On This Day

raveydavey · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject:

July 2nd:

1489 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury was born.

1644 English Civil War: The Battle of Marston Moor. The first victory of the war for the Parliamentary forces, with Cromwell's Roundhead Army defeating the Royalist Cavaliers, commanded by Prince Rupert.

1819 The first Factory Act was passed in Britain. This banned the employment of children younger than 9 from working in textile factories, whilst those under 16 were allowed to work for 'only' 12 hours a day!

1865 At a revivalist meeting at Whitechapel, London, William Booth formed the Salvation Army.

1904: The first recorded speedway race was held at Portman Road, Ipswich.

1940 Kenneth Clarke, British politician was born.

1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler ordered German military commanders to draw up plans for the invasion of England.

1948 Champion English golfer Henry Cotton won the British Open Golf Championship for the third time.

1964: President Johnson signs Civil Rights Bill. The Civil Rights Bill - one of the most important piece of legislation in American history - becomes law.

1985 The ordination of women as deacons was approved by the General Synod

1987 Moors murderer Ian Brady offered to assist police searches of Saddleworth Moor for the first time since his conviction.

1996 Weather experts predicted that global warming would have the effect of moving Britain 100 miles south in the next 25 years, bringing summer droughts and winter rainstorms. Lying barstewards.

1997 Six IRA terrorists who plotted to blow up electricity supply stations in the Home Counties were each jailed for 35 years.

2001 Barry George was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of television presenter Jill Dando.

2004: James Milner agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle to complete a £5million move from Leeds.

2005 The world's biggest music stars united in Live8 concerts around the globe to press political leaders to tackle poverty in Africa.

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject:

July 3rd:

1920 The first RAF air display took place at Hendon, near London.

1928 A policeman's helmet and a bunch of roses were among the pictures shown on John Logie Baird's first colour television test transmission at Baird Studios, in London.

1938 LNER locomotive No.4468 'Mallard' achieved the world speed record for steam traction. A maximum speed 126 mph was reached between Grantham and Peterborough. LNER Chief Engineer Sir Nigel Gresley saw taking the record from Nazi Germany who had previously held it as a matter of national pride and specifically designed the A4 class to be the fastest steam trains ever built. A magnificent achievement when you consider this was 70 years ago and even today the fastest trains on Britains railways are slower at 125mph. More great British engineering.

1940 World War II: British warships destroyed the French fleet to prevent their ships falling into German hands. More than 1,000 French sailors were killed.

1954 The end of food rationing in Britain - almost 9 years after the end of World War II. Smithfield Meat Market in London opened at midnight instead of 6am to cope with the demand for beef.

1966 Demonstrators in London were arrested after their protest against the Vietnam War turned violent.

1969 Brian Jones, a founding member of the British rock group Rolling Stones, drowned in his swimming pool from a drug overdose.

1970 112 people died when a flight from Scumchester went missing over Spain.

1971: Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead. The lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of heart failure in Paris, aged 27.

1974 Don Revie was appointed manager of the England football team. Confused

1976: 103 hostages were rescued by Israeli commandos in a night raid on Entebbe Airport, Uganda. An Air France airliner had been diverted there by Palestinian hijackers who had counted on help from Idi Amin. The Israeli commandos flew 2,500 miles and landed in three large transport planes in the dark. It took only 35 minutes for them to kill all the hijackers and 20 Ugandan troops who were guarding the hostages. Three hostages and one commando were killed in the crossfire. As a parting gesture, the commandos destroyed 11 Russian Mig aircraft on the ground before taking off for Nairobi, where they refuelled before the flight back to Tel Aviv.

1984 Derek Underwood (Kent's left arm spin bowler) scored his first cricket century, after 22 years of playing in first-class cricket.

1986 The government abandoned its water privatisation plans

1996 It was announced that the Stone of Scone, the symbol of Scottish nationalism, stolen by Edward I of England in 1296, was to be returned to Scotland from Westminster Abbey where it has been used in the coronation of 30 British monarchs.

