On this day thread

[DJack]

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.

What a day in history!

 

[Muteswan]

28th. November.
1628. John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, was born.
1660. The Royal Society is formed at Gresham College, London, after a lecture by Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy.
1919. US-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons.
1933. A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis.
1960. Elvis Presley started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Are You Lonesome Tonight'.
1963. The Beatles "She Loves You" unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold.
1967. All horse racing in Britain was suspended 'indefinitely' to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
1968. Enid Blyton, English children's author (Noddy, Famous Five), dies at 71.
1970. Dave Edmunds was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the 1955 Smiley Lewis hit 'I Hear You Knocking.'
2006. A modern spy drama unfolded following the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London when traces of polonium-210 radiation were found at central London addresses.
2012 "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 1st of the Hobbit film series,premieres in Wellington, New Zealand.
2016. Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense football team crashes near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists.

 

[Muteswan]

29th. November.
1530. Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London.
1775. Sir James Jay invents invisible ink.
1803. Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (Doppler effect), born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1853).
1877. US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
1898. C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles, was born.
1924. Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65.
1933. John Mayall, British blues musician (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers), born in Macclesfield, England.
1935. Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat".
1963. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.
1969. The Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1.
1972. Co-founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, the 1st commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1973. Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer, born in St David's Hospital, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
1975.British racing driver Graham Hill was killed in an aircraft crash at Arkley, Hertfordshire.
1976. Chadwick Boseman, American actor (Black Panther), born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 2020).
1980. ABBA scored their ninth and last UK No.1 single with 'Super Trouper', the group's 25th Top 40 hit in the UK.
1986. Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 82.
1994. Ronald "Buster" Edwards, British Great Train Robber turned flower-seller, found hanged at 63.
2001. George Harrison, musician, actor, songwriter and former lead guitarist with the Beatles died of lung cancer, aged 58.
2007. Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for failing to properly register a new permanent address.
2013. A double engine failure caused a police helicopter to crash into the Clutha Vaults pub in Glasgow. Ten people died in the accident; all three on board, six on the ground and another person died two weeks later from injuries received.
2019.Terrorist knife attack at Fishmongers Hall by London Bridge, kills two and injures three, attacker previously imprisoned for 2012 terror offence.

 

[Muteswan]

30th. November.
1016. Cnut the Great [Canute], King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'.
1487. The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops.
1667. Jonathan Swift, Irish author and satirist (Gulliver's Travels), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1745).
1782. Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence.
1835. Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), born in Florida, Missouri (d. 1910).
1874. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (d. 1965).
1886. The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1900. Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and novelist (Importance of Being Earnest), dies in Paris at 46.
1934. The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (Engine No. 4472) became the first to officially exceed 100mph.
1936. London's Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire.
1945. Born on this day in Brecon,Roger Glover - Bass guitar player, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the bassist for the hard rock band Deep Purple.
1960. Gary Lineker, footballer, and former England captain, was born.
1968. The Trade Descriptions Act came into force making it a crime for a trader to knowingly sell an item with a misleading label or description.
1968. Glen Campbell started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Wichita Lineman.
1979. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks.
1982. "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi.
1982. "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released.
1982. A letter bomb exploded inside No. 10, Downing Street, injuring a member of staff. The package was sent by animal rights activists.
1993. "Schindler's List", American historical drama film, premieres in Washington, D.C.
1995. Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1999. Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist dies at 74.
2007. Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, dies of pulmonary disease at 69.
2012. Glen Campbell played the very last live performance of his lifetime when he appeared at Uptown Theatre in Napa, California.

