On This Day

raveydavey · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject:

May 6th:

1954: Bannister breaks four-minute mile. Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes. apparently although Roger did the actual running, this success was largely due to Jeffrey Archer....

1961 The first football team to achieve the double (FA Cup and League champions), was Tottenham Hotspurt led by Danny Blanchflower when they beat Leicester City 2-0 to win the Cup at Wembley.

1966: Moors murderers jailed for life. Ian Brady and his lover Myra Hindley are sentenced to life imprisonment for the so-called Moors murders. Evil bastards is not an innapropriate phrase.

1988 Graeme Hick, Worcestershire's 21 year year old cricketer, scored more than 400 runs in a county championship match, the highest innings in England this century. He was shite at international level though I seem to recall.

1994: President and Queen open Chunnel. The Queen and France's President Francois Mitterrand formally open the Channel Tunnel during two elaborate ceremonies in France and Britain.

1997: Brown sets Bank of England free. The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, gives the Bank of England independence from political control. Thats working well isn't it?

1999 In an historic vote, electors in Scotland and Wales went to the polls to chose their representatives for the newly-devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. And yet still they hang around with the begging bowl thrust out.

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject:

May 7th:

1765 HMS Victory, the ship which became the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson, was launched at Chatham. The ship is now preserved at Portsmouth.

1900: Worcestershire bowled Yorkshire out for just 99 in a County Championship match at Bradford but still went on to lose by an innings as they were bowled out for 43 and 51.

1915 World War I - The Cunard liner Lusitania, bound for Liverpool, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of almost 1,200 lives. The loss of 128 US citizens brought the USA to the verge of war with Germany.

1921: The Second Division game between Stockport and Leicester attracted just 13 spectators to Old Trafford - the lowest crowd on record for a Football League match. I shall say no more.

1945: Germany signs unconditional surrender. Germany signs an unconditional surrender ending six years of war in Europe. Take that Jerry.

1956: Minister rejects anti-smoking lobby. The Health Minister, RH Turton, rejects calls for a government campaign against smoking, saying no ill-effects have been proven. Hmmm.... Confused

1959 British Rail announced plans to close down 230 stations. Mistake.

1997 Scottish football team Glasgow Rangers won their 9th successive Scottish League title - to equal the record held by their closest rivals, Glasgow Celtic.

2000: Scumchester City netted four second-half goals to win promotion from Division One at Blackburn.

2001: Scumchester City were relegated after losing at Ipswich.

2006: Tottenham failed to qualify for the Champions League following a 2-1 defeat to West Ham after many of their first team went down to food poisoning. That was a funny affair wasn't it. Did the investigation ever turn anything up, or did it quietly "go away"

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wewantourdarbyback · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject:

raveydavey · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

May 8th:

1559 The Act of Supremacy was passed by which the new Queen Elizabeth I became "Supreme Governor" of the Church of England and a Common Prayer book was introduced.

1660 Charles II was proclaimed King of England. This was the restoration of the monarchy after the English Civil War and the reign of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector.

1896 The highest county cricket championship innings score, 887, was achieved by Yorkshire against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Take that, Brummies!

1926 David Attenborough, English naturalist and broadcaster was born. A prime candidate for the Greatest Living Englishman award.

1945: Rejoicing at end of war in Europe. The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, officially announces the end of the war with Germany.

1968: Krays held on suspicion of murder. The Kray twins, Reginald and Ronnie aged 34, and their 41-year-old brother Charlie have been arrested after a series of dawn raids in London.

1984: Moscow pulls out of US Olympics. Twelve weeks before the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, the USSR announces it is boycotting them.

1984 The official opening of the Thames Barrier in London. The barrier is designed to be raised when exceptionally high tides on the River Thames threaten to flood parts of London. Except it won't work (according to that programme on ITV at the weekend...)

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

May 9th:

1662 The first recorded Punch & Judy Show in Britain took place at Covent Garden in London. That's the way to do it!

1860 Sir J.M. Barrie, Scottish playwright best known for Peter Pan, was born.

1896 The first 'Horseless Carriage' Show opened at the Imperial Institute in London, when ten engine-powered models went on show to the public.

1927: Joe Davis beat Tom Dennis 20-11 at Camkin's Hall, Birmingham to win the first world professional snooker championship. Davis beat a field of 10 to take the trophy.

