On This Day

[Altobelli]

Where exactly is it Afloatinclaret ?

[afloatinclaret]

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]

Thanks Afloatinclaret

[chalky_ncfc]

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

[Altobelli]

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

Give us a clue Chalky.

[Altobelli]

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]

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]

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]

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 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