister Gladstone. It ran from Paddington to Farringdon Street, stopping at seven stations. The trains ran every fif**** minutes.

1901 Oil discovered in Texas

1918 The House of Lords gave its approval to the Representation of the People Bill, which gave woman over the age of 30 the right to vote, as recognition of the contribution made by women defence workers during the First World War. However, women were still not politically equal to men, who could vote from the age of 21. Full electoral equality wouldn't occur until the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act of 1928.

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard

1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record

1979 'Crisis? What Crisis?' Prime Minister James Callaghan flew back into strike-torn Britain denying allegations that the country was in chaos. Callaghan was the only Prime Minister to have held all three leading Cabinet positions – Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, prior to becoming Prime Minister.

1985 Eight people died and dozens were injured when an explosion destroyed a block of exclusive flats in south-west London. The blast was compared to a 50lb bomb going off and caused an estimated £250m worth of damage in addition to the loss of life.

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1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO

2015 The Falklands commemorated Margaret Thatcher by unveiling a statue of the late Prime Minister who led the 1982 war that kept the island British. (Note - 10th January is Margaret Thatcher Day on the Falklands.)

2016 The death, from liver cancer, of the English singer, songwriter David Bowie, aged 69.

Famous Birthday's

Frank James
(1843 - 1915)

1883 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) (d. 1945)

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Gary Parkinson
50th Birthday

1948 Donald Fagen, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg), born in Passaic, New Jersey
70th Birthday

Rod Stewart
73rd Birthday

George Foreman
69th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Samuel Colt
(1814 - 1862)

Roy DeMeo
(1942 - 1983)

7975
1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel), dies at 87

David Bowie
(1947 - 2016)

7976
2017 Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, dies at 105

2018 Tommy Lawrence, Liverpool goalkeeper with 3 Scotland caps, dies aged 77 (b. 1940)

Famous Weddings

1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal

1857 Novelist Jules Verne (28) weds Honorine de Viane Morel

1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp (21) weds Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Texas

1898 Painter Henri Matisse (28) weds Amélie Noellie Parayre

1936 Actor Burgess Meredith (28) weds actress Margaret Perry (22)

Famous Divorces

1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Empress Joséphine

1936 Actress Mary Pickford (44) divorces actor Douglas Fairbanks (52) after 15 years of marriage

1967 Actor Christopher Plummer (37) divorces columnist Patricia Lewis after nearly 5 years of marriage

1981 Singer James Brown (47) divorces Deidre Jenkins after 10 years of marriage

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11 JANUARY

1857 Jockey Fred Archer was born. He won his first race at the age of 12 and was a Champion Jockey for 13 consecutive years until 1886. He won 2748 races during his career, including five Derby winners. In 1885 he rode 246 winners, a record that wasn't broken until Gordon Richards' 1933 season. Archer committed suicide, aged 29, by shooting himself, following depression after the death of his wife.

1858 The birth of Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr., the American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. At the height of his success, Selfridge leased Highcliffe Castle in Hampshire. He is buried at St. Mark's Church in Highcliffe.

1954 George Cowling, a 34-year-old meteorologist, gave the first televised weather broadcast.

1973 The first 867 graduates from the Open University were awarded their degrees after two years studying from home.

1980 Nigel Short, age 14, from Bolton, Lancashire, became the youngest International Master in the history of chess. Participating in four World Junior Championships, from 1980–1983, Short achieved his best result during his first attempt, in which he was placed second to Garry Kasparov. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984, aged nine****, the world's youngest grandmaster at that time.

1984 French farmers hijacked British lorries in a dispute against meat imports.

1993 British Airways was forced into an embarrassing climb-down in relation to a campaign of 'dirty tricks' it had launched against rival airline Virgin Atlantic. BA was forced to pay damages to both Virgin Atlantic and its boss Richard Branson.

2015 The Muslim Charities Forum, that was given a £250,000 taxpayer-funded contract to run a major faith project, was stripped of state funding after links were uncovered to a group alleged to fund Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood political movement.

Famous Birthday's

Alexander Hamilton
(1755 - 1804)

John A. Macdonald
(1815 - 1891)

Alice Paul
(1885 - 1977)

1930 Rod Taylor, Australian actor (The Birds, Time Machine), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)

Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader.
80th Birthday

Gérson
77th Birthday

Tony Kaye, rocker (Yes)
72nd Birthday

Bryan Robson
61st Birthday

Mary J. Blige
47th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Ambrose Bierce
(1842 - 1914)

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Edmund Hillary
(1919 - 2008)

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1928 Thomas Hardy, English novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) and poet, dies near Dorchester at 87

1978 Michael Bates, English actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies of Cancer at 57

2003 Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)

2009 David Vine, British sports broadcaster (b. 1936)

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Anita Ekberg
(1931 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1892 Painter Paul Gauguin marries Teha'amana, a 13-year-old Tahitian girl

1911 Actress Hattie McDaniel (16) weds pianist Howard Hickman (30)

1924 Novelist Hermann Hesse (36) weds singer Ruth Wenger

1941 Comedian Stan Laurel and actress Virginia Ruth Rogers remarry for the 2nd time

1976 NBA player Pete Maravich (27) weds college sweetheart Jackie Elliser in Metairie, Louisiana

Famous Divorces

1971 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK

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12 JANUARY

1899 Unable to launch their lifeboat at Lynmouth because of heavy storms, the crew, horses and helpers dragged their 10 ton lifeboat Louisa and carriage, in the dark, the 15 miles overland to Porlock Weir. The 11 hour journey across Exmoor included a haul over Countisbury Hill (gradient 25% : 1 in 4) followed by descending another 1 in 4 hill down into Porlock where the corner of a househad to be demolished to gain access. Their rescue of the 18 crew from Forrest Hall was successful. The journey was re-enacted in daylight on 12th January 1999.

1903 Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam

1950 The British submarine Truculent collided with a Swedish oil tanker Divina, in the Thames. The two vessels remained locked together for a few seconds before the submarine sank, resulting in the deaths of 64 people. An inquiry attributed 75% of the blame to Truculent and 25% to Divina. Truculent was sold and broken up for scrap in May 1950.

1959 Henry Cooper defeated Brian London on points over 15 rounds, becoming British and European heavyweight boxing champion. Cooper was the first to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award twice (in 1967 and 1970). He is the only British boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright and he was knighted in 2000.

1967 Louisville, Kentucky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali

1970 The Boeing 747 completed its first transatlantic flight, from New York to Heathrow. It is still often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. The 747 was the first 'wide-body' ever produced. It held the passenger capacity record of 660 (in single class layout) for 37 years until October 2007 when the Airbus A380 took to the skies, with a maximum passenger capacity of 850.

