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    War of Roses.
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    Soon the end of the 30th of December, with no new post. Hope this doesn't mean that Alikado is not in the best of forrm.
    Oops, I thought I'd done it, sorry.

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    30th December

    1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.

    1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield , Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI

    1703 Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die

    1816 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19)
    1877 Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna

    1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" premieres

    1903 Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theatre in Chicago leaving 605 dead

    1911 English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG

    1913 Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)

    1915 Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die

    1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

    1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

    1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society

    1932 Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG

    1939 Bradman scores 267 South Australia v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century

    1961 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 4th Symphony in Moscow (completed 1936)

    1968 Frank Sinatra first records "My Way" with lyrics were written by Paul Anka

    1986 Ballon d'Or: Dynamo Kyiv's Ukrainian forward Igor Belanov is named best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona striker Gary Lineker and Real Madrid forward Emilio Butragueño

    1986: Coal mine canaries made redundant, More than 200 canary birds are being phased out of Britain's mining pits, according to new plans by the government. New electronic detectors will replace the bird because they are said to be cheaper in the long run

    1987 Premier Mugabe elected President of Zimbabwe

    1988 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard

    1995 Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982

    2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.

    2011 Scottish actor David Tennant (40) weds actress Georgia Moffett (27), daughter of Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor

    Born Today ;-

    1850 John Milne, British geologist (developed the first modern seismograph), born in Liverpool

    1851 - Asa Griggs Candler Inventor of Coke Cola

    1865 – Rudyard Kipling

    1880 Alfred Einstein

    1884 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II

    1934 – Barry Briggs Champion Speedway Rider

    1934 – Del Shannon

    1937 – Gordon Banks

    1942 – Michael Nesmith (Monkee)

    1945 – Davy Jones (Monkee)

    1949 – David Bedford, English runner

    1959 – Tracey Ullman

    1961 – Ben Johnson, Disgraced Jamaican-Canadian sprinter

    1963 – Mike Pompeo, American diplomat and politician;

    1965 Heidi Fleiss, American madam

    1975 – Tiger Woods

    1986 – Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer

    1990 – Joe Root, English cricketer

    Died Today ;-

    1460 Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne killed in Battle of Wakefield

    1970 Sonny Liston, World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64), dies at 38

    1984 Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)

    2002 Mary Wesley, English novelist

    2006 Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (1979-2003), hanged

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    31st December

    New Years Eve.

    Hogmanay

    Universal Hour of Peace Day

    World Peace Meditation Day

    LEAP SECOND TIME ADJUSTMENT DAY

    1492 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily

    1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.

    1660 James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.

    1695 A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.

    1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

    1783 Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern US states

    1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada

    1861 22,990mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in India in 1861, a world record

    1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879

    1904 First New Year's Eve celebration held in Times Square (then Longacre Square)

    1910 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910

    1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize

    1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID

    1923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester

    1930 US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930

    1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly

    1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer", 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana

    1938 Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70

    1939 Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99

    1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)

    1967 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain, Las Vegas, breaking his pelvis, femur, wrist, hip and both ankles

    1973 Johan Cruyff chosen European Football Player of theYear

    1974 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins back-to-back awards, and his 3rd overall, for best European football player ahead of Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer and Legia Warsaw midfielder Kazimierz Deyna

    1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado

    1991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83

    1994 This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.

    1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria

    1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809

    1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail

    1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President

    2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur

    2015 TV presenter Alex Jones (38) weds Charlie Thomson in a magical ceremony at Cardiff Castle

    2014 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

    2015 – A fire broke out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates located near the Burj Khalifa two hours before the fireworks display was due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

    2018 – 39 people were killed after a 10-storey building in the Industrial Russian City of Magnitogorsk collapsed.

    Born Today ;-

    1720 Bonnie Prince Charlie [Charles Edward Stuart], English pretender to throne (Jacobite rebellion), born in Palazzo Muti, Rome, Papal States

    1869 Henri Matisse, French impressionist painte

    1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc.

