After being fired, postman Joseph M Harris kills four mail handlers in Wayne, New Jersey in 1991


Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave her memorably defiant speech at the Tory party conference in Brighton in 1980... "U-turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning".


The first performance of George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess, featuring the songs "Summertime" and "I've Got Plenty Of Nothin'" was in New York in 1935.


The Marquis de Montreval, who brutally put down peasants who rebelled against a heavy tax on salt, died of fright in 1716......... when a salt-cellar was accidentally spilled on him!!








Finally....... today is International Mental Health Awareness Day.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind