On This Day

[Raistlin]

I should have stayed at home today- had do a training course for a couple of people from Iceland( the country not the shop) and between them they had about 8 sentences in english. :ffs:

Thats better than some of the morons on training courses I've had to give

[mollycorolla]

raistlin took all of them :P

1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French.

1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

2001 - Commencement of U.S. combat activities in Afghanistan.

[Red Yaris 54]

On this day- 1986 - Two died when two passenger trains crashed near Rugeley in Staffordshire

On this day- 1997 - Six died when two trains crashed at Southall in Middlesex

[mollycorolla]

and the moral of todays story is, trains are dangerous

[Red Yaris 54]

and the moral of todays story is, trains are dangerous

Only when they crash ;)

[mollycorolla]

which happens a lot :P

[Red Yaris 54]

which happens a lot :P

Yes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/200...ays/default.stm

[Hoovie]

1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test.

1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.

[Bizarra]

1258 Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated.

1842 Sir James Dewar, Scottish physician and chemist, and inventor of the vacuum flask, was born in Fife.

1854 The Battle of Alma, fought by the British against the Russians in the Crimean War, produced six winners of the Victoria Cross.

1885 Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer and singer and one of the first jazz musicians, was born in New Orleans.

1917 The first RSPCA animal clinic was opened in Liverpool.

1931 Britain came off the gold standard to stop foreign speculation against the pound.

The devaluation brought strikes and even a near mutiny on 15 navy ships berthed in Scotland.

1944 Guy Gibson, British pilot and Victoria Cross winner for his ‘‘Dambusters’’ action against the Mohne and Eder dams, was killed when his aircraft crashed in Holland on its way back to base.

Don't worry, I'm not keeping this going for a year, unless by public demand

[Bizarra]

1791 Scientist Michael Faraday born.

1792 France was declared a republic.

1827 Joseph Smith, son of an impoverished New England farmer, announced he had received golden plates from an angel.

From this he translated the Book of the Mormon which led to the founding of the Mormons.

1862 US president Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ordering the freeing of slaves.

1869 Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold was first performed in Munich.

1914 Three British cruisers, Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy, were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats.

1955 Argentinean leader Juan Perón was deposed in a military coup.

[Red Yaris 54]

On this day - 1950 The first non stop jet flight between UK and USA was made.

On this day - 1955 A new television channel (Independent Television Authority) broadcast for the first time...........ending the BBC's monopoly

On this day - 1980 War broke out between Iran and Iraq

[Raistlin]

480BC The Persians were defeated by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis.

1779 In the American War of Independence, a French and American fleet commanded by John Paul Jones, captured the British ship Serapis in the Battle of Flamborough Head.

1803 The British under Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) defeated Scindia and the Rajah of Berar at Assaye in India.

1846 German astronomer Johann Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

1848 Chewing gum was first commercially produced in the USA by John Curtis in his home, and was called 'State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.

1912 Cohen Collects a Debt, the first of US film producer Mack Sennet's silent Keystone Cops films, was released.

1940 The George Cross and the George Medal for civilian acts of courage were instituted.

1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Jersey Joe Walcott (both of USA), to win the world heavyweight boxing title.

1973 Juan Perón was re-elected president of Argentina; he had been ousted in 1955.

1974 The world's first Ceefax teletext service was begun by the BBC.

1996 London police raided several suspected IRA hideouts across the city, seizing around 10 tons of homemade explosives and killing one suspected IRA member.

1997 Turkish troops conducted large-scale attacks on the bases of the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK, a Kurdish guerrilla organization) in northern Iraq.