 

[Muteswan]

1st. December.
1860. On 1st December 1860, an explosion at the Black Vein Colliery at Risca killed more than 140 men and boys as well as 28 pit ponies. They called this pit the Death Pit, because methane gas caused regular explosions that killed so many.There is a Memorial Stone, which was donated by Lord Tredegar on the opposite side of the valley, to the 50 men & boys whose bodies were unclaimed or unidentified.
1868. The opening of London's Smithfield meat market.
1887. Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in "Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
1913. Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1929. Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe.
1942. The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war welfare state.
1946. Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer, songwriter, born today.
1951. Jaco Pastorius, jazz bass player, who had the 1976 hit with Weather Report, 'Birdland' born today. In my opinion, the world’s greatest bass player ever.
1953. Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centrefold.
1955. Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
1957. Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly and the Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show.
1960. Today the village of Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons was the last in Wales to be connected to mains electricity.
1966. Britain issued its first special edition Christmas stamps.
1966. Tom Jones was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of 'Green Green Grass Of Home.
1971. John Lennon and Yoko Ono release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US.
1988. Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan).
1988. First World AIDS day to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
1990. Britain and France were joined for the first time in thousands of years as the last wall of rock separating two halves of the Channel Tunnel was removed.
2003."The Return of the King", 3rd and final film in the Lord of the Rings series, premieres in Wellington, New Zealand.
2014. "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies", 3rd and final Hobbit film, premieres in London.
2019. Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China.

 

[Muteswan]

2nd. December.
1697. St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London).
1769. Britain's first cremation took place, in St. George's burial ground, London.
1804. General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris.
1814. Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and writer dies at 74. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name.
1901. King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades.
1907. The Professional Footballer’s Association was formed, after a meeting at the Imperial Hotel, Manchester.
1939. British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC.
1941. Mike England, Welsh defender and manager, born in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales.
1969. Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC).
1976. Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1981. Britney Spears, American popstar, born in McComb, Mississippi.
1982. Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49.
1988. "Naked Gun" movie based on TV's "Police Squad" premieres.
1993. Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord, shot to death by Colombian Police at 44.
1995. 28 year old Nick Leeson was sentenced for financial dealings which contributed to the fall of Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank. He admitted to a judge in Singapore two charges of fraud connected with Baring's £860m ruin.
1997. Former wrestler Big Daddy (real name Shirley Crabtree) died in Halifax, aged 67.
1999. The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
2013. "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", 2nd film in the Hobbit series, premieres in Los Angeles.
2020. US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Donald Trump.

 

[Muteswan]

3rd. December.
1689. First recorded successful separation of conjoined twins Elisabet and Catherina Meijerin, completed by Swiss surgeon Johannes Fatio in Basel.
1795. Sir Rowland Hill, postal pioneer and founder of the 'Penny Post' was born.
1894. Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist (Treasure Island), dies at 45.
1928. Andy Williams, US singer died today.
1935. On 3rd December 1935, Felinfoel brewery produced Britain's first ever canned beer.
Felinfoel was the first brewery outside the USA to commercially can beer and it was to transform Britains alcohol buying habits. The cans were made from tinplate, produced in South Wales which, from the late 18th century until the early 20th dominated the world's production, so much so that in the early 1890s, 80% of all tinplate was produced in South Wales.
1944. Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.
1944. Ralph McTell, UK folk singer songwriter & children's TV presenter born today.
1948. The birth of John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne, English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. He rose to prominence as lead singer of the band Black Sabbath and became known as the 'Prince of Darkness'.
1951. Nicky Stevens [Helen Maria Thomas], Welsh pop singer (Brotherhood of Man - "Save Your Kisses For Me"), born in Carmarthen, Wales, U.K.
1952. Mel Smith, author, actor, and comedian born today, (d. 2013)
1961. The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein.
1965. "Rubber Soul", the sixth studio album by the Beatles is released in the United Kingdom.
1965. The Who released their debut studio album My Generation in the UK.
1967. 1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky.
1969. The Rolling Stones recorded 'Brown Sugar' at Muscle Shoals studios.
1971. India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives and starting the Indo-Pakistani War.
1980. Oswald Mosley, British politician and founder of British Union of Fascists, dies at 84.
1981. David Villa, Spanish striker (98 caps; Valencia, Barcelona), born in Langreo, Spain.
1984. British Telecom was privatised. The shares immediately made massive gains.
1984.Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured.
1984. "Do They Know It's Christmas" single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and sung by Band Aid is released in the UK.
1992. Two bombs exploded in the centre of Manchester injuring 65 people. Miraculously no-one was killed, but much of the city centre had to be rebuilt.
2011. Wales, all-time leading try scorer, Shane Williams scored his 58th Test try. He scored the try in his final Welsh appearance, with the last move of the match against Australia and celebrated with a somersault. Shane was treated to a standing ovation at the final whistle.
2012. St James's Palace announced that the Duchess of Cambridge was expecting a baby.
2019. World leaders discussing US President Donald Trump in unflattering terms at NATO reception caught on camera and goes viral.

