On This Day

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Events

1187 Saladin, the Muslim sultan, captured Jerusalem after its 88-year occupation by the Franks.

1608 The first telescope was demonstrated by the Dutch lens maker, Hans Lipperschey.

1836 Charles Darwin returned from his five-year survey of South American waters aboard the HMS Beagle.

1870 Rome became the capital of the newly unified Italy.

1901 The British Royal Navy's first submarine, built by Vickers, was launched at Barrow.

1909 The first rugby football match was played at Twickenham, between Harlequins and Richmond.

1942 The British cruiser Curacao sank with the loss of 338 lives, after colliding with the liner Queen Mary off the coast of Donegal.

1983 Neil Kinnock was elected leader of Britain's Labour Party.

1985 US film star Rock Hudson became the first celebrity to die of AIDS.

1990 German Democratic Republic ceased to exist at midnight.

1996 A Peruvian jetliner, on its way from Lima, Peru to Santiago, Chile, crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 70 people on board.

1996 Former Bulgarian premier Andrei Lukanov was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman.

1997 UK scientists Moira Bruce and, independently, John Collinge and their colleagues showed that the new variant form of the brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the same disease as BSE or 'mad-cow disease' in cows.

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1535 Miles Coverdale’s translation of the Bible was published.

1883 The Boys’ Brigade was founded in Glasgow by Sir William Alexander Smith.

1895 Deadpan hero of the silent screen Buster Keaton was born in Kansas.

His parents were acrobats in vaudeville, and by the time he was three, Buster was in on the act.

1911 Britain’s first escalators were introduced, connecting the District and Piccadilly platforms at Earl’s Court underground station in London.

1952 The first external pacemaker, developed by Dr Paul Zoll of the Harvard Medical School, was fitted to David Schwartz to control his heartbeats.

The first internal pacemaker was not fitted until 1958.

1957 Russia launched Sputnik I, the world’s first satellite.

1958 The first transatlantic passenger jet service began operating.

1970 The American rock singer Janis Joplin died.

She left 2,500 dollars in her will ‘‘so that my friends can get blasted after I’m gone’’.

1988 Bavarian environment minister Alfred ***** asked people not to yodel in the Bavarian Alps as it was harmful to the environment.

The noise scared the chamois and drove off golden eagles and other rare birds.

1989 Millions of fleas were taken to Norfolk Broads to eat algae clogging up the waterways.

(The Bavarian Minister's name was D.i.c.k )

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Births

1720 Giambattista Piranesi, Italian architect

1814 Jean François Millet, French painter

1892 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian statesman

1892 Buster Keaton, US comedian

1924 Charlton Heston, US film actor

1931 Terence Conran, British designer

Deaths

1497 Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian painter

1669 Rembrandt, Dutch painter

1821 John Rennie, Scottish civil engineer

1948 Arthur Whitten Brown, pioneer aviator

1970 Janis Joplin, US singer

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1901, Donations topping $19,000 flood in to Boston, Massachusetts to help raise the ransom for missionary, Miss Ellen Stone, kidnapped in the Balkan Mountains.

1926, 250,000 striking miners in the UK returned to work, following their defeat in the general strike.

1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

1957, Britain defeats U.

S.

to win the Ryder Cup for golf for the first time since 1933.

1962, The Beatles' first hit, ''Love Me Do,'' was released in the United Kingdom.

1963, London: 1,000 hurl eggs at British Nazi leader Colin Jordan and bride after wedding.

1969, ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' made its debut on BBC Television.

1974, Five die and sixty-five injured by IRA bombs in two Guildford pubs, in the UK.

1976, The drought in Australia ends as heavy rains cause flooding in Victoria and New South Wales.

1995, Pres.

Clinton tells Good Housekeeping in an interview how his political career was shaped by an unhappy childhood.

1998, Michael Carneal pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally shooting three fellow students and wounding five other people at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky.

(He was later sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years.

) 1999, Two packed commuter trains collided near London's Paddington Station, killing 31 people.