1971 Two bombs exploded at the home of Employment Secretary Robert Carr, in outer London. He was unhurt. The bombs had been planted by the Angry Brigade, protesting against a new controversial industrial relations bill that Mr. Carr was proposing.

1976 Crime writer Dame Agatha Christie died, leaving a final book waiting to be published. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books.

1978 The executors of Lady Churchill’s estate admitted that she had burnt Graham Sutherland’s portrait of Sir Winston 18 months after the House of Commons had presented it to him in 1954. Sir Winston ironically described it as ‘a remarkable example of modern art’.

1982 Mark Thatcher, son of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, went missing in the Sahara while taking part in the Paris-Dakar Rally. He was rescued two days later, and it turned out that he had lost his way. The incident provoked a tidal wave of jokes and cartoons making fun of his sense of direction.

1989 Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire

1995 Murder trial against O.J. Simpson, begins in LA

2001 Sven Goran Eriksson became the first foreign coach of the England football team. In 2006, he was recorded as saying that he would be willing to leave England to manage Aston Villa if England won the World Cup, after being duped into believing that a wealthy Arab would buy the club and wanted him as manager. The wealthy Arab was in fact a 'Fake Sheikh', an undercover News of the World reporter. On 4th May 2006 the FA announced that Steve McClaren, Eriksson's assistant, would take over after the World Cup.

Famous Birthday's

Hermann Goering
(1893 - 1946)

Tim Horton
(1930 - 1974)

1941 Long John Baldry, England, blues vocalist (Don't try to Lay No Boogie) (d. 2005)

Joe Frazier
(1944 - 2011)

1932 Des O'Connor, British television presenter
86th Birthday

1933 Michael Aspel, British talk show host
85th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Marguerite Bourgeoys
(1620 - 1700)

8019
Agatha Christie
(1890 - 1976)

8018
Maurice Gibb
(1949 - 2003)

Famous Weddings

1684 French King Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon

1901 Tennis champ Charlotte Cooper (30) weds solicitor Alfred Sterry

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1957 Aviator Howard Hughes marries 2nd wife actress Jean Peters

1963 Country singer Willie Nelson (29) weds singer Shirley Collie (31) in Las Vegas

1963 Actor and comedian Bob Newhart (33) weds Virginia "Ginnie" Quinn

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13 JANUARY

1832 The death of Thomas Lord, English professional cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground in 1787. He is buried in the churchyard of St. John's Church at West Meon in Hampshire.

1926 The birth of Michael Bond, English children’s writer and creator of ‘Paddington Bear’. Whilst working as a BBC television cameraman Bond had his first book published, 'A Bear Called Paddington'. It was the start of Bond's most famous series of books, telling the tales of a bear from 'Darkest Peru', whose Aunt Lucy sent him to England, carrying a jar of marmalade. He also wrote the children's books about the adventures of a guinea pig named Olga da Polga, as well as the animated BBC TV series The Herbs.

1958 In Scotland, the serial killer Peter Manuel was arrested after a series of attacks over a two year period that left nine people dead, although he is suspected of having killed as many as eigh****. Manuel was hanged in Barlinnie prison on 11th July 1958. He was one of the last prisoners to die on the Barlinnie gallows.

1964 Capital Records grudgingly released the first Beatles record, ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, in the US to, as they said 'see how it goes’. It became their fastest selling single ever. Within only three weeks, a million copies had been sold.

2004 Dr. Harold Shipman, who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients, was found hanged in his prison cell. To date Shipman is the only British doctor to have been proved guilty of murdering his patients, in addition to being one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history.

2016 Record Powerball lottery held in America - $1.6 billion, (3 winning tickets)

2017 The death (aged 86) of the photographer and film maker Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, commonly known as Lord Snowdon. He was married to Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, from 1960 - 1978.

Famous Birthday's

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1919 Robert Stack, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003)

8024
1931 Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)

John Lees, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), born in Oldham
70th Birthday

Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
62nd Birthday

Suggs [Graham McPherson], English singer-songwriter (Madness), born in Hastings, England
57th Birthday

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
57th Birthday

Patrick Dempsey
52nd Birthday

Orlando Bloom
41st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Stephen Foster
(1826 - 1864)

Wyatt Earp
(1848 - 1929)

James Joyce
(1882 - 1941)

2004 Harold Shipman, British general practitioner and prolific serial killer, commits suicide at 57

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2009 Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)

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2010 Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)

2017 Anthony Armstrong-Jones [Lord Snowdon], British photographer and ex-husband of Princess Margaret, dies at 86

Famous Weddings

1992 MLB baseball right fielder Sammy Sosa (23) weds Sonia Rodriguez

2006 "The Diary of Anne Frank" actress Shelley Winters (85) weds Gerry DeFord a few hours before her death

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14 JANUARY

1690 Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany

1904 The birth of Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion and portrait photographer, writer and theatrical designer. He was a photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, often photographed the Royal Family for official publications and was a major influence on the work of photographer David Bailey.

1937 The first Gallup Opinion Poll was conducted in Britain. It was the invention of the American George Horace Gallup who founded the Gallup Institute in 1935.

1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant

1966 David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"

1969 Football legend Sir Matt Busby announced that he would retire as manager of Manchester United at the end of the season. Formerly a Scottish football player and manager he was most noted for his time as managing Manchester United between 1945 and 1969. His manager records and longevity at the helm of Manchester United are only surpassed by Sir Alex Ferguson.

1974 World Football League founded

1975 A 17-year-old heiress, Lesley Whittle, was kidnapped from her home in Shropshire. Her body was found on 7th March, 1975, hanging from a wire at the bottom of a drain shaft in Bathpool Park, Staffordshire. Donald Neilson, also known as the Black Panther, was convicted of her murder (and three others) in July 1976.

1989 Muslims in Bradford ritually burned a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in the first serious protest in Britain. The book had been banned in some Muslim countries.

2002 After three months of no cases being reported, the United Kingdom was finally declared free from the 'Foot and Mouth' infection, after a crisis that started in 2001 in which millions of cows and sheep were destroyed.

2013 Music and DVD chain HMV appointed an administrator, making it the latest casualty on the High Street and putting 4,350 jobs at risk. Quote from retail analyst Neil Saunders - "In the digital era, where 73.4% of music and film are online .... there is no real future for physical retail in the music sector."

2014 Monkeys at Paignton Zoo in Devon were banned from eating bananas. Keepers said - "Giving monkeys bananas that have been cultivated for humans is like giving them cake and chocolate. Reducing the sugar in their diets has calmed them down and made their group more settled."

