On This Day

NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1539

Bloody hell, Ravey! Have you wet the bed?!!!

5.41am!!!

30 Mill · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:27 am Post subject:

June 14th:

1645 English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - Northamptonshire. Parliamentary forces commanded by Oliver Cromwell defeated the Royalist troops of Charles I, despite being heavily outnumbered. To this day, this remains the most interesting thing to ever happen in Northamptonshire.

1789 English Captain William Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from the H.M.S. Bounty, reached Timor after travelling nearly 4,000 miles in a small, open boat. The Bounty had been sailing from Tahiti when crew members mutinied under the leadership of Mel Gibson.

1919 At 14.13 GMT, Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten-Brown took off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway, Ireland, in a Vickers Vimy. They landed safely 16 hours later, on the 15th and claimed a £10,000 prize from the Daily Mail. They were eventually knighted by King George V. When Alcock was killed in an air crash in France in December 1919 his partner, Brown, never flew again.

1928 Death of the British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst.

1946 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor who developed television died.

1968 British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson set out to sail solo around the world.

1970 Scumchester United footballer Bobby Charlton played his 106th and last international match for England against West Germany in the World Cup finals in Mexico. His first game had been in April 1958 against Scotland. The owner of the worlds most ridiculous ridiculous combover he would forever be in his brothers shadow.

1972 Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers faced flight delays and cancellations as pilots threatened to strike over hijack fears.

1976 Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson received a knighthood.

1982 Argentine forces surrendered at Port Stanley, ending the Falklands War. 255 Britons and 652 Argentines died in the conflict. Cheers Armley! Wink

1995 Pauline Clare, 47, became the first woman to be appointed chief constable in Britain. Another wedge, another thin end... Rolling Eyes

1997 Queen Elizabeth II birthday honours included a George Medal for teacher Lisa Potts, survivor of a machete attack at her school; and a posthumous Queen's Gallantry medal for headmaster Philip Lawrence murdered outside his school in London.

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halfaperson · Allan Clarke Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 752

Bright and Early this morning old boy.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject:

June 15th:

1215 King John agreed to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, or Great Charter of English liberties, at Runnymede, near Windsor. The document, essentially a peace treaty between John and his barons, guaranteed the nobles their feudal privileges and promised to maintain the nation's laws.

1330 The birth of Edward the Black Prince (statue in City Square, Leeds), eldest son of Edward III. He married his cousin Joan, ‘The Fair Maid of Kent’, who gave him two sons, one of whom was the future Richard III.

1381 Wat Tyler - leader of the Peasants' Revolt, was executed at Smithfield in London after being found guilty of treason.

1825 The foundation stone of the New London Bridge was laid by ‘the grand old’ Duke of York. It now spans an artificial lake in Arizona.

1860 British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for tending British wounded during the Crimean War, opened a school for nurses at St Thomas's Hospital in London.

1910 British explorer Captain Robert Scott began his ill-fated expedition to reach the South Pole.

1928 The House of commons voted to fix the date of Easter. However, a clause in the Bill allowed the consideration of the opinions of all the major churches and the Act was never put in force.

1929 British made Bentleys occupied the first four places at the finish of the Le Mans 24 hour race in France.

1971 Opposition grew to Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher's plans to end free school milk for children over the age of seven and some Labour controlled councils threatened to put up the rates in order to continue supplying free milk.

1996 An IRA bomb, the biggest ever to go off on the British mainland, devastated the centre of Scumchester. 200 people were taken to hospital and the explosion caused £100 million worth of damage.

1998 Britain introduced a £2 coin.

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

June 16th:

1880: The distinctive Salvation Army ladies’ bonnets were worn for the first time when they marched in procession in Hackney in London’s East End.

1903: Henry Ford formed his motor manufacturing company. He retained 25 per cent of the shares and was made Vice-President and Chief Engineer. On the same day, a company just one year old registered its trade name, Pepsi-Cola.

