On This Day

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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

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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 thirteen 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