[Red Yaris 54]

On this day - 1975- Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest

On this day - 1998 - Iran lifts fatwa on Salman Rushdie after nearly 10 years

On this day - 1988 - Ben Johnson wins the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics and reaffirms his position as the world's fastest man

[Raistlin]

1776 The St Leger horse race was run for the first time at Doncaster.

1852 French engineer Henri Giffaud made the first flight in a dirigible balloon, from Paris to Trappe.

1930 English dramatist Noël Coward's Private Lives was first staged in London.

1953 The Robe, the first Cinemascope film, premiered in Hollywood.

1960 The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, was launched at Newport, Virginia.

1980 The Iraqis blew up the Abadan oil refinery, turning the Iran - Iraq conflict into a full scale war.

1991 The Shi'ite Muslim Revolutionary Justice Organization freed British hostage jack mann, kidnapped in May 1989.

1995 Israel and the PLO reached an agreement on the pivotal second stage of interim Palestinian autonomy, setting terms for an Israeli military pullback from Palestinian villages in the West Bank and the transfer of administrative authority.

1996 US President Clinton and the foreign ministers of the UK, China, France and Russia signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at UN headquarters in New York City.

[Bizarra]

1776 The oldest of the classic horse races, the St Leger, was first run at Doncaster.

1842 Bramwell Bronte, brother of the Bronte sisters, died of drugs and drink.

He was the role model for the drunkard Hindley Earnshaw in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847).

1852 The first hydrogen-filled airship, powered by a 3hp steam engine built by Henri Giffard, made its maiden flight at Versailles.

1853 The Northern Daily Times in Liverpool became the first provincial newspaper in England.

1896 American writer F Scott Fitzgerald was born.

For most of his life he suffered from an oversecretion of insulin, and became a heavy drinker.

He wrote the definitive 1920s novel The Great Gatsby in 1925.

1930 The first performance of Private Lives by Noel Coward took place at the new Phoenix Theatre, London.

1947 A trainload of 1,200 Muslim refugees fleeing to Pakistan were massacred by Sikhs at Amritsar in the Punjab.

1953 The Robe, the first film made in CinemaScope, was premiered in Hollywood.

1960 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Enterprise, was launched at Newport, Virginia.

1975 Everest was climbed by the south-west face for the first time by Douglas Haston and Doug Scott.

[flexy7]

(STAYING ON TOPIC)..On this day Wednesday 24th September 1986,From my A4 Diary I kept of my first year with Mrs.Flexy.(GENUINE).......Breakfast in bed at 8.00a.m. On this day 2008 M********t wiped out two of my extremely popular threads. (With five already closed ! Ha!,There goes Number 6 (Really !) :lol: Did they object to this last picture I posted ?

[Bizarra]

1660 Samuel Pepys drank his first cuppa, after reading that tea made the body active and lusty.

1818 The first blood transfusion using human blood, as opposed to earlier attempts with animal blood, took place at Guy’s Hospital in London.

1832 A Royal Comission of Enquiry into the conditions of the poor in Ireland was established.

Chaired by the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, it first reported in 1835.

1885 It snowed in London, the earliest recorded winter fall despite reports that on 12 June1791 there had been snow sighted over the capital.

That was recorded as late summer, not winter, snow.

1915 The Battle of Loos, in World War I, began; it would continue into October.

1915 The Battle of Loos, in World War I, began; it would continue into October.

1933 More than 25,000 queued to see The Shroud Of Turin when it went on show to the public for the first time in 400 years at Turin Cathedral.

1957 The National Guard was sent in to enforce desegregation in Little Rock, Alabama, US.

1962 Sonny Liston won the world heavyweight boxing title, knocking out Floyd Paterson in the first round in Chicago.

1972 Norway voted against joining the EEC in a referendum.

1982 Commdt Michael Nestor of the Irish UN Peacekeeping Force was killed, along with three other UN soldiers, by a mine near Beruit.

[Raistlin]

Events

1066 England's King Harold II defeated the King of Norway, Harald Hardrada, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

1513 Vasco Balboa, Spanish explorer, became the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Darien isthmus.

1818 The first blood transfusion using human blood, as opposed to earlier attempts with animal blood, took place at Guy's Hospital in London.

