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1260 - Mamluk Sultan of Egypt is assassignated by Baibars.
1537 - Death of Jane Seymour, Queen.
1648 - End of the 30 Years War.
1857 - 1st footy club founded - Sheffield FC.
1901 - Annie Taylor is 1st person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
1929 - Black Thursday as the New York Stock Market crashes.
1945 - United Nations founded.
1969 - Richard Burton buys Liz Taylor a £0.5m diamond - she still chucked him.
1985 - Wayne Rooney born.
1987 - Frank Bruno knocks out Joe Bugner.
2003 - Concorde's last commercial flight.
1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat Crusaders at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1415 - Henry V's sober longbowmen slaughter the French knights at the Battle of Agincourt. Then they got drunk.
1854 - Lord Cardigan led the Light Brigade into the Valley of Death at Balaclava.
1917 - Start of the October Revolution in Russia.
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf between USA and Jap naval fleets.
1995 - Cliff Richard is knighted.
Died today:
1921 - Bat Masterson ,lawman
1933 - Vincent Price, actor
2002 - Richard Harris, actor
2004 - John Peel, music presenter
889 - Death of Alfred the Great, Saxon King of Wessex, and cake burner.
1863 - The Football Association is formed.
1881 - Gunfight at the OK Corral, Tombstone, Arizona.
1907 - The Territorial Army is formed.
1965 - The Beatles receive their MBE's.
1989 - London's Globe Theatre reopens for the 1st time in 350 years.
2002 - 50 Chechen rebels & 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a Moscow theatre.
312 - The Emperor Constantine has Vision of the Cross before trouncing his rival at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Rome,for supremacy of the Western world. Thru his efforts Christianity was established in the west.
1870 - 140,000 Frogs surrender to the Prussians at Metz.
1958 - Blue Peter 1st televised.
Born today:
1728 - James Cook, naval explorer
1782 - Niccolo Paganini, composer
1914 - Dylan Thomas, poet
1939 - John Cleese, Python
1957 - Glenn Hoddle, footballer
1958 - Simon Le Bon, singer
1978 - Vanessa Mae, violinist
Is that all that's ever happened, thoughout thousands of years of history??!!
OK, Sooty is no mean thing, but there must have been something else?
Was no-one executed????
Back by popular request....
1268 - Conradin, heir to the Holy Roman Empire, is executed by rival Charles I of Sicily.
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for alleged treason against King James I.
1665 - At the Battle of Ambuila, Portuguese forces defeat King Antonio of Kongo, and decapitate him.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President W McKinley, dies in the electric chair.
1967 - London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins.
1270 - End of the 8th Crusade.
1485 - Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation of the world onboard the Golden Hind.
1938 - The War of the Worlds is broadcast causing widespread panic in the USA.
1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul is completed, linking Europe and Asia.
2001 - Farmer Tony Martin is cleared of murdering a burglar he had shot dead.
Born:
1939 - Grace Slick, singer-Jefferson Airplane
1945 - Henry Winkler - The Fonz
Died:
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis, bomb bouncer
1876 - A monster typhoon ravages India - 200,001 die.
1888 - J B Dunlop patents the bike tyre.
1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1926 - Death of Harry Houdini.
1940 - End of the Battle of Britain.
1951 - Zebra crossings introduced.
1982 - Thames Barrier raised for 1st time.
Born:
1926 - Jimmy Saville, DJ
1937 - Tom Paxton, songwriter
1982 - The Cheeky Girls, singers?
1755 - Lisbon destroyed by earthquake - 80,000 die.
1858 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Ruler of India.
1887 - L S Lowry, matchstickman painter, born.
1927 - Betting Tax first levied - the bookies went on strike.
1938 - Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in horserace.
1956 - Premium Bonds 1st went on sale.
1959 - First stretch of the M1 opened.
1985 - Phil Silvers aka Sgt Bilko, died.
1871 - Police start taking mugshots of convicted prisioners.
1896 - Motor insurance policies 1st issued.
1899 - Start of the Seige of Ladysmith in the Boer War.
1936 - BBC starts the world's 1st regular TV service.
1954 - Hancock's Half Hour 1st broadcast on radio.
1963 - Gerry and The Pacemakers reach No.1 with "You'll Never Walk Alone".
1964 - 1st episode of Crossroads.
1718 - Born today, John Montegue, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who gave his name to the "sandwich", due to his reluctance to leave the gaming tables for dinner.
1782 - John Austin, highwayman, last public hanging on Tyburn gallows.
1871 - Henry Stanley finds Dr Livingstone, presumably.
1942 - Erwin Rommel slinks off into the night at El Alamein, after getting stuffed by a few rats.
1957 - 1st animal in orbit; Laika the dog, from Russia (with love).
1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000.
Born today:
1948 - Lulu, shouter
1954 - Adam Ant, Prince
Died today:
1926 - Annie Oakley, sharpshooter
2002 - Lonnie Donegan, skiffler
1782 - John Austin, highwayman, last public hanging on Tyburn gallows.
"Gallows tree, gallows tree,
Bastard of history......"
2002 - Lonnie Donegan, skiffler
All together now......
"Duzzzzzzzzzzz Yourrrrrrrrrrrr........ Chewing-gumloseit'sflavouronthebedpostovernight? Ifyourmothersaysdon'tchewit, doyouswallowitinspite?"
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