2000 In his first speech as Mayor of London Ken Livingstone announced that he would stand up to the Government if they were not acting in the capital's best interests.

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

July 4th:

4th July

1776 Britain decided it was sick of beggaring about, and granted America independence. Bloody Yanks. Wink

1829 Britain's first regular scheduled bus service began running, between Marylebone Road and the Bank of England, in London.

1840 The Cunard Shipping Line began its first Atlantic crossing when the paddle steamer Britannia sailed from Liverpool en route to Halifax. The voyage took 14 days.

1862 Lewis Carroll created Alice in Wonderland.

1892 The General Election saw the appointment of Britain's first socialist MP - James Keir Hardie, elected for Holytown, Lanarkshire. A real Labour politician. You don't see many of them any more.

1968 Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose received a hero's welcome as he sailed into Portsmouth in his boat Lively Lady, after his 354-day trip.

1969 British tennis player Ann Jones won the Wimbledon women's singles title, beating American Billie Jean King in the final.

1969 British group The Rolling Stones release Honky Tonk Women.

1977 Scumchester United manager Tommy Docherty was sacked by the club's directors. Yet he still leeches a living from his time there.

1985 Ruth Lawrence achieved the best first-class mathematics degree at the University of Oxford, at the age of 13.

1990 Footballer Paul Gascoigne's booking, (that would have excluded him from the World Cup Final, had England got there), resulted in the famous on pitch crying scenes from Gascoigne.

1995 John Major emerged as the winner in an unprecedented parliamentary election for leadership of the ruling Conservative Party.

1996 Prince Charles, Prince of Wales delivered his terms for a divorce from Diana, Princess of Wales - an offer of £15m reportedly backed by the Queen.

2000 The campaigning organization 'Tidy Britain Group' condemned local councils for failing to enforce litter laws.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

July 5th:

1817 The first gold coin sovereigns were issued in Britain.

1853 The birth of Cecil John Rhodes, English colonialist and financier. Rhodes was noted for his commercial exploitation of southern Africa, where he gained control of the world’s major diamond and gold mines. He took part in the notorious Jameson Raid, an attempt to overthrown the Boers in the gold-rich Transvaal, and the incident led to his resignation as Prime Minister. He expanded further north and formed the country of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), which was named after him.

1865 The Locomotives and Highways Act in Britain introduced a speed limit for road vehicles of 4 mph in rural areas and 2 mph in urban areas.

1832 Charles Darwin ('Theory of Evolution') departed Rio de Janeiro in HMS Beagle.

1841 Thomas Cook, a Baptist cabinet maker, founded the first travel agency. The first official 'Cook's Tour' involved almost 600 teatotallers taking the train from Leicester to Loughborough to attend a temperance meeting. Oh, the irony! Rolling Eyes

1888 Three match girls were fired at the Bryant and May match factory in London for giving information about working conditions. The other 672 employees went on strike, a landmark for women workers in Britain that led to the formation of a Matchgirls' Union. Match girls strike? See what I did there?

1945 Churchill lost the General Election after leading Britain throughout World War II. Attlee’s Labour Party won 393 seats to the Tories’ 213.

1946: Bikinis introduced. On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at a swimming pool in Paris. Micheline Bernardini, a Parisian showgirl who didn’t object to appearing nearly nude in public, modeled the new fashion. Unsure of what to call his creation, Reard spontaneously dubbed it bikini, inspired by news-making U.S. nuclear tests taking place off the Bikini Atoll that week. Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. For a time in Spain and Italy, the wearing of the swimsuit on public beaches was banned. Give that man a medal.

1948 Britain's National Health Service came into operation.

1954 The BBC broadcast its first daily television news programme.

1969 The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in Hyde Park, London, two days after the death of guitarist Brian Jones. It was attended by 250,000 people. Well, they did have a single to promote...

1975: Ashe's Wimbledon win makes history. American tennis player Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship.

