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    On This Day - Back in time on 7 April



    In 1498, Charles VIII King of France (1483-98), dies at 27.


    In 1506, St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya and Japan, is born.


    In 1652, the Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.


    In 1770, William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic school of poetry and poet laureate, is born near England's Lake District.


    In 1860, American industrialist and philanthropist W K Kellogg is born in Battle Creek, Michigan.


    In 1891, American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum dies in Bridgeport, Connecticut. age 81.


    In 1908, conductor Percy Faith (Summer Place) is born in Toronto, Ontario.


    In 1920, sitar player Ravi Shankar is born in Benares India.


    In 1927, the first simultaneous telecast of image and sound takes place. Herbert Hoover read a speech in Washington, DC which was transmitted to Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City, where an audience saw and heard a tiny televised image of Hoover, less than 3 inches square.


    In 1939, film maker Francis Ford Coppola is born in Detroit Michigan.


    In 1953, by a vote of 57 to 1, Dag Hammarskjýld is elected secretary-general of the United Nations.


    In 1954, Jackie Chan, one of the most recognised names in Kung Fu and action movies worldwide, is born in Hong Kong.


    In 1957, the last of New York's electric trolleys completes its final run.


    In 1963, a new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Tito the president for life of the newly named Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.


    In 1968, motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in a car crash during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim. He was 32.


    In 1978, US President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb.


    In 1986, home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair sells rights to his machines to Amstrad in a £5m deal.


    In 1990, in a tragic coincidence, two separate ferry accidents in different areas of the world take the lives of a reported 325 people. The first takes place in Myanmar (formerly Burma) on the Gyaing River. Later in the day, Scandinavia is also rocked by tragedy.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 14 April



    In 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe.


    In 1759, organist and composer Georg Frideric Händel dies at 74.


    In 1814, Napoleon abdicated and is banished to Elba.


    In 1818, Noah Webster, a Yale-educated lawyer with an avid interest in language and education, publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language.


    In 1859, Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is published.


    In 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally wounds President Abraham Lincoln.


    In 1866, teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan, best known for educating Helen Keller, is born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.


    In 1894, Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope first appears in a New York City arcade. The peep-show film machines accommodated only one viewer at a time and showed short films of entertainers like Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill.


    In 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium.


    In 1904, actor Sir John Gielgud is born in London England.


    In 1912, the Titanic on route from Southampton to New York with 2200 passengers, strikes an iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia at approximately 11:30pm, and sinks early the next morning.


    In 1925, actor Rod Steiger is born in West Hampton New York.


    In 1941, actor Ryan O'Neal is born in Los Angeles, California.


    In 1945, actor Steve Martin is born in Waco Texas.


    In 1960, South African cricketer and TV commentator Pat Symcox is born.


    In 1970, an explosion on board Apollo 13 causes one of the most critical situations in American space history and puts the lives of the three astronauts on board in severe jeopardy.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 21 April



    In 1509, Henry VII, first Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52.


    In 1619, Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeek, first commander at the Cape, is born in Culemborg in the Netherlands.


    In 1816, novelist Charlotte Brontë is born in Tornton England.


    In 1910, author Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) dies in Redding CT at 74.


    In 1918, in the skies over Vauz sur Somme, France, Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as "The Red Baron," is killed by Allied fire.


    In 1926, Elizabeth (Alexandra Mary Windsor II), current queen of England, is born in London England.


    In 1945, Russian troops capture some outlying suburbs of Berlin at the beginning of what promises to be a bitter battle for control of the city.


    In 1948, the first Polaroid camera is sold in US.


    In 1952, BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) begins the first passenger service with jets.


    In 1975, the President of South Vietnam steps down accusing the United States of betrayal in a blistering attack broadcast to the nation.


    In 1983, the £1 coin is introduced in United Kingdom.


    In 1985, Ayrton Senna wins his first of 41 Formula One Championship victories driving a Lotus-Renault at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.


    In 1989, six days after the death of Hu Yaobang, the deposed reform-minded leader of the Chinese Communist Party, some 100,000 students gather at Beijing's Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu and voice their discontent with China's authoritative communist government.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 28 April



    In 1442, Edward IV king of England is born.