    1908 – Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter, holocaust survivor, born in Buchach, Ukraine

    1929 – Peter May, English cricketer & Captain

    1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

    1941 – Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager

    1941 – Sarah Miles, English actress

    1943 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist,

    1943 – Ben Kingsley, English actor

    1946 – Eric Robson, Scottish journalist and author Broadcaster

    1948 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter

    1954 – Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician

    1977 – Donald Trump, Jr.

    Died Today ;-

    1948 – Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver and journalist

    1985 Rock singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas.

    1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director and producer

    2015 Natalie Cole, American vocalist
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    The Glen Cinema Disaster.
    31st December 1929



    The Glen Cinema disaster was caused by a smoking film canister at a cinema in Paisley, Scotland, on 31 December.
    The resulting panic and crush killed 69 children and injured 40; the final death toll was 71.
    It is considered one of Scotland's worst human disasters.


    After the disaster cinemas had to have that doors that opened outwards and that they were fitted with push bars. A limitation was also placed on the seating capacity of cinemas.



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cinema_disaster

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    1st January 2020

    New Years Day

    Walk Your Dog Month

    Veganuary

    Dry January

    49 Roman Emperor Claudius marries his fourth wife and niece Agrippina the Younger

    404 Last gladiator competition in Rome

    630 Prophet Muhammad sets out with his army towards Mecca, capturing it bloodlessly

    1430 Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services

    1515 Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria

    1600 Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.

    1651 Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland

    1660 1st entry in English civil servant Samuel Pepys' diary

    1724 Glassblower Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit proposes system for making thermometers and the Fahrenheit temperature scale in a paper to the Royal Society of London and is elected a fellow on its basis

    1772 First traveler's cheques go on sale in London, can be used in 90 European cities

    1788 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published

    1798 Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books

    1801 The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

    1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.[

    1818 Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published anonymously by the small London publishing house of Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones

    1833 British government demands Falkland islands

    1852 National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds

    1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate states

    1863 Franz Schubert's "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig

    1877 Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India

    1879 Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig

    1880 Building of Panama Canal begins

    1892 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station - it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people

    1894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic

    1896 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays

    1903 In Delhi, a great durbar, or formal reception, marks the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India; the British release some 16,000 prisoners in honor of the occasion

    1908 Sir Jack Hobbs, the leading run scorer and century maker in first-class cricket history, makes his international debut in England's 2nd Test win over Australia at the MCG (83 & 28)

    1923 Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.

    1925 Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo

    1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison

    1936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune

    1937 Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain.

    1938 Comedian Stan Laurel (47) marries 3rd wife Vera Ivanova Shuvalova

    1939 Hewlett-Packard is founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California "the birthplace of Silicon Valley"

    1940 68th Prime Minister of UK Harold Wilson (23) weds poet Mary Baldwin (23) in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford

    1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god

    1947 Britain nationalizes its coal industry

    1948 General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective

    1948 Transport Act of 1947 comes into force in the United Kingdom, nationalizing the British rail system under the name British Railways

    1950 Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China

    1953 The first TV detector van, used to track down users of unlicensed television sets, begins operation in the UK

    1960 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars

    1962 Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful

    1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"

    1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

    1973 Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market

    1980 Chrysler UK renamed Talbot

    1981 Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community

    1983 TCP/IP protocols become the only approved protocol on the ARPANET, replacing the earlier NCP protocol

    1985 The Internet's Domain Name System is created.

    1985 The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
    1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.

    1993 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone

    1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.

    1995 – The World Trade Organization comes into being.[76]

    1999 – Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).

