Sorry, not sure what happened to yesterday..... thought I'd posted it, but it doesn't look like it!!! Back to today......


In 30 B.C., Cleopatra committed suicide by holding an Asp to her chest.


In 1991, having won 66 Long Jump events in a row, Carl Lewis was finally beaten - by Mike Powell's world record leap of 8.95 metres.


The first street trams to run in Britain appeared on Birkenhead Street Railway in 1960.


In 1901, Hubert Booth of Glasgow reversed the action of a dust-blowing machine to invent the vacuum cleaner.

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Bad day for Iranian leaders back in 1981 ...

In 1981, Mohammad Ali Rajai president of Iran, was assassinated by a bomb; and, that same year, Mohammad Javad Bahonar prime minister of Iran, was assassinated by a bomb.



BTW ... on the 29th ... for you motorcycle fans ... Gottlieb Daimler received German patent for a motorcycle in 1885.

In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris. (There has STILL not been an official enquiry, OR memorial, for this woman!)


In 1968 Sir Garfield (Gary) Sobers, batting against Glamorgan at Swansea, hits six "sixes" in one over. The commentator shouted "It's gone WAY down to Swansea!" (For our U.S. cousins, it's kinda like hitting a Home Run in every innings, as I understand baseball!!)


The first bottles of Charles Candler's new drink, Coca-Cola, arrived in Brtitain from Atlanta, Georgia, in 1900.


Today in 1983, angler Russell Doig was presented with a special trophy fot catching the first Salmon in the River Thames for over 150 years!! 150 years; now THAT'S pollution!!

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Sept 1st

1945 - The United States received official word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.
1972 - Robert "Bobby" Fischer, United States chess player, defeated Soviet player Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, becoming the United States' first player to officially win the World Chess Championship. Fisher's strange demands during tournaments, off-the-wall antics, and unexplained forfeiture of his world title brought him an uncharacteristic notoriety than most chess champions.

1985 - A joint United States-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic roughly 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. The "unsinkable" ocean-liner sunk in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Twelve years after the wreck's location, the movie Titanic went on to break box office records.

1997 - In France, the prosecutor's office said the driver of the car in which Princess Diana was killed, was over the legal alcohol limit.

In 1999, a cat nicknamed "Sparkey" ~ who survived an 11,000-volt electric shock ~ died after returning to the electricity sub-station that almost killed him originally How many lives was that again?


Today in 1192, Richard the Lionheart signed a peace treaty with Salah ad-Din (Saladin) and withdrew his forces from Jerusalem, thus ending the Third Crusade


In 1987, Philips introduced the video disc, called CD-video, combining digital sound with high-definition video! Didn't think they'd been around THAT long!


The name "California", from Garcia de Montalvo's 16th-century novel The Exploits of Esplandian,describes a mythical kingdom ruled by black women. Never happen....... will it?

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William the Conqueror, scourge of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, died today in 1087.


In 1985, Greater London Council leader Ken Livingstone, (now Mayor of London) parachuted into the River Thames as a publicity stunt.


The first British campaign medals were issued after the English army, led by Oliver Cromwell, routed the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 (Cost 'em, though!!)


When Sweden changed from driving on the left, to the right, in 1967, accidents were REDUCED, as drivers were much more careful!!! Bit like us Brits driving ANYWHERE in Europe!!!

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Some more for Sept. 3


1783 - The Paris Peace Treaty was signed between the United States and Great Britain, officially ending the American Revolutionary War for independence.

1895 - In Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the first professional football game was played. With the score 12-0, the Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club. Decades later, Latrobe became the home for the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp.

1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany.

1954 - After 21 years and 2,956 episodes, "The Lone Ranger" was heard for the final time on radio.

1962 - American poet and painter e e cummings died at age 67 in North Conway, New Hampshire.
1976 - The U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars and began sending back photographs of the Martian landscape.

1991 - Wanda Holloway of Channelview, Texas, was convicted on this date of trying to hire a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleader rival in junior high school.

