In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula today's the day the old neck-biter FINALLY 'gets his'!!


in 1924, Tory leader Stanley Baldwin was elected Prime Minister and appointed Winston Churchill, formerly a Liberal, as his Chancellor of the Exchequer


Belgian musical instrument maker Antoine-Joseph Adolphe Sax, who invented the Saxophone in 1840, was born today in 1814.


In 1970, three-times Grand National winner Red Rum, the greatest ever steeplechaser, won his first race (a novice event at Doncaster) at odds of 100/7.

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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