On this day thread

[Neath_Jack]

27 years ago today, The Prodigy played in Ritzy in Swansea.

Wales also lost and failed to get into the World cup, Romania i think it was. A draw would have seen us qualify i think.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

27 years ago today, The Prodigy played in Ritzy in Swansea.

Wales also lost and failed to get into the World cup, Romania i think it was. A draw would have seen us qualify i think.

Nah we needed to win. Paul Bodin missed a penalty to put us 2-1 up with about 20 minutes left. He hit the bar and Romania scored a winner a few minutes later. It was heartbreaking.

 

[Neath_Jack]

27 years ago today, The Prodigy played in Ritzy in Swansea.

Wales also lost and failed to get into the World cup, Romania i think it was. A draw would have seen us qualify i think.

Nah we needed to win. Paul Bodin missed a penalty to put us 2-1 up with about 20 minutes left. He hit the bar and Romania scored a winner a few minutes later. It was heartbreaking.

You should have joined us in Ritzy, you'd soon have forgotten about the football :shock: :lol:

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Nah we needed to win. Paul Bodin missed a penalty to put us 2-1 up with about 20 minutes left. He hit the bar and Romania scored a winner a few minutes later. It was heartbreaking.

You should have joined us in Ritzy, you'd soon have forgotten about the football :shock: :lol:

For some reason we watched it in the Maggie Dicks in Brynhyfryd, a pub I almost never went to. Was with the boys I was working with in Tesco at the time. I’ve no memory of what happened after the game but I can remember the game itself clear as day.

 

[Muteswan]

17th. November.
1855. David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1882. The Royal Astronomer witnessed an unidentified flying object from the Greenwich Observatory. He described it as a circular object, glowing bright green.
1887. Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Alamein, British WWII Field Marshal and WWI officer, born in London (d. 1976).
1919. King George V proclaimed Armistice Day, later to be known as Remembrance Day.
1937. Peter Cook, British comedian was born today. With Dudley Moore he had the 1965 UK No.18 single 'Goodbye-ee'. With Moore he released a series of albums as Derek and Clive.
1942. Martin Scorsese, American film director, born in Queens, New York.
1944. Danny Devito, American actor, born in Neptune Township, New Jersey
1948. Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry.
1952. David Emanuel, who was born in Bridgend today is a fashion designer best known for designing the wedding dress worn in 1981 by Diana, Princess of Wales.
1955. Anglesey became the first authority in Britain to introduce fluoride into the water supply.
1959. Two Scottish airports, Prestwick and Renfrew, became the first to offer duty free goods in Britain. Heathrow followed soon after.
1966. The Beach Boys were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Good Vibrations.'
1970. British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on page 3 (Stephanie Rahn).
1971. Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Coz I Luv You', the group's first of six No.1's.
1980. Gethin Jenkins (born in Llantwit Fardre) is a Wales and British Lions rugby international. He is Wales’ most capped front-row forward.
2014. The family of murdered schoolgirl April Jones (aged 5) watched the demolition of the house owned by her killer Mark Bridger. The rented home was bought by the Welsh government in August and is where Bridger is believed to have killed and dismembered April after snatching her outside her parents’ home in Machynlleth, mid Wales, on 1st October 2012.

 

[Muteswan]

18th. November.
1307. William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son's head.
1477. First English dated printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton.
1916. British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded.
1928. Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" released, first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.
1962. Kirk Hammett, American heavy-metal guitarist (Metallica), born in San Francisco, California.
1963. Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer born today.
1967. A ban on the movement of farm animals across the whole of England and Wales came into effect at midnight, in a bid to curb the spread of foot and mouth disease.
1970. Led Zeppelin III was at No.1 on the UK & US album charts.
1974 "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by English progressive rock band Genesis is released, their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel.
1978. Billy Joel went to No.1 on the US album chart with his sixth studio album, '52nd Street'.
1991. Muslim Shi'ites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland.
1994. "Star Trek: Generations" film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres.
1996. "Star Trek: First Contact" film directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes premieres.
2000. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (31) weds actor/producer Michael Douglas (56) at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
2015. Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union winger (youngest ever All Black, 63 internationals), dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease at 40.
2017. Malcolm Young, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (founding member of AC/DC), dies at 64.