1979 The Queen presided over the 1000th annual open-air sitting of the Isle of Man's Parliament, Tynwald.

1981: Police attacked in Liverpool riots. Up to 30 police officers are injured by bricks and other missiles as rioting and looting breaks out in Toxteth, Liverpool. The riots caused millions of £'s of improvements to the area.

1991 The Bank of England closed down UK branches of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International over allegations of fraud.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:45 am Post subject:

July 6th:

1483 England's King Richard III was crowned.

1535 Sir Thomas More was beheaded on London's Tower Hill for refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the church. He lifted his beard from the axe, on the basis that it had committed no offences against the king!

1553 Mary I acceded to the throne, becoming the first queen to rule England in her own right.

1685 James II defeated the Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the throne, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil.

1892 Britain's first non-white MP was elected when Dadabhai Naoraji won the Central Finsbury seat.

1907 The opening of Brooklands - the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit.

1919 The first airship to cross the Atlantic, the British-built R34, arrived in New York.

1924 The first photo was sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, from the US to England.

1942 World War II: Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family take refuge from the Nazis by hiding in the attic of a house in Amsterdam.

1952 After nearly a century of service, trams made their final appearance in London.

1965 The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night was premiered in London, with royal attendance.

1978 Eleven people died and seventeen were injured in a blaze on the Penzance to Paddington sleeper train.

1978 Three bags of horse manure were hurled from the public gallery in the House of Commons during a debate on Scottish Home Rule. Yana Mintoff, daughter of the Prime Minister of Malta, was later arrested and fined.

1988 An explosion aboard the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha resulted in the loss of 166 lives.

2000: Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness. The Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son, Euan, is arrested for being drunk and incapable. As opposed to his father, who (as far as I am aware) is not a drunk.

2005 The International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Olympic Games would be held in London.

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject:

July 7th:

1307 England's King Edward I, conqueror of Wales and 'Hammer of the Scots' died on the way to Scotland to fight Robert the Bruce. He was succeeded by Edward II.

1927 Christopher Stone became the first 'disc jockey' on British radio when he presented his 'Record Round-up' from Savoy Hill.

1940 Ringo Starr, English drummer with the Beatles, was born.

1944 Tony Jacklin, English golfer was born.

1955 Dixon Of Dock Green began on BBC TV with Jack Warner as George Dixon. The programme ran for 367 episodes for the next 21 years.

1967 England's round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. For the ceremony, the Queen used a sword that had originally belonged to Sir Francis Drake.

1981 The Church of England decided that divorcees would be allowed to re-marry in a church ceremony.

1984 Georgina Clark became the first woman to umpire a Wimbledon final when she presided over the Martina Navratilova victory against Chris Evert.

1985 German tennis player Boris Becker, an unseeded 17 year old, became the youngest player to win the men's singles championship at Wimbledon.

1990 England goalkeeper Peter Shilton played the last of his 125 games for his country in the World Cup third-place play-off against Italy in Bari.

2001 The Prince of Wales answered a question about whether he planned to marry Camilla Parker Bowles with: "You can't be certain about anything."

2001 Two people were stabbed and many more were injured in running battles between white and Asian gangs in Bradford, Yorkshire.

2005 A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network killed 52 people and injured 700 others. It was the largest and deadliest terrorist attack in London's history.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the bombings had "the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda-related attack".

Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the "most intense police and security service action to make sure we bring those responsible to justice".

Mr Blair, who had returned to London from the G8 summit in Gleneagles, condemned the terrorists and paid tribute to the stoicism and resilience of the people of London.

"They are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cow us, to frighten us out of doing the things that we want to do," he said in a televised statement from Downing Street.
They "should not and they must not succeed," he said.

"We know that these people act in the name of Islam but we also know that the vast and overwhelming majority of Muslims here and abroad are decent and law-abiding people who abhor those who do this every bit as much as we do," he added.

The Queen, who will visit some of those involved in the tragedy on Friday, said she was "deeply shocked" and sent her sympathy to those affected. The union jack flag was flying at half mast over Buckingham Palace.

