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President Reagan was shot......


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Airey Neave was assassinated.


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HM The Queen Mother passed away, aged 102. We all cried a bit.


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John Major stood tall.


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I believe this happened today in 1967:

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The first 3 were some treble, wouldn't have shed a tear for any. 

John Major despite being a Tory, I could empathise with at certain points.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gt-yg3DhQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave

malevolence comes easy to you doesn't it

Not as easy as it came to Ronnie.

Harold Wilson won the 1966 General Election.


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In 1990, riots erupted, supposedly against the so-called Poll Tax, an excellent opportunity to attack the police.


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Queen Mary, God rest her soul, was laid to rest, 1953.


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1972.


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The Dalai Lama went for a very long walk in 1959.


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Blackpool Tower opened in Paris in 1889

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Tsk KMac, 10 hours and counting..............      ;)

Fair play to the crusty old bugger, I threw out the ground bait but he was not biting. 

Milosevic is arrested in 2001 & stands trial.


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"human link" protests against nucleur weapons in 1983.


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Riots at Strangeways Prison, 1990.


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1957, & the BBC show footage of the rare spaghetti tree.



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2010: soon to be World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, was revealed to be a distant cousin of Matt Damon.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-s-cousin-in-america

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Argentina invaded the Falklands, & so began a war that, in a peculiar way, enthralled us all.




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Red Rum, a handicapper, win the Grand National for a third time.


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100th Boat Race, 1954.



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Ructions go off as the women of Greenham Common "Peace Camp" are evicted.



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In 1960 Ben Hur won 11 Oscars.

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Born today 1922

The greatest motor racing driver these shores have ever produced died on this day in 1968.


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in 1986, Sir Clive Sinclair sold his computer business to Amstrad.


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He had also invented the hand held electronic calculator.


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The sale enabled him to devote his time to playing poker in London, & inventing useful things such as the Sinclair C5.....



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....and this bicycle.


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He appeared in 3 series of Late Night Poker, too, & frequented The Vic, where he played the big tourneys.  

He lives in a flat overlooking Trafalger Square.

Loving this thread

+1

21 years gone today.

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I own an A-bike :)

Think the concept is awesome and, whilst they're a bit jittery, they are eminently rideable for short distances.

This said, my rear tyre burst within not long of me owning it (I am on the cusp of the weight limit - OWING TO HEIGHT I MUST STRESS) and it lies unloved in my loft :(

In 2015

Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane died.

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The 42nd Academy Awards were held on this day in 1970. Best Actor went to Marion Morrison John Wayne for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.

It was largely considered a sentimental decision, honouring Wayne's career as much as this performance. As if anything could top Peter O'Toole in Goodbye Mr Chips!

It was Wayne's only Oscar.

Well thank you Mr D (& Callum).

It's not gone as well as I had hoped - only 876 views in a week, & just 9 people have posted on it so far, but it may be a slow burner, & have legs.

We shall see.

We gotta find ways to rev up blonde, that's the thing. We are marginal right now, & after a very good March - best month for a long time - we are not doing so well in April so far. Still, lots of fun things happening this month, so we might get there yet.  

PS - You owe me a PM reply, about our "date". I'm not letting you off the hook, right?

Good thread Tikay, always good to look back on events, often surprising how quickly times goes on.
My local weekly  paper does bits from 25,50 and 100 years ago - always interesting.

Thanks at.

I've not forgotten the post you put on my Diary last week, I'll get round to it eventually.

2013: thousands take to streets to celebrate the death of a human.

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+1.

IMO that is a great shout.

Whats going on here then?

I believe they were celebrating the death of The Lady Thatcher. 

People who probably suffered at the hands of Thatcher´s government celebrating her death.

1985: Nothing interesting. Oh, wait, I was born.

FYP

1976

Rmarkable to think that Pater Hain, now very much an establishment figure, but back then something of a radical, was charged with bank robbery.

He was acquitted, & it was suggested he had been set up by the South African Secret Service, as he had been a vehement opponent of apartheid.

He has led a quite remarkable life, one way & another.



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2003

Saddam was toppled.

Off you go, Son.


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2005


We love a Royal wedding.



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crikey. 12 years ago?

remember watching it live one late afternoon, iirc.

momentous day it seemed, and yet it didn't solve a great deal

1984

Perhsps the most memorable & momentous strike in my lifetime, as Arthur Scargill & Co took on Mrs Thatcher.

The strike was to last over a year.


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1969


This man had to go to Couirt to earn the right to wear a turban whilst driving a bus.


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1865

time for some history

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At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.

In retreating from the Union army’s Appomattox Campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia had stumbled through the Virginia countryside stripped of food and supplies. At one point, Union cavalry forces under General Philip Sheridan had actually outrun Lee’s army, blocking their retreat and taking 6,000 prisoners at Sayler’s Creek. Desertions were mounting daily, and by April 8 the Confederates were surrounded with no possibility of escape. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o’clock in the afternoon.

Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries. Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property–most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. Officers would keep their side arms, and Lee’s starving men would be given Union rations.

Shushing a band that had begun to play in celebration, General Grant told his officers, “The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again.”

 Although scattered resistance continued for several weeks, for all practical purposes the Civil War had come to an end

1968

Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.

There is another royal connection today.

On 9 April 1483, the twelve year old Edward V succeeded his father, Edward IV to the throne. His Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, soon found himself in the fortunate position: a sermon preached that the late Edward IV had been betrothed to another woman before marrying, rendering his children (the young king and his brother, the Duke of York) Fitzroys - illegitimate. Now, just 86 days later, the Duke of Gloucester, Richard III was King.

He duly made sure his young predecessor was properly supervised...by locking him and his brother in the inner reaches of Tower of London, where they had been living in the summer. They disappeared shortly afterwards, their bodies discovered some two centuries later. The Princes in the Tower.

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I do wish her Maj would allow the two little skeletons that are believed to be the princes to be forensically examined.
I know that wouldn't help find out who did actually kill them, but it would be great if they could at least prove their identity, which is entirely possible now they have their uncles DNA.

Please tell me you just made that up?

Can't be true, can it? History is boring, that sort of stuff never happened in the old days.

If I were making it up, I'd have flicked in a couple of direwolves, some mead, a grumpy dwarf and a naked dragon-handler and made myself a few quid.

How come she gets the say so?

She can do or say anything she wants. She owns everything, the country, swans, you & me, Kizzy, Camel, KMac, everyone & everything. 

A little more respect please, or you'll find yourself locked in a dungeon, possibly with an alligator.

Next of kin?  :dontask:

Well precisely. We don't know do we?

1998

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1981 - Brixton Riot




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This

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Is 409 years old today.

1997

Tiger Woods became, at 21, the youngest ever winner on The Masters, & he did so by a whopping 12 strokes.

What a journey he has had since then, one way & another. Who could have scripted that story?

I noticed last night he even has a bald patch now. The Seniors Tour beckons, Tiger.  

Life goes past so quickly.


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Our local paper also did those, unfortunately rather upset my Nan a few years ago when one for 100 years ago referred to a couple of people being arrested (for very minor things) and she pointed out that it was her father and uncle.  ;gobsmacked;
did not know we came from the wrong side of the tracks!

Died 70 years ago.

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Yes. On the last transport.