1934 Alan Bennett, Yorkshire actor and playwright born.

1940 The RAF began night bombing of Germany. In London, it was announced that Winston Churchill would lead a coalition government after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that he was stepping aside.

1960 Start of the sexual revolution of the 1960s when the birth control pill went on the market.

2007: West Ham confirmed they would not appeal the £5.5million fine imposed on them by the Premier League's independent Commission over the signings of Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano. I'll bet they bloody didn't.

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cardboardbox?Youwerelucky · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject:

May 9th 2008 - Boxy's missus brings a curry & naan breads to kitchen table, Boxy turns and elbows plate out of missus' hands, plate tips on daughter 5 who screams and jumps up (not badly burnt just shock) - curry covers kitchen floor, walls, door, table, shoes, slippers, daughters school clothes, stains floor & wall, all kids cry cos daughter is crying, boxy has to eat toast instead, boxy cries Evil or Very Mad

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BOXYS BAR - LIQUER UP FRONT AND POKER IN THE REAR

wewantourdarbyback · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

May 10th:

1850 Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, founder of Lipton's grocery chain, was born in Glasgow. He went from errand boy to millionaire by the age of 30. This became Argyle Stores, then Safeway and is now part of Morrisons - the Yorkshire supermarket chain.

1916 Explorer Ernest Shackleton and companions reached the Falkland island of South Georgia after sailing 800 miles in 16 days in an open boat. They were looking for help for the remaining members of their party marooned on Elephant island, Antarctica.

1940: Churchill takes helm as Germans advance. German forces invade the Low Countries by air and land, while in London, Chamberlain is replaced by Churchill.

1967: Two Rolling Stones on drugs charges. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards appeared before magistrates charged with drug offences.

1994: Mandela becomes SA's first black president. Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule. A truly historic event.

2004: Eddie Gray stepped down as Leeds manager but remained at the club in a consultancy role.

2008: raveydavey did a car boot sale this morning and is now about to go sit in the garden, read the paper and drink beer. Later there will be meat cremated over hot coals.

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wewantourdarbyback · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject:

2008 - revision, revision and more revision Rolling Eyes

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

wewantourdarbyback · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:

*googles ravey to crash BBQ*

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

May 11th:

1778 The death of William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham and British politician. He conducted most of the Seven Years' War (1756-63) which secured Britain a huge new empire.

1812 British Prime Minister Spencer Percival was assassinated in the House of Commons, apparently mistaken by his killer, bankrupt broker John Bellingham, for someone else. He is the only Prime Minister in Britain to have been assassinated. Although goodness knows there have been more worthy candidates...

1964 Interior designer and businessman Terence Conran opened his first Habitat Shop in London's Fulham Road.

1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes. The Daily Sketch newspaper which was founded in 1909 has been published for the last time.

1985: Fans killed in Bradford stadium fire. At least 52 people are known to have died and many are missing after fire engulfs Bradford City football stadium. A truly sad day.

1989 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats' , based on T.S.Eliot's Old Possum poems, became the West End's longest-running musical, completing eight years. News for Kevin there. Wink

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

May 12th:

1820 The birth of Florence Nightingale, English hospital reformer who attended to the wounded during the Crimean War. ‘The Lady of the Lamp’ had over 10,000 under her care in appalling and unsanitary conditions. Determined to remedy the suffering she had experienced, she raised £50,000 to establish nurses’ training in Britain. Florence remains this forums third favourite nurse. Wink

1890 The first official County Championship cricket match. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets.

1967: Stansted to become London's third airport. The British Government gives the go-ahead to proposals to convert Stansted into an international airport. It's still a dump though.

1994: Labour leader John Smith dies at 55. The Labour leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks. Letting in the charlatan Tony B-liar.

2000: Ford quits Dagenham after 70 years. Ford workers at its Dagenham plant react with shock and anger at the news that car production is to be transferred to Germany and Spain, with the loss of 3,000 jobs. No more Dagenham dustbins then.

2001 For the first time ever the FA Cup Final was held outside England when it took place at the new Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

2006: Former world featherweight champion Naseem Hamed was jailed for 15 months after admitting a charge of dangerous driving.

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Gopher · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:31 am Post subject:

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