Further details of the Queen's visit will be announced on Friday morning.

Blast timeline
0851 Seven people die in a blast on a train 100 yards from Liverpool Street station
0856 21 people die in a blast on a train between Russell Square and King's Cross stations
0917 Seven people die in blast on a train at Edgware Road station
0947 Two people die in a blast on a number 30 bus at Tavistock Place

US President George Bush told reporters at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles "the war on terror goes on."

Hundreds of thousands of commuters faced difficult journeys home from London on Thursday night after a day of travel chaos.

Many opted to walk while some booked into hotels.

By late afternoon, major routes out of London, including the M25 and M4, were jammed and motorists have been urged not to drive into the centre as many roads are shut.

All London Underground services have been suspended until at least Friday. Bus services have resumed in central London (Zone One) with diversions in affected areas. Most mainline train stations are open.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick confirmed 35 people had died in the blasts on the Underground.

He said there were 21 confirmed fatalities following the blast at 0856 BST on a Piccadilly Line train in a tunnel between King's Cross and Russell Square.

There were seven confirmed deaths after a blast at 0851 BST 100 yards into a tunnel from Liverpool Street station. The train involved was a Circle Line train.

And at 0917 BST an explosion on another Circle Line train coming into Edgware Road underground station blew a hole through a wall onto another train at an adjoining platform.

Three trains were thought to be involved and there were seven confirmed deaths so far, Mr Paddick said.
He said two had died in the bus blast at 0947 at the junction of Upper Woburn Place and Tavistock Square.

Two people died in the bus blast
There were also 700 people injured, Mr Paddick said.

London Ambulance Service said it had treated 45 patients with serious or critical injuries including burns, amputations, chest and blast injuries and fractured limbs.

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raveydavey · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

July 8th:

1497: Vasco da Gama set sail from Lisbon with four ships, in search of a sea route to India.

1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet died. He drowned in Italy while sailing his small schooner Ariel to his home on the Gulf of Spezia. Hywel Bennet starred in a series based on his life whuich screened in the late 70's and early 80's.

1884 The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) was founded in London.

1918 National Savings stamps were introduced in Britain.

1941 Twenty B-17s flew on their first mission with the RAF over Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Watch The Memphis Belle for an idea of these lads bravery.

1961 For the first time since 1941, Britain provided both women finalists for the Wimbledon Ladies' singles title - Christine Truman and Angela Mortimer

1965 Ronald Biggs who was serving a 30-year prison sentence for his part in the Great Train Robbery escaped from Wandsworth prison.

1967 Vivien Leigh, English film actress (films included Gone With The Wind) died.

1985 Britain lifted its trade ban with Argentina after the Falklands crisis ended. The Falklands was over in 1982 - was there much demand for Argie corned beef?

1986 British Steel made a profit for the first time in 17 years.

1988 A London double-decker bus parked in Battersea, was put on sale for £40,000. It had been converted into a luxury home to overcome rising property prices in the capital. I wonder what it's worth now?

1996 Three young children and four adults were attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton. Teacher Lisa Potts, (later awarded for her bravery), was badly injured protecting the children.

1996 A patent was filed by two British scientists to use genetically engineered mosquitoes to immunize their victims against malaria by transferring a protein in their saliva.

2000 J. K. Rowling's fourth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire went on sale, breaking all publishing records.

2005 The G8 summit in Gleneagles ended with a deal to boost aid for developing countries by almost £28 billion.

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject:

July 9th:

1540 England's King Henry VIII had his six-month marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. She was nicknamed The Flanders Mare.

1553 Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen of England in succession to Edward VI. Her reign lasted only nine days. Her successor was Mary I.

1877 The first Wimbledon Lawn Tennis championship was held at its original site at Worple Road. The men's singles title was won by Spencer Gore - beating fellow British player W.C. Marshall in three sets.

1887: Paper manufacturers John Dickenson introduced the first paper napkins at their annual dinner at the Castle Hotel, Hastings.