1904: The entire novel Ulysses by James Joyce takes place on this day, now known and celebrated in Dublin, where the novel is set, as Bloomsday, after the leading character, Leopold Bloom.

1929: Bentleys took the first four places at the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race.

1932: Yorkshire's first-wicket partnership of Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes established a new first-class record stand of 555 during the match against Essex at Leyton.

1963: Soviets launch first woman into space. Valentina Tereshkova, a former textile worker from the Soviet Union becomes the first woman in space.

1978: The electronic ‘Space Invaders’ game was demonstrated by Taito Corporation of Tokyo.

1982: Welsh miners back health workers. South Wales coalfield comes to a standstill as miners strike in support of health workers.

1992: Controversial Diana book published. An explosive new book about the Princess of Wales, including claims she attempted suicide, is published by author Andrew Morton.

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halfaperson · Allan Clarke Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 752

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raveydavey · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

June 17th:

1239: Birth of Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) who invaded Wales in 1277 and ended the autonomy of the principality. He was less successful with Scotland where there was unrest and rebellion.

1579 Francis Drake anchored the Golden Hind just north of what would one day be San Francisco Bay, California and proclaimed England's sovereignty over an area he named New Albion.

1703 Birth of John Wesley, English evangelist who initiated the Methodist societies and brought about an evangelical revival, not only in England, but also in North America.

1775 In the War of American Independence, British troops won a victory at Bunker Hill north of Boston, Massachusetts.

1823 Charles Macintosh patented the waterproof cloth he used to make raincoats, after experimenting with waste rubber products from Glasgow's new gas works.

1867 Pioneer doctor Joseph Lister amputated a cancerous breast from his sister Isabella using carbolic acid as an antiseptic. The operation in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary was the first under antiseptic conditions.

1940 World War II: In a radio broadcast, Winston Churchill urged Britain to conduct herself so that this would be remembered as her finest hour.

1944: Iceland (formerly Bejam) became an independent republic.

1955 Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden presented the largest-scale election broadcast ever seen on television.

1961: Russian dancer in freedom dash. Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev breaks free from security guards at Paris airport and asks for asylum in France.

1964 The first purpose-built floating trade fair docked at Tilbury in London with 22,000 samples of Japanese goods on board.

1970: Edwin Land patented his Polaroid camera. It would become the staple of "Readers Wives" sections until digital came along.

1974 An IRA bomb exploded at the Houses of Parliament, causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people.

1980 The locations for the first US nuclear missiles to be stored on British soil (at Greenham Common and Molesworth military bases) were revealed by the government. Millie Tant and her friends immediately made their way to the sites.

1982 Scumchester United footballer Norman Whiteside became the youngest player to appear in the World Cup finals - playing for Northern Ireland against Yugoslavia in Spain. He was aged 17 years and 41 days.

1999 Death of Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster.

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject:

June 18th:

1583 The first Life Insurance policy was sold in London, and when a claim was eventually made, it was disputed. Thats insurance companies for you!

1633 Charles I was crowned King of Scotland, at Edinburgh.

1769 The birth of Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquis of Londonderry, a British statesman born in Ireland who, as foreign secretary to Lord Liverpool, organized the coalition against Napoleon.

1815 The Battle of Waterloo:- Napoleon Bonaparte suffered defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history. Take that, Frenchy!

1817 Waterloo Bridge across the River Thames was opened. Originally it was called Strand Bridge but was re-named in honour of the British victory at Waterloo in 1815.

1822 London unveiled its first nude statue - a bronze figure of Achilles in Hyde Park by sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott. The statue later acquired a discreet fig leaf.

1928 In London, the keel was laid for biggest ship to date, the 1,000 foot, 60,000 ton Oceanic.

1935 Germany signed a treaty with Britain limiting the size of the German fleet to 35 percent that of the Royal Navy.

1963 Henry Cooper knocked Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) to the floor in round four at Wembley Stadium, London, but by the sixth, with Cooper badly cut, the fight was stopped and Clay remained world heavyweight boxing champion.