    Born Today ;-

    1735 Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot who alerted the colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, born in Boston, Massachusetts

    1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee

    1879 – E. M. Forster, English author and playwright

    1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

    1912 – Kim Philby, British spy

    1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor(World Middleweight title 1947-48)

    1920 Roger Peacock, English writer (Thursday is Missing), born in Liverpool

    1933 – Joe Orton, English dramatist

    1955 – Mary Beard, English classicist, academic and presenter

    1956 – Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund[

    1961 Fiona Phillips, British television presenter

    1992 Jack Wilshere, English soccer midfielder

    Died today ;-

    1387 Charles, The Bad, King of Navarra (1349-87) dies burnt alive

    1515 Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515), dies at 52

    1631 Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice

    1766 James III, James Francis Edward Stuart "The old Pretender", Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland after the death of his father James II

    1782 Johann Christian Bach (English Bach), German composer, 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach

    1944 Edwin Lutyens, English architect

    1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL

    1994 Cesar Romero, American actor - The Joker

    1995: Fred West found hanged

    2013 Christopher Martin-Jenkins, British cricket journalist and broadcaster

    2019 George, the last Hawaiian tree snail of his kind (Achatinella apexfulva species), dies at the University of Hawaii aged 14 years

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    2nd January

    World Introvert Day

    International Jewish Book Day


    1492 Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula

    1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins

    1791 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.

    1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president

    1833 – Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, arrives at Port Egmont to reassert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands

    1843 Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" premieres in Dresden

    1879 Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth dismisses 3 English batsmen with consecutive deliveries during the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for Test cricket's first "hat-trick"

    1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die

    1890 Record 19.2 feet alligator shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny

    1906 Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world's first air conditioner

    1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida, 8 killed

    1941 World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales

    1941 World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.

    1942 World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals

    1942 German troops in Bardia surrender

    1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila, Philippines

    1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

    1945 Allied air raid on Nuremberg

    1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali

    1958 Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY

    1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14°F recorded atop Haleakale

    1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion

    1968 Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant on Philip Blaiberg

    1969 Australian Rupert Murdoch gains control of the 'News of the World'

    1971 Spectator crush on stairway 13 at Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland as Rangers supporters leave the ground with home team 0-1 behind to Old Firm rivals Celtic; 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries; Previous disasters on ground;- 1902 25 dead &517 injured, 1961 2 dead, 1967 8 injured, 1969 26 injured also on stairway 13.

    1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres

    1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.

    1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins

    1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI v Pakistan

    1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield

    1982 Erika Rowe Streaks topless at Twickenham, For the record, England beat Australia by 15 points to 11. Other vital statistics from that day, which are not recorded by the Rugby Football Union, the game’s governing body, are that Ms Roe’s bosom – displayed to 60,000 spectators and millions on television – measured an ample 40 inches DD.

    1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)

    1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney

    1999 A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.

    2018 WHO reveals it will classify gaming addiction as mental health condition in its next Classification of Diseases

    2019 United States international Christian Pulisic becomes the most expensive American soccer player when he moves from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea for £58;

    Born Today ;-

    1902 Barry Goldwater, American politician

    1938 – David Bailey, English photographer and painter

    1938 Ian Brady [Ian Duncan Stewart], British serial killer (Moors Murders), born in Glasgow

    1979 Suranne Jones, British actress

    2003 Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate change activist (Wiki says she is 16 tomorrow)

    Died Today ;-

    1974 Tex Ritter, country singer

    1983 Richard "Dick" Emery, British comedian and actor

    1998 Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur

    2011 Pete Postlethwaite, English actor

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    3rd January

    1431 Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon

    1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine

    1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses which started the Protestant Reformation

    1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow

    1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic

    1842 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine depart Liverpool for America on board the RMS Britannia

    1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office

    1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day

    1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title "Il Duce"

    1929 Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century

    1956 A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.

    1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro

    1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London

    1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc

    1977 Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces his intention to be Britain's first President of the European Commission

    1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce

    1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews

    2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

    Born today ;-

    106 BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician

    1883 – Clement Attlee,

    1892 – J.R.R. Tolkien

    1909 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and conductor

    1926 – George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer - The Beatles

    1942 – John Thaw

    1946 – John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer - Led Zeppelin

    1947 – Fran Cotton, English rugby player

    1950 – Victoria Principal, American actress and businesswoman

    1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

    1962 – Gavin Hastings, Scottish rugby player

    1969 – Michael Schumacher, German racing driver

    2003 – Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist

    Died Today ;-

    1641 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22

    1661 Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29

    1795 Josiah Wedgwood, English pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), dies at 64

    1903 Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler, dies at 65

    1967 Jack Ruby, American assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of pulmonary embolism

    1980 Joy Adamson [Friederike Viktoria Gessner], Austrian naturalist and author (Born Free), murdered at 69 by her servant

    1981 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, VA, GCVO, GBE (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; ) was a member of the British royal family. She is the longest-lived British princess by royal descent, and was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. She also held the titles of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony from birth, as well as a Princess of Teck by marriage, until 1917 when the British royal family ceased usage of German titles.

    1992 Ken Grieves, Australian cricketer (NSW & Lancashire leg-spin all-rounder), dies at 66

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    4th January

    World Braille Day

    World Hypnotism Day

    1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament

    1698 Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire

    1762 Seven Years' War: Great Britain declares war on Spain & Naples

    1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government

    1847 Manuscripts of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" sent to publisher T.C. Newby

    1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY

    1881 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres in Breslau

    1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)

    1884 The Fabian Society is founded in London.

    1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco to San Francisco)

    1903 Topsy the Elephant is Electrocuted (deliberately) to death at Luna Park in New York, she killed a spectator in 1902 and was subsequently sold off to Luna Park. After this her reputation worsened, partly because of her alcoholic handler and the decision of her owners Frederick Thompson and Elmer Dundy to exploit her for PR purposes. To this end they decided to execute her. Their horrific original plan to hang her at the park was stopped by the SPCA. Instead they decided to electrocute her, which they did in front of press, and a camera crew from Edison Manufacturing movie company filmed the incident - possibly the first filmed death of an animal.

    1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.[

    1932 British Viceroy of India Lord Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru

    1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration

    1944 Operation Carpetbagger begins (aerial dropping of supplies and weapons to resistance fighters in Europe)

    1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam

    1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

    1958 NZ team led by Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole, the 1st to reach the Pole overland using motor vehicles and the 1st since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912

    1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

    1961 Longest recorded strike ends as the Danish barbers' assistants end a 33 year strike

    1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City

    1967 Donald Campbell is killed while driving a Bluebird K7, a jet-powered boat, on Coniston Water; Campbell was trying to beat his own speed record

    1969 A People's Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers

    1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios

    1970 More than 15,000 people are killed in Tonghai County, China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake

    1972 Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London.

    1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica

    1976 The Ulster Volunteer Force shoot dead 6 Catholic civilians in 2 co-ordinated attacks in County Armagh, North Ireland

    1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"

    2004 Britney Spears has her surprise marriage annulled less than 55 hours after tying the knot with childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

    2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House

    2010 The Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building at 829.8 m (2,722 ft), officially opens in Dubai

    2018 Liverpool and Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah is named African Football Player of the Year

    Born Today ;-

    1643 – Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist

    1785 Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales"

    1809 Louis Braille, French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind

    1813 – Isaac Pitman, English linguist and educator, invented Shorthand system.

    1901 – C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and theorist

    1935 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer

    1947 Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter

    1965 – Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-English dancer, choreographer, and director

    1986 – James Milner, English footballer

    Died Today ;-

    1761 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor (first person to measure blood pressure)

    1931 – Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife VA, CI (Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar; was the third child and the eldest daughter of the British king Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark; she was a younger sister of George V. She was the eldest granddaughter of Christian IX of Denmark.

    1965 T. S. Eliot, poet

    1967 Donald Campbell, English boat and land racer (set world land and water records in 1964), dies attempting a new water speed record at 45

    1969 Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)

    1986 Phil Lynott, Irish rock musician (Thin Lizzy), dies of an overdose at 36

    2011 Gerry Rafferty, Scottish guitarist and vocalist (Baker Street), dies at 63

    2019 Derek Accora Mystic Entertainer

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    5th January

    1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English King Henry VIII to re-marry

    1709 The Great Frost begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe's coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.

    1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering

    1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia

    1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Nacogdoches, Texas, to aid the revolution

    1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date

    1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked off US eastern seaboard, 300 die

    1886 "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson published

    1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, later exonerated

    1900 Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule

    1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits

    1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day

    1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich

    1930 Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house

    1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay

    1941 – 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.