 

[Muteswan]

4th. December.
1791. Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published.
1798. British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger announced the introduction of Income Tax to help finance the war against France.
1840. Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), born in Fort Robinson, Nebraska (d. 1877).
1865. Edith Cavell, British nurse (WWI), born in Swardeston, Norfolk, England (d. 1915).
1892. Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator (1936-75), born in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain (d. 1975).
1930. Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (The Two Ronnies), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2016).
1937. The first issue of the Dandy comic, closure, on 4th December 2012, coincided with its 75th anniversary.
1944. Dennis Wilson, American drummer and vocalist (Beach Boys), born in Hawthorne, California (d. 1983).
1948. George Orwell completed the final draft of the book Nineteen Eighty Four which was published on 8th June 1949.
1949. Jeff Bridges, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California.
1952. At least 4,000 people died in a week, from breathing difficulties, during a severe London smog.
1961. The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain.
1964 .The Beatles release their "Beatles For Sale" album.
1976. [Edward] Benjamin Britten, English composer (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Peter Grimes), dies of heart failure at 63.
1980. Two months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin announces they will disband.
1993. Frank Zappa, American rocker, composer, activist and filmmaker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls), dies from prostate cancer at 52.
1997. Europe's health ministers voted to ban tobacco advertising throughout the European Union although they agreed that motor-racing, which relied heavily on sponsorship and advertising by tobacco companies, should be exempt for another 8 years.
2000. Colin Cowdrey CBE, England cricket batsman (114 Tests, 7,624 runs @ 44.06), dies of a heart attack at 67.
2008. Karen Matthews, the mother of nine-year-old Shannon, was convicted of kidnapping her own daughter.
2017. Christine Keeler, British model and showgirl (Profumo affair), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 75.
2018. Theresa May's UK government suffers three parliamentary defeats in one day, also found in contempt of parliament for failing to publish report in full on Brexit.
2019. Bob Willis, English cricket fast bowler and captain (90 Tests, 325 wickets; 64 ODIs), dies of prostate cancer at 70.

 

[Monty]

4th. December.
1791. Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published.
1798. British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger announced the introduction of Income Tax to help finance the war against France.
1840. Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), born in Fort Robinson, Nebraska (d. 1877).
1865. Edith Cavell, British nurse (WWI), born in Swardeston, Norfolk, England (d. 1915).
1892. Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator (1936-75), born in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain (d. 1975).
1930. Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (The Two Ronnies), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2016).
1937. The first issue of the Dandy comic, closure, on 4th December 2012, coincided with its 75th anniversary.
1944. Dennis Wilson, American drummer and vocalist (Beach Boys), born in Hawthorne, California (d. 1983).
1948. George Orwell completed the final draft of the book Nineteen Eighty Four which was published on 8th June 1949.
1949. Jeff Bridges, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California.
1952. At least 4,000 people died in a week, from breathing difficulties, during a severe London smog.
1961. The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain.
1964 .The Beatles release their "Beatles For Sale" album.
1976. [Edward] Benjamin Britten, English composer (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Peter Grimes), dies of heart failure at 63.
1980. Two months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin announces they will disband.
1993. Frank Zappa, American rocker, composer, activist and filmmaker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls), dies from prostate cancer at 52.
1997. Europe's health ministers voted to ban tobacco advertising throughout the European Union although they agreed that motor-racing, which relied heavily on sponsorship and advertising by tobacco companies, should be exempt for another 8 years.
2000. Colin Cowdrey CBE, England cricket batsman (114 Tests, 7,624 runs @ 44.06), dies of a heart attack at 67.
2008. Karen Matthews, the mother of nine-year-old Shannon, was convicted of kidnapping her own daughter.
2017. Christine Keeler, British model and showgirl (Profumo affair), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 75.
2018. Theresa May's UK government suffers three parliamentary defeats in one day, also found in contempt of parliament for failing to publish report in full on Brexit.
2019. Bob Willis, English cricket fast bowler and captain (90 Tests, 325 wickets; 64 ODIs), dies of prostate cancer at 70.