1965 The government announced it would introduce a blood alcohol limit for drivers, with penalties for those caught above it.

1972 A flight from London Heathrow to Brussels crashed minutes after take-off killing all 118 people on board.

1975 First North Sea Oil was pumped ashore in Britain.

2000 Jamie Andrew, aged 30 years, became the first quadruple amputee to scale Ben Nevis when he reached the snow-covered peak after a climb of 6½ hours. He had lost his hands and feet from severe frostbite after being stranded in the Alps in a fierce blizzard in 1999.

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

June 19th:

1566 King James VI of Scotland and I of England was born.

1809 Curwen's Act was passed in Britain, to prevent the sale of parliamentary seats, thus decreasing the number of seats which the British government could manipulate for its regular supporters.

1829 Robert Peel's Act was passed, to establish a new police force in London and its suburbs. They were known as Peelers and then Bobbies, derived from his surname and Christian name respectively.

1861 Douglas Haig, British field-marshal was born. Haig became known as 'Butcher of the Somme', after he unnecessarily sent thousands of British troops to their deaths. After the war, he devoted himself to the care of ex-Servicemen.

1917 The British royal family renounced the German names and titles of Saxe-Coburg, (responding to anti-German sentiment) and became Windsor.

1970 Edward Heath became the new British prime minister after a surprise victory for the Conservatives and the defeat of Labour leader Harold Wilson.

1975 An inquest jury decided that the missing Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.

1978 Cricketing star Ian Botham became the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.

1980 Three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad were shot dead by Iraqi security forces.

1996 Britain offered to slaughter up to 67,000 more cattle in an effort to end the ban on British beef.

1997 The US fast-food chain McDonalds won a two-year libel case in Britain against two environmental campaigners who claimed that the company caused environmental damage and exploited workers in the Third World.

1997 William Hague became the youngest leader of the Conservative Party for 200 years. He beat Kenneth Clarke in the election following the resignation of John Major.

2000: Tiger Woods won the US Open at Pebble Beach, finishing on a 12-under-par 272 with a lead of 15 strokes, the biggest win in any major in history and also the lowest total in the history of the tournament.

2003: The PFA made a £40,000 legal and compensation payment after wrongfully dismissing former chairman Barry Horne.

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

June 20th:

1756 In India, the night of the infamous 'Black Hole of Calcutta', where more than 140 British soldiers and civilians were placed in a small prison cell - 18 feet by 14 feet - by the Nawab of Bengal. The following morning only 23 emerged alive.

1837 On the death of William IV, Queen Victoria, aged 18, acceded to the throne.

1887 On Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Buffalo Bill Cody staged a Royal Command performance of his famous Wild West Show, and four European kings boarded the original Deadwood coach driven by Cody.

1887 Britain's longest railway bridge over the River Tay opened. The first had collapsed in 1879 whilst the Edinburgh to Dundee train was crossing, killing over 90 people.

1906 Catherine Cookson, English novelist, was born.

1949 American tennis player 'Gorgeous' Gussie Moran caused a sensation at the Wimbledon Championships by wearing lace-trimmed pants under a short skirt.

1984 The biggest exam shake up for over 10 years was announced with O Level and CSE exams to be replaced by new examinations, to be known as GCSEs.

1986 In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, the government ordered a temporary ban on the slaughter and movement of lambs in some parts of the country.

1990 British Chancellor John Major proposed a new European currency which would circulate alongside existing national currencies.

1995 Shell abandoned at the eleventh hour its plan to dump the disused Brent Spar rig in the Atlantic, provoking a furious reaction in the British government. Meanwhile, the environmental campaign group Greenpeace claimed victory in the high-profile battle.

1996 English cricket umpire Harold 'Dickie' Bird received a standing ovation by players and spectators at Lords when he took the field to officiate in his final Test Match.