Famous Birthday's

Mark Antony
(83 BC - 30 BC)

Benedict Arnold
(1741 - 1801)

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1926 Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), born in London (d. 2015)

1934 Richard Briers, English actor, (d. 2013)

1937 Billie Jo Spears, country singer (d. 2011)

Faye Dunaway
77th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1236 English King Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence

1914 Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke

1930 Author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning in Los Angeles, California

1954 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio weds actress Marilyn Monroe (27) in her 2nd marraige at San Francisco City Hall

1958 Human rights activist Malcolm X marries fellow activist Betty Shabazz in Lansing, Michigan

Famous Divorces

1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas

2010 "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (73) divorces his fifth wife Victoria Duffy due to irreconcilable differences and out-of-control spending

Famous Deaths

Edmond Halley
(1656 - 1742)

1898 Lewis Carroll, English writer (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), dies at 65

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1957 Humphrey Bogart, American actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer of the esophagus at 57

1977 Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1955-57) and Foreign Secretary, dies of liver cancer at 79

1977 Peter Finch, actor (Network, The Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60

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1984 Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres, dies of heart failure at 81

2006 Shelley Winters, American actress (Lolita, A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Adventure), dies at 85

8038
Alan Rickman
(1946 - 2016)

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15 JANUARY

1759 The opening of the British Museum, at Montague House, London. Access often depended on who you were and who you knew. Permission had to be given by the librarian and only 10 people an hour were allowed in. Its permanent collection numbers some eight million works and is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence. It illustrates and documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present day.

1790 Fletcher Christian, eight fellow mutineers from the ship Bounty, six Tahitian men and 12 women, landed on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn following the mutiny led by Christian. They stripped the Bounty of all that could be floated ashore before setting it on fire.

1797 The first top hat was worn by John Hetherington, a London haberdasher. He was fined £50 the first time he wore his new creation, 'for causing a disturbance'.

1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

1867 Crowds flocked onto the frozen surface of the lake in London’s Regent's Park during a severe frost. The ice broke, and 40 people died.

1870 Britain's first woman doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, passed the final exam of the Medical Faculty of the Sorbonne and became a fully qualified MD. She had connections with Aldeburgh in Suffolk.

1880 The London Telephone Company published the first directory, listing 255 subscribers.

1927 BBC radio broadcast the first live commentary of a rugby match. Captain Teddy Wakelam narrated the match at Twickenham, between Wales and England. The following Saturday Wakelam provided the first football commentary from Highbury, where Arsenal was playing Sheffield United.

1934 While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.

1962 The centigrade, or Celsius, scale was used in the British Meteorological Office weather forecasts for the first time, more than 200 years after the death of the Swedish scientist who invented it.

1965 Rock group Who releases first album "I Can't Explain"

1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"

1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

1987 Police officer who mistakenly shot and paralysed an innocent woman in Brixton, UK, is cleared of all criminal charges

1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

2011 The death of Nathaniel (Nat) Lofthouse, OBE, English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career. He was capped 33 times for the England national football team between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals and having one of the greatest goals per game ratios of any player to represent England at the highest level.

2014 The death, aged 69, of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, who played Trigger in Only Fools And Horses. He appeared in dozens of TV shows and films, including Dr Who, The Vicar Of Dibley, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.

2015 The death of Ethel Lang, aged 114. At the time of her death she was the oldest person in Britain and the last living British person to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria. She lived to see six UK monarchs and 22 prime ministers.

2018 The construction giant, Carillion, went into liquidation. The company employed 43,000 people including almost 20,000 in the UK. Carillion also used thousands of smaller companies to help provide its services.

Famous Birthday's

8063
Joan of Arc
(1412 - 1431)

8062
1913 Lloyd Bridges, American comedic actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!), born in San Leandro, California (d. 1998)

8061
Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929 - 1968)

Charo
67th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1930 Businesswoman Estée Lauder (23) weds businessman Joseph Lauder

1953 Cricketer Richie Benaud (22) weds Marcia Lavender at the Wesley Church in Sydney, Australia

1955 Film director Stanley Kubrick (26) weds theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka (29)

2011 PGA golfer Hunter Mahan (28) weds former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Kandi Harris in Dallas, Texas

2013 "Gomer Pyle" actor Jim Nabors (82) weds retired performer Stan Cadwallader (64) at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle

Famous Deaths

Elizabeth Short
(1924 - 1947)

Meyer Lansky
(1902 - 1983)

Seán MacBride
(1904 - 1988)

8060
1990 Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66

1994 Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52

2011 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)

Dolores O'Riordan
(1971 - 2018)

chalky_ncfc

15-01-2018, 08:53 PM

1867... Why wasn't we taught stuff like this at school,40 people died when ice broke in Regents Park and I had never heard that before,I love this thread Altobelli :star:

alfinyalcabo

15-01-2018, 08:59 PM

Same here Alto,fantastic stuff..

Altobelli

15-01-2018, 09:01 PM

I have shortened them a wee bit Chalky/alf as it seems to be taking longer and longer every day to put it together, to give you a clue I'll post after this one list of famous folk who have died on this day, and that's just one web site.

Glad you are still enjoying it :)

Altobelli

15-01-2018, 09:04 PM

69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
570 Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
936 King Rudolph of France (923-936), dies at 45 or 46
1208 Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
1345 Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1684 Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
1765 Carlmann Kolb, German composer and priest, dies at 61
1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
1781 Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1783 William Alexander, Lord Stirling, American general (American Revolutionary War leader), dies at 57
1788 Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
1790 John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1812 Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
1815 Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1816 Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
1833 Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (Waxhaws Massacre), dies at 78
1844 Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
1864 Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1866 M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies

1876 Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, British Shakespearian actress (Juliet) and author, dies at 83
1896 Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
1909 Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1909 Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1911 Wilhelm Berger, German composer, pianist and conductor, dies at 49
1915 Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
1915 Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure and author dies aged 57
1916 Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, murdered by the Freikorps at 47
1922 John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 Geza Zichy, Hungarian composer and one-armed pianist, dies at 74
1926 Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
1932 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic gold 08, 12), dies at 58
1949 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, dies at 63
1950 Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)