1888 London's Royal Court Theatre, in Sloane Square, opened.

1909 The French battleship Liberté exploded in Toulon harbour, killing 226 people.

1915 The Battle of Loos, in World War I, began; it would continue into Oct.

1954 François Duvalier ('Papa' Doc) was elected president of Haiti.

1956 Transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated.

1972 Norway voted against joining the EC in a referendum.

1988 In USA, Barbara Harris, a divorcee, was elected as first woman bishop in the Anglican communion, to serve as suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts.

1991 Peace accord was signed in El Salvador to end 11-year civil war.

Births

1683 Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer

1897 William Faulkner, US novelist

1903 Mark Rothko, US painter

1906 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer

1927 Colin Davis, British conductor

1944 Michael Douglas, US actor

1952 Christopher Reeve, US film actor

Deaths

1680 Samuel Butler, English writer

1849 Johann Strauss the Elder, Austrian composer

1960 Emily Post, US writer

1970 Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist

1984 Walter Pidgeon, US film actor

[Bizarra]

1900, Shooting and fighting in the streets of Victor, Colorado disrupts the Roosevelt meeting.

Governor Roosevelt hit.

1920, Belfast: Death toll reaches 28 during rioting.

1922, Death of Thomas E.

Watson, populist and Ku Klux Klan member.

1934, Geneva: Afghanistan becomes 60th member of League.

1950, A blue moon is visible from southeast England.

1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M.

Nixon and John F.

Kennedy took place in Chicago

1961, Warner Bros.

offers $5 mil.

for film rights to My Fair Lady.

1962, Flood kills 333 in Barcelona.

1976, Five African presidents denounce plan for black rule in Rhodesia.

1990, The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.

1991, Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure known as Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Ariz.

1995, The prosecution began its closing argument in the murder trial of O.

J.

Simpson.

1996, Astronaut Shannon Lucid arrives back on Earth after traveling 75 million miles in space, the longest space voyage for a woman and an American.

1998, British boxer Lennox Lewis successfully defends his WBC heavyweight world title against Croatian Zeljko Mavrovic.

[Red Yaris 54]

On this day - 1973 - Concorde made its first non stop crossing of the Atlantic.............In record breaking time.

On this day - 1997 - Two earthquakes kill 10 people and severely damage priceless art treasures in central Italy

On this day - 2002 - More than 1,000 die as Joola ferry capsizes off Gambia coast

On this day - 1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup after 132 years in US hands

[Raistlin]

Events

1662 England's Charles II sold Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 2.5 million livres.

1901 In Paris, a 'getaway car' was used for the first time, when thieves robbed a shop and sped away.

1904 The first section of New York City's subway system was opened.

1917 US troops entered the war in France.

1936 Mrs Wallis Simpson was granted a divorce from her second husband, leaving her free to marry Britain's King Edward VIII.

1971 The Republic of Congo changed its name to the Republic of Zaire.

1979 St Vincent and Grenadines gained independence.

1986 The City of London experienced 'Big Bang' day, due to the deregulation of the money market.

1997 The Dow Jones index made its biggest drop in history-554 points-triggering the first ever automatic trading cut-off.

Births

1728 Captain James Cook, English naval explorer

1782 Niccoló Paganini, Italian violinist and composer

1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president

1905 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet

1923 Roy Lichtenstein, US painter

1932 Sylvia Plath, US poet

1939 John Cleese, English actor and comedian

Deaths

1505 Ivan III (the Great), Tsar of Russia

1804 George Morland, English painter

1968 Lise Meitner, Austrian nuclear physicist

1969 Eric Maschwitz, English lyricist

1977 James M Cain, US novelist

[Bizarra]

1825 The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world’s first public passenger service built by George Stephenson was inaugurated.

1888 The Central News Agency in London received a letter which began ‘‘Dear Boss, I keep on hearing the police have caught me, but they won’t fix me just yet.

