DavidM Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Cesare Borgia , illegitimate son of Pope Alexander , becomes first man to resign as a Cardinal 1498 First settlers land in Roanoke 1585 First person in UK run over by a car ( a Benz ) 1896 Bombing of V weapons infrastructure begins 1943 Patton’s 7th Army and Monty’s 8th Army complete conquest of Sicily 1943 First CD’s released in Germany 1982 Hess dies in Spandau 1987 Clinton admits Lewinsky affair 1998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted August 18, 2022 Author Share Posted August 18, 2022 On this day in 1612, the Pendle Witch Trials began. On this day in 1826, Major Gordan Laing became the first European to enter Timbuktu. On this day in 1940, the Hardest Day air battle took place, part of the Battle of Britain it was the largest aerial engagement in history. On this day in 1958, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was published in the US. Great novel, brilliant film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Julius Caesar Octavianus … Octavian … Augustus elected Consul . And I use the word elected very loosely . 43BC Baldwin takes control of Jerusalem 1153 Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland 1561 5 people executed after being found guilty ( in a fair trial under the law ) in the Salem Witch Trials . Not to be confused with sheepdog trials , they were unanimously acquitted . 1692 Bonnie Prince Charlie lands and raised standard in Scotland . Spoiler alert , after some successes it didn’t go well for him . 1745 News of California Gold Rush goes around US . 1848 Creation of post of fuhrer approved with 90% of popular vote in Germany . The other 10% mysteriously vanished soon after . 1934 Paris liberated 1944 Gary Powers sentenced to 10 years 1960 Hungerford Massacre 1987 Gorbachev under house arrest after attempted coup 1991 End of operation Iraqi freedom 2010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolford6 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I bought a new kettle. Under Scrutiny by the Right-On Thought Police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Hungary established as a Christian kingdom under Stephen 1000 Pope Clement pardons Jacques de Molay , last grand master of the knights Templar , absolving him of heresy 1308 . The massacre of the Knights Templar began the sinister reputation of Friday 13th . Darwin publishes theory of evolution 1858 1812 overture debuts in Moscow 1882 Churchill’s ‘never was so much owed by so many to so few ‘ speech 1940 Trotsky fatally wounded by axe 1940 Invasion of Czechoslovakia to end the Prague spring 1968 NASA launches voyager 2 1977 Iran Iraq ceasefire 1988 Marchioness sinks 1989 100, 000 protest attempted coup in Russia 1991 US embassy bombings 1998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 On this day James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain ( hurrah ) and names it New South Wales 1770 Battle of Vimeiro . First Anglo - Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War for Wellesley’s forces 1808 Mona Lisa knicked 1911 Second Battle of the Somme 1918 Us forces defeat Japan at Guadalcanal 1942 Motown releases first hit , by the Marvelettes 1961 Lake Nyos tragedy 1986 Gorbachev coup collapses 1991 Latvia declares independence 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 On this day Columba sees Loch Ness Monster 565 Charles the Bald defeated at Battle of Jengland 851 BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD ! Richard III hacked to death . The Tudor age emerges with the accession of HenryVII. 1485 Madras founded by East India Company 1639 CHARLES I CALLS PARLIAMENT TRAITORS KICKING OFF CIVIL WAR 1642 George III declares ungrateful American rotters to be in open rebellion 1775 Cook’s ship Resolution returns to England ( without Cook who was killed in Hawaii ) 1780 First air raid ever by Austria v Venice 1849 The Luger is first produced , the official sidearm for Germany in both wars 1902 Teddy Roosevelt rides in a car 1902 First big punch up of World War I including British troops 1914 Michael Collins shot dead 1922 Wehrmacht reaches Leningrad 1941 Romania taken by Soviet forces ( they picked the wrong side ) 1944 Manchester runway disaster 1985 Neptune ring discovered 1989 Munch paintings nicked in Oslo 2004 The first Duke of Northumberland and the seventh Earl of Northumberland died on this day , as did Michael Collins and Richard III who by coincidence died on exactly the same day that they were murdered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 (edited) In 30BC after conquering Egypt Octavian executes the eldest son of Mark Antony and Caesarian , son of Caesar and Cleopatra Traitorous scoundrel and rotter William Wallace executed 1305 St Bartholomew’s day massacre 1572 Duke of Buckingham assassinated 1628 Napoleon leaves Egypt to seize power in France 1799 UK takes Hong Kong 1839 Round Oak rail disaster 1858 Treaty of Prague ends Austria - Prussia war 1866 British Army withdraws from Mons 1914 Japan declares war on Germany 1914 Len Hutton’s 364 . Definitely 1938 Molotov - Ribbentrop pact 1939 Beginning of battle of Stalingrad 1942 Kharkov liberated 1943 , Marseille liberated 1944 Baltic Singing Revolution 1989 Last communist govt Hungary opens the iron curtain 1990 German reunification announced for October 1990 Berners Lee opens up the WWW 1991 Bin Laden declares war on America 1996 Skeletal remains of the Tsarevich and Anastasia found 2007 Gadaffi overthrown 2011 Edited August 24, 2022 by DavidM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 50 years to the day since Wattstax. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius! 79 Visigoths pillage Rome 410 Vandals plunder Rome 455 Pope Innocent declares Magna Carta invalid 1215 Edison patents motion picture camera 1891 National Governnent formed 1931 NATO formed 1949 -88 in Antarctica 1960 France gets nuclear bomb 1968 Ukraine declares independence 1991… as Gorbachev resigns Pluto stripped of being a planet 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyXIII Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 David, I think you got the date wrong for Len Hutton's knock. Rethymno Rugby League Appreciation Society Founder (and, so far, only) member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 1 hour ago, tonyXIII said: David, I think you got the date wrong for Len Hutton's knock. Ah…well spotted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 On this day … the battle of Crecy and the supremacy of the English longbowmen 1346 First news dispatch by telegraph 1858 Battle of Tannenberg 1914 Michael Johnson runs 43.18 400m 1999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Warrior Dragon Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 On 24/08/2022 at 10:28, DavidM said: Pluto stripped of being a planet 2006 Not surprising, really - always thought it was a bit of a Mickey Mouse planet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amm Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 On this day in 1979 Zoo Meets Factory Half-Way Bank Holiday Monday August 27th Leigh Open Air Pop Festival Admission £2 First band 1.00 p.m. Zoo records and Factory records bring you the flesh that brought you the vinyl.. The Distractions Echo and the Bunnymen X-O-Dus Orchestral Manoeuvres Elti-Fits Crawling Chaos Lori and the Chameleons A Certain Ratio The Teardrop Explodes Joy Division Whilst I do not suffer fools gladly, I will always gladly make fools suffer A man is getting along on the road of wisdom when he realises that his opinion is just an opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 On this day in 479BC the Persian army is routed by the Spartan led Greek army , ending hopes of a Persian conquest of Greece French National Assembly adopts Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 Napoleon defeats Austrian , Russian and Prussian forces at Battle of Dresden 1813 Oil discovered in Pennsylvania leading to worlds first commercially successful oil well 1859 Shortest war in history between UK and Zanzibar … 45 minutes 1896 Romania joins Allied forces 1916 Heinkel He 178 , worlds first jet aircraft flies , 1939 Mariner 2 launched to Venus 1962 IRA terrorist bomb kills Mountbatten and three others 1979 Moldova declares independence 1991 Mars closest to earth in 60,000 years … a mere 34.6 million miles 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Tonks Sidestep Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 Caleb Bradham invented Pepsi Cola today in 1898 Royal Navy gives filthy rotter Hun naval force a damn good thrashing at battle of Heligoland 1914 Italy declares war on Germany 1916 Marseille and Toulon liberated 1944 Gorbachev resigns as USSR collapses 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 As I’m sure many are aware , and maybe commemorating , today is the day in 1261 when Pope Urban IV succeeded Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd Pope… and in 1484 Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV Frederick the Great attacks Saxony and begins 7 years war 1756 Faraday discovers eletromagnetic induction ( nope i’ve no idea either ) 1831 Times announces death of English cricket in mock obituary , leading to establishment of The Ashes 1882 Daimler invents first internal combustion engine for motorcycles 1885 Formation of Northern Football Union in Huddersfield 1895 Goodyear formed 1898 First radio advert in New York 1922 USSR tests atomic bomb 1949 British troops arrive in Korea 1950 Last Beatles concert before paying fans 1966 NATO launches action against Bosnian Serbs 1995 Hurricane Katrina 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled Townie Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 1 Jam Eater 1.(noun. jam eeter) A Resident of Whitehaven or Workington. Offensive. It is now a term of abuse that both towns of West Cumbria use for each other especially at Workington/Whitehaven rugby league derby matches. St Albans Centurions Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) So on this day in 30 BC Cleopatra committed suicide after Octavian entered Alexandria , maybe by poison snake as she had puncture wounds on her arm . Foundation of Melbourne 1835 ( named such after Viscount Melbourne in 1837 ) Germany wins battle of Tannenburg 1914 Fanni Kaplan shoots Lenin 1918 Seige of Leningrad begins 1941 . Lasting 872 days it was the costliest seige in history . More Russians died than the US and British lost during the entire war US/ Soviet hotline opens 1963 Maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Discovery 1984 Edited August 30, 2022 by DavidM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 On this day Henry V , hero of Agincourt , died of dysentery in France . He’s succeeded by his baby son who goes on to lose pretty much everything his father won . 1422 Peninsular Army captures San Sebastián 1813 Mary Ann Nichols murdered . Some believe the first victim of Jack the Ripper , some think the second or third 1888 …. I would highly recommend Jack the Ripper the Definitive Story on YouTube . It really is . Triple Entente complete with signing in St Petersburg 1907 USA signs neutrality act 1935 Germany launches staged attack on Polish radio station as pretext to imminent invasion 1939 Robert Mitchum arrested in drug raid . Gets 60 days in jail 1948 Malsysia independence 1957… Trinidad & Tobago independence 1962 Gary Sobers six sixes in an over against Malcolm Nash 1968 IRA ceasefire 1994 Princess Diana fatal crash 1997 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Seige of Constantinople …Muslim Armada of 1800 ships destroyed by the Byzantine Navy with the fabled Greek Fire . 717 Louis XVI dies after 72 year reign 1715 A Trip To The Moon released in France 1902 St Petersburg becomes Petrograd 1914 World War II kicks off with Nazi Germany invading Poland 1939… George Marshall becomes US Army Chief of Staff on the same day Gaddafi comes to power 1969 SR-71 Blackbird flies from NY to London in record 1 hr 54 m… 1974 Titanic wreck located 1985 Beslan school hostage crisis 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padge Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 My wife officially started her retirement. 1 Visit my photography site www.padge.smugmug.com Radio 5 Live: Saturday 14 April 2007 Dave Whelan "In Wigan rugby will always be king" This country's wealth was created by men in overalls, it was destroyed by men in suits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Battle of Actium 31BC Treaty of Jaffa between Richard and Saladin 1192 GREAT FIRE OF LONDON 1666 Britain adopts Gregorian calendar 1752 Battle of Omdurman 1892 Germany annexes Danzig 1939 Japan surrenders 1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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