1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
1955 Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
1962 Kenneth MacKenna, American actor and director (Judgment at Nuremberg, Those We Love), dies of cancer at 62
1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1967 Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
1967 David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during a game (Jan 13), dies
1968 John Davidson, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat), dies at 80
1968 Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1968 Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1969 Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
1971 John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1972 Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1973 Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1974 Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
1987 Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (The Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
1989 Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1992 Dee Murray, British bassist (Elton John's Band), dies of skin cancer at 45
1993 Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 Huub Jacobse [Hendrik Hubert Jacobse], Dutch politician (VVD), dies at 68
1993 Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
1993 Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 Les Baxter, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 Richard Cobb, British historian, dies at 78
1997 Jose Ignacio Domecq, Spanish wine maker, dies at 82
1997 Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
1998 Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist. temporary Prime Minster of India (1964, 1966), dies at 99
1998 Junior Wells, American blues musician, dies at 63
1999 Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (Citizen Kane, All My Children), dies of complications from pneumonia at 88
2006 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), dies at 91
2007 David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2008 Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
2011 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)
2012 Edward Derwinski, Chicago congressman 1959-83 and first Secretary of Veteran Affairs, dies of cancer at 85
2013 Chucho Castillo, Mexican bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), dies from a heart attack at 68
2013 Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director and screen writer, dies at 80
2015 Kim Fowley, US record producer (the Runaways), dies at 75
2016 Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams), dies of cancer at 73
2016 Noreen Corcoran, American actress (Bachelor Father), dies at 72

chalky_ncfc

15-01-2018, 10:26 PM

****ing hell,I see what you mean :O

If you feel that its becoming more of a chore and something that you feel that you have to do rather than doing it for pleasure then give it a rest for a while Altobelli, this forum should be something that you should enjoy B)

Altobelli

16-01-2018, 12:02 PM

16 JANUARY

1769 One of the worst riots in theatre history occurred at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Crowds had packed out the venue to see a conjuror who claimed he would get himself into a quart tavern bottle. The conjuror never arrived, and the crowd erupted.

1908 The first issue of the magazine Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship; the first book on the Scout Movement. It was written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell, its founder. It is reputedly the fourth best selling book of the 20th century, estimated at 100 to 150 million copies, in 87 languages.

1909 Ernest Shackleton’s British expedition reached the area of the South Magnetic Pole.

1924 The BBC broadcast Danger by Richard Hughes, the first play written for radio.

1930 Frank Whittle submitted his first patent for a jet engine ( British Patent No. 347,206 - granted in 1932). He had his first engine running by April 1937. Whittle was born at Earlsdon, a suburb of Coventry This statue of Sir Frank Whittle is outside Coventry's Transport Museum. and this replica of Britain's first jet propelled aircraft, the Gloster-Whittle E.28/39 stands on the Whittle Roundabout, at the junction of A426 and A4303 in .Lutterworth.

1945 Adolf Hitler moved into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. It was located beneath Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin and was the last of the Führer Headquarters to be used by Hitler. It became the epicentre of the Nazi regime and it was here during the last week of April 1945 that Hitler married Eva Braun shortly before they committed suicide.

1957 The Cavern Club opened in Liverpool. It provided a showcase for many young rock ‘n’ roll musicians, among them the Beatles.

1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No" the first James Bond film

1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"

1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession

1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth

1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK

1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis

2005 At 66 years old, Romanian university lecturer Adriana Illiescu becomes the oldest birth mother in the world

2015 Nursey and Son, who had been manufacturing sheepskin coats for 169 years, including sheepskin coats for David Jason ('Del Boy') in TV's Only Fools and Horses, closed its doors for the last time.

Famous Birthday's

8069
André Michelin
(1853 - 1931)

Fulgencio Batista
(1901 - 1973)

A. J. FoytA.
83rd Birthday

8068
John Carpenter, American film director (Halloween, The Thing), born in Carthage, New York
70th Birthday

Sade Adu
59th Birthday

Bobby Zamora
37th Birthday

Nicklas Bendtner
30th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1325 Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade

1864 White chapel murder victims Mary Ann Nichols (18) weds printer's machinist William Nichols

1865 Confederate Brigadier-General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary (US Civil War)

1921 Politician Elpidio Quirino (30) weds girlfriend Alicia Syquia

1954 Painter Marcel Duchamp (66) weds Alexina Duchamp (48) in New York City

Famous Deaths

Hiram R. Revels
(1817 - 1901)

8067
1935 Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)

George Dewey
(1837 - 1917)

1979 Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46

8066
1996 Harry Potts, footballer/manager, dies at 75

Altobelli

17-01-2018, 06:17 PM

17 JANUARY

1773 Captain Cook's ship and his crew, aboard 'Resolution', became the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. Cook also surveyed, mapped and took possession for Britain of South Georgia. He almost encountered the mainland of Antarctica, but turned back north towards Tahiti to resupply his ship, then resumed his southward course in a second fruitless attempt to find the continent.

1784 The birth, in Todmorden - West Yorkshire of John Fielden British industrialist and Radical Member of Parliament for Oldham. John Fielden despaired that the concerns of the poor would never be given adequate attention and he and Lord Ashley passed 'The Ten Hours Act' to ensure that women and children only worked up to 10 hours a day in factories.

1820 The birth, at this house in Thornton, West Yorkshire of the poet and novelist Anne Brontë. She was the youngest of six children of Patrick and Maria Brontë. The Brontës moved to Haworth, West Yorkshire on 20th April 1820. The Brontë Museum is in the former parsonage at Haworth. Anne wrote two novels. Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She died from pulmonary tuberculosis when she was just 29 years old.

8083
1863 The birth, in Chorlton-on-Medlock, near Manchester, of David Lloyd George, Welsh politician. In 1909 he introduced old-age pensions, followed in 1911 by health and unemployment insurance. In 1916 he became Prime Minister of a coalition government. After the First World War he was re-elected with a huge majority, and held office until 1922. The tiny village of Llanystumdwy was his childhood home. This building, in Llanystumdwy, is one of the very few museums in Britain which celebrates the life of a former Prime Minister.

1896 The Daimler Motor Company (Coventry) was registered as the first British car manufacturer.

1899 The birth of the author Nevil Shute. Before becoming famous as an author, he was part of the aeronautical engineering team that created the R100 airship. He worked at RNAS Howden, East Yorkshire, under Barnes Wallis and lived at this house on 78 Hailgate, Howden. A plaque is now fixed to the house to commemorate this.

1907 Alfred Wainwright, whose books for walkers did much to popularise the Lake District, was born, in Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1952, he began the task of walking every fell in Lakeland and recording his walks with pen and ink drawings. It took him 13 years to climb the 214 fells, travelling on foot or by public transport from his Kendal home, as he never learnt to drive. His ashes are scattered on Haystacks, Cumbria.

1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him by one month.

1945 The Nazis began the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces closed in. Nearly one and a half thousand British prisoners of war were sent to the Auschwitz death camps.

1968 The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed; from the merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd.

1986 The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britons and other foreign nationals from Aden during their civil war.

1994 Actress Elizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

2008 British Airways Flight 38 crash landed just short of London Heathrow Airport with no fatalities. It was the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777, the world's largest twin jet aircraft.

