On This Day

raveydavey · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject:

April 27th:

1296: An English army, led by Edward I, defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar.

1937: The world's longest suspension bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, is officially opened. Its length: 4,200 feet. It is not really golden though.

1939: Conscription for men aged 20 - 21 was announced in Britain.

1945: Russians and Americans link at Elbe. Russian and American troops join hands at the River Elbe in Germany, bringing the end of the war a step closer.

1828: The opening of the London Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, London. Lady visitors were politely requested to refrain from poking the beasts through the bars of the cages. Shocked

1971: Protest disrupts Welsh language trial. Police in Wales remove demonstrators from the entrance of a courtroom after they disrupted proceedings inside. What a complete waste of time this bit of political correctness still proves to be. Duplicating signs, paperwork and even vehicle documents so an all but dead language can be forced upon the rest of us. How many people speak Welsh as their main language on a daily basis? About as many as speak Klingon I reckon...

1984: Libyan embassy siege ends. The siege of the Libyan Embassy in London ends 11 days after the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.

1992: The House of Commons elected a woman to the post of Speaker for the first time. She was Betty Boothroyd, the 62-year-old Labour MP for West Bromwich.

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30 Mill · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:33 am Post subject:

For those that missed it

April 25th 1915 - (Unofficial) The birth of a magnificent nation, known as the Lucky Country for very good reasons

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

April 28th:

1603: Queen Elizabeth I's funeral took place at Westminster Abbey.
Obviously she was just Queen Elizabeth then, not becoming Queen Elizabeth I until several hundred years later when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.

1770: English navigator Captain James Cook and his crew, including the botanist Joseph Banks, landed in Australia, at Stingray Bay, which was later named Botany Bay.

1772: The world's most travelled goat died in London. She had circumnavigated the world twice, first on Dolphin under Captain Wallis, then on Cook's Endeavour. The Lord of the Admiralty signed a document acknowledging her age and adventures, but she died soon after.

1789: The crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied against the harsh life at sea under Captain Bligh. They were on the return journey from Tahiti where they had spent six months gathering breadfruit trees. Bligh and 17 others were cast adrift in a small boat without a chart. While the mutineers eventually colonized Pitcairn Island, Bligh managed to sail the small craft 3,618 miles to Timor, near Java, arriving there on 14th June.

1795 Birth of Charles Sturt, English explorer who headed three major Australian expeditions. With Hume, he discovered the River Darling. He also charted the Murray to its source near Adelaide, suffering great hardships along the way. Another area he explored, the Sturt desert, is named after him.

1801: Birth of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, one of the most effective social and industrial reformers in 19th-century England. He introduced the Coal Mines Act in 1842 which prohibited the employment of women and children underground. He was also the acknowledged leader of the evangelical movement within the Church of England.

1923: The first FA Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium. 200,000 people arrived at a stadium which was only designed to hold 125,000 and when 60,000 irate fans rushed the turnstiles a human torrent swept onto the pitch. Players were engulfed by the crowd and 1,000 men, women and children were injured. Finals were made 'all ticket' after that. The game began one hour late and Bolton beat West Ham 2-0.

1986: Soviets admit nuclear accident. The Soviet Union acknowledges there has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.

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raveydavey · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject:

April 29th:

1696 There were many attempts on the life of William III, King of England, who attracted opposition, in part because he was a foreigner. This day, three would-be assassins, Rookwood, Lowick and Cranbourne, were executed for an attempt that failed.

1884 Oxford University agreed to admit female students to examinations. However, woman were not to be awarded degrees. The thin end of the wedge.

1909 In a revolutionary budget, the British Chancellor David Lloyd George introduced a new 'supertax' of sixpence in the pound for anyone earning more than £5,000 a year. The new high level of supertax was to pay for old age pensions and re-armament of the forces.

1935 Just one year after their invention by Percy Shaw of Yorkshire, "cats' eyes" were being inserted into British roads.

1970: Chelsea beat Leeds 2-1 after extra-time to win the first replay of a Wembley FA Cup final. Dirty cockney bastards. Evil or Very Mad

1978: Afghan coup rebels claim victory. The new left-wing rulers of Afghanistan say almost all the leaders of the ousted Daoud regime are dead. I can see this going horribly wrong...