1997 Former Conservative minister Jonathan Aitken lost his libel action against The Guardian newspaper over allegations that wealthy Arabs paid for him to stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris while he was a minister.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

June 21st:

1675 The laying of the foundation stone of the new St Paul's Cathedral in London The cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and the site faced that of the church destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

1854 The first Victoria Cross, Britain's highest medal for bravery, was awarded to Charles Lucas, who was awarded it during the Crimean War for conspicuous bravery. The medal was made from metal from a cannon captured at Sebastopol.

1898 A reporter covering the launch of HMS Albion on the Thames was in such a hurry to file his story that he missed the fact that 38 people drowned when a temporary jetty collapsed.

1919 German sailors scuttled 72 warships at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys even though Germany had surrendered. It was the greatest act of self-destruction in modern military history.

1937 First televising of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships.

1942 German forces under Field-Marshal Rommel captured Tobruk.

1945: US troops take Okinawa. The Japanese island of Okinawa falls to the Americans after a long and bloody battle.

1948 The first stored programme to run on a computer was put through its paces on the Small Scale Experimental Machine, known as Baby, at Scumchester University.

1969 The BBC TV broadcast 'Royal Family' - a documentary going behind the public facade of the British Royal Family. This was the first time anyone had seen Queen Elizabeth II, her husband the Duke of Edinburgh and their children other than on official engagements.

1970 Tony Jacklin won the US Open at Hazeltine Golf Club, Minnesota. He was the first Briton to win since Ted Ray in 1920.

1982 Diana, Princess of Wales, gave birth to a boy, (Prince William) sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital, in London.

1991 British Gas chairman Robert Evans came under fire for accepting a pay increase of 66%, taking his annual wage to £370,000.

1996 Britain and other members of the EU reached an agreement for the phased lifting of the ban on British beef. French farmers, however, blockaded two channel ports.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

June 22nd:

1377 At the age of 10, Richard II became King of England following the death of his grandfather Edward III, the previous day.

1611 Henry Hudson, English navigator, was cast adrift with some of his crew after a mutiny in the bay that now bears his name. It was the last time they were seen alive.

1802 Britain's Health and Morals of Apprentices Act limited children to a maximum twelve hour working day; whilst under nines were banned from the mills.

1814 The Marylebone Cricket Club and Hertfordshire played the first match at England's Lord's Cricket Ground.

1910 The birth of John Hunt, English mountaineer and explorer. He led the 1953 expedition on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain (29,035 feet). He described the venture in his book The Ascent of Everest.

1921The first Northern Ireland Parliament was opened by King George V in Belfast. Sir James Craig was the first Prime Minister in a parliament that nobody wanted. Southern Irish leaders wanted a united Ireland.

1941: Hitler invades the Soviet Union. The German Army takes the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin by surprise as it begins a massive advance on Moscow. Bad idea.

1959 Directors of Harrods urged shareholders to vote for a £34m merger with the Debenhams department chain.

1981: Chapman pleads guilty to Lennon murder. Mark Chapman changes his plea to guilty and admits he murdered John Lennon in December 1980.

1984 The first Virgin Atlantic flight left Gatwick for New York, with a planeload of passengers who had paid just £99 for their tickets.

1986 The 'Hand of God' football match. England were beaten 2-1 by Argentina in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Mexico. Both Argentine goals were scored by Diego Maradona - the first with the deliberate use of his hand which went unseen by the referee. It was the first match between the two countries since the Falklands War in 1982. Cheating bastard - I don't care how good a player he was, he'll always be remember for being a cheat.

1995 John Major resigned as head of Britain's Conservative Party, but said that he would stay on as prime minister while he fought for re-election. He said he had been under attack for three years and told his critics to 'put up or shut up'.

2001 The Parole Board decided that Venables and Thompson, the two schoolboy murderers of 2 year old James Bulger should be released, and their identities protected, after serving just 8 years for a crime that shocked the nation.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

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