2014 Cambridge City Council said that apostrophes on new street signs would be abolished, a decision that was condemned by language traditionalists. The naming policy also banned street names which would be "difficult to pronounce or awkward to spell" and any that "could give offence" or would "encourage defacing of nameplates". After an intervention by cabinet minister Eric Pickles, local people in Cambridge started to edit street signs, adding apostrophes if they were necessary.

Famous Birthday's

1863 David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1916-22), born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Lancashire, England (d. 1945)

8082
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)

8081
Al Capone
(1899 - 1947)

1927 Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman), born in North, South Carolina (d. 2008)

1928 Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist/CEO (Vidal Sasson), born in London, England (d. 2012)

8080
Muhammad Ali
(1942 - 2016)

Mick Taylor, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
69th Birthday

Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
62nd Birthday

Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumb & Dumber, The Mask), born in Ontario Canada
56th Birthday

Famous Weddings

38 BC Roman Republican Leader Octavian, later Augustus 1st Roman Emperor, marries Livia Drusilla.

1827 Religious leader Joseph Smith Jr (21) weds church group movement leader Emma Smith (22) in South Bainbridge, New York

1926 Comedian George Burns marries comedienne Gracie Allen

1946 Actor John Wayne (38) weds actress Esperanza Baur in Long Beach, California

1955 Murderer Charles Manson (20) weds waitress Rosalie Jean Willis (17)

Famous Divorces

1990 NFL coach Jimmy Johnson (46) divorces Linda Kay Cooper after 26 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Rutherford B. Hayes
(1822 - 1893)

Juliette Gordon Low
(1860 - 1927)

Bobby Fischer
(1943 - 2008)

50 Years Ago Album & Single # 1s

NO CHANGE:

VAL DOONICAN ROCKS BUT GENTLY - VAL DOONICAN

HELLO GOODBYE - BEATLES

Altobelli

18-01-2018, 01:01 AM

18 JANUARY

1779 The birth of Peter Mark Roget, English doctor and lexicographer, who produced his Roget's Thesaurus in 1852 after 47 years’ work. It was originally called 'Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.'

1788 A British fleet of eleven ships and 800 convicts landed at Botany Bay, Australia. They created the first British penal colony, in Port Jackson - Sydney.

1879 The first edition of Boy’s Own Paper was published. The editor was S.O. Beeton, the husband of Mrs. Beeton, the cookery book writer.

1919 Bentley Motors Limited was founded by Walter Owen Bentley, but the manufacturer did not make a complete car for 27 years, only engines and chassis. Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I. He also designed and made production cars that won the Le Mans 24 hours in the 1920s. Bentley was purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1931, which itself was purchased by the Volkswagen Group of Germany in 1998, although the business is still based in Crewe.

1934 The first arrest was made in Britain as a result of issuing pocket radios to police. A Brighton shoplifter was arrested just 15 minutes after stealing three coats.

1944 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

1958 Bunty was launched by publishers D.C. Thompson. It was the first comic aimed at a young female readership.

1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV

1976 British Labour MPs Jim Sillars and John Robertson launched the Scottish Labour Party (SLP) to campaign for greater devolution for Scotland.

1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pakistan at Karachi

1980 Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" hits #1

2005 The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France

2014 UKIP councillor David Silvester blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

2014 Lewis Clarke, a 16-year-old boy from Bristol set a new record by becoming the youngest person to trek to the South Pole. He spent 48 days at temperatures as low as -50C (-58F) and winds of up to 120 mph (193 kmh), covering a distance of 702 miles.

Famous Birthday's

Daniel Williams
(1858 - 1931)

8097
A. A. Milne
(1882 - 1956)

8096
1892 Oliver Hardy, American comic actor (Laurel & Hardy), born in Harlem, Georgia (d. 1957)

1904 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest), born in Horfield, Bristol, England (d. 1986)

1913 Danny Kaye, American comedian and actor (Danny Kaye Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)

1941 David Ruffin, Whynot Mississippi, early lead singer for The Temptations ("My Girl") (d. 1991)

David Bellamy
84th Birthday

Bob Latchford
66th Birthday

Kevin Costner
63rd Birthday

Peter Beardsley
57th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV

1893 British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London

1949 South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer

1974 Author Maya Angelou (45) weds Paul Bernard Du Feu

1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey

Famous Divorces

1996 Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

Famous Deaths

John Tyler
(1790 - 1862)

8095
Rudyard Kipling
(1865 - 1936)

8094
1954 Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (Casablanca, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74

1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76

2009 Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)

Acido

18-01-2018, 05:49 PM

Really interesting thread this Alto, I cant understand why Ive never noticed it on here before. I must pay more attention!. :O

Altobelli

18-01-2018, 06:05 PM

Thanks Acido, Much appreciated :)

1959_60

18-01-2018, 06:41 PM

January 18th 2004.

FA Cup 3rd Round

Burnley 1 Liverpool 0.

Thank you DjimiXD

Altobelli

19-01-2018, 04:33 PM

Nice Find 59_60 :)

Altobelli

19-01-2018, 05:39 PM

19 JANUARY

1736 The birth, in Greenock, of James Watt, the Scottish inventor who developed Newcomen's steam engine and gave his name to a unit of power. On 29th May 2009 the Bank of England announced that Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton would appear on a new £50 note.

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupied Stirling.

1813 Sir Henry Bessemer, who gave his name to a process for converting cast iron into steel, was born, in Charlton - Hertfordshire.

1848 The birth of Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel - (25th August 1875, in a time of 21 hours & 45 minutes). This memorial to him is erected in Dawley - Telford, close to his birthplace, now demolished)

1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England

1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced

1915 More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.

1917 The Silvertown explosion in West Ham. 73 people were killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant . The plant was destroyed instantly, as were many nearby buildings, including the Silvertown Fire Station and a gasometer.

1923 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of Britain's $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years

1937 The first play written for British television, The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas, was broadcast by the BBC.

1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market

1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide

1988 Christopher Nolan, a 22-year-old Irish writer, won the £20,000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his autobiography, Under the Eye of the Clock. Completely paralysed, Nolan used a ‘unicorn’ attachment on his forehead to write the novel at a painfully slow speed.

1990 Police in Johannesburg, armed with batons and dogs, broke up a demonstration against English cricketers who had defied a ban on playing in segregated South Africa.

2004 Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he would survive his toughest week as he faced the university top-up fees vote and the Hutton enquiry into the death of David Kelly, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and ........ he was right!

2013 Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories

2014 The death of former British athlete Sir Chris Chataway, at the age of 82. Chataway, who broke the 5,000m world record in 1954, is also remembered as the man who helped pace Sir Roger Bannister to break the four-minute mile barrier in the same year. Chataway was named the first-ever BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1954.