    1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.

    1971 Body of US heavyweight Charles "Sonny" Liston (36) found; he had been dead for an estimated 6 days

    1985 Thousands of Jewish refugees are airlifted from Sudan to Israel

    1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wicket

    1993 Oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil

    1974 – The warmest reliably measured temperature within the Antarctic Circle, of +59 °F (+15 °C), is recorded at Vanda Station

    1996 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba

    1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario

    2016 First batsman to ever score 1000 runs in a single innings in cricket - 15 year-old Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade is 1009 not out

    Born Today ;-

    1855 – King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company

    1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress

    1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer1931 – Robert Duvall, American actor and director

    1934 Phil Ramone [Rabinowitz], South-African born American music producer (co-founded A&R records), born in Cape Town

    1938 – Juan Carlos I of Spain [Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias]

    1942 Jan Leeming, English television presenter and newsreader

    1943 Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, Portuguese footballer (top goalscorer-1966 World Cup), born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique

    1946 – Diane Keaton, actress

    1965 – Vinnie Jones, footballer and actor

    Died Today ;-

    1066 Edward the Confessor, last King of England from the House of Wessex

    1922 Ernest Shackleton, British-Irish polar explorer (Endurance, Antarctica), dies of a heart attack at 47

    1939 Amelia Earhart, American aviator (1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic), is declared dead at 41 after disappearing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937

    1941 Amy Johnson, British pilot who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia, dies during a ferry flight at 37

    1966 George Duckworth, Lancashire & England cricket wicket-keeper

    1994 Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (BBC radio commentator & cake connoisseur)

    1998 David Bairstow, English cricket wicket keeper, broadcaster (4 Tests; father of England Test 'keeper Jonny), dies from suicide at 46

    1998 – Sonny Bono, American singer-songwriter

    2003 – Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

    2006 Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician

    2014 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager

    2017 – Jill Saward, English rape victim and activist

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    6th January - 12th Night

    Epiphany

    World Day for War Orphans


    1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England

    1497 Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria

    1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.

    1649 The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"

    1661 The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London

    1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)

    1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.

    1838 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey

    1839 – The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin

    1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before reaching India

    1880 Record snow cover in Seattle - 120 cm

    1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony

    1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake

    1900 – Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

    1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy

    1929 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest

    1940 Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau.

    1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar

    1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)

    1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling

    1974 United Kingdom begins three-day work week during energy crisis

    1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee

    1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns after the 'Westland affair'

    1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings

    1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88

    2019 Record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) price for giant bluefin tuna at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market bought by sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura

    Born Today ;-

    1367 – Richard II of England

    1412 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint

    1826 Herman Grimm, German writer & novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

    1854 Sherlock Holmes Brother Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)

    1891 – Ted McDonald, Lancs & Australian cricketer as well as being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston Football Club, Essendon Football Club, and Fitzroy Football Club.

    1920 Doris Stokes, British psychic medium

    1925 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company

    1934 – Sylvia Syms, English actress

    1943 – Terry Venables, English footballer and manager

    1945 – Barry John, Welsh rugby player

    1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

    1956 – Angus Deayton, English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster

    1956 – Justin Welby,Archbishop of Canterbury

    1955 Sandra Bernhard, American actress

    1956 – Clive Woodward, English rugby player and coach

    1960 – Nigella Lawson, English chef and author

    1975 Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1)

    1982 – Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model

    1989 – Andy Carroll, English footballer

    Died Today ;-

    1852 Louis Braille, French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind, dies of tuberculosis at 43

    1884 Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity)

    1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

    1934 Herbert Chapman, Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town

    1945 Edith Frank, mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, dies from starvation at the age of 44

    1993 Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54

    1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player

    2012 Robert Holness, English radio and television presenter

    2015 Lance Percival, English actor and comedian (That Was The Week That Was)

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    7th January

    International Programmers' Day

    Orthodox Christmas Day

    National Pass Gas Day


    1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French

    1601 Robert, Earl of Essex, leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

    1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede

    1618 Francis Bacon becomes Lord Chancellor of England

    1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

    1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries

    1790 French Revolution: A major riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand lower bread prices

    1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

    1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st international radio distress signal

    1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum

    1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal

    1915 World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed

    1922 The Anglo-Irish Treaty is ratified by Dail Eireann by a 64-57 vote

    1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London

    1928 – A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.