Darran hasn't even acknowledge his hero, shocking

 

[Muteswan]

I had noticed and decided not to highlight the occasion because Darran would put up some music of his and, to be perfectly honest, I’m not a fan.

 

[Muteswan]

6th. December.
343. The Feast day of Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus. He is the patron saint of children. The name Santa Claus is a phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch Sinterklaas, dies at 73.
1735. First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St George's Hospital in London.
1768. 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published in Scotland.
1865. 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery.
1897. London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1920. Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist ("Take Five") and composer, born in Concord, California (d. 2012).
1921. Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
1946. The U.K's first Remploy factory was opened, in Bridgend with the aim of offering work to disabled people. Over the following decades, Remploy established a network of 83 factories across the UK. Remploy was originally subsidised by the government. However at the beginning of 21st century, it became the policy to encourage disabled people to have mainstream jobs, which resulted in the closure of most Remploy factories.
1956. Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa.
1957. Andrew Cuomo, American politician and Governor of New York (2011-), born in NYC, New York.
1963. The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans.
1965. The Rolling Stones recorded '19th Nervous Breakdown' and 'Mother's Little Helper' at RCA's Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles.
1968. The Rolling Stones released Beggars Banquet their seventh UK studio album.
1969. Led Zeppelin made their debut on the US singles chart with 'Whole Lotta Love'.
1970. Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, born in Preston, Lancashire, England.
1983. Surgeons successfully completed the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain.
1988. American singer songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged 52.
1991. "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres.
2003. Elvis Costello married jazz artist Diana Krall in a ceremony at Elton John's UK mansion.
2006. NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2013. Stan Tracey, British jazz pianist, dies at 86.

 

[CygnusX1]

6th. December.
343. The Feast day of Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus. He is the patron saint of children. The name Santa Claus is a phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch Sinterklaas, dies at 73.
1735. First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St George's Hospital in London.
1768. 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published in Scotland.
1865. 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery.
1897. London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1920. Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist ("Take Five") and composer, born in Concord, California (d. 2012).
1921. Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
1946. The U.K's first Remploy factory was opened, in Bridgend with the aim of offering work to disabled people. Over the following decades, Remploy established a network of 83 factories across the UK. Remploy was originally subsidised by the government. However at the beginning of 21st century, it became the policy to encourage disabled people to have mainstream jobs, which resulted in the closure of most Remploy factories.
1956. Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa.
1957. Andrew Cuomo, American politician and Governor of New York (2011-), born in NYC, New York.
1963. The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans.
1965. The Rolling Stones recorded '19th Nervous Breakdown' and 'Mother's Little Helper' at RCA's Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles.
1968. The Rolling Stones released Beggars Banquet their seventh UK studio album.
1969. Led Zeppelin made their debut on the US singles chart with 'Whole Lotta Love'.
1970. Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, born in Preston, Lancashire, England.
1983. Surgeons successfully completed the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain.
1988. American singer songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged 52.
1991. "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres.
2003. Elvis Costello married jazz artist Diana Krall in a ceremony at Elton John's UK mansion.
2006. NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2013. Stan Tracey, British jazz pianist, dies at 86.

Santa died in 343!!

But....but.....but....

 

[Muteswan]