 

[Darran]

Today in 1979.


https://twitter.com/zappa/status/1329409088887926785?s=21

 

[CygnusX1]

1994 - 1st National Lottery draw in UK

The first winning numbers, in the order in which they were drawn, were 30, 3, 5, 44, 14 and 22. The bonus ball was 10
The jackpot of around £5.9 million was shared by seven winners, with each one winning a shade under £840,000

 

[Muteswan]

20th. November.
1906. Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce formed Rolls-Royce.
1910. Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War & Peace), dies of pneumonia at 82.
1912. Wilfred Wooller was born in Rhos-on-Sea.
1928. John Disley, Welsh athlete (co-founded London Marathon), born in Corris, Gwynedd (d. 2016).
1942. Joe Biden, American politician (Vice President: 2009-2017), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
1945. The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers.
1947. Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Duke of Edinburgh) at Westminster Abbey.
1947. Joe Walsh, guitarist, singer, songwriter, who led The James Gang was born. He joined the Eagles in 1975.
1951. Snowdonia becomes a British National Park.
1954. UNICEF declares today as Universal Children’s Day.
1955. The song that changed popular music history 'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley & His Comets went to No.1 on the UK singles chart.
1956. Bo Derek [Mary Collins], American actress (10), born in Long Beach, California.
1970. The ten-shilling note was officially withdrawn by the Bank of England.
1985. Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1995. Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview.
2013. Hull was chosen as the UK's city of culture for 2017, beating off challenges from Dundee, Leicester and Swansea.
2019. Britain's Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein.

 

[Muteswan]

21st. November.
1945. Goldie Hawn, American actress born in Washington, District of Columbia.
1953. Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
1963. US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day).
1970. Two months after his death Jimi Hendrix was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Voodoo Child.
1974. The IRA exploded two bombs in two Birmingham Pubs, killing 19 people and injuring 180 others. The Birmingham Six, as they were called by the media, were sentenced to life in prison for the crime but were subsequently acquitted.
1976. "Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York.
1977. First flight of Concorde (London to New York).
1983. Michael Jackson's 14-minute video for Thriller was premiered in Los Angeles.
1990. Swansea’s very own Jimmy Wilde died today aged 79.
2017. Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings.
2017. Rodney Bewes, English actor (The Likely Lads), dies at 79.

 

[Muteswan]

22nd. November.
1774. Robert Clive, English soldier often referred to as 'Clive of India', died.
1808. Thomas Cook, British founder and CEO of Thomas Cook & Son travel agency, born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1892).
1913. Benjamin Britten, English composer born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (d. 1976).
1928. "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris).
1946. The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by a British company.
1955. RCA Records make its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley's contract.
1957. Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY.
1963. The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK.
1963. US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
1963. Aldous Huxley, English author (Brave New World), dies at 69.
1967. Boris Becker, German tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89), born in Leimen, Germany.
1968. Beatles release "Beatles" (White Album), their only double album.
1968. Fleetwood Mac released the instrumental 'Albatross'.
1974. Helen Morgan won the Miss World beauty contest. However, she was encouraged to resign four days after her victory on the discovery that she had an 18 month old child. In the same year, she won the Miss Wales and Miss United Kingdom titles and came second in the Miss Universe pageant.
1977. The world's first supersonic airliner, Concorde, was given permission to fly into New York's Kennedy Airport following an agreement over noise levels.
1990. Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister.
1995. Britain's most prolific female serial killer, Rosemary West, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.
2017. Ratko Mladic the "Butcher of Bosnia" is convicted of genocide and other atrocities during the Bosnian war and jailed for life in The Hague.

 

[Muteswan]

23rd. November.
1859. Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], American frontier outlaw, born in NYC, New York (d. 1881).
1869. The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton,one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving.
1887. Boris Karloff [William H. Pratt], English actor (The Mummy, Frankenstein), born in Camberwell, London (d. 1969).
1888. Harpo Marx [Adolph], American actor and comedian (Marx brothers), born in NYC, New York (d. 1964).
1889. Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco).
1915. ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag’, the famous First World War song, was published, by Felix Powell and George Asaf, who were really two brothers from Wales.
1963. The BBC broadcast the first ever episode of Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell as the Doctor.
1964. Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman".
1973. “Live in Treorchy” by Max Boyce was recorded at Treorchy Rugby Club and introduced “Hymns and Arias” to the world.
1975. Queen started a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Bohemian Rhapsody.
1979. Pink Floyd released 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' .
1990. Roald Dahl, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG), dies at 74.
1991. Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies.
2013. "The Day of the Doctor" 50th anniversary episode of "Doctor Who" screens on BBC One, 1st episode to feature 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi.
2016. Thomas Mair was found guilty of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox (16th June 2016). He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.