.

.

’’ It was signed jack the Ripper, the first time the name had been used.

1930 Bobby Jones of the US won the US National Amateur Championships to complete the first golfing grand slam.

1938 The 80,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at John Brown’s Yard in Clydebank.

1940 Imperial Japan signed a 10-year military and economic alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

1960 Bank Underground station in London opened the first travelator, or ‘‘moving pavement’’, in Europe.

1968 The rock musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, the day after censorship in the theatre was lifted.

1979 Dame Gracie Fields, English comedienne, singer and music hall entertainer, died in retirement at her home on the Isle of Capri, aged 81.

1979 BBC’s Question Time was broadcast for the first time, with Robin Day in the chair.

He stayed with the show for 10 years.

1987 The Great Britain and European Ryder Cup Team defeated the US for the first time on US soil to retain the trophy.

[Raistlin]

Births

1573 Caravaggio, Italian painter

1803 Prosper Merimée, French writer

1841 Georges Clemenceau, French politician

1916 Peter Finch, British film actor

1917 Michael Soames, English dancer

1924 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor

1934 Brigitte Bardot, French film actress

Deaths

1530 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter

1891 Herman Melville, US novelist

1895 Louis Pasteur, French chemist

1973 W H Auden, English poet

1992 William Douglas-Home, British playwright

1970 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian president

Events

490BC The Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.

1745 At the Drury Lane Theatre, London, God Save the King, the national anthem, was sung for the first time.

1794 Britain, Russia, and Austria formed the Alliance of St Petersburg against France.

1864 The First International was founded in London, when Karl Marx proposed the formation of an International Working Men's Association.

1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first qualified woman physician in Britain.

1894 Simon Marks and Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Manchester, the first of what would become a nation-wide chain of stores.

1939 The Polish army surrendered; Germany and the USSR concluded a treaty partitioning Poland.

1978 Pope John Paul I, pope for only 33 days, was found dead.

1994 Car ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic off Finland, with the estimated loss of 900 lives.

1997 Europe's golfers retained the Ryder Cup, defeating the USA 141/2-131/2 at Valderrama, in southern Spain..

[Raistlin]

1791 The first performance of Mozart's Magic Flute took place in Vienna.

1888 jack the Ripper murdered two more women - Liz Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Kate Eddowes in Mitre Square, both in London's East End.

1902 Rayon, or artificial silk, was patented.

1928 Alexander Fleming announced his discovery of penicillin.

1935 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston.

1939 The USSR and Germany agreed on the partition of Poland.

1952 Cinerama, invented by Fred Waller, was first exhibited in New York.

1967 In Britain, BBC's national pop station, Radio One, went on the air.

1987 Keith Best, MP, was sentenced to four months in prison for trying to obtain British Telecom shares by deception.

1997 An FBI/CIA investigation into the explosion aboard TWA Flight 800 in June 1996 concluded it was caused by a build-up of pressure in a fuel tank.

[Raistlin]

Events

331BC Alexander the Great defeated Darius III at Arbela

1163 Archbishop Becket refused Henry's demand for the punishment of clergy in secular courts.

1795 Belgium became part of the French Republic.

1843 The News of the World, Britain's most popular Sunday newspaper, was first published.

1908 The first Model T, produced in Detroit, Michigan, was introduced by Henry Ford.

1918 The Arab forces of Emir Faisal, with British officer T E Lawrence, captured Damascus from the Turks.

1936 General Francisco Franco took office as head of Spain's Nationalist government.

1938 German forces entered Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, annexed by Hitler under the Munich Agreement.

1949 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed, with Mao Zedong as its chairman.

1958 The official start of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

1971 Disneyworld, the world's largest amusement resort, was opened in Florida.

1982 Helmut Kohl became federal chancellor of West Germany, succeeding Helmut Schmidt.

1988 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected president of USSR by Supreme Soviet.