On This Day

[Altobelli]

Exactly Chalky,so much so I'm now an atheist..

Me also.

[Altobelli]

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

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This was mine on a trip to Michigan in the 60's

[chalky_ncfc]

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]

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 Cullinan I is now mounted in the head of the Royal Sceptre which was originally made for the coronation of King Charles II in 1661, but was redesigned after the discovery of the Cullinan Diamond.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. Eighteen 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



Neville Chamberlain
(1869 - 1940)



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

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12 NOVEMBER

764 Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, capital of Chinese Tang Dynasty, occupy for fifteen 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.

Famous Birthday's



Auguste Rodin
(1840 - 1917)

Sun Yat-sen
(1866 - 1925)

Bukka [Booker T. Washington] White
(1909 - 1977)

Grace Kelly
(1929 - 1982)

Errol Brown
1943 - 2015)



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)



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]

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

[Altobelli]

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]

Due to over fishing that size fish are gone forever

[Altobelli]

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).

Famous Birthday's

Henry IV
(1050 - 1106)

Paracelsus
(1493 - 1541)



Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821 - 1881)

George S. Patton
(1885 - 1945)



Raemer Schreiber
(1910 - 1998)

Leonardo DiCaprio
43rd Birthday

June Whitfield
92nd Birthday

Demi Moore
55th Birthday

Famous Deaths



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