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**Alikado** · 14/10/2019 09:02 AM

The Start of Sukkot

World Standards Day

1066 Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence

1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners

1926 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" published

1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed at Scapa Flow.

1944 – World War II: Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.

1964 Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

1964 Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the women's long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

Born Today ;-

1633 – James II of England

1873 Jules Rimet

1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower

1882 Éamon de Valera

1927 – Roger Moore

1939 Ralph Lauren

1940 – Cliff Richard

1940 Christopher Timothy

1945 – Lesley Joseph

1960 Steve Cram

1965 – Steve Coogan

Died Today [-

1066 – Harold Godwinson, King Harold II

1066 – Leofwine Godwinson, brother of Harold II

1066 – Gyrth Godwinson brother of Harold II

1944 – Erwin Rommel

1959 – Errol Flynn

1977 Bing Crosby

1990 – Leonard Bernstein

1997 – Harold Robbins

2010 – Simon MacCorkindale

2016 Jean Alexander

**Chris R** · 14/10/2019 09:05 AM

I read this thread every day, so very interesting, keep it going.

**Alikado** · 14/10/2019 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by Chris R

I read this thread every day, so very interesting, keep it going.

Ta, just wish there was a tool to 'exclude everything American' because today is also;-
Be Bald and Be Free Day
Columbus Day
Indigenous Peoples' Day
National Chocolate-Covered Insect Day
National Dessert Day
National FRUMP Day
National Kick-Butt Day
national lowercase day
National Online Banking Day
Native American Day
and is the birthday of hundreds unknown Baseball, American Footballers and Golfers.

**Chris R** · 14/10/2019 09:21 AM

Please continue the thread, wonder how many others read it?

**Alikado** · 15/10/2019 08:55 AM

Global Handwashing Day

Global Wave Of Light

International Day of Rural Women

1066 – Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent

1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile

1866 Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses

1913 Train crash in Liverpool,St James Station, 5 dead over 60 injured

1940 Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed

1940 London's Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe

1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe

1941 Hideki Tojo appointed Prime Minister of Imperial Japan

1956 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

1987 Hurricane on the Way? Don't Worry says Michael Fish
The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.

1993 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Born Today ;-

70 BC Virgil

1880 - Marie C. C. Stopes

1881 – P. G. Wodehouse

1948 – Chris de Burgh

1951 – Roscoe Tanner

1969 – Dominic West

1989 – Anthony Joshua

Died Today [-

1917 Mata Hari

1945 – Pierre Laval, The former premier of Vichy France, is executed for treason.

1946 Hermann Goering

1964 Cole Porter

**Alikado** · 16/10/2019 08:43 AM

Global Cat Day

Global Dignity Day

World Food Day

World Spine Day

World Anaesthesia Day

1813 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia

1834 Much of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down

1846 – William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.

1847 Charlotte Brontë's book "Jane Eyre" published

1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party

1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded

1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz

1953 Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years

1964 Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election

1968 Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200m medal podium

1984 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1995 – The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.

Born Today ;-

1430 – James II of Scotland

1854 Oscar Wilde

1886 – David Ben-Gurion

1922 – Max Bygraves

1923 – Bill McLaren

1925 Angela Lansbury

1967 – Davina McCall

Died Today ;-

1793 Marie Antoinette

1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:

Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900)
Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)
Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893)
Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician (b. 1887)
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893)1956 Jules Rimet

1956 Jules Rimet

1983 George Liberace

**Alikado** · 17/10/2019 08:50 AM

World Trauma Day

International Credit Union Day

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

International ShakeOut Day

1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.

1651 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees from England

1660 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.

1662 Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds)

1814 A Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.

1860 1st British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins inaugural event by 2 strokes from fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr

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

1917 1st British bombing of Germany

1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany

1943 Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian labourers

1945 Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.

1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens at Calder Hall, Sellafield

1972 Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1

1972 The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast

1975 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"

1979 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1989 An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.

2000 Train crash at Hatfield, leads to collapse of Railtrack, 4 died.

Born today ;-

1918 – Rita Hayworth

1925 – Harry Carpenter

1938 – Evel Knievel

1940 – Peter Stringfellow

1972 Eminem

1978 – Chuka Umunna

1974 Matthew Macfaden

Died today ;-

1849 Frederic Chopin

1998 – Joan Hickson

2015 – Howard Kendall

**Chris R** · 17/10/2019 11:17 AM

1979 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize

She well deserved it

**Alikado** · 18/10/2019 09:01 AM

Anti Slavery Day

Epilepsy Action National Tea and Cake Break

Wear it Pink 2019

World Menopause Day

World Student Day

1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million

1878 Edison makes electricity available for household use

1922 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation

1963 Lord Home becomes Conservative Party Leader & PM

2016 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attemps to influence US election

Born Today ;-

1919 – Pierre Trudeau

1926 – Chuck Berry

1927 George C. Scott

1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald

1956 – Martina Navratilova

1974 – Robbie Savage

1978 – Mike Tindall

Died Today ;-

1541 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland

1871 Charles Babbage

1931 Thomas Edison

**Alikado** · 19/10/2019 11:03 AM

International Gin and Tonic Day

International Independent Video Store Day

International Repair Day

World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day

1216 King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry

1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown ; US Revolutionary War ends

1812 Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow

1901 Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March" premieres in Liverpool

1914 – First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins

1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers

1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

1987 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points
In London the value of quoted shares fell by £50bn as the FT 30-share index dived 183.7 points to 1629.2.
The FTSE index also crashed more than 300 points with a loss of £63bn.