Her diary would have been lost forever if the Gestapo hadn't emptied her suitcase on to the floor so that they could use it to carry stolen valuables in.

1970

And in a rather different world, 15 years ago, this scary looking chap was sent to prison for the M25 Road Rage murder.

His wiki is a remarkable story. I have a sneaking admiration for the likes of the Krays, Richardsons, Freddie Foreman, Frankie Fraser, Joey Pile, & even the Train Robbers up to a point, but this man was different gravy.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Noye



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1970


Apollo 13 suffered serious problems, well beyond the reach of the AA or RAC, but somehow, they limped home. Subsequently, numerous books, TV series, & even a film chronicled the whole story.


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NASA HQ guided the wounded ship home, aided by all those state of the art computers



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1988

Russia pulled out of Afghanistan, which was then able to resume a peaceful existence.





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2014



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1989

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1945


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1998

Pot Pot died.


In all, an estimated 1 to 3 million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) died due to the policies of his four-year premie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot


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1942

A whole island were awarded the George Cross.


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Police Officers face tougher fitness tests.


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Vote for the best Battle Bus.


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Sigh... I have to say UKIP

Lewis Hamilton, 30, sealed victory in Shanghai at Chinese Grand Prix yesterday, his second win in three races
He celebrated with 'trademark' move of spraying champagne in the face of the hostess - much to her surprise
But Object, which campaigns against sexism, said he should apologise for his 'selfish and inconsiderate' actions
Others called the driving ace 'an embarrassment to the UK', while another said it showed he was an 'ignorant clown'






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The Queen has told a young paratrooper, "I don't get to give this one out very often", as she presented him with his Victoria Cross for bravery in Afghanistan.
L/Cpl Joshua Leakey became the first living British recipient of the medal from the Afghan conflict for his courage in three times running through heavy fire to set up machine guns and beat back a Taliban attack.


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The people in the world moaning about stripey houses and wayward champagne should see the first four stories on this page and wind their necks in.

1966

The Trial of The Great Train Robbers ended, & they were sentenced to a collective 300 years in prison.

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1953

Her Majesty launches the Royal Yacht, Britannia.





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1987

Conservative MP Harvey Proctor was fined for "spanking male prostitutes, aged between 17 to 21", when the legal age of consent for homosexuals was 21.

He resigned his seat in the House of Commons, & opened a shirt shop.

He remains alive & well to this day, working as Private Secretary to none other than The Duke of Rutland. 

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What a ripping yarn the great train robbery is, I've read endless accounts of it.

Like the Titanic or Jack the Ripper, it's one of those stories that continue to fascinate people the world over.

If I had to compile a "Top 10 most fascinating news stories" in my lifetime, that would most certainly be in it.

Strange to think most blonde members were not even born when it happened, the sum stolen was just £2.5 million, & the villains got a collective 300 years in jail.

And do you remember the aura the "Slipper of the Yard" had?

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1969


Bernadette Devlin won a Parliamentary seat & became the youngest ever female MP.



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1984

It was just a regular demonstration outside the Libyan Embassy in London, until, suddenly, a snipers bullet killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher.


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1986

Journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut as part of a wider Lebanese hostage crisis.

It was to be 5 years before he was eventually released.

He is an extraordinary man, but oddly, his Wiki page says almost nothing about him.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(journalist)


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His book was good though. There were periods when they folded him up and locked him inside a metal toolbox so that they could transport him on the back of a Land Rover. He literally couldn't move at all and was terrified that something would happen to his captors while he was in there.

I honestly think I would rather have died on the spot than go into that toolbox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(journalist)

1923

jockey Frank Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race and won despite being dead.

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And according to Wikipedia it was the only race he won!

You sure?

I thought he won another one about a week later?

Nope...that one was classed as a dead heat.

1955

Albert Einstein died.

If ever a man looked like a Mad Professor, it was Albert.


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1956

Harold Macmillan unveiled something radically new to us at the time - Premium Bonds.

We thought these were great - a risk free freeroll. Arguably, not quite risk free, if you compared returns with interest rates, but really, you could not lose. You could always cash them in at original face value.

We all had some - I had £5 worth, never won a bean, but, without fail, checked my numbers every single week. I guess I still have them, too, but I've not checked my numbers for around 50 years. I could be rich.....

They generated spectacular headlines. The numbers were generated electronically, (unheard of at the time) by something  known as "Ernie" - Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment. Over one third of the UK population still hold Premium Bonds.

It beggars belief that millions play the National Lottery every week, where the odds are far, far, worse. (About 35p in the £ is returned as prizes, I seem to recall).  

Soon after their introduction, a minority of people started questioning the validity of Ernie, "it's rigged". 40 years  Online poker emerged, & the riggies found a new home. They show no sign of leaving yet, bless them.

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1960


H-Bomb protest, Trafalger Square.

Perhaps my memory plays tricks, but demos were generally peaceful & well-ordered then, & not infiltrated or hijacked by troublemakers & loonies.


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1994


Up to 1,000,000 were killed during the Rwandan genocide, at a rate of 10,000 per day.

The majority of them were hacked to death by machete.

How did we allow this to happen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide


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Clinton has stated since that the one thing he loses sleep over repeatedly is this. Unreal that we knew so much and did so little.

Not really. Take a look at the things that are happening now, we still do so little.

It's unreal to me at least.

I know that your comment is meant to be constructive, and there have been many terrible situations since then, but nothing has compared to the scale or nature of what happened in Rwanda. The failures of the Belgian and French governments, as well as the US and UN, had a vastly greater effective than anything since.

1956

Prince Rainier married Grace Kelly. If "Hello" existed then, this would have been a double issue job.  

At the time, this was THE dream wedding, they were viewed the same way as, later, JFK & Jackie, Princess Di & Prince Charles, Posh & Becks.

Even now, older people recall Grace Kelly as the most perfect looking woman, & this was real fairy tale stuff. Sadly, & like the Kennedy & Princess Diana marriages, it ended in tragedy, when she was killed in a car crash.


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1993

The Waco siege ended in an inferno, as seen in this iconic photo.

This was a really weird, & tragic story, involving a 51 day siege, & the loss of some 80 lives.



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Strangely, just 2 years later, another tragedy arose nearby, & which was said by many to be linked. The FBI had lain siege to the Waco cult, & so, 2 years later, perhaps in retribution.....

1995

2 years later, to the day, a building which housed the FBI, in Oklahoma City, was blown to smithereens. 168 people were killed.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing


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1968

Enoch Powell delivered his infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech on immigration.

Despite his views on racism, which most of us found abhorrent, he was the most wonderful orator, the sort of man you could listen to all day every day.

In that respect, & despite being almost a polar opposite of him, he reminded me of Tony Benn. I did not much care for the policies either of them advocated, but oh my, they spoke in such a compelling & engaging manner, hard to think of any other modern day politicians who spoke so well. The motley bunch up for Election next month could not hold a candle to them when it came to personality, or delivering a speech.


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1999


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1955

A one month Newspaper strike in Fleet St ended.

With no internet, & precious few having a TV, people were desperate for daily news.

This is the London outlet of The Birmingham Post, (which was not affected by the strike) & those people are queuing up to buy a newspaper.

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1945

The Russians entered what remained of Berlin, ousting the beaten German army.