1900 Queen Victoria gave the Royal Assent to the Australian Federation Bill which set up of the Commonwealth of Australia in January 1901.

1901 Barbara Cartland, romantic novelist was born. She wrote more than 500 books.

1916 Edward Heath, British politician was born.

1922: 18-year-old Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 metres in 58.6 seconds. He went on to play Tarzan in Hollywood.

1938 In anticipation of World War II, 35 million gas masks were issued to Britain's civilian population.

1947 Princess Elizabeth (the Queen) and Philip Mountbatten announced their engagement.

1973 Prince Charles enjoyed the Bahamas' last day as a British colony. He had hosted a formal reception at Government House, Nassau, the previous night for dignitaries from 52 countries overseeing the end of over 300 years of British sovereignty.

1982 Queen Elizabeth II woke to find an intruder (Michael Fagan) sitting at the end of her bed, raising further concerns about poor Palace security.

1984 A massive fire, caused by a lightning strike, devastated large parts of York Minster causing an estimated £1m damage.
1991 The closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International lost about 20 local councils up to £30m in investments.

1996 Nelson Mandela, on a state visit to Britain, was welcomed by crowds at Horse Guards Parade and the Mall.

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

July 10th:

138 The death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian who ordered the building of a wall across northern England to keep out the 'barbarian Scottish tribes'.

1040 Lady Godiva rode naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.

1460 In England's Wars of the Roses, the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and captured Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton.

1917: Birth of Reg Smythe, English cartoonist and creator of Andy Capp, a working-class anti-hero.

1940 World War II: The first in a long series of German bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which lasted three and a half months, began.

1943: Western Allies invade Sicily. British, Canadian and American troops arrive on the Mediterranean island of Sicily - largely unopposed.

1947 The Government announced that Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) would get extra clothing coupons for her wedding dress.

1954 Gordon Richards rode his last mount, at Sandown; the 21,834th of his almost 34-year racing career.

1958 Britain's first parking meters were installed, in Mayfair, London.

1972 William Whitelaw, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, broke the news that he had been involved in secret talks with the provisional IRA in London, as he announced that the two week ceasefire in Northern Ireland had come to an end.

1985 The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was blown up in Auckland harbour, New Zealand. By the French, apparently.

1989: Footballer Maurice Johnson was transferred to Scotland’s Rangers FC for £1.5 million. He had to have a police guard, being the first Catholic to play for the club which had been exclusively Protestant.

1996 The battered bodies of Lin Russell, 6 year-old daughter Megan and 9 year old daughter Josie, were found half a mile from their home in Kent. Michael Stone, 38, was later found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and given three life sentences.

1996 Nelson Mandela received eight honorary degrees at Buckingham Palace.

1997 More than 100,000 people packed Hyde Park in London for a countryside rally to protest against Government proposals to ban fox hunting. The were ignored, in true New Labour fashion.

2000 Figures released by the government showed that one in four British homes were using the Internet.

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raveydavey · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject:

July 11th:

1274: Birth of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, who seized the throne in 1306, won the Battle of Bannockburn against the English in 1314, and united the clans.

1656 Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America and were promptly arrested. Five weeks later they were deported, back to England.

1776 Yorkshires Captain Cook sailed from Plymouth in the Resolution, accompanied by the Discovery, on his last expedition.

1848 London's Waterloo Station was officially opened.

1859 A Tale Of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, was published.

1884 Old Trafford (Scumchester) became England's 2nd official Test Match cricket ground (after the Kennington Oval in London).

1950 Puppets Andy Pandy, Teddy and Looby Loo first appeared on BBC TV. The episodes were repeated for more than 25 years, until the film wore out.

1974 The World Football League played its first games.

1977 In Britain, Gay News was fined £1,000 for publishing a poem that portrayed Jesus as homosexual.

1979: Skylab tumbles back to Earth. The space laboratory, Skylab I, plunges to Earth scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and the sparsely populated Australian desert.