Born Today ;-

1909 Robert Beatty

1931 John le Carré,

1940 – Michael Gambon

1954 – Sam Allardyce

1968 Sinitta

Died today ;-

1216 – John, King of England

1745 Jonathan Swift

1987 – Jacqueline du Pré

1992 – Magnus Pyke

2014 Lynda Bellingham

**Alikado** · 20/10/2019 09:33 AM

International Chefs Day

International Sloth Day

The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller

World Osteoporosis Day

World Toy Camera Day

World Statistics Day

1714 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as Britain's King George I

1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th paralle

1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times

1910 The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched

1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) 12/10/2019 Eliud Kipchoge sets new record (1:59:40)

1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid

1935 Anti-fascist People's Front forms in Brussels

1955 Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien

1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy

1964 Ann Packer of Great Britain runs a world record 2:01.1 to win the women's 800m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

1982 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death

2011 – Libyan Civil War: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte

Born Today ;-

1632 - Sir Christopher Wren

1882 – Bela Lugosi

1904 – Anna Neagle

1940 – Kathy Kirby

1961 – Ian Rush

Died today ;-

1842 Grace Darling

1964 Herbert Hoover

1968 – Bud Flanagan

1970 Patrick Wymark

1989 – Anthony Quayle (Southport born)

1994 – Burt Lancaster

2011 – Muammar Gaddafi
2011 – Mutassim Gaddafi (son)

2015 – Michael Meacher

October 20 Prince of Wales Gallops Out of Horseracing After Scandal

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/p...0aa9-113104501

**grassroots** · 20/10/2019 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Alikado

International Chefs Day

International Sloth Day

The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller

World Osteoporosis Day

World Toy Camera Day

World Statistics Day

1714 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as Britain's King George I

1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th paralle

1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times

1910 The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched

1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) 12/10/2019 Eliud Kipchoge sets new record (1:59:40)

1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid

1935 Anti-fascist People's Front forms in Brussels

1955 Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien

1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy

1964 Ann Packer of Great Britain runs a world record 2:01.1 to win the women's 800m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

1982 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death

2011 – Libyan Civil War: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte

Born Today ;-

1632 - Sir Christopher Wren

1882 – Bela Lugosi

1904 – Anna Neagle

1940 – Kathy Kirby

1961 – Ian Rush

Died today ;-

1842 Grace Darling

1964 Herbert Hoover

1968 – Bud Flanagan

1970 Patrick Wymark

1989 – Anthony Quayle (Southport born)

1994 – Burt Lancaster

2011 – Muammar Gaddafi
2011 – Mutassim Gaddafi (son)

2015 – Michael Meacher

October 20 Prince of Wales Gallops Out of Horseracing After Scandal

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/p...0aa9-113104501

This is by far the most informative post we have ever had , Brilliant. Keep it going , and thank you .

**Nick2** · 20/10/2019 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by grassroots

This is by far the most informative post we have ever had , Brilliant. Keep it going , and thank you .

As interesting even, as Alikado's 2 or 3 dozen other posts on the thread.

**Alikado** · 21/10/2019 09:13 AM

Trafalgar Day

Apple Day

International Adjust your Chair Day

International Day of the Nacho

1805 Battle of Trafalgar

1824 – Portland cement is patented.

1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War

1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.

1917 -American soldiers first saw action in World War I

1944 World War II: US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons

1958 1st women in British House of Lords

1966 116 children and 28 adults died as a coal waste heap slid and engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales

Born today

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1833 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize

1926 – Leonard Rossiter

1940 – Geoffrey Boycott,

1944 – Mandy Rice-Davies

1949 Benjamin Netanyahu

1953 – Peter Mandelson

1980 – Kim Kardashian

Died today ;-

1422 Charles VI, King of France

1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson

1973 Sir Alan Cobham Aviation Pioneer / Test Pilot / Cobhams Flying Circus / In Flight Refueling

**Alikado** · 22/10/2019 09:19 AM

INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY

International Stuttering Awareness Day

André-Jacques Garnerin took to the sky in a hydrogen balloon, cutting himself adrift performed the first ‘parachute’ descent.

1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.

1878 The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. (elsewhere claims Bramall Lane)

1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude.

1897 World's first car dealer opens in London

1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.

1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam

1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis

1964 French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1966 - Double Agent George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs.Born today ;-

1811 – Franz Liszt

1844 – Sarah Bernhardt

1917 Joan Fontaine

1923 – Bert Trautmann

1929 Lev Yashin

1938 – Derek Jacobi

1939 – George Cohen

1949 – Arsène Wenger

1967 – Oona King, Baroness King of Bow

Died Today ;-

1906 Paul Cézanne

1995 – Kingsley Amis

1998 – Eric Ambler