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1959

This one was yesterday, when I was awol, but it's such a great little story. She was a huge star at the time.



1959: Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail


The world famous British ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn has arrived in New York after spending 24 hours in a Panama City jail.
Panamanian police are still hunting her husband, Dr Roberto Arias, a former Panamanian ambassador in London, suspected of planning a coup against the government of President Ernesto de la Guarda.

She was mobbed by journalists at the airport. After trying to get through to her mother by phone, she agreed to talk to the press.

The ballerina said she did not know where her husband was or even if he was safe.

"Naturally I am concerned. Any woman who doesn't know where her husband is, is naturally concerned," she said.

She refused to answer questions about the situation in Panama but said she intended to return, saying "Of course, it's my husband's country."

After intervention from the British Ambassador Sir Ian Henderson, Dame Margot was freed from prison at dawn and taken to Panama City's airport for a flight to the United States.

'Decoy duck'

In a statement to the House of Commons in London, shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan welcomed her release. "The British public did not appreciate having seen her in the role of the swan, then seeing her in the role of a decoy duck," he said.

The Panamanian National Guard detained the ballerina yesterday when she arrived at Balboa harbour at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal on a fishing boat called Nola.

She had set out with Dr Arias on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Panama but when she returned the following day her husband was missing.

It is believed he left the Nola and jumped onto the Elaine, a shrimp boat, in the Pearl Islands with the intention of landing on the coast and storming the National Guard barracks in the town of Chorrera.

Local fishermen told the authorities Dr Arias ordered them to raise from the sea a buoy loaded with machine-guns, grenades and ammunition.




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Amazing to think now

i had to explain to my teenager the other day what "a career in print" was!

1968

As part of the change to decimalisation, the new 5p & 10p coins were introduced.


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Look, these are coins


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Sadly, that meant goodbye to threepenny bits & half crowns. We used to save threepenny bits in biscuit tins, it would be our holiday or Christmas money. Half crowns were the nuts. To this day, I still, in my head, auto convert to shillings & pence, £1.15 will always be 23 bob to me.


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1984


The AIDS virus was discovered, (or identified?).

The oddity was the way the news media reported it.


The discovery of a virus which may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through America

If they did but know what the future held.........

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1979

The Southall race riots took place. Southall was the first (iirc) real Asian community in Britain.


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They were most remembered for the death of Blair Peach, & the subsequent police cover-up. They had killed him.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Blair_Peach

1993


The IRA bombing campaign intensified, this was Bishopsgate, in London.

Scary times.


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Born on this day in 1904.

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*tikay will implode*

 ;scarymoment;

Did he paint that the day he was born?

A giant of American Abstract Expressionism. That painting would set you back up to a hundred million dollars or so.

No accounting for taste

1953

These two geeky looking chaps (Crick & Watson) laid claim (perhaps unfairly, but that's another story) to the discovery of DNA.

Might just be one of the most important discoveries in the last century, & it has helped change the world.

The way in which DNA continuously separates & then reproduces itself is nothing short of ingenious. How on earth did nature manage to design a trick like that? We would not exist without it.


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1980

The Iranian hostage crisis was at it's height, but a daring rescue mission all went horribly wrong.

Worth a read this - an extraordinary story.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw


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1983


The "Hitler Diaries" were published, & the world's leading newspapers paid many millions to serialise them.

Within days, they were shown to be a complete hoax. Great story, this.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries


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1962

Two US Presidents meet in the white house garden. One is a scout leader at the time

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1979

Gary Lineker scores his first senior goal, for Leicester City in the 1-0 win against Notts County

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Didn't know any of that. What a fascinating story.

1962


NASA managed to get a spaceship to land on the moon.


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Landing a spaceship on the moon is no big deal these days, but then, it was a huge affair, which began rather modestly, some 40 years earlier.




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1992

Betty Boothroyd elected as Speaker of the House Of Commons, the first female in that role in over 700 years. She held the post for 8 years.

A remarkable lady. She was at one time a member of The Tiller Girls, who were a dance Troupe who performed on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Top top show, that. The Tiller Girls just did "high kicks" - nothing else. We loved 'em.

In her sixties, she took up.....paragliding.

As politicians go, a rare exception.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boothroyd


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1986

Chernobyl had blown 2 days earlier, but only now did the Russians admit it.

Genuinely, one of these incidents that changed the world in many ways.

29 years on, the area remains off limits.

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1945



Things ended rather badly for Mussolini & his cohorts, who were first shot, then hung up & stoned.


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1986



Mourners at the funeral of The Duchess of Windsor



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1992


Los Angeles riots become Los Angeles looting.


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On the day in 1852 the first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus is published. The original edition had 15,000 words.

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1973

President Nixon & Watergate.


In a speech broadcast to the American people tonight he vowed to get to the bottom of the matter, saying: "There will be no whitewash at the Whitehouse."


There followed one of the most intriguing & fascinating news stories ever, as he prevaricated, bluffed, huffed & puffed, sacking the very investigators he had appointed & then, eventually, with a gun held to his head, resigned.

The backstory was nothing short of incredible, as were his attempts to cover up the whole thing.

He was eventually undone in the most bizarre way. He had installed a recording system in his White House Office, to record every convo he ever had in there.

He then ordered Rose, his long-serving & loyal Secretary, to erase large parts of the tape, & she was forced to testify to Congress.

A great, great, story, & a very sad one in some ways.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal



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1975

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Vietnam War Officially ended 30/04/1975

1975


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Snap!

Your pics are better :)

1993


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1999

Soho hit by another nail bomb.



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1982


RAF bombs Port Stanley airfield. An incredible feat, with the bombers being refuelled 17 times in flight. The bombing was not a success, but was deemed to be in propaganda at the time.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck


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1994


On the darkest weekend F1 has ever experienced, Ayrton Senna was killed at Imola.

We watched it all on TV, barely able to comprehend what we were seeing, but we knew he had been killed.

Frank Williams, effectively, had to flee the country, for fear of being arrested & charged with manslaughter.

Only 2 days earlier, in practice for the same race, Roland Ratzenberger was also killed.

As a result of that dreadful weekend, safety standards were improved, & not a single fatality has since occurred to a driver during a F1 race, which, it itself, must be a miracle.  


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Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot today in 1945 in his Führerbunker, Berlin.

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1952

The first ever commercial jet airliner entered service, the De Havilland Comet.

A year later, the first of several crashes occurred, & it had to be withdrawn & modified.

Eventually it re-entered service, & was still in commercial use up to around 1990, & it's Military variant, the Nimrod, continued flying with the RAF until only a few years ago.

The original Comet was built, remarkably, in Hatfield, Herts, of all places.  


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1982



The Belgrano was sunk by a British submarine, HMS Conqueror, & The Sun was suitably restrained, in one of it's most famous, & crass, headlines.



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1997


Labour won a landslide election victory, thanks to deep analysis in The Sun. I can't imagine that the  United Kingdom ever had a worse Prime Minister


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Haha really?

It's entirely possible that not everyone will share that view........

on literally any metric you can choose that's a completely unsupportable claim.

It was not a claim, it was a personal opinion, which is a very different thing.

it's very far fetched

in that case your imagination is failing you, badly. :)

;)

In your opinion, yes.

