On This Day

[outwoodclaret]

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]

The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was followed by a tsunami and firestorm.

That must have been a proper **** weekend tbf

[Altobelli]

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]

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)



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)


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]

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]

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]

More on Robert Catesby below Chalky.




http://www.elizabethfiles.com/robert-catesby/4468/

[Altobelli]

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

Me also.

[chalky_ncfc]

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

[alfinyalcabo]

Yep....Religion has a lot to answer for..