On this day thread

[Muteswan]

16th. September.
1387. Henry V, King of England (1413-22) and France (1416-19), born in Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Principality of Wales (date disputed) (d. 1422).
1400. Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1861. British Post Office Savings Banks opens.
1925. [Riley B.] B.B. King, American blues guitarist and singer (The Thrill is Gone), born in Itta Bena, Mississippi (d. 2015).
1958. Neville Southall, Welsh footballer, born in Llandudno, Wales.
1977. Marc Bolan, rock vocalist/guitarist (T Rex), dies in a car crash at 29.
1978. Filming on Monty Python's "Life of Brian" film, begins.
1982. Leon Knight, English footballer, born in Hackney, England.
1992. "Black Wednesday" UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after unable keep it above agreed lowest limit.
1997. Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO.
2019. Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo rebuffs UK PM Boris Johnson, who compared himself to Hulk ,"Boris Johnson forgets that the Hulk only fights for the good of the whole" on Twitter.

 

[Muteswan]

16th September 1982.

Happy Birthday Leon Britton. 38 today.

 

[Darran]

Port Talbot girl.


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[Muteswan]

17th. September.
1787. The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention.
1900. Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed.
1934. RCA Victor releases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th).
1940. Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain.
1949. Road Runner and Wile E Coyote, Warner Bros. cartoon characters created by Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Fast and Furry-ous".
1954. "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is published by Faber and Faber in London.
1964. The Supremes release "Baby Love".
1975. Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101).
1976.NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California, named after Star Trek Enterprise with cast attending.
2019. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”

 

[Muteswan]

20th. September.
1519. Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan killed on route).
1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland.
1854. Battle of the Alma: first major battle of Crimean War. British and French alliance defeat the Russians.
1926. Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails.
1934. Sophia Loren, Italian actress (La Ciociara, Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid), born in Rome, Italy.
1948. George R. R. Martin, American fantasy and sci-fi author (A Song of Ice and Fire), born in Bayonne, New Jersey.
1954. Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Los Angeles.
1967. British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.
1980. "Blizzard of Ozz", the debut solo album by English rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, is released in the United Kingdom.
2004. Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager, dies of cancer at 69.
2013. Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in sales.
2013. Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is boarded by Russian military.
2019. Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg.
2019. Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in "The Astronomical Journal".

 

[Muteswan]

21st September.
1866. H. G. Wells, English sci-fi author (War of the Worlds, Kipps), born in Bromley, Kent (d. 1946).
1874. Gustav Holst, English composer (Planets), born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1934).
1915. Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600.
1931. Larry Hagman, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2012).
1934. Leonard Cohen, Canadian writer and singer-songwriter, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2016).
1937 J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' is published.
1947. Stephen King, American sci-fi and horror author (Carrie, Shining, Kujo), born in Portland, Maine.
1950. Bill Murray, American actor and comedian.
1961. Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1987. Jaco Pastorius, American jazz musician and bass guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35.

 

[Muteswan]

22nd. September.
1290. Bilbo Baggins, Fictional main character of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.
1692. Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials.
1735. Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" (actually First Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street.
1862. US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1.
1934. An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937. Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.
1949. David Coverdale, English singer (Whitesnake, Deep Purple), born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England.
1955. With the launch of ITV, the UK's 1st commercial television station, the 1st advert on UK TV airs for Gibbs SR toothpaste.
1985. French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
1989. Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore Baline], American composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history (God Bless America, White Xmas), dies at 101.
1994. "Friends" TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman debuts on NBC.
1999. "The West Wing" created by Alan Sorkin and starring Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff, debuts on NBC.
2015. Volkswagen admits that 11 million cars have been wrongly programmed to appear to emit lesser emissions than they are.

 

[Muteswan]

23rd. September.
63 BC. Augustus Caesar [Gaius Octavius], First Roman Emperor (27 BC-14 AD), born in Rome, Roman Republic (d. 14 AD).
1889. Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1926.John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist and composer (Blue Train), born in Hamlet, North Carolina (d. 1967).
1930.Ray Charles [Robinson], American singer and pianist who pioneered soul music (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around), born in Albany, Georgia (d. 2004).
1939.Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator.
1939. Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis, dies at 83.
1941. The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp.
1949. Bruce Springsteen [The Boss], American singer, songwriter and rock musician (Born to Run, Born in the USA), born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
1957. "That'll Be the Day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches #1.
1969. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres.
1994. "The Shawshank Redemption", directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released.
2019. 178 year old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travellers worldwide, prompting largest postwar repatriation effort by UK government.