2015 The death of Anne Kirkbride, known for her long-running role as Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap Coronation Street, which she played for 42 years from 1972 to 2014. In January 2014 the soap left its long established Quay Street site in Manchester city centre and moved to this purpose built set at MediaCityUK

Famous Birthday's

8116
Robert E. Lee
(1807 - 1870)

8113
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809 - 1849)

1878 Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)

1938 Phil Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie) (d. 2014)

8114
Janis Joplin
(1943 - 1970)

Michael Crawford
76th Birthday

Dolly Parton
72nd Birthday

Rod Evans, rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band)
70th Birthday

Dennis Taylor
69th Birthday

Jenson Button
38th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1872 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

1884 Painter Thomas Eakins (39) weds painter and photographer Susan Macdowell (32) in a Quaker ceremony

1957 Golfer Gary Player (21) weds Bobby Verwey's sister Vivienne Verwey

2012 Indian bollywood actress Deepshikha Nagpal (34) weds Indian actor Kaishav Arora in Mumbai

2013 "Big Brother" Daniele Donato (26) weds Dominic Briones at the Newland House Museum in Huntington Beach, California

Famous Divorces

1977 Director Martin Scorsese (34) divorces Julia Cameron (28) after 1 year of marriage

Famous Deaths

Hedy Lamarr
(1914 - 2000)

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Wilson Pickett
(1941 - 2006)

Stan Musial
(1920 - 2013)

2004 David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)

2014 Bert Williams, English footballer (Wolverhampton, 30 caps), dies at 93

2015 Anne Kirkbride, English Actress (Deirdre in Coronation Street), dies of breast cancer at 60

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20 JANUARY

1783 Great Britain signed a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).

1850 The opening of the Penny Savings Bank, to encourage thrift amongst the poor.

1936 George V died and was succeeded by Edward VIII who abdicated 325 days later because of his insistence on marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1983 American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car trunk after disappearing a few days earlier

1986 Mrs. Pauline Williams of Luton won her three year fight to prosecute the man who injected her drug addict son with a fatal painkiller. She was the first person to bring a private prosecution for manslaughter to a Crown Court trial.

1986 France and Britain finally decided to undertake the Channel Tunnel project, promising that trains would run under the Channel by 1993. When it eventually opened, on 6th May 1994, it left Eurotunnel with debts of £925m a year later.

1987 The Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy to Lebanon, Terry Waite, was kidnapped in Beirut whilst attempting to win freedom for Western hostages.

1991 The death of Alfred Wainwright, whose books for walkers did much to popularise the Lake District. His ashes are scattered on Haystacks, Cumbria and there is a memorial plaque in nearby Buttermere Church. Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk, starts here at St. Bees in Cumbria and ends here at Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire

1997 Her Majesty's Royal Yacht Britannia began her final voyage, to Hong Kong, before being decommissioned. She is now based in Edinburgh, as a visitor attraction.

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president

2014 Dr. Michael Ramscar and a team of scientists suggested that the brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive. “The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”

2015 A six-day-old baby became Britain's youngest organ donor when her kidneys were transplanted into a patient with renal failure, and liver cells were transfused into a second recipient.

2017 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President

Famous Birthday's

Joy Adamson
(1910 - 1980)

Patricia Neal
(1926 - 2010)

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Buzz Aldrin
88th Birthday

Gary Barlow
47th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1382 King Richard II of England marries Anne of Bohemia and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor at Westminster Abbey. Anne died of plague in 1394.

1800 Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples

1968 Actress Sharon Tate (24) weds actor/director Roman Polanski (34) in Chelsea, London

2001 "Fast Lane" actor Peter Facinelli (27) weds actress and director Jennie Garth (28) at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Montecito, California

Famous Deaths

1900 John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81

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George V
(1865 - 1936)

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1990 Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82

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Audrey Hepburn
(1929 - 1993)

1994 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United), dies at 84

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21 JANUARY

1807 Streets in London were first illuminated by gaslight when Pall Mall was lit up.

1846 The publication of the first edition of the Daily News, edited by Charles Dickens. It merged with the Daily Chronicle to form the News Chronicle in 1930, and was ultimately absorbed by the Daily Mail in 1960.

1903 Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam

1908 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public

1919 The birth, in Leith, of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew more types of aircraft than anyone else in history. He is also the Fleet Air Arm’s most decorated pilot and holds the world record for aircraft carrier landings - around 1,500 deck landings on 22 different aircraft carriers.

1925 The birth of the comedian Benny Hill, in Southampton, Hampshire. One of his biggest fans was the silent film star, Charlie Chaplin.

1941 The British communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, was suppressed in wartime London.

1944 447 German bombers attack London

1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg

1950 The British writer George Orwell died after a three year battle against tuberculosis. His books included 1984 and Animal Farm. They were controversial and 1984, like Animal Farm, was widely viewed as an attack on the Communist system.

1966 The Monte Carlo rally ended in uproar over the disqualification of the British cars expected to fill the first four places. They were all ruled out of the prizes, along with six other British cars, for alleged infringements of regulations about the way their headlights dipped.

1966 'Beatle', George Harrison, married Patti Boyd who he met in the film 'A Hard Day's Night'.

1976 The first Concorde jets carrying commercial passengers simultaneously took off, at 11:40 a.m. from Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris. The London flight was to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris flight was to Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 3 hours was knocked off the normal flying time to Bahrain by the British Concorde but the Air France Concorde arrived 38 minutes late.

1987 B.B. King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi

1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane when she cut off her husband's *****

1997 More than 80 people were named as child abusers in statements to a North Wales inquiry into claims of abuse of children in care in Clwyd and Gwynedd over20 years.

2008 Black Monday on the world's stock markets saw the FTSE 100 have its biggest ever one-day fall. European stocks closed with their worst result since 11th September 2001, and Asian stocks dropped as much as 14%.

2008 The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies

2014 Pub chain JD Wetherspoon opened a new £1m pub, at junction 2 of the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in spite of fierce criticism from road safety and alcohol campaigners. The Hope and Champion became Britain's first pub ever to be opened at a motorway service area.

2017 More than 2 million people protest worldwide in the 'Women's March' against Donald Trump, with 500,000 marching in Washington D.C.