1990 Scottish snooker player Stephen Hendry beat Jimmy White 18 frames to 12 to become the youngest ever world champion at the age of 21 years and 106 days.

1992: LA in flames after 'not guilty' verdict. Fierce rioting breaks out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four white police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King.

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

April 30th:

1821 The first iron steamship, Aaron Manby, named after the proprietor of the Staffordshire ironworks at which it had been made, was completed. It weighed 116 tons and after trials on the River Thames it made its maiden voyage across the Channel.

1938 The FA Cup was televised on British TV in its entirety, for the first time. Preston played Huddersfield Town and Preston won in the last minute of extra time. The TV audience was estimated as 10,000. Which is about the same amount as will watch this years game between Portsmouth and the Sheepworriers.

1948 The Land Rover was introduced at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

1952 The British public got the chance to read 'The Diary of a Young Girl', written by Anne Frank who hid from the Nazis in Holland during the war.

1975: Saigon surrenders. The war in Vietnam ends as the government in Saigon announces its unconditional surrender to the Vietcong.

1980 Armed terrorists siezed the Iranian Embassy in London taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow up the building. Where's Andy McNab?

1993: Tennis star stabbed: The world number one women's tennis player, Monica Seles, is stabbed in the back during a quarter-final match in Hamburg. I know the feeling most days at work.

1999: Dozens injured in Soho nail bomb. Two people are killed and at least 30 injured in the third nail-bomb attack in London in two weeks.

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cardboardbox?Youwerelucky · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject:

Keep it up Ravey - this thread is much appreciated

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30 Mill · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject:

Have to agree there

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

Why thankyou! Wink

May 1st:

May Day - originally a Roman festival which began on 28th April and lasted several days to mark the commencement of summer. In England, middle and lower classes would gather flowers - ‘go a maying’ - and the prettiest village maid was crowned Queen of the May, celebrated with dancing around the maypole.

1707 The Union of England and Scotland was proclaimed.

1769 The birth of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, in Ireland. Known as the Iron Duke, he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Up yours Frenchy!

1955 Stirling Moss and co-driver Dennis Jenkinson became the first British drivers to win the Mille Miglia. His Mercedes Benz finished 30 minutes ahead of the second car, driven by the legendary Argentinian, Fangio. Up yours Argy! (part 1)

1982: RAF bombs Port Stanley. British planes attack the airstrip near the capital of the Falkland Islands in the war to rid the islands of Argentine forces. This is a fantastic real life tale of daring do and I strongly recommend that you read the book "Vulcan 607".
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943...When Argentine forces invaded the Falklands in the early hours of 2 April 1982, Britain's military chiefs were faced with a real-life Mission Impossible. Its opening shot, they decided, would be Operation Black Buck: to strike a body blow at the occupying army, and make them realize that nothing was safe - not even Buenos Aires...The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive. Yet less than a month later, a formation of elderly British jets was launched from a remote island aribase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history.
At the tip of the spear was a single aircraft, six men, and twenty-one thousand-pound bombs, facing a hornet's nest of modern weaponry: the radar-guided guns and missiles of the Argentine defences. There would be no second chances...It was the end of an era - the last time the RAF flew heavy bombers into combat before they were replaced by their digital, fly-by-wire, laser-guided successors. There were many who believed it couldn't be done. Up yours Argy (part 2)

1994: Race ace Senna killed in car crash. The world-class Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna dies in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy.
A truly momentous loss for motorsport and probably the only reason that a certain M Schumacher won so many titles. Senna was probably the best driver F1 has ever seen.

1997 A landslide victory for the Labour Party in the General election brought an end to the Conservative Party's 18 years in power. The new Prime Minister was Tony Blair. What first appeared to be a fantastic victory wil be remembered by history as one of modern Britains darkest days. How did he fool so many of us?

2000: May Day violence on London streets. Hundreds of anti-capitalist demonstrators fight running battles with police - the Cenotaph and statue of Winston Churchill are defaced with graffiti.

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eddiesleftfoot · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

May 1 2008 - LUFC shafted by FL and arbitration panel Evil or Very Mad

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

May 2nd:

1923: At the BBC’s new studio (opened the previous day) at Savoy Hill, London the first Woman’s Hour programme was broadcast on radio. Thin. End. Wedge.