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Births 1713 Denis Diderot, French philosopher

1830 Chester Alan Arthur, 21st US president

1919 Donald Pleasence, English actor

1923 Glynis Johns, British actress

1936 Vaclav Havel, Czech dramatist and president

1954 Bob Geldof, Irish musician

Deaths 1285 Philip III ('the Bold'), King of France

1524 Joachim Patinir, Dutch painter

1880 Jacques Offenbach, French composer

1934 Jean Vigo, French film director

1985 Nelson Riddle, US composer and arranger

1997 Otto Ernst Remer, German Nazi security chief

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On this day - 1999 - At least eight people are killed and 160 injured after two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove in west London ...................The final death toll was 31 :(

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Births

1732 Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal

1887 Le Corbusier, Swiss architect

1906 Janet Gaynor, US film actress

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnologist

1930 Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator

1939 Melvyn Bragg, English writer and TV presenter

Deaths

1536 William Tyndale, English Bible translator

1891 William Henry Smith, English newsagent, bookseller and statesman

1892 Alfred Tennyson, English poet

1896 George du Maurier, English novelist

1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor

1993 Cyril Cusack, Irish actor

Events

1769 English naval explorer Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, landed in New Zealand.

1883 The Orient Express completed its first run from Paris to Constantinople (now Istanbul) in nearly 78 hours.

1908 Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1927 Warner Brothers' The Jazz Singer, the first talking feature film (starring Al Jolson), premiered in New York.

1928 Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

1968 The first three places in the US Grand Prix were taken by British drivers: Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, and John Surtees.

1978 London Underground's first woman driver started work.

1981 One day after the 11th anniversary of his election to office, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Muslim extremists.

1996 Yao Wen-yuan, possibly the last surviving member of the 'Gang of Four', was freed after serving 20 years in prison.

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On this day - 1985 - A police officer is hacked to death by a mob during riots at the Broadwater Farm housing estate in North London........ :(

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1571 The Battle of Lepanto, between Christian allied naval forces and the Ottoman Turks attempting to capture Cyprus from the Venetians, took place.

1806 The first carbon paper was patented by its English inventor, Ralph Wedgwood.

1849 Edgar Allan Poe, US novelist and poet, died.

1891 Charles Stuart Parnell dies in Brighton.

1919 The Dutch airline KLM, the oldest existing airline, was established.

1920 Oxford University admitted its first 100 women for full degrees.

1922 The first royal broadcast was made by the Prince of Wales, on 2LO, 11 days before it changed its named to the British Broadcasting Company.

1928 Pádraig O´ Conaire, author, dies.

1949 The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was formed.

1958 The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was transmitted from the USSR's Lunik I.

1967 Clarence Birdseye, US deep-freezing inventor, died.

On the same day, Minister for Education Donagh O'Malley abolished the Primary Certificate Examination.

1982 Charlie Haughey survives as Fianna Fáil leader after a vote on a motion proposed by Charlie McCreevey.

The vote ended 58 to 22, and Desmond O'Malley and Martin O'Donoghue resigned from the cabinet before the vote was taken.

1985 The Italian liner Achille Lauro was seized by Palestinian terrorists; they surrendered two days later, having killed one US passenger.

1986 A new British newspaper, The Independent, was published.

1988 Grey whales trapped under ice in Alaska became the focus of an international rescue effort.

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7th Oct 1977: Invasion of Swedish identical twins

Ninety sets of Swedish identical twins have travelled to Felixstowe for a brief shopping trip.

The twins are taking part in studies by researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

The scientists are investigating links between the environment and human behaviour.

But participants are viewing the excursion as a form of light relief. As one twin put it, they have come across "just for fun".

90 sets of identical twins huh! double trouble if you ask me

Kingo

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Births

1573 William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury

1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist

1931 Desmond Tutu, archbishop of Cape Town

1939 Clive James, Australian critic and TV presenter

1955 Yo Yo Ma, Chinese cellist

1957 Jane Torvill, English ice skater

Deaths

1849 Edgar Allan Poe, US novelist and poet

1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, US writer

1922 Marie Lloyd, English music hall comedienne

1943 Radclyffe Hall, English author

1967 Clarence Birdseye, US deep-freezing inventor

1989 Bette Davis, US actress

1993 Agnes De Mille, US choreographer

1993 Cyril Cusack, Irish actor

1994 Niels Jerne, British-born Danish microbiologist and immunologist

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7th Oct 1959: Southend Pier fire traps hundreds

Three hundred people have been rescued after being cut off by a blaze on the world's longest pleasure pier on England's south-east coast.