6th. December.
343. The Feast day of Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus. He is the patron saint of children. The name Santa Claus is a phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch Sinterklaas, dies at 73.
1735. First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St George's Hospital in London.
1768. 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published in Scotland.
1865. 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery.
1897. London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1920. Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist ("Take Five") and composer, born in Concord, California (d. 2012).
1921. Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
1946. The U.K's first Remploy factory was opened, in Bridgend with the aim of offering work to disabled people. Over the following decades, Remploy established a network of 83 factories across the UK. Remploy was originally subsidised by the government. However at the beginning of 21st century, it became the policy to encourage disabled people to have mainstream jobs, which resulted in the closure of most Remploy factories.
1956. Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa.
1957. Andrew Cuomo, American politician and Governor of New York (2011-), born in NYC, New York.
1963. The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans.
1965. The Rolling Stones recorded '19th Nervous Breakdown' and 'Mother's Little Helper' at RCA's Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles.
1968. The Rolling Stones released Beggars Banquet their seventh UK studio album.
1969. Led Zeppelin made their debut on the US singles chart with 'Whole Lotta Love'.
1970. Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, born in Preston, Lancashire, England.
1983. Surgeons successfully completed the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain.
1988. American singer songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged 52.
1991. "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres.
2003. Elvis Costello married jazz artist Diana Krall in a ceremony at Elton John's UK mansion.
2006. NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2013. Stan Tracey, British jazz pianist, dies at 86.

Santa died in 343!!

But....but.....but....

Not really, I only put that in to see if anyone actually reads these .

 

[Muteswan]

7th. December.
1703. Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen.
1732. The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1877. Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of "Scientific American".
1941. Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.
1963. Born on this day in Neath, Mark Bowen, former Wales football international who earned 41 Welsh caps as left-back.
1963. The Beatles second album 'With The Beatles' started a 21-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart.
1967. The Beatles' clothing store "Apple Boutique" opens at 94 Baker Street, London.
1967. Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay".
1968. The Beatles White Album started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
1972. Apollo 17 launched, the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous "blue marble" photo of the entire Earth.
1973. Paul McCartney & Wings release "Band on the Run" in the UK.
1974. Barry White was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You're The First, The Last, My Everything'.
1976. 'The Swedish Princess from Wales' Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (Swansea-born former fashion model Lilian Davies) married Prince Bertil of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace after a 30-year relationship.
1979. The Police had their second UK No.1 single with 'Walking on the Moon'.
1979 "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" first movie of the series premieres.
1979. Production of MG Midget sports cars came to an end.
1997. Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (Leeds United), dies at 54 from a suspected heart attack.
2012. Jacintha Saldhana, a nurse at King Edward VII hospital - London, who took a hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge from two Australian radio presenters posing as the Queen, was found dead at her home after committing suicide.
2014. Pink Floyd's classic album, The Dark Side Of The Moon made a surprise return to the Billboard chart.
2015. US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US.
2016. Greg Lake, English rock vocalist and bassist (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer), dies of cancer at 69.

 

[Muteswan]

8th. December.
1542. Mary, Queen of Scots [Mary Stuart], Queen of Scotland (1560-87), born in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland (d. 1587).
1864. The Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is finally opened in Bristol, England, 5 years after his death.
1925. Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer and actor, born in NYC, New York (d. 1990).
1941. The birth of Sir Geoff Hurst, English footballer.
1943. Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter The Doors, born in Melbourne, Florida (d. 1971).
1947. Gregg Allman, guitarist/vocalist (The Allman Brothers Band), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2017).
1951. Bill Bryson, American British author (Notes From a Small Island), born in Des Moines, Iowa.
1965. The new Race Relations Act came into force making racial discrimination unlawful in public places.
1966. US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.
1967. The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK.
1976. The Eagles released their fifth studio album Hotel California.
1978 "The Deer Hunter", premieres in Los Angeles.
1980. John Lennon was murdered, shot five times by 25 year old Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York City.
1984. Frankie Goes To Hollywood were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Power Of Love'.
1986. Amir Khan, English boxer, born in Bolton, United Kingdom.
1987. US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
1994. Raheem Sterling, British-Jamaican football player, born in Kingston, Jamaica.
1995. Head teacher Philip Lawrence, aged 48, died after being stabbed outside his west London school while protecting a pupil who was being assaulted.
2008. Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales.
2016. John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), dies at 95.
2020. Ninety year old Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world (outside clinical trials) to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine; at the University Hospital, Coventry. The second, was a man called William Shakespeare from Warwickshire! Sir Simon Stevens, NHS England's chief executive said that the vaccine rollout could be 'a decisive turning point' in the fight against Covid-19. Statistics released on Monday evening 7th December 2020 showed that there had been 67.3M Coronavirus cases worldwide and 1.54M deaths.