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halfaperson · Allan Clarke Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 789

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject:

halfaperson · Allan Clarke Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 789

30 Mill · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

raveydavey · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject:

April 10th:

1814 - Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Toulouse by the British and the Spanish. The defeat led to his abdication and exile to Elba.

1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.

1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.

1929: The first British world motor racing champion Mike Hawthorn was born. Less than six months after winning the title, in 1958, he was killed in a car crash in Surrey.

1998: Northern Ireland peace deal reached. The Northern Ireland peace talks ended with an historic agreement called the Good Friday Agreement.

2000: A Football League tribunal fined Bolton £45,000 for inducing manager Sam Allardyce to join them from Notts County.

2002: England captain David Beckham suffered a broken foot during Scumchester United's Champions League match against Deportivo La Coruna, sparking fears he would not be fit for the World Cup. However, the midfielder recovered to lead his country out against Sweden in Saitama on June 2. Phew!

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

April 11th:

1855 Britain's first pillar boxes were put up in London. There were six of them, all painted green.

1939 The game of darts was banned in public houses in Glasgow because it was 'too dangerous'.

1941 - Germany bombers blitzed Coventry, England.

1945 - During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.

1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely. Fortunately the crew included Tom Hanks who saved the day before embarking on a glittering Hollywood career.

1981: Brixton ablaze after riot. The arrest of a black man leads to hundreds of youths rampaging through the streets of Brixton in south London. Unfortunately Gene Hunt was otherwise occupied dealing with some dozy mare from the future.

1990: Customs seize 'supergun'. Customs officers in Middlesbrough say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:21 am Post subject:

April 12th:

1606 The Union Flag became the official flag of Britain. It combined the flags of St. George (England) and St. Andrew (Scotland). As Wales was not a Kingdom but a Principality it could not be included on the flag. In 1801 the cross of St. Patrick (Ireland) was incorporated to create the flag that has been flown ever since. Hurrah!

1838 English settlers in South Africa defeated the Zulus at the Battle of Tugela. The settlers had guns whereas the Zulus only had spears. That bloody well showed them!

1937 British engineer, Frank Whittle, tested the first jet engine at the Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby. The first jet flight was achieved by the German Heinkel, but it was Whittle’s engine that was used as the prototype.

1961: Soviets win space race. The Soviet Union beats the USA in the race to get the first man into space and Yuri Gagarin becomes a national hero.

1984: Scargill vetoes national ballot on strike. Arthur Scargill, leader of the miners' union the NUM, will not allow a national ballot to take place on whether to stop the strike. Bit of a mistake that....

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

April 13th:

1771 Richard Trevithick, Cornish engineer was born. He designed high pressure steam engines and road, steam powered locomotives including 'the Puffing Devil'. It was one of the world's first road vehicles to carry passengers. Another legendary British engineer

1892 The birth of Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Royal Air Force Bomber commander, nicknamed ‘Bomber Harris’, who instituted the mass bombing raids over Germany, including the controversial blanket bombing of Dresden.

1912 The formation of the Royal Flying Corps (later incorporated into the RAF).

1935 Imperial Airways and QANTAS inaugurated their London to Australia air service.

1936 Luton Town footballer Joe Payne, aged 22, set a goal scoring record when he scored ten goals in one match against Bristol Rovers.

1992 Neil Kinnock resigned as Labour Party leader. He blamed the Conservative backed press for his party's defeat at the general election.

1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters at 21. Golfing sensation Tiger Woods wins the US Masters, the youngest player ever to do so.

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NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1611

have you taken over from Nlag, Ravey?

raveydavey · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

He's having a break so I said I'd stand in with the daily facts til he gets back.

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject:

April 14th:

1471 The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, ‘the Kingmaker’, was slain in the battle. He had put Henry VI on the throne, but Edward IV returned from exile in Holland to reclaim the crown. Yorkshire beats Lancashire - a theme repeated through history.

1527: Birth of Philip II of Spain, who, in 1588, tried to conquer England, but sent his ill-fated Armada to destruction. He didn't try that again.

1889: Birth of Arnold Toynbee, English economic historian who coined the phrase ‘Industrial Revolution’ in his book covering that period in Britain.

1912 The British built luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic shortly before midnight, and sank in the early hours of the next morning. 1500 passengers and crew were killed.

1931 The Ministry of Transport issued the first Highway Code, a set of guidelines and rules for drivers. Even now this is routinely ignored by some drivers and most cyclists.

