On this day thread

[K23]

https://twitter.com/GlamCricket/status/1297605804183429121?s=19

Remember the day well - I think he scored around 250 at Colwyn Bay the year before as well

After we moved from Swansea to Llandudno in 1962, I used to go to watch Glammy every year when they played at Colwyn Bay but never saw a knock like that. Great days out for me an a couple of my school chums. It was a strange compact little ground in those days with a steep grass bank at one side where we used to sit and I assume it can't have changed very much as there are houses very close on 2 sides. Played there a couple of times myself in the late 60s.

 

[Muteswan]

24th August.
1981. Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20yrs to life for the murder of John Lennon outside The Dakota building where Lennon lived.

Cunt.

I hope that’s not meant for me.

 

[Darran]

Cunt.

I hope that’s not meant for me.

Absolutely not. :mrgreen:

 

[Muteswan]

 

[Muteswan]

25th August.
1948. Donald Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord’s.
1967. The Beatles come to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1968. Arthur Ashe becomes the 1st African American to win the US singles championship.
2012. Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes 1st to enter interstellar space (launched in1977).
2019.Double Dave, a rare two headed timber rattlesnake found in Pine Barrens Forest, New Jersey.

 

[Muteswan]

26th August.
1959. BMC introduces the Morris Mini Minor. (Who had one of these?)

1985. The French government denies all knowledge of an attack on the Rainbow Warrior which was sunk in Auckland harbour.

2016. San Francisco 49’s Colin Kaepernik kneels during the US national anthem in protest, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US.

 

[Blackpooljack]

25th August.
1948. Donald Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord’s.
1967. The Beatles come to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1968. Arthur Ashe becomes the 1st African American to win the US singles championship.
2012. Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes 1st to enter interstellar space (launched in1977).
2019.Double Dave, a rare two headed timber rattlesnake found in Pine Barrens Forest, New Jersey.

On a theme with two of the above on the same days as Althea Gibson became the first Afro American to win Wimbledon John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time ,in both cases the rest, they say is history.

 

[Muteswan]

27th August.
1883. Krakatoa volcano erupts and kills approximately 40,000 people.

1955. Guinness Book of World Records 1st published.

1964. Mary Poppins premieres in Los Angeles.

2008. Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be nominated by a major party for President of the United States.

2020. Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant sentenced to life without parole, for killing 51 worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch.

 

[SwansNZ]

27th August.
1883. Krakatoa volcano erupts and kills approximately 40,000 people.

1955. Guinness Book of World Records 1st published.

1964. Mary Poppins premieres in Los Angeles.

2008. Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be nominated by a major party for President of the United States.

2020. Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant sentenced to life without parole, for killing 51 worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch.

He's the first person to be sentenced to life without parole in NZ.

 

[Muteswan]

28th August.
1837. Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce.

1850. Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin premieres at Weimar ,Germany.

1963. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I have a dream “ speech at The Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.

1973. “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple goes gold.

1981. John Hinckley pleads innocent to attempt to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan.

2019. Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emission- free voyage.

2019. Boris Johnson prorogued parliament , suspending it for 5 weeks to limit opposition to a no deal Brexit, prompting furious backlash on Planet Swans and elsewhere

 

[Muteswan]

29th August.
1958. George Harrison joins The Quarrymen.

1966. The Beatles’ last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco).

1994. Oasis release their debut album “Definitely Maybe “.

2005. Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall devastating Gulf Coast between Florida and Louisiana. Kills more than 1,836 and causes over $115 billion dollars in damages.

2009. Christiano Ronaldo makes his debut for Real Madrid.

 

[Muteswan]

29th. August.
1915. Ingrid Bergman born.

1982. Ingrid Bergman died.

Forgot to post this earlier.

 

[K23]

31st August

2019 Leeds 0 Swansea 1 (Routledge) Watched it on my tablet in my air-conditioned hotel room in the Camargue, South of France because it was 36 degrees outside!

 

[DwightYorkeSuperstar]

"On this day in 1841, Robert Peel was elected Prime Minister for the second time after leading the party in opposition. Famous for founding the Metropolitan Police, dubbed “Peelers” and later “Bobbies”, while Home Secretary modernisation would be the hallmark of Peel's premiership: the modern party as we know it was born out of his Tamworth Manifesto,the first of its kind. The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 banned women and children from working underground, the Factory Act 1844 limited working hours for women and children, and the Importation Act 1846 removed trade barriers on imported corn, driving down prices to feed the poor."

 

[Cooperman]

"On this day in 1841, Robert Peel was elected Prime Minister for the second time after leading the party in opposition. Famous for founding the Metropolitan Police, dubbed “Peelers” and later “Bobbies”, while Home Secretary modernisation would be the hallmark of Peel's premiership: the modern party as we know it was born out of his Tamworth Manifesto,the first of its kind. The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 banned women and children from working underground, the Factory Act 1844 limited working hours for women and children, and the Importation Act 1846 removed trade barriers on imported corn, driving down prices to feed the poor."

I thought this was going to be a post about how we turned your lot over at The Liberty and sent thousands of Man U fans back up the M4 to London with nothing to show for their trip to Wales.

30th August 2015.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/34031804

No need to thank me.