I'm pretty sure they used "Stick It Up Your Junta" after negotiations for a truce broke down too.

Correct.

Lovely people. Not.

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Are we debating whether it was the sun wot won it or Blair is the worst PM ever?

Really ???

In your lifetime [ :) ] there has been:

viscount Goderich
John Russell
And
The Earl of Bute - ok maybe a bit before.

So, Beelzebub appears to Tony Blair in the run up to the 97 election and says " Tone, you can win this election and the next two and preside over an incredibly buoyant financial situation. But you have to resign before the third term is up. In return I will own your soul and the souls of your wife and children"

Tony replies "hmmmm, what's the catch?"

It´s not clear whether what you mean is that you just didn´t like him? The idea that he was a bad PM isn´t supported by any facts (things that can be or were measured at the time)

Gordon Brown?

Not sure if serious?

Setting aside the Invasion of Iraq, the granting of immunity to IRA terrorists, and the selling of peerages, why would you deny us the benefit of hindsight in judging his Prime Ministerial qualities?

Self-serving, vainglorious, greedy, egotistical, the list is pretty much endless.

It's fair to say I disliked him, yes, & I admit that might colour my judgement.

For all the good he may have done, to my mind, every bit of it was overshadowed by Iraq, & the so called WMD affair. We are still paying that bill, here, & across the world. Not sure how you can "measure" that as per your yardstick.

I can't think of a more odious Prime Ministerial pairing, either, than Blair & Campbell, nobody voted for Campbell, but his influence on Blair & Government was huge. Campbell was a horrible piece of business altogether.

It's just my personal opinion, & I respect the fact many will disagree, which is fine. If I had to rate the last 10 PM's, Mr Blair would be bottom of my list.

We could debate it forever, of course, & not reach agreement!  

Probably just as well I never mentioned who is top of my list, either, then it would have kicked off. Another thread, another day, may be.

1951

The Festival of Britain opened, which was the biggest event since the war, & very important to the British public.

Amongst other things, it spawned what perhaps was, & is, England's ugliest official building, The Royal Festival Hall. 


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It was a time for Street parties, too, which became quite the thing in the 50's, as the Coronation was soon to follow. Street parties were wonderful, & we looked forward to them for weeks, barely able to sleep with excitement.




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1968

This is Donald Ross, who on this day, carried out the UK's first heart transplant.

The patient died a month later, & the procedure was abandoned for over a decade.

In 2015, in the UK alone, there is a successful heart transplant almost daily.


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Street parties.    I have a vague memory of going to one as a child and I definitely remember them happening.  I lived in Middlesbrough as a child in a row of terraced houses just like the one in the picture a whole interconnected door left opened sugar borrowing community.  I remember specifically my Mam (not Mum) telling me to go next door to borrow a cup of sugar or an egg...  wtf  and egg, simpler times.

I remember the coal man, I also remember carrying a bag home from the local shop when I was  a bit bigger, we normally got it on tic . I also remember doing  a moon lite flit or was it flick ?

We had a coin operated TV and radio which we didn't always have a coin for, their was many an expert in our street who could show us how to get around this.

Strange how those photos brought back all those happy memories, thank you TK.

Regards

Steve

Lovely post Steve. I had a Mam not a Mum too. Isn't it a bugger finding greeting cards with Mam on? My daughter usually buys a batch when she's up the North.

Loads and loads available in the multitude of card shops on Teesside.

There were lots of street parties in 1977 as I recall it.

I had an Irish Mum. However next door but one was my Nan. She was Mammy to her kids.

RediffusionTV if you were posh in our terraced street. Remember going to the shop for single razor blades for the old man and single saches of Bristows shampoo for my Sunday hair washing.

My first recollection of a street party was the 1977 Silver Jubilee. However in the summer the kids in our street used to have our Mum's make us sarnies wrapped in greaseproof bread wrapping, home made cakes and pop. We would then all go up the road to Hanley park and have a picnic.

1979

The Conservatives win the General Election, bringing with it our first female Prime Minister.

There became no middle ground in people's views of Mrs Thatcher - it was either love her, or loathe her, & if there were a poll to rate the best & worst Prime Ministers of the last 50 years, she would be voted top or bottom in all of them.  


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1979

Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party, lost the North Devon seat he had held for 20 years.

He was embroiled in a major scandal, which began with a homosexual relationship in the 60's, when such relationships were, amazingly, illegal in Great Britain.

He tried to hush it up, but it got out of hand, & he was eventually charged with conspiracy to murder his former lover, Norman Scott. Scott's dog was shot dead, but when the gun was turned on Scott, it jammed.

Now that's a proper scandal.

He was cleared of the murder charge, mainly because the witnesses were deemed to be unreliable.

He dropped out of the public eye, & later developed Parkinsons Disease. He died in 2014.

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1982


HMS Sheffield was sunk by the Argies in the Falklands war.


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There was no such thing as TV Breaking News in those days, but all pronouncements as to the Falklands War were made by Ian McDonald, who delivered the news in slow, measured monotone.



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1929

Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston was born.

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Woof!

Absolutely stunning.

I Remember our schoolboy joke about Jeremey Thorpe and Norman Scott.
apparently they bought a pub in Cheddar called The Mendip Inn. Childish but i still lol at it now. LOL

1980


The Iranian Embassy siege ended in quite spectacular fashion, when the SAS forced entry, & killed five Iranian gunmen.

It was widely believed at the time that the SAS deliberately killed them, rather than capture them, to avoid the inevitable headache of a trial & imprisonment, which would prompt further hostage taking.

A dreadful affair all round, but nevertheless, one that enthralled us all, we had never seen anything like this covered "Live" on TV before, & it became one of the most iconic news stories of our lifetime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege




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One of those "I remember where I was when it happened" jobs, too.

It was Bank Holiday Monday, at 7.30pm in the evening, & we had all settled down to watch the flamboyant Alex Hurricane Higgins give the dour grinder Cliff Thorburn a good thrashing in the Final of the World Snooker Championships. (Thorburn ran out an 18-16 winner). Live coverage of the Snooker was interrupted by the news coverage of the siege ending. It was several hours before Snooker coverage was resumed, but by then, all the zing had been taken out of it, & I never even watched the end.  

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2001

The Foot & Mouth disease, which had near paralyzed the UK for 4 months, was officially declared to be at an end. This allowed the imminent General Election to go ahead. The Election could not have been held if restrictions on movement remained in place.

6 million cattle were slaughtered, & the carcasses burned & buried.

Farmers received compensation to the tune of over £1.3 billion.

A dreadful affair all round, though I never understood why the farmers were entitled to Government compensation. 



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1981


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2005

Labour won the General Election, & so Tony Blair became Prime Minister for the third time.



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This time, however, he had to do without Alastair Campbell, who had been forced to resign after the David Kelly affair.

It is often said that the character Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It was based upon Alastair.


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2011

Exactly 4 years ago Britain voted by 2 to 1 against AV thus retaining FPTP which was said to give clearer cut general election outcomes

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:)

Probably my first ever memory of watching something on the telly and thinking wow. (Other than George & zippy) was a sunny evening, even in Glasgow.

1954

Roger Bannister became the first athlete ever to run a mile in 4 minutes.

The "Official Timekeeper" is the fella crouched right by the white post.

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1960

Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones.

She had previously been engaged to a divorcee, Peter Townsend, but the Church of England disapproved of such an outrageous union, so that got called off.

The marriage lasted 14 years before, ironically, they divorced, amid rumours that Princess Margaret had been seeing a bloke, Roddy Llewellyn,  on the side.  Anyway, she hooked up with Roddy, but he eventually married someone else.

She was quite the character, & always in the headlines.


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1966

The so-called "Moors Murderers" were sent to prison, found guilty of killing 3 children, after sexually torturing them, & then burying the bodies on Saddleworth Moor. It was believed they murdered 2 other children, but the bodies were never found.

Saddleworth Moor, adjacent the M62, is a bleak & forbidding place, & even now, driving past it sends shivers down my spine.



https://crimethroughtimecollection.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brady_1799677b.jpg?w=584&h=365

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1994

The Channel Tunnel was opened. It was commonly called the "chunnel" then, a nick which seems to have long disappeared.


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1945

Germany officially surrendered.

Strange to think everything was so ordered & formal in those days.

Here, sign this receipt please.

Could or would that happen now?

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1956

The Health Minister, RH Turton, has rejected calls for a government campaign against smoking, saying no ill-effects have actually been proven.


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1945


Britain celebrated the end of the war in Europe.

It's hard to imagine the sheer happiness of the people, & the hard times they had endured.

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1968



The game was up for the Krays & they were arrested.


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Saul Bass was born today in 1920. Who?

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Hugely influential graphic designer.

Would probably just announce it on Facebook.

1945

The Channel Islands were liberated after Germany surrendered.

I'm guessing this rather splendid photograph was taken in the "Hohlgangsanlage" (thank you, google) caves & tunnels that the Germans had built.


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Channel_Islands_Liberated-_the_End_of_German_Occupation,_Channel_Islands,_UK,_1945_D24595.jpg)



The tunnels remain in place to this day, & are a War Museum & popular tourist attraction now. I visited them some years ago, & they are quite something.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohlgangsanlage_tunnels,_Jersey





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Volunteer Joe McDonnell joined the Hunger Strike in Long Kesh.  He'd eventually starve to death leaving behind 2 kids and a wife. 

Our Revenge Will Be The Laughter of Our Children.

.

1940

This remarkable man took over from Chamberlain as Prime Minister, & almost certainly changed the course of history.


(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02612/Sir-Winston-Church_2612687b.jpg)

1967

These two chaps were up on drugs charges, & the nation was aghast - ridiculously long hair, drugs, loud music, shocking, absolutely shocking.

Little did we know how much music was about to help change the world.

Drugs charges, wow. Those two will never last the distance.


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Nearly 50 years later, both somehow survived their lifestyle. Mick is now Sir Mick, & both are aged 71.  

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1998

Sinn Fein voted to back the Good Friday Agreement.


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Eventually, Gerry Adams was to achieve the status of Statesman.

Amazingly, in the late 80's, a law was passed in the United Kingdom which forbade his voice being heard on Radio or TV.

1985

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1971

The Daily Sketch ceased to exist.


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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGgbT_VasI

2005

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1971

Mick Jagger married Bianca, Biance was a stunningly pretty lady, & they seemed well-suited, both very reserved & discreet. 


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The reception was quite a do, too, here's Keith & Anita.


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1967

It was announced that Stansted would become London's third airport.


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1994

John Smith died, aged 55.

Many think he was the last really credible Labour leader.

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2000

Vehicle production at Ford Dagenham ended.

Historically, they had produced some cracking motors.


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1916 James Connelly executed



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Love this thread.  I shall try to contribute something meaningful at some stage.

Please do, Adam, I seem to be flogging a dead horse here, only a handful of others have posted stuff. Guess we all like different stuff, but personally, I love this thread.

Perhaps you could do a Lancashire version? Or record every Burnley win?

I love this thread Teeeeks. Thank you for the stuff you've posted.
Have spent way too many hours googling stuff relating to the pics.

Born on this day.

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Archie Scott Brown.

Nope I'd not heard of him, should of done, a short life, lived to the fullest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Scott_Brown

I'm the same, Neil, I spend wayyyy too much time googling all sorts of stuff like this.

I knew that story well, one of my first passions was motor racing in the fifties & sixties. I even had little Corgi replicas, which we'd push along the pavement......times have changed a bit. 

By an uncanny coincidence, today is the 65th anniversary of the first ever "official" F1 GP at Silverstone, when no less than 200,000 flocked to the circuit.

The race was dominated by Italian cars & drivers, Alfa Romeo & Maserati, the great Fangio & Farina. I used to idolise those guys.

F1 racing cars in those days HAD to be in the colours of their country - Brits were green, Italians Red, French were blue, & so on. Only Ferrari carry on that tradition, every F1 Ferrari racing car has been red as far as I know.



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One of the best new threads on the forum IMHO

Continuing with the theme of coincidences, at the very time when KP is making all the Test Cricket headlines......


1977


Tony Greig was summarily sacked after it emerged he was in league with Kerry Packer, who was setting up a rival Test Series for Channel Nine in Australia.

This was a monumental moment in cricket, & was to change everything, in so many ways.

Greig was reviled for being a traitor, & was almost hounded out of the UK.

He cut a deal with Packer though, made himself a very rich man indeed, & in later years, became, in many ways, quite a hero & well-liked bloke.

Oh my, how we despised Packer & Greig at the time, though.

This is a great, great story, I hope you take a moment to read it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_Cricket

Until that time, cricketers were paid a pittance, but Packer changed all that, & Mr Pietersen & Co would do well to remember the debt they owe to Kerry Packer & Tony Greig.

The Court Case alone lasted 7 weeks.

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1950

120,000 fans were there, including the King. The first ever F1 race was On This Day in 1950

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1981

The Pope was shot, in Rome.


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Definitely not flogging a dead horse Tony, I love this thread. Brings back lots of memories and lots of stuff I didn't know about. Unfortunately some of the stories I remember make me realise I'm getting old lol.

I just lurrve this thread. Lurrve it to bits.

1939

Harvey Keitel is 76 today.

Today is the future that Marty McFly went back to.



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1981

Ricky Villa scores that goal in the FA Cup Final.


(http://www.retroclasico.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ricky-villa-1981.jpg)

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Frank Sinatra died on march 14 1998.

1995

20 years ago today Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League.

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1967

On This Day in 1967, Coventry City clinch the Division Two title with a 3-1 win over Millwall at Highfield Road- goals coming from John Tudor, Ernie Machin and John Key.

a famous manager, and amongst the players a famous future manager...FA Cup winning manager

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What an amazing top 5.

"0 years is a long time in football, eh?

And Arsenal only 12th. Was that before Lord Wenger arrived?

no it isn't :)

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/bttf.asp

Lol. Can't get anything past you Adam.

The irony is we may be coming pack to this as there is talk of a rival cricket organisation to the ICC funded by an Indian company. Given the way the minor nations are treated I actually think they may have some success.

By the way love the thread but no good at posting pictures etc.

We seem to be gathering a bit of momentum now, great stuff, keep it coming.

1957


Petrol rationing ended. Just imagine, petrol rationing. It happened again, briefly, during the 1980's oil crisis iirc, & it was utter bedlam.