Famous Birthday's

Stonewall Jackson
(1824 - 1863)

Christian Dior
(1905 - 1957)

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1922 Telly Savalas, American actor (Kojak), born in Garden City New Jersey, (d. 1994)

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1924 Benny Hill [Alfred Hawthorn Hill], British comedian (The Benny Hill Show), born in Southampton, Hampshire, England (d. 1992)

Jack Nicklaus
78th Birthday

Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
67th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd

1973 Actress Jane Fonda weds activist Tom Hayden

1975 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (57) weds toy inventor Jack Ryan (48) (div. 1976)

1989 "Falcon Crest" actor Lorenzo Lamas (31) weds actress Kathleen Kinmont (23) at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

2015 "One Tree Hill" star Chad Michael Murray (33) weds actress Sarah Roemer (30)

Famous Divorces

2011 Actress Jaime Pressly (35) divorces entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 1 year of marriage

Famous Deaths

Louis XVI
(1754 - 1793)

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Vladimir Lenin
(1870 - 1924)

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George Orwell
(1903 - 1950)

1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah), dies of heart failure at 77

1984 Jackie Wilson, American soul singer-songwriter and performer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49

1997 Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87

1998 Jack Lord, American actor (Hawaii FIVE-O), dies at 77

2008 Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)

2013 Michael Winner, English film director and producer (Death Wish), dies at 77

2015 Pauline Yates, English actress (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies at 85

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22 JANUARY

1788 The birth, in London, of the poet George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron.

1879 The Zulus massacred British troops at Isandlwana, the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War. Later, at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, two British officers and 150 British and colonial troops defended their garrison from the attacks of between 3,000 and 4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours. The battle was immortalized in the 1964 film Zulu, starring Michael Caine. In 1923 the Havard Chapel at Brecon Cathedral became a War Memorial to the South Wales Borderers (the 24th Regiment of Foot) as they served with such distinction and the regiment's colours have been preserved for posterity in purpose built Perspex cases.

1901 Queen Victoria died, aged 81, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. At the time, her reign was the longest in British history, spanned 63 years and saw the growth of 'an empire on which the sun never set'. St. Mildred's Church at Whippingham had connections with Queen Victoria, as it was the centre of a royal estate supporting Osborne House and Barton Manor.

1920 The birth of Sir Alf Ramsey, football manager of England when they won the 1966 World Cup. He was knighted in 1967 in recognition of England's World Cup win the previous year.

1924 Stanley Baldwin resigned as British Prime Minister at the end of an unsuccessful election and the new Labour Party had their first Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

1927 The first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United, at Highbury.

1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops captured Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.

1955 Joe Davis recorded the first official maximum snooker break of 147 in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall

1959 Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion died, aged 29, in a road accident on the A3 bypass near Guildford driving his British Racing Green Jaguar 3.4-litre car. What happened on that day is still unknown.

1962 The ‘A6 Murder’ trial began, the longest murder trial in British legal history. James Hanratty was accused of murdering Michael Gregston at a lay-by near Bedford. The trial finally ended on 17th February 1962 with Hanratty sentenced to hang, despite his protests of innocence and disquiet amongst some observers of the trial.

1972 The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic and Denmark joined the Common Market.

2015 Survival expert Ray Mears, who was due to make at least £10,000 as a speaker at the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show was sacked after he chose caravans as one of his pet hates on the TV show 'Room 101'.

Famous Birthday's

William Kidd
(1645 - 1701)

1788 Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron], English romantic poet (Don Juan), born in London (d. 1824)

1869 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, born in Pokrovskoye, Sibera, Russian Empire (d. 1916)

1907 Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)

1931 Sam Cooke, soul singer (You Send Me), born in Clarksdale Mississippi (d. 1964)

Bill BixbyBill Bixby
(1934 - 1993)

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1940 John Hurt, English actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express), born in Chesterfield (d. 2017)

1960 Michael Hutchence, Australian rock vocalist/actor (INXS, Dogs in Space), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1997)

Famous Weddings

1942 Novelist Anthony Burgess (25) weds Llewela Jones

1960 Comedic actor Bob Denver (25) weds Maggie Ryan in California

1985 Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides

2005 Businessman and "The Apprentice" host Donald Trump (58) weds former model melania knauss (34) at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida

2006 Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley (37) weds American guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood (44) at Kyoto, Japan

Famous Deaths

Victoria
(1819 - 1901)

Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908 - 1973)

1994 Telly Savalas, American actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 72

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1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104

Heath Ledger
(1979 - 2008)

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2010 Jean Simmons, English actress (b. 1929)

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Jimmy Armfield
(1935 - 2018)

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23 JANUARY

1571 Queen Elizabeth I opened the Royal Exchange, London, as a bankers’ meeting house. It was founded by the financier Sir Thomas Gresham .

1713 The signing of the Treaty of Utrecht redrew the map of Europe. The treaty signalled the end of the long and bloody War of Spanish Succession. As part of the agreement Gibraltar and Minorca become British.

1806 Death of William Pitt ‘The Younger’ at the age of 46. He was Britain's youngest Prime Minister (aged 24) and served twice, from 19th December 1783 to 14th March 1801 and again from 10th May 1804 until his death 'on this day'.

1875 The death of Charles Kingsley, the English clergyman who wrote The Water Babies.

1900 Second Boer War: The defeat of the British at the Battle of Spion Kop, 24 miles west-south-west of Ladysmith on a steep terraced hilltop. Many football grounds in the English Premier League and Football League, have one terrace or stand 'Spion Kop' or 'Kop' because of the steep nature of their terracing.

1901 Marconi carried out his first radio transmission experiments, receiving a Morse code signal across the water from St. Catherine’s on the Isle of Wight to the Lizard in Cornwall. Lizard Point is the most southerly point of the British mainland.

1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, Africa Korp vs British 8th army

1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli

1955 Four**** people died and dozens were injured when an express train travelling from York to Bristol derailed at Sutton Coldfield station.

1963 At 7.30 pm in Beirut, the American Eleanor Philby was waiting for her husband Kim, a Middle East correspondent for two London journals, to collect her. Instead, he was on his way to Moscow - ‘the most damaging double agent in British history’.

1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"

1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

1985 PC George Hammond was viciously stabbed while on the beat in London, and it took 120 pints of blood to save his life. He never fully recovered, and two years later he committed suicide.

1989 Legislation came into force which permitted garages to display fuel prices by litre only, not by the gallon.

2015 The owner of the mobile network 'Three' confirmed that it was in exclusive negotiations to acquire O2 UK from Spanish telco Telefonica for £10.25bn. It would have made the combined Three and O2 operator the biggest in the UK, with a 41% share of the market but the deal was blocked in May 2016 by the European Commission.