    In 1770, Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia.


    In 1855, the first veterinary college in the USA is incorporated in Boston.


    In 1914, WH Carrier patents the air conditioner.


    In 1945, Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.


    In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia.


    In 1950, comedian and host of the Tonight show Jay Leno is born in New Rochelle New York.


    In 1967, Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the US army and is stripped of his boxing title.


    In 1969, following the defeat of his proposals for constitutional reform in a national referendum, Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.


    In 1986, the Soviet Union acknowledges there has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.


    In 1994, former CIA agent Aldrich Ames admits selling secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, in one of the most damaging spy cases in US history. He is jailed for life.


    In 1996, 28-year-old Martin Bryant begins a killing spree that ends in the deaths of 35 men, women and children in the quiet town of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia

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    On This Day - Back in time on 5 May



    In 1494, Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica on his second voyage to the New World.


    In 1809, Mary Kies is the first woman issued a US patent (for weaving straw).


    In 1818, philosopher and author (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) Karl Marx is born in Trier, Germany.


    In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena.


    In 1834, Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz.


    In 1889, prolific South African pre- & post-WWI cricketer Herbie Taylor is born in Durban.


    In 1908, actor Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison is born in Huyton Lancashire England.


    In 1930, Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, takes-off.


    In 1940, rock and lead singer for the Animals Eric Burdon is born in Walker-on-Tyne England.


    In 1942, country singer Tammy (stand by your man) Wynette is born in Redbay Alabama.


    In 1945, the Mauthausen Concentration camp is liberated.


    In 1961, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space.


    In 1980, the siege of the Iranian embassy in London comes to a dramatic end after a raid by SAS commandos.


    In 1986, the long-running romantic-comedy series The Love Boat airs its last episode. The show had been on the air since 1977.

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    In 1777, the first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette) appears.

    In 1820, Florence Nightingale is born in Florence Italy.


    In 1828, pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Gabriel Dante Rossetti is born in England.


    In 1907, actress Katharine Hepburn is born in Hartford Connecticut.


    In 1908, wireless radio broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield.


    In 1925, New York Yankee catcher Lawrence "Yogi" Berra is born in St. Louis, Missouri.


    In 1925, actor Tony (Hancock’s Half Hour) Hancock is born in Birmingham England.


    In 1928, Mussolini ends women's rights in Italy.


    In 1932, the body of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell New Jersey.


    In 1937, King George VI's coronation in Great Britain takes place.


    In 1948, singer, songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist Steve Winwood is born in Birmingham England.


    In 1963, Bob Dylan walks off the Ed Sullivan Show when CBS censors balked at his song "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues."


    In 1971, Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, marries his fiancée Bianca Perez Morena de Macias at the town hall in the French Mediterranean town of St Tropez.


    In 1981, Francis Hughes is the second prisoner to starve to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.

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    In 0988, Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies.


    In 1568, English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish Queen Mary.


    In 1795, philanthropist Johns Hopkins, who founded Johns Hopkins University, is born in Crofton in Maryland.


    In 1890, Ho Chi Minh trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969) is born in Kimlien, Vietnam.


    In 1892, Charles Brady King invents the pneumatic hammer.


    In 1902, Great Britain and the South African Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria.


    In 1918, swimmer Florence Chadwick, the first to swim the English Channel both ways, is born in San Diego, California.


    In 1930, White women win voting rights in South Africa.


    In 1935, TE Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name.


    In 1945, Pete Townshend, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer of The Who, is born in Chiswick, London.


    In 1958, British actor Ronald Colman (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67.


    In 1974, Valery Giscard d'Estaing is elected President of France, defeating socialist Francois Mitterrand.


    In 1980, nine people die following the massive eruption of Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State, USA.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 26 May



    In 1703, Samuel Pepys English marine expert known for his exhaustive diaries written in code, dies at 70.


    In 1805, Napoleon is crowned king of Italy.


    In 1867, Mary queen of Great Britain/North Ireland is born.


    In 1885, Asa Yoelson, later known as Al Jolson, is born on this day in St. Petersburg, Russia. Jolson became the most famous singer of his day and starred in the first feature-length talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927.


    In 1896, Nicholas II, the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow.


    In 1907, Western hero John Wayne is born on this day in Winterset, Iowa, and christened Marion Michael Morrison.


    In 1909, Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach of Manchester United, is born in Bellshill, Lanarkshire.


    In 1920, singer Peggy Lee (real name Norma Deloris Egstrom) is born in Jamestown North Dakota.


    In 1927, the Ford Motor Company manufactures its fifteen millionth Model T automobile.


    In 1937, San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens.


    In 1948, South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy.


    In 1950, long queues appear at garages and motorists tear their ration books into confetti after an end to petrol rationing is announced.


    In 1953, It Came from Outer Space, the first science fiction film to be screened in 3-D, debuts on this day in Los Angeles.


    In 1966, South African track star Zola Budd Pieterse is born in Bloemfontein.


    In 1977, the movie "Star Wars" debuts.

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    In 1491, Henry VIII King of England (1509-47) is born in Greenwich Palace.


    In 1840, poet and novelist Thomas Hardy is born in Higher Bockhampton England.


    In 1851, the first US alcohol prohibition law is enacted in Maine.


    In 1865, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. With Smith's surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist, bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in US history.


    In 1910, Pygmies are discovered in Dutch New Guinea.


    In 1904, the original Tarzan actor and Olympic gold swimmer John Weissmuller is born in Timisoara, Romania.


    In 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II takes place in Westminster Abbey.


    In 1966, the United States lands a spacecraft on the Moon on its first try, but four months behind the Soviet Union.


    In 1979, the Pope is greeted by two million people as he sets foot on his native soil of Poland.


    In 1990, actor Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) dies at 82 of cancer.


    In 1994, twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 9 June



    In 68, Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide after hearing that the senate had condemned him to be flogged to death.


    In 1640, Leopold I Emperor of Holy Roman Empire is born.


    In 1822, Charles Graham receives the first patent for false teeth.


    In 1893, composer/lyricist Cole Porter is born in Indiana.


    In 1915, guitarist, and inventor of the Les Paul guitar, Les Paul is born in Waukesha Wisconsin.


    In 1918, the New York Morning Post names Louella Parsons movie columnist.


    In 1934, Donald Duck makes his first film appearance in The Wise Little Hen, a short by Walt Disney.


    In 1961, actor Michael J Fox is born in Edmonton, Alberta.


    In 1969, Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones.


    In 1970, King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt after gunmen open fire on his motorcade as it drives near his summer palace.


    In 1975, the first live transmission from the House of Commons is broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 23 June



    In 1775, the first regatta is held on the Thames in England.


    In 1894, the Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII of England briefly in 1936) is born in Surrey, England.


    In 1927, choreographer and director Bob Fosse is born in Chicago, Illinois.


    In 1934, William Bayly is convicted of murder in New Zealand despite the fact that the body of one of his alleged victims was never found.


    In 1940, singer, actor and businessman Adam Faith, real name Terence Nelhams, is born in Acton, London.


    In 1951, British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to the USSR.


    In 1955, Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" is released.


    In 1956, 99.95 percent of Egyptian voters mark their ballots to elect Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first president of the Republic of Egypt.


    In 1959, after only nine years in prison, Klaus Fuchs, the German-born Los Alamos scientist whose espionage helped the USSR build their first atomic and hydrogen bombs, is released from a British prison.


    In 1984, an auction of John Lennon's possessions raises $430,000.


    In 1985, a passenger jet disintegrates in mid-air off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board.


    In 1992, New York crime boss John Gotti, known as Teflon Don, is sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 7 July



    In 1668, Isaac Newton receives his MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.


    In 1852, according to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Dr John H Watson is born.


    In 1865, Mary Surratt is executed for her alleged role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination, although ample evidence of her innocence exists.


    In 1887, artist Marc Chagall is born in Vitebsk Russia.


    In 1891, travellers’ cheques are first patented by American Express.


    In 1900, Warren Earp, the youngest of the famous clan of gun fighting brothers, is murdered in an Arizona saloon.


    In 1922, fashion designer Pierre Cardin is born in Paris France.


    In 1930, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies in England at the age of 71.