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(http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/ff5ae042ce27b2ab82d27ecc5d53bbb27188cec7)

1991

Wille Mandela jailed for kidnap & murder.

(http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8531767.ece/alternates/w620/pg-31-winnie-mandela-getty-.jpg)

2001


CJD, the new variant of BSE, or "Mad Cow disease", was rampant, & over 100 people had died as a result.


(http://a.abcnews.com/images/WNT/abc_wn_cow_120424_wg.jpg)

Ration books were issued in the seventies, but not used

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Elio de Angelis was killed in an accident while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit in France on this day in 1986.

1976

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That must be the worst cash out in history.

1905 What became this was founded.

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1943

The German Army crushed the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.



The Nazis created the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw in 1940 and about 500,000 people were crammed into an area not bigger than one square mile (2·6 sq km).

Its inhabitants were systematically transported to Treblinka and those who fought in the legendary Jewish uprising would rather have died with dignity than be taken to the death camps.

About 50 of the 1,000 fighters escaped through the sewers and some fought in the second Warsaw uprising by the Polish Home Army in August 1944.

About 40,000 Jews were massacred in reprisal for the uprising. When Soviet troops liberated Warsaw on 17 January 1945 only about 200 Jews remained and the old city had been virtually destroyed.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_09.jpg)


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(http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto_testimonies/images/fighters/2807_43.jpg)

1968

3 people were killed after a Tower Bock, Ronan Point, in London's east end, partially collapsed.

Can't think of too many occasions when buildings, bridges or structures in the UK have failed.


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1985

Feelings ran high in the pit strike, & 2 miners were jailed for the murder of Taxi Driver David Wilkie, after they threw blocks of concrete off a motorway bridge, which fell on the car & killed the driver.




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1990



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2001


In those days, the Labour leadership showed a bit of fight.

Hard to imagine Mr Milliband ever doing this.


(http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01222/prescott3_682_1222624a.jpg)




 

1943

Operation Chastise took place - the so-called bouncing bombs.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb


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1974

Car bombs exploded in Dublin & Monaghan, with the inevitable & dreadful consequences. Such dark times.

(http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00287/5892153_Dublin_287012b.jpg)

1980

35 years ago today, Ian Curtis died. He previously wrote to Joy Division's manager, Rob Gretton, after recording Closer:

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1980

Mount St Helens erupted. 57 people died and it cost over $1billion to undertake the cleanup.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/MSH80_eruption_mount_st_helens_05-18-80-dramatic-edit.jpg)

1964

There was outrage after Mods & Rockers clashed at Margate & Brighton.

Crash helmets? What they?




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It gets worse:  In the early 1990’s he saw that Apple was plummeting and decided to sell the original document of the first Apple company agreement for $500. After nearly two decades, that same exact document was sold at an auction for $1.8 million dollars.

1997

Tobacco sponsorship in sporting events was banned - Ferrari were soon to cleverly get round this subliminally.


(http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/2002%20Ferrari.small.jpg)


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41 Years Old Today

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Sorry to sound stupid but how would I know the second picture was Marlboro?

This is the genius of it.

On the bottom of a pack of Marlboro, you have that barcode. It was a design that appeared suddenly on all the team apparel, all the branding stuff and even the Ducati motorbikes.

It wouldn't take long for word to get out as to what it related to and then, once you know, you'd tell someone else, they'd pass it on and so on.

Everyone knew tobacco advertising in some countries was banned and now the big Marlboro sign was being replaced with what looks like a barcode. Doesn't take much sleuthery to work it out.

They had to withdraw it in 2010, but it's one of the great advertising coups in sport, IMO.

What Tal Bloke said.

It was sheer genius, because all who saw it said "ooh, what they REALLY mean is Marlboro", so it actually RAISED awareness of the brand.


(http://wadejohnston1962.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/1380352-6741906-thumbnail.jpg)

The Repsol Brabham tried a similar trick, albeit less successful.


(http://www.f1colours.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/jordan98.jpg)

(http://f1.imgci.com/PICTURES/CMS/1200/1200.jpg)

I think you'll fond that's a Jordon Tikay

Very likely.

This was a good attempt though.

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Driven by Damon Hill 98/99 who wore a racing helmet in the same design as his dad, in the colours of the London rowing club.

That's superb, good spot.

Them F1 boys know all the tricks. Thank goodness we have - or had -  Bernie running the show. Can't imagine he would approve of such skulduggery.



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1989

36 Years ago today the impossibly cool Andrea Pirlo was born

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Who?

He looks like a modern day Jason King.

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Now we know who inspired the RED-DOG look :)

On this day in 1997: Eric Cantona announced his retirement from football at the age of 30.

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1946

André René Roussimoff was born. Better known as André the Giant - he was 7' tall. Truly inconceivable.

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He does seem quite a big bugger.
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As I United fan it was one of those jaw dropping moments where you really thought it was just a bad joke. One of the best ever players to play for United, and I suspect a reporters dream of a player. I was in a car park in Glastonbury at the time!

Did like the story about the win bonus that all the team decided to raffle amongst them selves (winner take all) two of the young players at the time (Nicky Butt and Scholes I think) put theirs in despite it being a very significant sum for them at the time. Cantona won the draw and gave them half each for having the nerve to put it in.

either 1976 or 26 years ago surely

typo

1979

born 19 may 79

1995

The no 1 in the pop charts was......


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fgUY-kXlBA

1973

The so-called "Cod war" with Iceland escalated.


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On this day in 2003. Outwith the birth of my children, probably the greatest days(s) of my life.

Seville. UEFA Cup Final. We lost 3-2 to Jose Mouriniho's Porto.

But it probably didn't matter.

80-100k Celtic supporters travelled from all over the world, the majority of which didn't have tickets for the game, but just felt they had to be there.

Some incredible stories of how they got there, some going via 2 or 3 counties from the UK just to get to Spain.

I managed to get tickets from EBay for me and my mum and dad. They loved it. So glad we went.

1915

At 6.49am on May 22 1915: 226 people were killed & 246 injured in the Quintinshill rail crash

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/quintinshill-disaster-remembered-100-years-on-1-3780380

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1946

George Best would have been 69 today.

(A day late)

1958

Huge news, as Subscriber Trunk Dialling - we can dial numbers ourselves, without asking the operator - became available. Expensive though.

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No more GPO switchboards.



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HM The Queen was chuffed to bits.




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(A day late)

1966

Henry Cooper took on Cassius clay.

It began well for our Henry.....

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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/17/article-0-00035BDD00000C1D-845_634x431.jpg)


But ended badly........

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46150000/jpg/_46150428_cooper_cut766.jpg)


The fight took place at London's premier Football Stadium...........

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1970

The England Cricket Tour to South Africa was cancelled on the instructions of James Callaghan, much to the delight of Peter Hain.



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1972

Nixon visited Moscow, a pretty big deal then.

Brezhnev was delighted.



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1981


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Prison was tough for Sutcliffe......



(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/01/021AFA0F0000044D-2935289-image-a-224_1422809938342.jpg)


I also stumbled across this fascinating photo of Sutcliffe, meeting Frank Bruno, after an introduction from Jimmy Saville.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/15/154BBA8D000005DC-2954232-image-m-21_1423991130734.jpg)

1984

A dreadful tragedy occurred at a water pumping station of all places, in Abbeystead, Lancashire.

