A British holidaymaker was killed in Spain in 1996 when he fell from a second-floor (3rd floor in the U.S.)balcony while showing off his skill at throwing a melon into a municipal bin.


In 1992 the government announced plans to close one-third of Britain's deep coal mines, putting 31,000 miners out of work.


Labour party leader Ramsey MacDonald made the first ever election broadcast on behalf of his party on BBC radio in 1924.


Mary Allen, of Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, was allowed to divorce her husband of 29 years in 1983, on the grounds that he kept ignoring her and forgetting her birthday!!

(Damn, if I'd known it was THAT easy................)

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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