    In 1940, Beatles' drummer and actor Ringo Starr (real name Richard Starkey)is born in Liverpool, England.


    In 1942, Heinrich Himmler, in league with three others, including a physician, decides to begin experimenting on women in the Auschwitz concentration camps.


    In 1967, actress Vivian Leigh (famous for her role as Scarlet in Gone with the Wind) dies at 53.


    In 1969, former Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones, drowned after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs, an inquest is told.


    In 1976, for the first time in history, women are enrolled into the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.


    In 1978, Martina Navratilova captures Wimbledon defeating Chris Evert.


    In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor, an Arizona court of appeals judge, to be the first woman Supreme Court justice in US history.


    In 1985, tennis unknown Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at the age of 17.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 14 July

    In 1099, during the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe capture Jerusalem after seven weeks of siege and begin massacring the city's Muslim and Jewish population.

    In 1789, Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.

    In 1834, artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler is born in Lowell, Massachusetts.

    In 1850, the first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration takes place.

    In 1858, English suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, who founded the Women's Social & Political Union, is born in Manchester.

    In 1865, the first ascent of the Matterhorn takes place by Edward Whymper.

    In 1911, English actor Terry-Thomas (real name Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens) is born in Finchley.

    In 1938, British director Alfred Hitchcock signs a contract with David O. Selznick to direct movies in Hollywood.

    In 1951, Citation becomes the first horse to win $1,000,000 in races.

    In 1958, a military revolt in Iraq overthrows the monarchy and prompts King Hussein of Jordan to call for British and US military help to avert a similar rebellion in his country.

    In 1987, Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 4 August


    In 1265, English baron Simon de Montfort dies at the battle of Evesham.


    In 1755, the inventor of the modern graphite pencil Nicolas-Jacque Conte is born.


    In 1792, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born Horsham, West Sussex.


    In 1870, comedian and singer Sir Harry Lauder is born in Edinburgh. Scotland.


    In 1901, jazz musician and bandleader Louis Armstrong is born in New Orleans. He was the oldest musician in Billboard history to have a Number One song.


    In 1944, acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.


    In 1955, actor Billy Bob Thornton is born in Hot Springs, Arkansas.


    In 1957, Juan Fangio wins his last auto race and captures the world auto driving championship for the fifth consecutive year.


    In 1964, FBI agents uncover the bodies of three missing civil rights workers at a dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.


    In 2000, celebrations take place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 4 August



    In 1866, the world's first roller rink opens in Newport, Rhode Island.


    In 1909, SOS is first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

    In 1921, Alex Haley, author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X is born in Ithaca, New York.


    In 1934, a group of federal prisoners classified as "most dangerous" arrives at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop situated 1.5 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay.

    In 1966, the first Chevy Camaro drives out of the manufacturing plant in Norwood, Ohio.

    In 1968, the Beatles launch the "Apple Records" label.


    In 1982, the notorious East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray are allowed out of prison for their mother's funeral.

    In 1984, South African born British athlete Zola Budd sparks controversy in the 3,000m Olympics final as American favourite Mary Decker trips over her.


    In 1999, up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia witness the last total solar eclipse of the century.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 18 August

    In 1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, dies in camp during a campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia.


    In 1688, Puritan clergyman John Bunyan, aged 69, preached his last sermon, before dying 13 days later.

    In 1905, Newell S. Wright, an attorney, files to register the Cadillac crest as a trademark. The insignia adorned Cadillac's luxury car for almost a century.

    In 1920, Tennessee becomes the thirty-sixth state in the United States to ratify the nineteenth amendment granting women's suffrage, completing the three-quarters necessary to put the amendment into effect and give women the right to vote.


    In 1926, the first television picture is broadcast from Arlington, Virginia to Washington, DC.

    In 1937, actor Robert Redford is born in California.

    In 1937, the Toyota Motor Company, Ltd, began as a division of the Toyota Automatic Loom Works, is established.

    In 1964, South Africa is barred from taking part in the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo over its refusal to condemn apartheid.

    In 1969, three days and nights of sex, drugs and rock and roll come to a peaceful end as the Woodstock music festival winds down.