It was a state of the art pumping station, & had been built underground to minimise visual impact on a beautiful rural area.

A party of visitors, including school children, were being given a guided tour at the time, when an almighty explosion destroyed the plant.

8 died there & then, another 8 died in hospital.

The cause was a build up of methane gas. It had been constructed close to a coal seam, & this had not been taken into account in it's design.

Some of the visitors, strange to relate, were smoking during the visit, & it was this that triggered the blast.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeystead_disaster




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1983

Ayrton Senna won his 6th and final Monaco Grand Prix despite crashing heavily on the Thursday and bruising his thumb. He started 3rd on the grid behind Prost, who jumped the start and had to take a stop-go penalty, and Michael Schumacher who retired with hydraulics failure.

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1925

The Isolator, a helmet invented today in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFtfe6eWMAAIHlz.jpg)

You gotta be kidding me, right?

Seemingly not.

Here's another invention by dear Hugo, & featuring the man himself......


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Quite a character according to his Wiki.

"The Father of Science Fiction". Yeah, that's about right.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gernsback

How many FPPs for one of those on Stars?

http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/may-24-1989-hislop-fury-as-yorkshire-rippers-wife-wins-600000-damages-from-private-eye-11363982556292


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The Golden Boy of England Rugby, & Captain of the side, resigned amidst allegations he was messing with drugs. The allegations were later deemed incorrect, & he returned to the side in due course.


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1955

Lincoln Futura prototype was rejected. It became the Batmobile in 1966.

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Two days late 22/05/2013

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Amazing how little was mentioned this year?

The death of Harold Wilson, Labour politician and Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and again from 1974-1976.


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1974

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Great album Simon.

yes, scary its 41 years old though!

Stop it. I still had one year left at school.

Excuse me, but please don't say 1989 was 36 years ago.
If it is I just aged ten years.

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http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/390143-phantom-punch-the-50-year-anniversary-of-ali-liston-ii

The controversy:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2473196-the-phantom-punch-at-50-ali-liston-and-boxings-most-controversial-fight-ever

.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNLzrkS-dVM

We Won the Big Cup and brought it back, t'was the first time it had been on British Shores! 

Wasn't it on British shores before? At Hampden Park 1960 :)

1979

The price of a pint of milk rose to 15p, meaning it had trebled in less than 5 years.

In the 36 years since, it has only gone up by around 50%. (Varies).


(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01819/DO_NOT_USE_1819332a.jpg)

All through my boyhood, a pint if milk, (the only quantity you could buy) was a shilling.

1982

The Atlantic Conveyor, packed with armaments, weapons, Harrier Jets & Chinook Helicopters vital for the war, headed for The Falklands, was bombed by the Argentinians, who perhaps thought it was HMS Hermes, an Aircraft Carrier. 


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On the same day, HMS Coventry was hit, too.




(http://i3.coventrytelegraph.net/incoming/article2960376.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/image-8-for-the-sinking-of-hms-coventry-gallery-571098336.jpg)

1994

A company called "Camelot" won the licence to run the UK's National Lottery, & they have retained the licence ever since. It's current licence sees it through until 2019, with an option to extend until 2024.

Surprisingly (to me, anyway), Camelot is owned by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

For every £1 we spend on a lottery ticket.......

50p is returned in prizes.

28p goes to "Good Causes"

12p goes to the Government in duty.

5p goes to the Retailer.

5p goes to Camelot.



(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02692/Camelot_sailed__lu_2692162b.jpg)

They own the nursery my daughter goes to as well (and 200+ others)

Taxed at supply. How come we do this and the U.S. Always tax the consumer (pretty sure they have to pay tax on lottery earnings)

Government here fucking the poor innit :)

1955

In shades of 2015, the Conservatives under Anthony Eden won the General Election, after 5 years of stalemate, they secured 324 seats.

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1964


Prime Minister Nehru, said to be the founder of modern India, died suddenly.



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1980

The Jury at the Inquest into Blair Peach's death returned a verdict of misadventure.

The Verdict was not received with universal agreement.

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26th May 1923

The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was run.

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1996

In the 120th minute of the playoff final, leicester having just substituted their keeper in preparation for penalties, Claridge shinned one in from outside the box past Nigel Martyn

Promotion in MON's first year and so began a run of top ten PL finishes until he left for Celtic. two league cup wins, games against red star belgrade and atletico madrid in europe.....

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Always caused Liverpool problems , had a true love for his club.

R.I.P

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1950

Fuel rationing in the UK ends, & so second hand car prices rocket.


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1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII

Science was born, some 2600 years ago

http://www.popsci.com/may-28-should-henceforth-be-known-thales-day

Hence the term, 'epic thales'.

VW was founded on this day in 1937

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1984

28 May

Eric Morecambe, English comedian, dies at Cheltenham General Hospital aged 58.

He had collapsed on stage at the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury during a Sunday evening performance

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1985

Heysel

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1960

55 years ago, Stirling Moss took the chequered flag in Monaco to give Lotus their first F1 win

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1787

31 May 1787 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was formed

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2008

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Born today 1926

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Died today 1959. Sax Rohmer

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1967

The Beatles release their eighth studio album.

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1970

Bruce McLaren was killed

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1975

2nd June, snow stopped play in a county cricket match at Buxton

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anyone name the cricket people in the lower photo?

Certainly, Dickie Bird. Clive Lloyd all so?

yes both of those.

derbyshire v lancashire

all four players are lancashire...

Clive's brother, David  :D

No idea of the others.

Barry Wood , F C Hayes

edit     lever not wood

correct peter lever, clive llloyd, barry wood, dickie bird, bumble

Frank Hayes. I only have one memory of him, which was seeing him on the telly with long blonde hair slashing away in the dark in some match that went on til about 9pm without lights. Not sure if it actually happened, but his name and that scenario has stuck in my head all these years, so I think it probably did.

Big Lancashire fan and was a big Hayes fanboy.Was part of a terrific Lancashire side , Wood ,Engineer , Pilling , Lloyd D , Lloyd C , Lever , Hughes , Simmons.  Extremely talented flair batsman in the same style as Gower ,Scored a century on England debut , but only played half a dozen more tests after getting pulverised in the series against the terrific West Indians .

The only late finishing match i can recall was the famous Gilette Cup semi final v Gloucestershire in early 70's.  David Hughes batted in near darkness , hitting 20 odd off an over (a rareity those days) to win the match.

Born today 1939. Ian Hunter.

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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwVfEXJhQQ

One of the first albums I bought, & still regular played in my house.

Big big fan .  Hunter still touring at the age of 75.  Very talented and underated songwriter.

"Dudes" one of my alltime top ten singles. That intro  still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

He kickstarted the best evening of musicianship and performance I've experienced at a festival. Friday evening at Wychwood 2007. Ian Hunter, followed by Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, topped off by The Levellers with a guest appearance from Three Daft Monkeys joining them for The Devil Went Down. To Georgia to round it off.
Ian Hunter though, great stuff, including Dudes and Roll Away the Stone and so much more.

32 years ago the film War Games opened in the U.S.

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1997

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Jeez, that how long ago that was :o

Born today 1944.