Ismail Ayyildiz died in hospital today in 1995, after trying to shoot out his bad tooth!!


In 1733, Britain's first ever lioness died of old age in the Tower of London, where she had been cared for by the Keeper of the Lion Office, having produced "many cubs"


In 1781, Spanish settlers namded their town, on the west coast of America, El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles.... "The Town of Our Lady the queen of the Angels"


Belgian writer Georges Simenon, creator of the fictional detective "Maigret", died today in 1989, claiming to have made love to over 10,000 women.

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After keeping the rush-hour trains running over the body of a woman who dived onto the tracks in 1997, the Sydney Ambulance Service explained: "It was pretty obvious after a few trains ran over her, that she was dead!!" Those caring, lovable Aussies, huh?!


Today in 1871, French author Victor Hugo returned to Paris to a hero's welcome after his political exile on Guernsey, with the manuscript of Les Miserablesin his pocket!


In 1980, after 21 years work, the Swiss opened the world's longest raod tunnel - the ten-mile St. Gotthard, from Goschenen to Airolo, at a cost of 690 Million swiss Francs


France's greatest king, Louis XIV, was born in 1638 after his parents, Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, had been married for 23 years

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In 1759, General Wolfe defeats the French on the Plains of Abraham, and Canada becomes English...... for a while!!


In 1952 a prototype de Havilland 110 jet-fighter exploded while breaking the Sound barrier at the Farnborough Air Show, and crashed into the ground. The aircraft killed 27 people, and injured 63 more.


Wickets consisting of three stumps, were used for the first time at a cricket match in Surrey between Coulsdon and Chertsey, in 1776.


Colombian (soccer) goalkeeper Rene Higuita brightened up a 0-0 friendly against England in 1995, by saving a lob with a "Scorpion-kick", with his heels kicking up behind his head! I saw this move quite a few times.... WHAT a show-off!!!

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A gentleman by the name of Henry Bliss becomes the first automobile fatality in the U.S. toay in 1899.


In 1986, Bishop Desmond Tutu became the first black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, when he was 2enthroned2 as Archbishop of Capetown.


The first use of submarines in warfare came this day in 1776, when the Americans tried to blow-up the Royal Navy flagship in New York harbour using a midget submarine - they failed!!


Citizens of Loretto, Italy, like to believe that angels moved the home of Mary & Joseph from Nazareth to their city, on this day in 1295.

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In 1968, at the first U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, Britains Virginia Wade defeated America's Billie Jean King in the final.


The first example of Hitler's V2 secret rocket bomb landed in Chiswick in 1944, killing three people.


The Dutch settlement New Amsterdam, renamed New York by the British, was swapped in a peace treaty for the spice-island of Run, thought at the time to be more valuable!!!

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Chairman Mao Tse-tung, leader of Communist China's 800 MILLION people, and author of the Little Red Book , died at the age of 82 today in 1976


The United States of America was born today in 1776, when the Continental Congress changed the name of ther nation from the "United Colonies"


TV crews filming reconstruction on the streets were blamed for the race-riots that erupted in London's Notting Hill area, in 1958

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In 1981, after 40 years in the U.S., Pablo Picasso's painting Guernicawent back to Spain. He had forbidden its exhibition in Spain until democracy was restored


The world's first recognised motorway (freeway/interstate-type road, for our American friends!!) opened on a six-mile stretch known as the Avus Autobahn, in Berlin in 1921


Also in 1981, two aggressive pelicans had to be moved to London Zoo from St. James's Park, because they had taken to eating ducklings!!

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Don't really need to mention the first one, do I?


In 1275, a huge earthquake destroyed much of Glastonbury in Somerset, including the early Saxon church of St. Michael on top of the famous Tor


Britain's first widely available bootleg LP (anybody remember THEM?) was a two-album Bob Dylan collection called Great White Wonderwhich, unofficially, reached UK shops today in 1969


Not sure this last one's in too good taste, but anyway;

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci watched the events of 9/11 unfold on TV, in the company of members of the Bin Laden family, at a Merchant bank's annual meeting

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