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NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1558

is the above ^^ for the 24th or the 23rd Confused

raveydavey · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

raveydavey · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

May 24th

1738 John Wesley first attended evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, then went on to a meeting at Aldersgate where he experienced his conversion. This was the start of Wesley’s Methodism, and over 250 years later there are 54 million Methodists in 60 countries.

1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened to accommodate French prisoners of war. From 1850 it becomes a prison for convicts.

1819 Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in London, the only daughter of the Duke of Kent. As Queen Victoria, she reigned for 63 years, from 1837 until her death in 1901. She married Prince Albert in 1840 and had four sons and five daughters. After Albert’s death in 1861, she went into virtual retirement.

1930 Yorkshires Amy Johnson landed at Darwin, Australia and became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.

1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood off Greenland with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. The boat exploded when a German shell hit the Hood's ammunition store. Leeds' very own Ark Royal was on the Bismarcks tail though...

1976 British Airways and Air France Concordes arrived at Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C. having made their first commercial crossing of the North Atlantic.

1995 Harold Wilson, British Labour politician died.

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30 Mill · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:39 am Post subject:

May 25 2008

Leeds destroy Donny 3-0 at Wembley

There is nothing else of note occurring on the date - ever

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

May 25th:

1659 Lord protector Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver, resigned his position - leading to the restoration of the monarchy and the crowning of Charles II in 1660.

1871 The House of Commons passed the Bank Holiday Act, creating public holidays on Easter Monday, Whit Monday and Christmas Day.

1895 At the end of a sensational trial, Irish writer Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in his relations with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry. He was sentenced to two years hard labour.

1967: Celtic win European Cup. Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup, beating favourites Internazionale Milan 2-1.

1979: Price of milk shoots up. The price of milk is to go up by more than 10% to 15p a pint - three times the price it was five years ago.

1982: Dozens killed as Argentines hit British ships. Dozens of men are feared dead in the seas around the Falkland Islands after frigates are destroyed.

1994: Camelot wins UK lottery race. The Camelot consortium wins the contract to run Britain's first national lottery starting in November.

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:33 am Post subject:

May 26th:

1733 John Kay, assistant to Richard Arkwright, patented the 'Flying Shuttle' to operate on Arkwright's cotton spinning frame.

1798 Income Tax was introduced into Britain - a 10% tax on all incomes over £200 a year.

1940 The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk began. Besides the efforts of the Royal Navy, 700 small ships set off from Britain to rescue 385,000 soldiers over the following nine days. The mission was codenamed Operation Dynamo.

1950: UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations. Long queues appear at garages this evening and motorists have torn their ration books into confetti after an end to petrol rationing is announced.

1972: Thomas Cook packaged and sold. State-owned (I never knew that) travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.

1989 The BBC broadcast the 10,000th episode of the daily radio serial The Archers.

Apologies for missing this on my first submission:

1989: Former Leeds and England player and manager Don Revie died. He was 61. Sad

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halfaperson · Allan Clarke Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 759

raveydavey · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

May 27th:

1679 Britain passed the Habeas Corpus Act which made it illegal to hold anyone in prison without a trial. Unless you are a "terrorist"

1897 The birth of John Cockcroft, the English nuclear physicist who split the atom.

1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, British electric lamp inventor, died. Swan received a British patent for his device in 1878, about a year before the American, Thomas Edison.

1919 Oil was struck at Britain's first on-shore oilfield of three wells, at Hardstoft, near Tibshelf in Derbyshire.

1936 Britain's 80,733 tonne liner Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York with more than 1800 passengers.

1940 World War II: the start of Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk.

1941 World War II: Royal Naval ships Dorsetshire, King George V and Rodney attacked and sank the German battleship Bismarck in the Atlantic after it had been damaged by torpedoes dropped by British aircraft from HMS Ark Royal.

1955 Anthony Eden's Conservatives won the general election with a clear majority, ending a five-year political stalemate.

1964: A school in Coventry sent 11 boys home for having haircuts like Mick Jagger... Shocked

1998 18 year old Michael Owen became the youngest ever England international goalscorer with the only goal in a 1-0 friendly against Morocco in Casablanca.

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject:

May 28th:

1907 The first Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) motor cycle races were held. The winner was Charlie Collier on his pedal assisted Matchless, at an average speed of 38.22 mph. It was argued that rival Jack Marshall, riding a Triumph, would have won if he'd fitted pedals, and the following year pedals were banned.