2017 Most expensive house in the US worth $250 million goes on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles

Famous Birthday's

John Hancock
(1737 - 1793)

Edouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)

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1919 Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool (d. 1996)

Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
73rd Birthday

Anita Pointer, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy), born in Oakland, California
69th Birthday

1954 Rick Finch, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
63rd Birthday

Mariska Hargitay
54th Birthday

Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
34th Birthday

Steven Taylor, English footballer
32nd Birthday

Famous Weddings

1906 Composer Igor Stravinsky (23) weds Yekaterina Nosenko

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1976 Actor Sidney Poitier (48) weds actress Joanna Shimkus

1999 Princess of Monaco Caroline (42) weds dynastic head of the House of Hanover and Britain's King George I descendant Prince Ernst August (45) in Monaco

Famous Deaths

1803 Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)

William Pitt the Younger
(1759 - 1806)

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Edvard Munch
(1863 - 1944)

1973 Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)

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Salvador Dali
(1904 - 1989)

2005 Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)

2017 Gorden Kaye, British actor (Allo Allo), dies at 75

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24 JANUARY

1899 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan

1901 The birth of Edward Turner, English motorcycle designer. He sold his 4 cylinder engine to Aerial motorcycles when BSA rejected it. And thus it became the legendary 'Ariel Square Four'.

1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.

1915 The First World War sea battle of Dogger Bank ended with a British victory when the superior speed and gunnery of the British fleet sank the German armoured cruiser Blucher. If it had not been for a British signalling mixup that enabled the German fleet to flee safely to port, German losses would have been considerably higher.

1927 Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film as director - The Pleasure Garden, in England

1928 The birth of Desmond Morris, British anthropologist. He first came to the public's attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme Zoo Time, but he achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape.

1930 The birth, in Norfolk, of Bernard Matthews, the poultry industry figure. He won a scholarship to the City of Norwich School, but found it difficult to settle, regularly failed his exams and left school with no qualifications. Nevertheless, when he died, aged 80, in November 2010 he had amassed a fortune estimated at over £300m and a motor yacht, a Cessna private jet and a Rolls-Royce motor car.

1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.

1942 World War II: The Allies bombarded Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and the United Kingdom.

1965 Death of Sir Winston Churchill, aged 90, world famous soldier, politician, historian and Prime Minister of Britain. He was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of the battle of Dogger Bank (see above). He had correctly predicted that he would die on the same date as his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, who had died exactly 70 years previously. The graves of Winston Churchill and his father are in St Martin's Churchyard at Bladon, Oxfordshire

1969 Students protesting at the installation of steel security gates at the London School of Economics went on the rampage, with crowbars, pickaxes and sledgehammers.

1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. He was among the last three Japanese hold-outs to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945, almost 28 years after the island had been liberated by allied forces in 1944.

1976 Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, was dubbed 'The Iron Lady' in the Soviet newspaper 'Red Star' after her speech on the threat of Communism.

1986 The beginning of the end for London's Fleet Street, home to most of Britain's national newspapers, when staff of the 'Sun' and 'News of the World' were told that they were moving to new premises at Wapping, in London's Docklands.

2014 Somerset County Council and Sedgemoor DC declared a major incident throughout much of the Somerset Levels. The village of Muchelney was cut off by flood water from the River Parrett for almost 10 weeks.

2015 A racehorse named Sir Winston Churchill netted a win, on the 50th anniversary of the wartime leader's death, in the 3:25pm race at Uttoxeter racecourse.

Famous Birthday's

Hadrian
(76 - 138)

Frederick the Great
(1712 - 1786)

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1917 Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale's Navy, Marty), (d. 2012), born in Hamden, Connecticut (d. 2012)

1930 Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire (d. 2010)

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Sharon Tate
(1943 - 1969)

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Desmond Morris, English zoologist (Human Ape, Body Language)
90th Birthday

Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter, born in Brooklyn, New York
77th Birthday

Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
61st Birthday

Jools Holland, British musician and TV presenter, born in Blackheath, London
60th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen (Hainault)

1884 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass marries his second wife suffragist Helen Pitts

1978 Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

1981 Singer Davy Jones (35) weds Anita Pollinger

2004 "Married ... With Children" actor David Faustino (33) weds actress Andrea Elmer (31) at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Famous Deaths

Caligula
(12 - 41)

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Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

Ted Bundy
(1946 - 1989)

50 YEARS AGO SINGLE AND ALBUM # 1's

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25 JANUARY

1759 The birth in this cottage at Alloway of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet. He lived at this house in Dumfries from 1793 until his death. His birthday is celebrated as ‘Burns Night’ by Scotsmen all over the world. Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung on New Year's Eve, or Hogmanay, as it's known in Scotland.

1874 The birth of William Somerset Maugham, English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

1899 The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company began manufacture of the first radio sets, at Chelmsford.

1911 The Daily Herald was launched. It was the first newspaper to sell two million copies.

1919 The founding of The League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

1972 The world's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant was carried out in London

1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported

1981 ‘The Gang of Four’ (Roy Jenkins, Dr. David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers) split from the British Labour party to form the Social Democrats.

1989 Actor John Cleese won damages for libel at the High Court over an article in the Daily Mirror, which claimed he had become like Basil Fawlty in his comedy series Fawlty Towers

1990 The so called Burns' Day Storm occurred on this day over north-western Europe, and was one of the strongest storms on record. It started on the birthday of poet Robert Burns, lasted for two days, caused widespread damage and was responsible for 97 deaths.

2003 During the Iraq invasion, a group of people left London for Baghdad, to serve as human shields and thus prevent the U.S. led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.

2013 Thorpe Park ordered experts to redesign its £20m new rollercoaster 'The Swarm', due to open on 15th March, after dummies lost limbs during dry run tests.

2014 Six**** schoolgirls made history by ending a tradition of male-only choral singing at Canterbury Cathedral stretching back more than a thousand years. The girls' choir had their first public performance 'On This Day', at evensong. "The girls will initially only be singing at services when boy choristers, boarders at St Edmund's school, take their twice-termly breaks. There are no women in the cathedral's adult choir."

Famous Birthday's

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1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), born in Alloway, Scotland (d. 1796)

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Virginia Woolf
(1882 - 1941)

Corazon Aquino
(1933 - 2009)

Alicia Keys
37th Birthday

Famous Weddings

1533 England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, his 2nd wife

1871 US President William McKinley (27) weds Ida Saxton (23) at the First Presbyterian Church in Canton

1964 Comedian and actor Bill Cosby marries Camille Olivia Hanks

1964 MLB outfielder Pete Rose (22) weds first wife Karolyn Englehardt

1981 Actor Bill Murray (30) weds Margaret Kelly on Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas

Famous Deaths

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Al Capone
(1899 - 1947)

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Ava Gardner
(1922 - 1990)

Mary Tyler Moore
(1936 - 2017)

2017 John Hurt, English actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express), dies at 77