1986 Inflation in Britain fell to 2.5%, the lowest since Dec 1967.

1987 War veterans returned to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The fields of Passchendaele in Belgium claimed the lives of 250,000 troops of the British Commonwealth between July and November 1917.

1989 Laurence Olivier, English actor and director died.

1991 Labour MP Terry Fields was sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay his poll tax.

2000 The World Aids Conference in South Africa announced that trials for a new HIV vaccine would begin in Britain.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

July 12th:

100 BC: Birth of Gaius Julius Caesar. At the time of his birth this month was called Quintilis, but was renamed in honour of the most famous general in Roman history, who became a dictator.

290 Jews were expelled from England by order of King Edward I.

1543 England's Henry VIII married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.

1690 William of Orange defeated the deposed Catholic, King James II, at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.

1730 Josiah Wedgewood, pottery designer and manufacturer was born.

1794 British admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica.

1910 Charles Rolls, aged 33, pioneering pilot and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, was killed when he crashed his biplane in a flying competition at Bournemouth.

1930: Don Bradman, the Australian batsman, hit 309 runs in one day in the Test at Headingley, Leeds. He broke records not only for the most runs in a single day, but with his final score of 334.

1932 Yorkshire cricketer Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in a county championship match against Nottinghamshire at Headingley, Leeds.

1969 Tony Jacklin became the first British golfer since 1951 to win the Open Championship.

1974 The manager of Liverpool football club, Bill Shankly announced his retirement.

1982 Kenneth More, British actor died.

1984 Robert Maxwell bought the Mirror Group newspapers.

1986 Dozens were injured in the second consecutive night of violent riots in Portadown, County Armagh. Violence flared when Orangemen converged on the town after their annual marches to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne (1690).

1989 Judy Leden became the first woman to cross the English Channel by hang glider. She was launched from a hot air balloon 13,500 ft above Dover and completed the flight in less than 30 minutes.

1989: In a court in Cleveland, Ohio, a shouting woman, who had been convicted for stealing jewellery, was ordered by the judge to have her mouth taped shut. This is the sort of judiciary we need.

2000 House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd announced that she would resign from the high-profile post and her seat before the General Election.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

July 13th:

1527: Birth of John Dee, English alchemist and mathematician. He was astrologer to Mary Tudor before being imprisoned for practising magic. He was not disgraced for long, casting horoscopes for Elizabeth I and naming the day for her coronation. He also advised navigators and explorers. The real importance of his work lay in encouraging an interest in mathematics, though he was more popular for the ‘magic shows’ which he gave while touring the courts of Europe.

1713 A treaty signed between Great Britain and Spain at Utrecht ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity.

1837 Queen Victoria became the first sovereign to move into Buckingham Palace.

1911 The night of the 1911 census. A suffragette hid in a broom cupboard in the House of Commons so that she could record The House of Commons as her address, ‘thus making my claim to the same right as men’.

1919 The British airship R-34 crossed the Atlantic, both ways, in 13 days.

1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, involving some 6,000 tanks, 2,000,000 troops, and 4,000 aircraft, ended in defeat for Germany.

1955 Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain - executed at Holloway Prison for the murder of her lover David Blakely.

1967 In the heat of the mountain stage of the Tour de France, British cyclist Tony Simpson, 29, collapsed and died.

1973: The Everly Brothers disbanded in mid-concert in California: Phil smashed his guitar and left Don on stage to finish the gig by himself.

1983 The House of Commons voted 361-245 against the restoration of the death penalty.

1985 Two simultaneous 'Live Aid' concerts, one in London (Wembley Stadium) and one in Philadelphia, raised over £50 million for famine victims in Africa. Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially opened Live Aid (so it says here, I thought it was Richard Skinner instroducing Status Quo myself) . The 16-hour 'super concert' was globally linked by satellite to more than a billion viewers in 110 nations.