1908 Ian Fleming, English author (James Bond novels) was born.

1951: Glasgow powers up for the Festival. Princess Elizabeth opens the Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow - the latest show in the Festival of Britain.

1959: Monkeys survive space mission. Two monkeys become the first living creatures to survive a space flight.

1967: Sir Francis Chichester sails home. Sir Francis Chichester arrives in Plymouth tonight in his yacht, Gipsy Moth IV, after completing his voyage around the world.

1968: Kylie is born love10

1982 Falklands War: British troops re-captured Port Darwin and Goose Green, taking almost 1500 Argentine prisoners.

2008: Kylie is 40 - and I still would Wink

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Garp · Jack Charlton Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 237

Kylie

.....Must be 12 pinter

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eddiesleftfoot · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

I'm with Ravey on the Kylie issue

erm, I mean I agree with the sentiment not actually with Ravey Embarassed

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

May 29th:

1829 Humphry Davy, the English scientist who invented a safety lamp for miners, died.

1871 Whit Monday became the first official Bank Holiday in Britain. It rained (probably)

1902 The birth of Sir Leonard Huxley, English scientist who developed radar.

1953: Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest. New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1982: Pope makes historic visit to Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, welcomes Pope John Paul II to Canterbury Cathedral.

1984: Miners and police clash at Orgreave. Police use riot gear for the first time since the miners' strike began as they face the biggest picket to date.

1985: Fans die in Heysel rioting. Thirty-nine Juventus fans are crushed during rioting at the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels. English clubs are subsequently banned from all European competitions. Best fans in the world?

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

May 30th:

1431 Joan of Arc, the French peasant girl who became a national heroine leading French troops against the English, was burnt at the stake in Rouen for heresy.

1536 Eleven days after he had his second wife Anne Boleyn beheaded, King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, former lady-in-waiting to Anne.

1656 The formation of the Grenadier Guards, the senior regiment of the British Army.

1842 An assassination attempt was made on Queen Victoria as she drove down Constitution Hill in London with her husband Prince Albert. The would-be assassin was John Francis.

1929 The British Labour Party won the general election with 287 seats.

1942 World War II: The RAF carried out its first 1,000 plus bombing raid of Germany, sending 1,047 aircraft to bomb Cologne.

1990: France bans British beef imports. The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or "mad cow" disease.

1996: England's footballers returned from a tour of Hong Kong amid tales of a drunken binge which started in a club and continued on the flight home. The airline, Cathay Pacific, reported £5,000 of damage to their plane.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 11:45 am Post subject:

May 31st:

1838 The last battle on English soil took place at the Battle of Bosenden Wood between armed soldiers and 40 agricultural peasants. They were led by flamboyant Cornish wine merchant (Sir William de Courtenay) and were protesting against the poverty of their lives.

1859 Big Ben, in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, tolled for the first time.

1889 A painting of a small dog listening to a phonograph was shown to the general manager of 'The Gramophone Company' in London by the painter, Francis Barraud. It was of his dog, Nipper. The phonograph was painted out and a gramophone substituted. It soon became the famous trademark for the company 'His Master's Voice'.

1910 Lord Baden-Powell's sister Agnes formed the Girl Guides.

1911 The White Star liner Titanic was launched at Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, 'Not even God himself could sink this ship.'

1916 World War 1: The Battle of Jutland in which the Royal Navy lost one battleship, one cruiser and five destroyers. The Germans lost one battleship, one cruiser and one destroyer. At the end of the day, 2,545 men had been killed..

1930 Don Bradman became the first Australian to score 1,000 runs in England between the start of the cricket season and the end of May.

1956 Len Hutton, England cricketer, was knighted.

1965: Britain's Jim Clark became the first European to win the Indianapolis 500. He achieved an average speed of 150.69mph in his Lotus.

1985: English teams banned after Heysel. The Football Association, supported by Margaret Thatcher, bans English clubs from playing in Europe following the Heysel stadium tragedy.

1998: Ginger leaves the Spice Girls. Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice, leaves the phenomenally successful Spice Girls band. TEN YEARS AGO!!!! Shocked

2002: The World Cup in Japan and South Korea began with first-time qualifiers Senegal causing an upset by defeating holders France 1-0 in Seoul.

2003: Rangers completed a domestic treble, beating Dundee 1-0 to add the Scottish Cup to the league title and CIS Insurance Cup won earlier in the season.

2004: Chelsea, as widely expected, dismissed manager Claudio Ranieri despite the Italian having guided the club to the Champions League semi-finals and second place in the Premier League.

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