 

[Muteswan]

24th. November.
1806. William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby born today(d. 1872).
1831. Michael Faraday read his first series of papers at the Royal Society in London on ‘Experimental Research into Electricity’.
1859. English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.
1930. Ken Barrington, cricketer (England batsman) born today.
1932. Fred Titmus, cricketer (England off-spinner) born today.
1941. Pete Best, British drummer (Beatles), born in Madras, India.
1942. Billy Connolly, born in Scotland, comedian and actor.
1946. Ted Bundy, American serial murderer during the 1970s, born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1989).
1951. Born in Moascar, Egypt,Graham Price, former Wales and Lions rugby international who won 41 caps for Wales as a prop forward. He joined Pontypool after leaving school and along with Bobby Windsor and Charlie Faulkner, formed the legendary Pontypool Front Row.
1955. Sir Ian Botham, England cricket captain, all-rounder (102 Tests, 5,200 runs, 383 wickets), born in Heswall, England.
1962. Born in Rheindahlen, West Germany, Paul Thorburn, former Wales rugby international and captain.
1963. Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of JFK, 2 days earlier, shot dead two days after he killed JFK by nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on TV at 24.
1966. The Beatles began recording sessions for their album "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
1966. Russell Watson, British singer born.
1974. Police charged 6 men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings 3 days previously.
1976. Chicago started a three week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'If You Leave Me Now'.
1979. Born on this day in Harrow, London,Tom Shanklin, former Wales and Lions rugby international.
1983. "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett published by Colin Smythe in the UK, 1st book in the Discworld series.
1991. Freddie Mercury [Farrokh Bulsara], British singer-songwriter, dies of AIDS at 45.
1993. 11 year old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of English 2 year old James Bulger.
1993. American blues guitarist and singer Albert Collins died of lung cancer aged 61.
2003. 'Agadoo' by Black Lace was named the worst song of all time by a panel of music writers.
2005. Today new licensing laws came in force, permitting, pubs, clubs and supermarkets in England and Wales to open 24 hours. The change did not bring about the predicted wave of alcohol-fuelled violence and debauchery.

Three Welsh Rugby Internationals born today, and not one in Wales.

 

[Muteswan]

26th. November.
1476. Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1805. Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee.
1922.Archaeologist Howard Carter and the Earl of Caernarfon open Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt.
1939. Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock], American singer, born in Nutbush, Tennessee.
1942. "Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC.
1945. Charlie "Bird" Parker leads recording session for the Savoy label marketed as the "greatest Jazz session ever" with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
1945 "Brief Encounter", directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard is released.
1968. Cream played their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Also on the bill were Yes and Taste.
1976. Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK".
1983. The Brinks Mat security warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed of £25 million worth of gold bars weighing three tons.
2003. Supersonic airplane Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England.

 

[Muteswan]

27th. November.
1582. William Shakespeare, aged 18, married Anne Hathaway.
1895. Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize.
1920. Buster Merryfield, British actor (Only Fools and Horses), born in London, England (d. 1999).
1925. Ernie Wise, 'straight man' to comedian Eric Morecambe, was born.
1937. Rodney Bewes, English actor (The Likely Lads), born in Bierley, England (d. 2017).
1940. Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam], Chinese-American martial artist and actor, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1973).
1942. James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, American rock guitarist, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970).
1945. Randy Brecker, from jazz-rock American music group Blood Sweat & Tears born today.
1967. The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour".
1975. Ross McWhirter, English Guinness Book of Records co-founder, assassinated by the IRA at 50.
1976. The four millionth 'Mini' car left the production line.
1979. 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG.
1987. A young man in Somerset tried seven times to kill himself following a row with his girlfriend. He threw himself in front of four cars, and jumped under the wheels of a lorry. He tried to strangle himself and jumped from a window. The real victims were a driver of one car who suffered a heart attack, a policeman who injured his back trying to restrain the man, and a doctor who was kicked in the face when the struggling man reached hospital.
2000. A 10-year-old schoolboy, Damilola Taylor, died after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers near his home in Peckham, south London.
2011. Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and Wales national football team manager, dies at 42.
2014. Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer.
2014. A new treatment for bladder cancer was shown to completely cure some people, in the first significant breakthrough in the disease for 30 years.
2017. Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce their engagement.