The visitors became stranded when a large wooden pavilion at the shore end of the pier caught fire in the early evening.

The pavilion, which is used for holding conferences and other functions, was empty at the time.

Most of the trapped people had been at the far end of the pier when the blaze started.

They had to walk most of the nearly 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometres) back because the electricity to the pier's railway had been cut off.

However, they were not able to pass the burning pavilion and had to complete the journey by climbing down the pier structure and boarding boats to shore.

Firefighters from surrounding districts joined those in Southend to help put out the flames.

They were watched by a large crowd on the sea front - many of whom had come to see the pier's famous illuminations.

It took nearly two hours to bring the fire under control.

The pier's manager, Frank Flintoff, said the pavilion was very badly damaged but he expected the pier to be open the following day.

Southend Pier was first opened in 1830.

It immediately became a popular feature of the Essex resort which the Victorians called "Whitechapel-on-Sea" because of the number of Londoners from the East End who visited.

During World War II the pier was taken over by the Navy and was used as an assembley and loading point for convoys.

1959 was a good year.........My year

Kingo

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Events

1085 St Mark's Cathedral in Venice was consecrated.

1871 The Great Fire of Chicago started. It burned until the 11th, killing over 250 people and making 95,000 homeless.

1905 A permanent waving machine was first used on a woman's hair, by Charles Nessler.

1915 The Battle of Loos, in World War I, ended.

1939 Western Poland was incorporated in the Third Reich.

1965 London's Post Office Tower, Britain's tallest building, opened.

1967 A breathalyser was used on a motorist for the first time, in Somerset, England.

1973 LBC (London Broadcasting), Britain's first legal commercial radio station, began transmitting.

1982 A new law in Poland banned Solidarity and forbid the setting up of new trade unions.

1989 The Latvian Popular Front announced its intention to seek independence from the USSR.

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On this day - 1952 - At least 85 people are killed in the UK's worst peacetime rail crash after three trains collide at Harrow and Wealdstone

On this day - 2003 - Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California, ousting the incumbent, Gray Davis, three years before the end of his term of office

On this day - 2005 - Many hundreds of people die in Pakistan, north India and Afghanistan following a massive earthquake

On this day - 1990 - Hectic trading in the City marks Britain's first day as a full member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System

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Births

1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer

1900 Alastair Sim, British actor

1908 Jacques Tati, French film director

1935 Don McCullin, British war photographer

1940 John Lennon, rock singer and songwriter

1955 Steve Ovett, English athlete

Deaths

1562 Gabriel Fallopius, Italian anatomist

1958 Pope Pius XII

1967 André Maurois, French writer

1987 Clare Booth Luce, US writer and politician

1988 Jackie Millburn, English footballer

Events

1470 English king Henry VI was restored to the throne after being deposed in 1461.

1779 The first Luddite riots, against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton, began in Manchester.

1875 The Universal Postal Union was established, with headquarters in Berne, Switzerland.

1888 The massive marble Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, was opened.

1934 Alexander, King of Yugoslavia, and French foreign minister, Louis Barthou were assassinated by Croatian terrorists in Mubikilles.

1967 Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian-born guerilla leader and revolutionary, was murdered in Bolivia.

1970 Cambodia declared itself the Khmer Republic.

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On this day - 1959 - The Conservatives were re-elected for a third successive term - with a huge majority led by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

On this day - 1991 - The first Sumo wrestling tournament ever to be staged outside Japan in the sport's 1500 year history took place in the Royal Albert Hall London

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1813 Italian composer Verdi was born in Roncole.

1877 Motoring pioneer William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was born in Worcester.

1881 The Savoy Theatre, first public building to be lit by electricity, opened with a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience.