1952: Comet inaugurates the jet age. The world's first ever jet airliner - the De Havilland Comet 1 - sets off from London to Johannesburg on its maiden flight. Another stark reminder of how we used to lead the world in such things.

1982: British sub sinks Argentine cruiser. The General Belgrano is destroyed in a controversial move by the Royal Navy off the disputed Falklands Islands - a thousand men are believed to be on board.

1997: Labour routs Tories in historic election.The Labour Party wins the general election by a landslide, leaving the Conservative Party in tatters after 18 years in power. Funnily enough this was listed yesterday on other websites. It seems we elected the bastards twice... Evil or Very Mad

2000: Formula One driver David Coulthard's private jet crashes, killing both pilots. Coulthard survives.

2005: Nottingham Forest, European champions 25 years earlier, were relegated to League One, English football's third tier. At least that won't happen to us...oh, hang on...

2007: Scumchester United lost their Champions League semi-final against AC Milan 5-3 on aggregate. The Rossoneri went on to win the competition. Twisted Evil

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:00 am Post subject:

May 3rd:

1497 A rising broke out in Cornwall, provoked by taxation. James Tutchet led an army of 15,000 from Taunton through the southern counties to attack London.

1841 New Zealand was declared a British colony.

1926 Britain's first General Strike, in support of the miners. It ended on May 12th

1934 Henry Cooper, English boxer was born.

1951: King George opens Festival of Britain. The King inaugurates the Festival of Britain at a service in St Paul's Cathedral and later attends a concert at the new Royal Festival Hall on London's south bank.

1952 Newcastle United became the first team since 1891 to win two FA Cups in succession by beating Arsenal 1-0. This was the last time the Toon won anything of note, probably. Even their trophy room is in black and white.

1968: Surgeons conduct UK's first heart transplant. The first heart transplant in Britain is carried out at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London.

2003: Sunderland's 14th successive defeat, 1-0 at Aston Villa, condemned them to relegation from the Premiership.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

May 4th:

Today is internationally recognised as Star Wars Day. Think about it.

1471 The Battle of Tewkesbury, the last battle in the Wars of the Roses, took place. The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians. Cool

1904 A provisional agreement was signed in Scumchester’s Midland Hotel by the Hon. Charles Rolls, seller and repairer of motor cars, and Henry Royce, electrical engineer and builder of a single motor car. In 1907 the Rolls Royce silver Ghost was the first of their many luxury models.

1954: Warrington and Halifax played in front of rugby league's biggest-ever crowd when 102,569 attended their Challenge Cup final replay at Odsal.

1973: Sunderland beat Leeds to win the FA Cup against all odds. Ian Porterfield scored the only goal of the game, with goalkeeper Jimmy Montgomery producing an amazing second-half save. The bastards.

1979: Election victory for Margaret Thatcher. The Conservative Party wins the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first woman prime minister.

1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield. The British ship HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Argentine missile fired from a fighter bomber.

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:02 am Post subject:

May 5th:

1760 The first public hanging took place at Tyburn in London. Earl Ferrers was executed after being convicted of murdering his valet. He was the first to be hanged by the new 'drop' which had just been introduced in the place of the barbarous cart, ladder and medieval three-cornered gibbet.

1930 Yorkshire aviator Amy Johnson took off from Croydon Airport in her Gypsy Moth plane 'Jason'. She became the first woman to fly solo to Australia, arriving on May 24th.

1955 World famous American virologist Dr Jonas Salk witnessed a ceremonial polio vaccination in London when Margaret Jenkins from Kent became the 500,000th person in London to receive the vaccine to prevent the crippling disease poliomyelitis.

1967: First all-British satellite 'Ariel 3' launched. The first ever all-British satellite is successfully launched into orbit from the United States. It was followed by Daz 2, Bold 3-in-1 and Persil 8.

1980: SAS rescue ends Iran embassy siege. The siege of the Iranian embassy in London comes to a dramatic end after a raid by SAS commandos.

2001: Sun shines on foot-and-mouth crisis. Britain's tourist industry hopes the bank holiday weekend and good weather will attract visitors to areas previously closed due to foot-and-mouth disease.

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