English peer Lord Lucan disappeared today in 1974, after allegedly killing his nanny. (That is, the nanny to his children!!) He hasn't been seen since.


On this day in 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks, storming the Winter Palace in Petrograd, led the overtrow of Russia's moderate Kerensky-led socialist gvernment.


In 1990, lawyer & Senator Mary Robinson, became the first woman President of the Republic of Ireland


The Mary Celeste sailed from New York for Genoa in 1872.... but never arrived. She made the history books instead, when found abandoned four weeks later.

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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