1991 Bryan Adams went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with Everything I Do I Do It For You from the film Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves. It stayed at No.1 for a record breaking 16 weeks, and was also a No.1 in the US and 16 other countries. Robin Hood is of course from Yorkshire.

1993 Officials in Scumchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games were told that their chances were 'very, very high'. Their bid was not successful.

1995 The first man in Britain to be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act appeared at Epsom Magistrates, when Szymon Serafimowicz, aged 84, was charged with murdering 4 million Jews in 1941 and 1942.

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raveydavey · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:39 am Post subject:

July 14th:

Bastille Day, the national day of France, commemorating the storming of the Bastille in 1789. The Bastille in Paris was the notorious state prison. It was razed to the ground, marking the beginning of the Revolution.

1766 The official opening of the 137 mile long Grand Union Canal (Britain's longest canal) that links London to Birmingham.

1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette who led the fight for women's suffrage in Britain by violent means, was born.

1865 British climber Edward Whymper led the first team of climbers to reach the summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps. As they made their way down, Douglas Hadow, aged 19, slipped and dragged 2 English climbers and a guide after him. The rope snapped and they plunged to their deaths down a 4,000 ft precipice.

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.

1903 It became known that the government would reject proposals to introduce driving tests, vehicle inspections and penalties for drunken drivers. How times have changed.

1939 The government announced that all infants and nursing mothers would get fresh milk free or at no more than two pence a pint.

1940 World War II: Britain tackled the threat of a German invasion by forming the Home Guard - a part-time volunteer army, generally comprising men too old for national service.

1958 Iraq became a republic after the assassignation of King Faisal.

1962 The Beatles played their first gig in Wales when they appeared at The Regent Dansette Theatre in Rhyl. The tickets cost five shillings.

1967 Abortion was legalized in Britain.

1991 British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq began to pull out of the region.

1996 A bomb exploded in a hotel at Enniskillen in Northern Ireland in which 40 people were injured. It was the first bomb in the province for two years.

1997 Convicted murderer and former London gangster Reggie Kray married Roberta Jones at Maidstone Prison in Kent. Even he'd be shocked at "Broken Britain" today if he were still alive.

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raveydavey · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject:

July 15th:

971 According to the legend of St. Swithin, if it rains today, it will be the start of forty days of rain. St Swithin was bishop of Winchester Cathedral, and asked to be buried outside it so that he would be exposed to ‘the feet of passers-by and the drops falling from above’. Oh bugger - it's raining here...

1099: The Muslim governor of Jerusalem surrendered to the Crusaders in the Tower of David. The Crusaders were led by Godfrey and Robert of Flanders and Tancred of Normandy.

1685 Charles II's illegitimate son (the Duke of Monmouth) was executed for rebelling against James II. His head was then put back on his shoulders so that his portrait could be painted.

1815 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to Captain Maitland aboard the English ship Bellerophon, at Rochefort, before being sent into exile on the island of St Helena.

1857 200 British men, women and children were chopped up by local butchers and thrown down a well at Cawnpore, as the Indian Mutiny continued.

1865 The birth of Alfred (Charles William) Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. Northcliffe introduced the first tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mail, followed later by the Daily Mirror. He also took over The Times in 1908, and improved its declining sales.

1881: Death of Billy the Kid (William H Bonney), the notorious outlaw. He had broken out of jail and was trying to escape re-arrest, when he was shot in New Mexico by Sheriff Pat Garrett. Billy the Kid was 12 when he first killed a man, and went on to murder 21 more people.

1912 National Insurance payments began in Britain.

1948 Alcoholics Anonymous, in existence in the USA since 1935, was founded in London.

1953 Murderer John Christie, responsible for the deaths of at least six women in his home at 10, Rillington Place, London, was hanged. He was from Halifax, you know.

1966 A West Indian, refused a job at Euston Station was later employed there after managers overturned a ban on black workers.

1971 The British Government endorsed a cull of 350 baby seals in The Wash, under legislation aimed at protecting the seal population from over-crowding and being killed indiscriminately.

1977 The government announced a 10% pay restriction on wages to help curb inflation.

1996 Prince Charles and Princess Diana were granted a decree nisi. Princess Diana could no longer be addressed as Her Royal Highness but was to be known as Diana, Princess of Wales.

1997: Versace murdered on his doorstep. Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion.

2000 Two men caught on camera for dangerous driving escaped prosecution in a landmark case, as it had violated their human rights.

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raveydavey · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

July 16th:

This day in 622 is traditionally regarded as the beginning of the Islamic Era. Muhammad fled to Medina from persecution in Mecca, in what is known as the hegira, Arabic for ‘flight’.

1439 Kissing was banned in England because of the Plague.

1902 Eight bills for the building of London underground lines received their second reading in the House of Commons.

1918: In a cellar in a house in Ekaterinburg, the entire Russian royal family was shot by the Bolsheviks: Tsar Nicholas II, the princesses, the servants, the family doctor, and even the dog.

1945 The leaders of the three Allied nations (Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin) gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1945: In New Mexico, the first atomic bomb developed by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Los Alamos was detonated. It was the official beginning of the atomic age.

1950: 205,000 people formed the largest crowd ever to attend a football match. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil lost 1-2 in the Brazil-Uruguay World Cup match.

1955 Stirling Moss won the British Grand Prix at the Aintree track near Liverpool - the first time an Englishman had triumphed in the race.

1964 The Rolling Stones had their first UK No.1 single with It's All Over Now.

1969: Apollo 11 takes off for the Moon. The Apollo 11 space rocket takes off from Cape Kennedy at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.

1970 Prime Minister Edward Heath declared a state of emergency following the start of a national dock strike - the first state of emergency issued in Britain since 1926.

1987 The two biggest airlines in the UK (One time rivals British Caledonian and British Airways) merged in order to compete with America's giant air corporations.

1988 Lord Harewood, the Queen’s cousin, brought in police to investigate the theft of the world’s smallest horse, Pernod, a 27-inch-high Shetland stallion.

1993 Britain's internal security service, MI5, held the first photocall in its 84-year history when Stella Rimington (Director General) posed openly for cameras at the launch of a brochure outlining the organisation's activities.

1996 Diana, Princess of Wales, announced that she was severing links with more than 100 charities.

2000 Footballer George Best's doctor begged every barman in Britain to refuse to serve alcohol to the footballing legend to help him beat his addiction.

2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged that public services could not be transformed totally within the coming Parliament. Or indeed the following one, it would seem....

2001 The Labour Government was defeated in the House of Commons for the first time since it came to power in 1997.

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raveydavey · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

July 17th:

1761 The official opening of the Bridgewater canal.

1790: The first sewing machine was patented by Thomas Saint of London.

1841 The first issue of the humorous magazine Punch was published in London. It ceased publication in 1992 but was re-launched in 1996.

1917 World War 1: The British Royal Family adopted the name of the House of Windsor in place of their German family name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1958 British troops were sent to Jordan to deal with unrest there. Peter Andre was less than happy at this news.

1960 The Beatles began a three-month engagement at The Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany, their first appearance outside Britain.

1964 British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell set a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird.

1968: Premiere of Yellow Submarine, the animated film with a soundtrack by the Beatles.

1974 An explosion in the Tower of London left one person dead and 41 injured. The incident happened without the coded warning typical of the IRA.

1981 The Humber Estuary Bridge was officially opened by the Queen. For 16 years after its construction it was the world's longest single-span structure.

1987 Former Guinness director Thomas Ward was ordered to repay £5.2m to the brewing giants after being found guilty of illegal practices during the takeover of drinks company Distillers Group the previous year.

1995 Robbie Williams left Take That, leaving them as a 'fab four'. The group had scored six UK No.1 singles with Robbie in the group.

2000 British supermarket Tesco decided to revive imperial measures in its stores after shoppers' pressure.

2001 Michael Portillo was dropped from the Tory leadership contest after coming third in a final ballot of MPs.

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