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Michelle Phillips, the only surviving member of the The Mamas & the Papas. Was happily married to Dennis Hooper for 8 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Phillips

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk

First band I ever saw at Victoria Hall Hanley, S-O-T. First Album I bought was Brain Capers. I like the earlier stuff on Island records.


One of my fave tracks. Listen to the lyrics, still relevant today.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqiI8C6AnY&list=PLDMrTH2lBv4rZrN_6mu69KfpCF1tokuIe

If you ever come across Hunters  Diary of a Rock'n'Roll Star , do yourself a favour and buy it.  Real warts and all account of life on the road.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Rock'n'Roll_Star

A review in the October 1996 issue of Q magazine ventured that it "may well be the best rock book ever".

Guess i'm gonna spend tonight on you tube lol



YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knt55Rw6cqw

Two great versions of Sweet Jane by two of my favourite artist. Mott and Lou Reed. Can't get the Youtube link to work for some reason.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5UHI1PtYS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMLt9bMd_I

Anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre 1989.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_2496000/2496277.stm

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The most memorable image.

1975

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EEC Referendum. 67% voted to stay in the "Common Market"

Government as a plural noun. Interesting.

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Born today 1868.

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Had problems tying his neckwear, but was pretty damned good at design.

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Born on this day

1917

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1940

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1958

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2011

one of the most memorable grand prix ever

last to first

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Iaz1-8VC0

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (standing second on the left) died today 1924 on Everest.

(http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/failures/img/08-mallory-everest-670.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory

Born today 1934, Soul legend, Jackie Wilson.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXZmjUtlJw

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTs8a7dVa0

Born today:

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Howlin' Wolf

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Saul Bellow

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Maurice Sendak.

Maurice Sendak would've turned 87 today.

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Born today 1815, Julia Margaret Cameron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron

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R.I.P


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Sir Christopher Lee career highlights in pictures  http://goo.gl/S8gWQc 

there are many, the obits are going to be great reads

SAS, Nazi hunter, hammer, starwars, scaramanga, lord of the rings etc etc

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Died today 1980.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Butlin

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Happy anniversary

Happy anniversary to you both.

Time flies, Happy Anniversary.

One of the greats of world literature died today 1986.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

“I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.”

Harry Nilsson, born today 1941. Best pal of John Lennon, troubled drunk & genius songwriter.

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A couple of his lesser known songs.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nB5VxPOoio

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc20TejUdSY

1995 - During the O.J. Simpson murder trial, O.J. was asked to put on a pair of gloves. The gloves were said to have been worn by the killer on the night of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. The gloves appeared not to fit.


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I watched virtually evert minute of thr OJ saga, from the 'Breaking News' slow motion car chase to the 'Dream Team' trial. It was some of the most compelling TV I've ever seen.

I was dumbfounded when he was found not guilty.



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So sad that I know your signature comes from the Red Dwarf episode Camille...

It was such a brilliant joke though.

I watched my fave episode of all time yesterday. "Back to Reality" where the group meet the despair squid.

Duane Dibbly?

1984


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNFi3ZcM_S4

1993

James Hunt passed away

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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_apIbmsUwU

800 years ago, the Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede.

29 years ago, I was born in Gateshead.

Events of equal historical significance, I'm sure you'll all agree. ;)

Ask me again in 771 years..

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday

1903

The Ford Motor Company was founded today.

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Pepsi's first trademark was approved today.

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Born today

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Died today

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Rooney became the youngest scorer in the euros:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/3787495.stm

Born today.

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Scottish artist, John Bellany.

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Italian Actress, Isabella Rossellini.

Born today

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Today in 1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

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29 years ago today

1986

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnSvfHiUqk

Wow.  29 years.  I suddenly feel very old.

Opened today in 1907.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway

Born today in 1837. (Never heard of him) but for the attn of Tal & Chess thread followers.

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The lad on the left, a chess prodigy. Paul Charles Morphy.

Happy birthday to

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Todd Rundgren

&

Todd's biggest fan

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Danny Baker.

Morphy was the best player in the world in his day. He played a famous game against two noblemen while at the opera. Here are some short pieces about it courtesy of chess historian, Edward Winter:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/morphy.html

1990

25 years ago today, this man scored his first world cup goal and became one of the reasons the world cup that year is remembered so fondly

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAq2LcbKPY

This is pretty moving

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33230091

More on the bombing, which I must confess, I had forgotten all about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182

We remember 9/11 and Lockerbie, but somehow this atrocity seems to have been consigned to history books.

Had also slipped from my memory. Too many tragedies.

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Imogen Cunningham died today in 1976. One of the greats of 20th century photography.

http://www.imogencunningham.com/page.php?page=archive

Tony Hancock passed away too early in 1968.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hancock

I'm a photography fan as you know Mr T, and I'm the last person to speak ill of the dead, but try as I might, I can't see anything remarkable about Imogen's work.

1911

Juan Manuel Fangio - five-time world champion and F1's first global superstar, born today in 1911

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That's ok, I'm not her greatest fan either. Her botanical prints are not my thing. But I do admire her street photographs & portraits from the 40s & her lifetime passion for photography. She was working well into her 90s.  

I guess her status was made as a pioneer in photography at the turn of the 20th century, her style, technique & experimentation was considered well advanced for the time. Probably you would need to see her original prints from the period & compare to her contemporaries to appreciate her talent.

When you put it like that I have to agree.

No on would be impressed today if two brothers built a plane and it flew a few hundred yards.

Born today:

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George Orwell.

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Peter Blake.

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Greg Raymer.

Died today:

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Alfred Noyes, poet.

The lines:

And the highwayman came riding—
         Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

may be familiar. Certainly a memory from my english class at school in the 70s.

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Philippe Halsman, portrait photographer.

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Michel Foucault, influential French philosopher.

Today, 1906. The first Grand Prix.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaY1SGOxzs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_French_Grand_Prix

Quick tyre changes, & on board mechanics, brilliant old footage.

1963

JFK's famous speech at the Berlin Wall.

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1945

50 countries sign the first UN charter.

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Tove Jansson died today, 2001. Author of the Moomin books.


John Entwhistle, passed away the following year.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTXGBxF0_bA

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRGB0nEbPU

Born today 1911.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYPu4zWLWzs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Herrmann

Died today 1979.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9aWs7rdKME

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_George

1945

70 today.

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1998

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC6Yv3BPVY

Can you believe it was 18 years ago this great fee kick was scored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ECoR__tJNQ

1990

Italia 90 semi final

"someone have a word"

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1976: Israelis rescue Entebbe hostages
 Israeli commandos have rescued 100 hostages, mostly Israelis or Jews, held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda.
At about 0100 local time (2200GMT), Ugandan soldiers and the hijackers were taken completely by surprise when three Hercules transport planes landed after a 2,500-mile trip from Israel.

About 200 elite troops ran out and stormed the airport building.

During a 35-minute battle, 20 Ugandan soldiers and all seven hijackers died along with three hostages.
 

this time in 1976 Britain was sweltering under a heat wave. The hottest day being 3rd July when the temp reached 35.9. Some pictures from the time.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/18-photos-of-the-uk-heatwave-of-1976#.uc6NyjP6a

I know exactly what I was doing on that day. I wonder if anyone else does? (Know what they were doing I mean, not what I was doing)