    1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

    1941 Chinese Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-shek open fire on the surrounded Communist New Fourth Army at Maolin, Anhui Province, killing or capturing 7,000 troops

    1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes

    1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

    1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM's head office in New York

    1960 The Polaris missile is tested

    1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London

    1973 Mark Essex's mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orlean's Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people, including five policeman.

    1976: Iceland and Britain clash at sea, A British naval frigate is involved in another collision with an Icelandic gunboat in the Atlantic.1989 Akihito becomes the 125th Emperor of Japan after the death of his father Horohito

    1990 Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

    1991 Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US

    1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)

    1996 A major blizzard paralyzed the eastern United States, claiming more than 100 lives.

    2000 Former UK Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken released from prison after 9 months of a 18-month sentence

    2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 4th consecutive year; US forward Abby Wambach wins women's award

    2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 4th consecutive year; US forward Abby Wambach wins women's award

    2018 It snows in the Sahara desert - 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria

    2019 Rain ruins last 2 days of 4th cricket Test in Sydney as India wins series 2-1; become first Asian side to win a Test series in Australia, 71 years after the first Indian touring team in 1947-48

    2019 Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion

    Born Today;-

    1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company

    1896 Arnold Ridley, actor and dramatist (The Ghost Train, Dad's Army)

    1906 Aristotle Onassis Greek shipping magnate

    1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park

    1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, footballer and manager

    1951 – Helen Worth, actress

    1964 Nicolas Cage, American actor

    1967 – Nick Clegg, politician

    1970 – Andy Burnham, politician

    1985 – Lewis Hamilton, race car driver

    1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

    1991 – Caster Semenya, South African sprinter

    Died Today;-

    1536 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies at 50

    1695 Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32

    1920 Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia

    1943 Nikola Tesla, Serbian physicist (tesla motor)

    1988 Trevor Howard, British actor (Brief Encounter, Superman, The Third Man)

    1989 Emperor Hirohito of Japan

    1995 Larry Grayson, comedian (Generation Game)

    2007 Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter

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    8th January

    War on Poverty Day

    World Typing Day

    871 Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred I of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great beat invading Danish army

    1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy

    1610 Simon Marius. a German astronomer, independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo

    1610 Simon Marius. a German astronomer, independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo

    1705 George Frideric Handel's 1st opera "Almira" premieres in Hamburg

    1734 Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

    1746 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

    1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history

    1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

    1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.

    1902 New York state assemblyman Francis G. ?Landon gets a bill passed to criminalize men turning around on a street and "looking at a woman in that way" Offenders could be fined $25. Those that went on to commit a second flirting offence would be ordered to wear a pair of horse blinders whenever they stepped out on the streets! In New York adultery is a crime. Section 255.17 of the state penal law introduced on September 1st, 1907, states: “A person is guilty of adultery when he engages in sexual intercourse with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse.” Adultery is a class B misdemeanor which is punishable by up to 90 days in jail or a $500 fine.
    Although it is rarely enforced, about a dozen people have been charged under the adultery law since the 1970s. Other bizarre laws still on the Statute Book in New York mean that it is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing “body-hugging clothing”. And citizens may not greet each other by “putting one’s thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers”.

    1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)

    1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

    1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic

    1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)

    1962 21 year old golfer Jack Nicklaus makes his first professional appearance; tied 50th in Los Angeles Open

    1966 Georges Pompidou re-appointed French Prime Minister and forms new government

    1972 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony premieres in Moscow

    1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London

    1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York

    1978 TV series "All Creatures Great and Small" debuts on BBC TV, based on the books by James Herriot, starring Robert hardy and Christopher Timothy

    1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

    1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".

