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Originally Posted by Derek H
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.
War of Roses.
Devil in disguise,
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Originally Posted by Derek H
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
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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.
Age is simply a matter of mind - age doesn't matter if you don't mind
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