1939 The birth of Trevor Locke, policeman who was taken hostage while on guard duty outside the Iranian Embassy in London. He tackled the terrorist leader as the SAS stormed the building, saving the life of the first SAS man on the scene. Saving the SAS? How hard was he?

1950 Comic strip hero Dan Dare, the pilot of a space ship, made his first appearance in the first edition of the comic, the Eagle. The comic merged with Lion comic in 1969. All 900,000 copies of the first issue were sold. Its founders were Mancunian Frank Hampson and an Oxford-educated vicar Marcus Morris.

1970: Critical explosion cripples Apollo 13. An explosion on board Apollo 13 causes one of the most critical situations in American space history. Fortunately Tom Hanks was on board to deal with the crisis.

1983 The first cordless telephone, capable of operating up to 600 feet from base, was introduced. It was made by Fidelity and British Telecom and sold for £170. Bargain

1996 British golfer Nick Faldo won the US Masters title for the third time.

1989 Police in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, revealed that violent prisoners were being put into a bright pink cell which seemed to have a calming effect. The colour was named Baker-Miller Pink after the police chief and psychologist who thought up the idea. They like pink in 'uddersfield

2000 Kenneth Noye, who carried out a "road rage" killing on the M25 began a life sentence after being convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in London. He fled to the Costa del Sol after the attack and was arrested in 1998 by British police.

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raveydavey · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject:

April 15th:

1901: Snooker legend Joe Davis was born. He went on to win 15 world titles, starting with the inaugural competition in 1927, up to his retirement from the championship in 1946. He also won the world professional billiards title four times. He died in 1978.

1942: Malta gets George Cross for bravery. The people of Malta are awarded the George Cross in recognition of their heroic struggle against occupation.

1945: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen. British troops enter the concentration camp after negotiating a truce with the German commandant.

1953: Britain honours American hero. Reis Leming, a 22-year-old US airman, is awarded the George Medal for rescuing people trapped by winter floods.

1986: Viv Richards hit a Test century off only 56 balls against England on his home ground of St John's, Antigua. Ahem, that was lucky... Rolling Eyes

1989: Britain's worst football disaster at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. 95 football fans were crushed to death shortly after the start of the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Most of those killed were from Liverpool.

2006: Accrington Stanley sealed their promotion to the Football League 44 years after the original club resigned their league status and later went out of business.

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halfaperson · Allan Clarke Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 789

cardboardbox?Youwerelucky · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

16th April

Charlie Chaplin was born

(not that I have been waiting for this date since I found out when he was born or anything Rolling Eyes

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

April 16th:

1705 Queen Anne of England knighted the scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. Famously Newton discovered gravity - where would we be without it? He then retired to live a quiet life on the back of a one pound note.

1746: The Duke of Cumberland’s forces defeated the Jacobite Scots at the Battle of Culloden near Inverness. The bloody battle earned the Duke the name ‘Butcher Cumberland’. The Young Pretender Charles Stuart escaped and was later helped by Flora Macdonald to flee the country.

1889 Charlie Chaplin, English-born film actor and director was born. Very Happy

1918 Spike Milligan, English comedian and writer was born.

1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia. Thousands welcome the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they arrived in Scotland to launch the new royal yacht, Britannia.

1964: 'Great Train Robbers' get 300 years. Some of the longest sentences in British criminal history have been imposed on men involved in the so-called "Great Train Robbery".

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

April 17th:

1860: The first international boxing match between a US boxer, John C Heenan and a British boxer, champion Tom Sayers, at Farnborough, Hampshire took place. Despite being 46 lb lighter, Sayers forced a draw after 42 rounds of bare-knuckle brawling. Now thats what I call a fight!

1968: London Bridge was sold for £1m to American oil tycoon Robert McCullough. He decided to knock it down, brick by brick, and have it re-built at Lake Havasu in the United States. He did mean to buy London Bridge, didn't he?

1969: Devlin is youngest-ever woman MP
A 21-year-old woman, Bernadette Devlin, is voted in as Britain's youngest ever female MP and the country's third youngest ever.

1984: Libyan embassy shots kill policewoman
WPC Yvonne Fletcher has been killed after shots were fired

1986: British journalist McCarthy kidnapped.
John McCarthy is abducted on his way to the airport - three bodies, believed to be of British hostages, are also found.

1992: Benny Hill, English comedian died. A sad day indeed.

1994: West Indian batsman Brian Lara broke the record for the highest individual score in Test Cricket when he scored 375 against England in Antigua.

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30 Mill · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

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