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This Day in History

Post by Dave » Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:30 pm

April 6th

Ian Paisley was born in Armagh in 1926.
Richard the Lionheart died aged 41 in 1199.
Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus in 46 BC.
19th Eurovision Song Contest: ABBA for Sweden wins singing "Waterloo" in Brighton in 1974.
Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use in 1991.
Singer Rod Stewart & model Alana Collins wed in 1979.

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Post by Dave » Fri Apr 07, 2017 11:29 am

April 7th

Jimmy Greaves made his Tottenham debut at White Hart Lane against Blackpool in November, 1961 and scored a hat-trick.
1915 Billie Holiday is born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1926 Mussolini is shot 3 times by Violet Gibson in Rome, only hitting him in the nose.
1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing.
1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

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Post by Dave » Fri Apr 07, 2017 11:44 pm

April 8th

1986 Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.
1977 The Clash release debut album.
1992 Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1973 The artist Pablo Picasso has died of a heart attack at his chateau near Cannes on the French Riviera.
1992 In Britain, the last issue of "Punch Magazine" was published.
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Post by Mel » Sat Apr 08, 2017 7:15 pm

On April 8th 1906, Auguste Deter, the first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's, died aged 55.
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Post by Dave » Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:27 pm

Last night I tried putting todays date in, Mel, hoping it would tell me the Grand National result. It didn't work so the new car will have to wait a bit longer. ;) :D

April 9th

1926 Hugh Hefner, creator and publisher of Playboy Magazine, was born.
1950 Bob Hopes first TV appearance.
1912 The Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York.
1914 First full colour film shown, 'World, Flesh and Devil', in London.
2005 Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are married.
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Post by Dave » Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:47 am

April 10th

1970 Paul McCartney quit the Beatles.
1989 Nick Faldo became the first Englishman to win the US Masters in a dramatic sudden death play-off.
1829 The birth of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.
1955 Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely outside a pub in Hampstead in North London. Following her murder trial she became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
1633 Bananas went on display in Thomas Johnson's shop window in London. This was the first time the fruit had been seen in Britain.
1998 The Northern Ireland peace talks ended with a historic agreement called the Good Friday Agreement.

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April 11th

1952 Queen Elizabeth II announced that her children and descendants would bear the surname of Windsor.
1959 Billy Wright, former England football captain became the first player in the world to play for his country in a hundred matches when England beat Scotland 1-0.
1983 The film Gandhi, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, won eight Oscars, the most any British film has ever won.
1961 The trial began, in Israel, of Adolf Eichmann, accused of helping Hitler in his plan to exterminate the Jews. He faced 15 charges, including crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and war crimes.
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, self-styled 'Conqueror of the British Empire', is ousted by Tanzanian forces.

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April 12th

1954 American, Bill Haley recorded 'Rock Around The Clock'. It was first record to sell a million copies in Britain.
1941 Bobby Moore,English footballer was born. He captained West Ham for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He is widely regarded as one of the all-time greats of world football, and was cited by Pelé as the greatest defender that he had ever played against.
1961 The Soviet Union beats the USA in the race to get the first man into space and Yuri Gagarin becomes a national hero.
1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
1927 The British Cabinet came out in favour of voting rights for women.

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Post by boatbuilder » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:14 pm

Also on April 12th : In 1981 the First of the US Space Shuttles Columbia was launched making way for mans continuing exploration of space.
 
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April 13th

1965 The Beatles record their single "Help".
1992 Neil Kinnock resigned as Labour Party leader. He blamed the Conservative backed press for his party's defeat at the general election.
1997 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins the prestigious Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes in Augusta, Georgia. It was Woods’ first victory in one of golf’s four major championships–the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Masters–and the greatest performance by a professional golfer in more than a century.
1990 The Soviet government officially accepts blame for the Katyn Massacre of World War II, when nearly 5,000 Polish military officers were murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest.
1668 The appointment of the first Poet Laureate - John Dryden.

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In 1970 an exploding oxygen tank on Apollo 13 forced the astronauts to abandon their mission to the moon and head home, they were nearly at the moon when the problem occurred and they were forced to turn back.
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Post by Dave » Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:54 am

April 14th

1904 John Gielgud, English actor was born.
1865 John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C
1950 Comic strip hero Dan Dare, the pilot of a space ship, made his first appearance in the first edition of the comic, the Eagle.
1983 The first cordless telephone, capable of operating up to 600 feet from base, was introduced. It was made by Fidelity and British Telecom and sold for £170.
1912 Just before midnight in the North Atlantic, the RMS Titanic fails to divert its course from an iceberg, ruptures its hull, and begins to sink.

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Post by boatbuilder » Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:48 pm

Also on April 14th
In 1931 the Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed forcing King Alfonso XIII of Spain into leaving Spain. He lived in Exile in Rome but did not abdicate the throne.

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Post by Mel » Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:53 pm

Also on April 14th 1950, Arthur Conway, is the first man in Britain to be publicly labelled "work-shy" by the state. In a case brought by the National Assistance Board, he was jailed for three months for failing to maintain himself, his wife and three children.
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Post by Dave » Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:31 pm

April 15th

1984 Tommy Cooper, English comedian, collapsed and died from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's.

1989 Britain's worst football disaster at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. 96 football fans were crushed to death shortly after the start of the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Most of those killed were from Liverpool. Fresh inquests into the 96 deaths began in Warrington on Monday, 31st March 2014. On 26th April 2016 the jury of 9 reached a verdict that vindicated the bereaved families who had forught for 27 years against South Yorkshire police claims that misbehaving supporters caused the disaster. It was the longest inquest in British legal history.

1964 Footballer George Best made his debut for Northern Ireland against Wales.

1912 The British built Titanic luxury ocean liner that had collided earlier with an iceberg about 400 miles from Newfoundland sank at 2:20 a.m. More than 1,500 people drowned or froze to death in the icy waters. Most of the 700 survivors were women and children. As the ship sank, the band played music to calm the passengers and all the musicians went down with the ship. They were recognized for their heroism and bandleader Wallace Hartley aged 33, from Colne in Lancashire, is commemorated in a memorial in the town's centre. His graveis in Colne cemetery. The words 'Nearer My God To Thee', the alleged last song that the band played on RMS Titanic, are engraved on the plinth along with a violin and bow.

1901The birth of Joe Davis, world snooker and billiards champion from 1927-1946.

1793 The Bank of England issued the first £5 notes.

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