1886 The dinner jacket made its first appearance in public when it was worn by its creator at a ball at the Tuxedo Park Country Club, New York.

1903 Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women’s Social and Political Union to fight for female emancipation in Britain.

1935 Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess opened in New York.

It was a financial failure though an artistic triumph.

1957 A major radiation leak was detected at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria after an accident three days earlier.

1961 A volcano erupted on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha and the whole population was brought to Britain.

1972 Sir John Betjeman was appointed Poet Laureate.

1975 After divorce in the early ‘70s followed by several reconciliation’s and separations, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried in a remote village in Botswana.

They divorced again the following year

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On this day - 1999 - The Millenium wheel (London Eye) was errected on Londons South Bank

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1399 The Order of the Bath was constituted.

1521 Pope Leo X conferred the title of Defender of the Faith on Henry VIII.

Twelve years later Henry broke with Rome to marry Anne Boleyn.

1821 Sir George Williams, founder of the YMCA, was born in Dulverton, Somerset.

1844 Baked beans magnate HJ Heinz was born of German parents in Pittsburgh.

1899 The Boer War began between the British Empire and the Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

1919 The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris.

They were pre-packed lunch boxes at 3 shillings each (15p).

1926 Children’s Hour started on BBC Radio.

1957 The Radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, planned by Sir Bernard Lovell, went into operation.

1958 The BBC TV sports programme Grandstand was first transmitted.

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On this day - 1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, rises to the surface after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent

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1492 Christopher Columbus first sighted land on his voyage to India and discovered the New World, calling it San Salvador.

1537 Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was born.

He succeeded to the English throne when he was nine, but died at 15.

1609 Three Blind Mice was published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.

1901 President Theodore Roosevelt renamed the Executive Mansion The White House.

1928 The first iron lung was used, at Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts.

1948 The first Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, was produced at Cowley, Oxfordshire.

1949 The German Democratic Republic was declared in the Soviet sector of Berlin.

1968 The 19th Olympic Games opened in Mexico City

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On this day - 1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, rises to the surface after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent

Good grief.... 26 years ago Now I do feel a little old :(

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On this day - 1984 - A bomb explodes at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in a direct attack on the British Government

On this day - 2000 - At least six American sailors die in what's thought to have been a suicide bomb attack on a US Navy destroyer in Yemen

On this day - 2002 - Dozens killed in Bali Indonesia nightclub explosions

A DEADLY DAY IN HISTORY

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On this day - 1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, rises to the surface after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent

Good grief.... 26 years ago Now I do feel a little old :(

I know ! :( If it was 10 tears ago, I'd have believed it :o

Doesn't time fly when you are enjoying yourself?

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Events

1307 On the orders of Philip IV of France, the arrest of the Templars on charges of heresy took place in Paris.

1399 Henry Bolingbroke is crowned in Westminster Abbey to become Henry IV.

1792 The cornerstone of the White House, Washington, DC, was laid by President George Washington.

1884 Greenwich, London, was adapted as the universal time meridian of longitude from which standard times throughout the world are calculated.

1894 The first Merseyside 'derby' football match was played at Goodison Park between Liverpool and Everton, with Everton winning 3 - 0.

1904 Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams was published.

1923 Ankara replaced Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.

1988 The cardinal of Turin confirmed reports that the Shroud of Turin, believed to carry the imprint of *****'s face, had been scientifically dated to the Middle Ages.

1996 Damon Hill won the 1996 Formula One world championship motor racing title with a victory in the Japanese Grand Prix, the last race of the season.

1997 Kjell Magne Bondevik of the Christian People's Party became prime minister of Norway.

Births

1821 Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist

1853 Lillie Langtry, British actress

1921 Yves Montand, French singer and actor

1925 Margaret Thatcher, British politician

1941 Paul Simon, US singer and songwriter

1959 Marie Osmond, US singer

Deaths

AD 54 Claudius I, Roman emperor

1715 Nicholas de Malebranche, French philosopher

1815 Joachim Murat, King of the Two Sicilies

1822 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor

1905 Henry Irving, English actor

1966 Clifton Webb, US actor