    1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)

    1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points

    1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator

    1989 A Boeing 737 airplane crashes onto the M1 motorway at Kegworth near East Midlands airport, killing 46 people.

    1992 George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap

    1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths

    1999 Tree planting protest against the privatisation of Karura Forest, including Wangari Maathai, attacked in Kenya prompting outrage

    2001 The identities of 2 boys who murdered toddler James Bulgerin 1993 will be kept secret, the High Court rules

    2004 RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II

    2013 130 wildfires across Australia’s east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes

    2016 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison

    Born Today ;-

    1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, thought by some to be 'The Ripper'

    1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English soldier and author

    1908 – William Hartnell, The First Doctor

    1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author

    1924 – Ron Moody, English actor and singer

    1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor

    1934 – Roy Kinnear, British actor

    1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor

    1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer

    1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter, Goodie

    1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author

    1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

    1947 Terry Sylvester, English guitarist & singer (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe), born in Liverpool,

    1961 – Shoaib Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer

    1984 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea

    1986 David Silva, Spanish footballer

    Died Today ;-

    1107 – Edgar, king of Scotland

    1324 Marco Polo, Venetian explorer

    1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

    1935 Jesse Garon Presley, American stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo, Mississippi (d. 1935)

    1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general Founder of Scouting movement.

    1975 John Gregson, British actor

    1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian

    1996 – François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France

    2017 Peter Sarstedt, British musician (Where do you go to my lovely)

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    9th January

    International Choreographers Day

    1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death rounded up and burned alive in their houses

    1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government

    1493 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus

    1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible kills 1,000-2,000 residents of Novgorod

    1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.

    1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London

    1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

    1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.

    1862 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts

    1864 Luke Charles, ex-policeman who was sentenced to death at the recent Liverpool Assizes, for the murder of his wife,at Kirkdale Gaol, in the presence of a very large concourse of spectators, numbering, it is stated, some 6,000.

    1909 Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23' south)

    1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died

    1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.

    1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest, Romania

    1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines

    1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

    1954 -87°F (-66°C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

    1957 – British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.

    1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

    1969 First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England

    1972 Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour

    1972 British coal miners begin a national strike, the first for half a century

    1980 63 Publicly beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islamic extremists who had seized Mecca’s holy Al-Masjid al-Haram

    1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855

    1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands

    1986: Heseltine quits over Westland Helicopters Affair

    1992 Alison Halford, Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police (Britain's most senior policewoman) is suspended after allegations of misconduct

    1997 After 5 days missing, Tony Bullimore rescued alive after his boat capsized in Southern Ocean

    2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

    2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 3rd consecutive year; Japanese midfielder Homare Sawa wins women's award

    2014 Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year

    2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.

    Born Today ;-

    1854 – Lady Randolph Churchill, American-born wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill

    1898 – Gracie Fields, English actress and singer

    1913 – Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 37th President of the United States

    1920 – Clive Dunn, English actor

    1925 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor

    1928 – Judith Krantz, American novelist

    1939 – Susannah York, English actress and activist

    1941 – Joan Baez, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist

    1943 Freddie Starr, comedian born in Huyton

    1944 – Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

    1950 Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist (developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting)

    1951 – Crystal Gayle, American singer-songwriter and producer

    1954 – Philippa Gregory, Kenyan-English author and academic

    1956 – Imelda Staunton, English actress and singer

    1965 – Joely Richardson, English actress

    1972 Sarah Beeny, English property developer & television presenter,

    1980 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer

    1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

    1993 – Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete

    Died Today ;-

    1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor

    1995 Peter Cook, English comic/actor

    2008 – John Harvey-Jones, English businessman and television host

    2009 Dave Dee, British musician

    2016 Ed Stewart, British DJ and broadcaster

    2018 Tommy Lawrence, Scottish football player and goalkeeper (Liverpool, Tranmere Rovers), The Flying Pig.

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    1972 Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour

    I lived in Singapore at that time. One of our customers was C.Y. Tung, one of Hong Kong's largest shipowners. He owned this vessel, but had renamed her and converted her to be a place of higher education. He renamed her Seawise University. A masterful play on words in my opinion.
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