On this day...

[DavidM]

 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

[The Hallucinating Goose]

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. 

[DavidM]

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

[Wolford6]

I bought a new kettle.

[DavidM]

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

[DavidM]

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

[DavidM]

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 

[DavidM]

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

[Futtocks]

50 years to the day since Wattstax.

 

[DavidM]

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

[tonyXIII]

David, I think you got the date wrong for Len Hutton's knock.

[DavidM]

1 hour ago, tonyXIII said:

David, I think you got the date wrong for Len Hutton's knock.

Ah…well spotted 

[DavidM]

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

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

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!

[amm]

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

 

[DavidM]

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 

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

 

[DavidM]

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

[DavidM]

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

[Exiled Townie]

[DavidM]

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

[DavidM]

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

[DavidM]

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

 

[Padge]

My wife officially started her retirement.

[DavidM]

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