1839 - The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. (til the TTM Rising...).
1890 - 1st part of the London Underground opened.
1922 - Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's Tomb, in the Valley of the Kings.
1929 - Yehudi Menuhin makes his London debut, aged 12.
1966 - 2/3 of Florence is submerged when the River Arno floods.
Born today:
1937 - Loretta Swit, Hotlips
1966 - H John Heinz IV, medieval armourer
Died today:
John Benbow, Admiral (best known for playing the part of an inn, in Treasure Island)
1605 - The Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is caught trying to blow up the King and Parliament.
1688 - Start of the Glorious Revolution.
1757 - Frederick the Great defeats the armies of France & the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1854 - 19 Victoria Crosses are won at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War.
1909 - Woolies opens its 1st UK store, in Liverpool.
Born today:
1911 - Roy Rogers, cowboy
1913 - Vivien Leigh, actress
1935 - Lestor Piggott, jockey
1940 - Elke Sommer, actress
1941 - Art Garfunkel, singer
1947 - Peter Noone, hermit
1959 - Bryan Adams, musician
1963 - Tatum O'Neal, actress
...cannot find "swalled" in dictionary...
8th Nov
1895 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the X-Ray.
1920 - Rupert Bear's 1st appearance in Daily Express.
1942 - Allies invade North Africa.
1958 - Melody Maker publishes 1st UK album charts.
1965 - Abolition of the death penalty.
Born today:
1431 - Vlad the Impaler - cosmetic surgeon
1656 - Edmond Halley - cometeer
1802 - Sir Benjamin Hall - "Big Ben" was named after him
1847 - Bram Stoker - creator of Dracula
1836 - Milton Bradley - game maker
1866 - Herbert Austin - car manucturer
1922 - Dr Christian Barnard - heart transplanter
1927 - Ken Dodd - Diddyman & jambutty miner
1946 - Roy Wood - wizard
1966 - Gordon Ramsey - foul-mouthed chef
Died today:
1674 - John Milton, wrote "Paradise Lost".Then his wife died. His next book was entitled "Paradise Regained".
1887 - Doc Holiday - gunslinger
1859 - Flogging was abolished in the British Army.
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates; Germany is declared a republic.
1921 - Albert Einstein gets the Nobel Prize in physics.
1963 - An explosion down the Miike coalmine in Japan kills 458.
A train crash in Yokohama kills 160.
1985 - Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest World Chess Champion at the age of 22.
1989 - Demolition of the Berlin Wall begins.
1993 - The old bridge spanning the gorge in Mostar, Bosnia collapses after sustained bombing. It was built in 1566.
Died today:
1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the last known victim of Jack the Ripper
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, " "
1953 - Dylan Thomas, poet
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French President
1520 -King Christian II of Denmark executes dozens of peeps in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1775 - The US Marine Corps is founded.
1924 - Dean O'Banion, leader of Chicago's North Side Gang, is gunned down in his flower shop by Jonny Torrio's mob.
1960 - Lady Chatterley's Lover 1st run of 200,000 copies sells out on its 1st day.
Born today:
1925 - Richard Burton, actor
1932 - Roy Scheider, actor
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, politician?
1944 - Sir Tim Rice, lyricist
Died today:
1922 - Chuck Connors, actor
1986 - Sir Gordon Richards, jockey
2006 - Diane Coupland, actress
2006 - Jack Palance, actor
Six hours previous, in French Marshall Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage at Compiegne, the Allies and the Central Powers signed an armistice ending the First World War.
8.5 million soldiers had died, another 21 million wounded; and 6 million civilians also died.
Four imperial dynasties also perished:
Hapsburg 1282 - 1919
Hohenzollern 1415 - 1918
Romanov 1613 - 1917
Ottoman 1290 - 1922
Died today:
1918 - George Lawrence Price - last person to be killed in WW1
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw
2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
2005 - Lord Lichfield, photographer
Born today:
1885 - General George Patton, US soldier
1909 - Robert Ryan, actor
1920 - Roy Jenkins, politician
1925 - June Whitfield, actress
1962 - Demi Moore, actress
1964 - Calista Flockhart, actress
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, 1st Mayor of Paris, was guillotined.
1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott & buddies were found in Antartica.
1944 - The RAF bomb and sink Germany's last battleship - the Tirpitz.
1974 - 1st salmon caught in the Thames since 1840.
1996 - A Boeing 747 & a cargo plane crash in mid-air nr New Delhi, killing 350.
2001 - AN Airbus A300 crashes on take-off from John F Kennedy airport, killing all 260 onboard.
2004 - Death of the legendary John Peel, DJ.
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