    In 1977, Gordon Sumner (better known as Sting), Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers give their first performance as The Police at a nightclub in Birmingham, England.

    In 1977, New York born comedian Grouch Marx dies.


    In 1977, Elvis Presley's funeral is held in Memphis with an estimated that 130,000 mourners paying their respects.
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    On This Day - Back in time on 25 August



    In 1530, Ivan IV (the Terrible) the first tsar of Russia (1533-84) is born.In 1609, Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

    In 1804, Alice Meynell becomes the first woman jockey in England.


    In 1819, fabled crime fighter Allan Pinkerton is born in Glasgow, Scotland.

    In 1875, Matthew Webb becomes the first known person to successfully swim the English Channel. Captain Webb accomplished the grueling 21-mile crossing, which really entailed 39 miles of swimming because of tidal currents, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.


    In 1918, conductor, composer and pianist Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts.


    In 1926, the classic silent film Beau Geste, starring William Powell, opens.


    In 1930, actor Sean Connery, famous for being the first movie James Bond, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.


    In 1944, after more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armoured Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.

    In 1954, singer-songwriter Elvis Costello is born Declan Patrick McManus in London.


    In 1984, author Truman Capote dies in Los Angeles, California.

    In 1989, the unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft sends back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets.

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    On This Day - Back in time on 1 September



    In 1661, the first yacht race, between England's King Charles and his brother James, takes place.


    In 1666, the Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed.


    In 1715, Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76.


    In 1865, Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery.


    In 1875, novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs is born in Chicago, Illinois.


    In 1923, heavyweight champion boxer Rocky Marciano is born in Brockton, Massachusetts.


    In 1939, German forces attack Poland across all frontiers and its planes bomb Polish cities; Britain and France prepare to declare war.


    In 1941, the yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear.


    In 1950, a new chapter in Porsche history begins today, with the company's return to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and the completion of the first Porsche.


    In 1959, Elizabeth Taylor signs with 20th Century Fox to make Cleopatra. Her salary is $1 million.


    In 1960, Britain's first betting shops will be allowed to open for business from May 1961, the government announces.


    In 1985, seventy-three years after it sunk to the North Atlantic Ocean floor, a joint US-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The sunken liner is about 400 miles west of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.

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    Milton Snavely Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, was born on this day in Pennsylvania in 1857.

    not nearly as educational as Chris's but important to us choc-o-holics

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    Who would name their kid Milton Snavely? That's just asking to be beaten up!:shiner:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ory View Post
    Who would name their kid Milton Snavely? That's just asking to be beaten up!:shiner:
    Who knows in 1857 that could have been in the top ten. Either way he didn't do too bad for himself.

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    In 1661, the first yacht race, between England's King Charles and his brother James, takes place.


    In 1666, the Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed.


    In 1715, Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76.
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    Blue Jumper Just for the record ......................................

    On This Day - Back in time on 15 September


    In 1588, the Spanish Armada, attempting to invade England, is destroyed by a British fleet.


    In 1830, George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway is opened by the Duke of Wellington.


    In 1859, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, widely believed to be Britain's greatest ever engineer, dies.


    In 1881, race car builder Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti is born in Milan.


    In 1890, mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie is born in Torquay Devon.


    In 1904, Wilbur Wright makes his first airplane flight.


    In 1907, actress Fay Wray (starred in the original King Kong) is born in Alberta.


    In 1916, the British Army deploys tanks, designed by Sir Ernest Swinton, for the first time at Flers, during the Battle of the Somme.


    In 1940, the tide turns in the Battle of Britain as the German air force sustain heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Air Force.


    In 1946, actor Tommy Lee Jones is born in San Saba Texas.


    In 1949, the Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV.


    In 1971, the environmental group Greenpeace is founded.


    In 1984, Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, Prince Harry, third in British sucession, is born in London.


    In 1985, Tony Jacklin's team of (European) golfers beats the United States in the Ryder Cup for the first time in 28 years after dominating the final day of the competition.

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    One event that never happened on that date......

    Wilbur Wright did not take his first flight on an airplane in 1904. He piloted the second and fourth flights of the "Wright Flyer" on Dec 17th 1903. The account can be found here- http://www.fi.edu/flights/first/during.html
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