 

[Muteswan]

Happy Birthday Connor Roberts 25 today. 23rd. September.

 

[Muteswan]

25th. September.
1066. Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold II defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed.
1764. Fletcher Christian, English sailor who led the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, born today.
1789. US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
1818. The Carmarthen Cheese Riot occurred.
1897. 1st British bus service opens.
1929. Ronnie Barker, English comedian (The Two Ronnies, Porridge), born in Bedford, England (d. 2005).
1932. Terry Medwin, born on this day in Swansea.Scored the goal that took Wales to the quarterfinals of the 1958 World Cup.
1944. Michael Douglas, American actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1951. Mark Hamill, American actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars), born in Oakland, California.
1952. Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born in New York City, New York (d. 2004).
1968. Will Smith, American rapper ("Parents Just Don't Understand") and actor (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince of Bel Air), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1969. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress (Chicago, The Terminal, The Legend of Zorro), born in Swansea, Wales. 25 years to the day after her husband (see above).
1974. Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakoff], Russian-born British clown, dies at 73.
1975. Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
1975. Pink Floyd's concept album "Wish You Were Here" reaches No. 1 in the US, goes on to sell 13 million copies.
1980. John Bonham, English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin), dies from asphyxiation after heavy alcohol intake at 32.
2016. Arnold Palmer, American golfer (7 major titles; US Masters 1958, 60, 62, 64), dies of heart failure at 87.
2018. Comedian Bill Cosby sentenced to 3-10 years in jail for 2004 sexual assault, first celebrity to be jailed in the #MeToo era.

 

[Muteswan]

27th.September.
1066. William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England.
1822. French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone.
1825. George Stephenson's "Locomotion No. 1" becomes the 1st steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England.
1905. The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908. Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1919. Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76. Big Swans fan (apparently).
1941. Peter Bonetti born.
1943. Max Boyce born.
1944. Alvin Stardust born.
1947. Meat Loaf born.
1953. Diane Abbott born.
1960. Europe's 1st "moving pavement" (travelator), opens at Bank station on the London Underground.
1964.The Beach Boys made their TV debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.
1988. Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is disqualified from the Seoul Olympics 100m after his urine sample found to contain steroid stanozolol.
2015. A "Supermoon" coincides with a lunar eclipse creating a "Blood Moon" over much of the earth.

 

[Muteswan]

28th. September.
1066. William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.
1923. Radio Times 1st published.
1928. Scottish born pharmacologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered what later became known as penicillin when he found that a mould had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate.
1956. RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records.
1965. The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales.
1968. Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks in USA.
1976. "Songs in the Key of Life" 18th studio album by Stevie Wonder is released.
1987. "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart debuts on syndicated TV.
1991. American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
2008. SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

 

[Monty]

28th. September.
1066. William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.
1923. Radio Times 1st published.
1928. Scottish born pharmacologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered what later became known as penicillin when he found that a mould had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate.
1956. RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records.
1965. The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales.
1968. Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks in USA.
1976. "Songs in the Key of Life" 18th studio album by Stevie Wonder is released.
1987. "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart debuts on syndicated TV.
1991. American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
2008. SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

Give someone else a go mun :lol:

 

[Muteswan]

28th. September.
1066. William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.
1923. Radio Times 1st published.
1928. Scottish born pharmacologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered what later became known as penicillin when he found that a mould had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate.
1956. RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records.
1965. The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales.
1968. Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks in USA.
1976. "Songs in the Key of Life" 18th studio album by Stevie Wonder is released.
1987. "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart debuts on syndicated TV.
1991. American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
2008. SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

Give someone else a go mun :lol:

with pleasure, I forgot to add :
1935. Swansea RFC defeated the All Blacks 11-3, becoming the first ever club side to beat them.

 

[Muteswan]

29th. September.
1758. Horatio Nelson, British admiral and hero of Trafalgar, born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk (d. 1805).
1829. The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital.
1885. The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool.
1916. American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire.
1935. Jerry Lee Lewis, American country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin'), born in Ferriday, Louisiana.
1942. Ian McShane, born Blackburn England.
1950. Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories.. "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres.
1963. Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros).
1979 "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35 couldn’t have been that good!