1940 !!!i wasnt even a twinkle in me old mans eye!! an yu sure yu aint related to xk? thought everybody was in Northalerton!howcome xk has disowned Northalerton all of a sudden? was Northalerton werent it? or Royston Vasey one of the two *adds to list of places to avoid like the plague! *
Live nr Northallerton but nrer Bedale.
And they brew excellent beer up here, so don't be too hasty in avoiding the place.
I wouldn't upset Germanic Silvi either, her hobby is restoring V-rockets!
1819 - Manchester police fire on protesters - the Peterloo Massacre.
1896 - Start of the Klondike Gold Rush.
1897 - Opening of the Tate Gallery.
1906 - Earthquake destroys Valparaiso, Chile.
1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico.
1948 - American baseball icon Babe Ruth dies.
1958 - Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone born.
1962 - Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles drummer.
1977 - Death of "The King" - Elvis Presley.
1980 - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
Jools Holland quits Squeeze
2004 - Flash floods devastate Boscastle, Cornwall.
A tad late - this is for the 17th:-
1483 - Murder of The Two Princes, Edward and Richard, in the Tower of London.
1812 - Napoleon beats the Ruskies at Smolensk, giving inspiration to Tchkovsky.
1896 - Bridget Driskoll is 1st pedestrian in UK to die after being hit by speeding car - it was doing 4mph.
1943 - Allies complete capture of Sicily, when Patton takes Medina.
1979 - Monty Python's Life of Brian premieres - but religious bods can't look on the bright side of life, and get upset.
1987 - Nazi Rudolf Hess hangs himself in Spandau Prison.
Born today
1786 - Davy Crocket, frontiersman
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, movie mogul
1892 - Mae West, actress
1921 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
1943 - Robert DeNiro, actor
1926 - George Melly, jazzman
1951 - Alan Minter, boxer
1957 - Robin Cousins, skater
1958 - Belinda Carisle, singer
1960 - Sean Penn,actor
1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens at Ascalon
1685 - The "Bloody Assizes", Judge Jeffries presiding
1692 - The Salem Witch Trials, 5 witches hanged for witchcraft
1887 - Construction of the Eddystone Lighthouse begins
1934 - Hitler elected Fuhrer
1942 - Yanks land on Guadalcanal
1942 - The Dieppe Raid - 6000 allied commandos start the attack, only 2500 make it back
1987 - 16 killed by crazy gunman Michael Ryan, in Hungerford
Born today
1871 - Orville Wright - aviation pioneer
1883 - "Coco" Chanel - fashion designer
1921 - Gene Roddenberry - Star Trek creator
1945 - Bill Clinton - 42nd US President
1945 - Ian Gillian - Deep Purple
2012 Petrol hits £ 10:00 a litre.
U.K. unemployment figures down to 96%.
Sooty elected Prime minister.
U.K. wins olympic gold in line dancing.
Honda announce their new 240mph motorcycle.
'The Suppository'.
20th August
480BC - King Leonidas & 300 Spartans hold the Pass of Thermopylae against 200,000 Persians.
1741 - Alaska discovered (where had it been hiding?).
1940 - Leon Trotsky assassinated, on Stalin's orders, in Mexico City. Someone brained him with an axe.
1966 - The Beatles are pelted with rotten fruit during a gig in Memphis.
1989 - The dredger Bowbelle hits the pleasure cruiser Marchioness on the Thames; 51 partygoers killed.
Born today
1924 - Jim Reeves
1942 - Isaac Hayes
1943 - Sylvester McCoy
1948 - Robert Plant
1808 - Battle of Vimiero - Wellington sorts out the Frogs (again).
1901 - Cadillac Motor Co formed in Detroit, named after French explorer Antoine Cadillac.
1911 - Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre, recovered 2yrs later.
1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
1986 - Lethal gas from Lake Hyos in Cameroon kills every living thing within a 15 mile radius, incl 1500 peeps.
22nd
1138 - Battle of The Standard, nr Northallerton
1485 - Richard III comes a cropper at Bosworth Field
1642 - Start of the English Civil War
23rd
1305 - William (Braveheart) Wallace is hung, drawn and quartered
1914 - The Battle of Mons, WWI
1942 - The last cavalry charge takes place at Izbushensky
24th
79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii
410 - Alaric the Visigoth sacks Rome
1572 - The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre - 3000 Huguenots killed
1875 - Captain Webb becomes 1st person to swim English Channel
25th
1530 - Ivan the Terrible is born
1688 - Death of Henry Morgan, buccaneer
26th
1071 - Turks defeat Byzantines at Manzikert
1346 - The English longbow dominates at the Battle of Crecy
27th
479BC - Persians lose to Spartans at Plataea
1813 - Napoleon beats Austrians, Russians,Prussians, at Dresden
1883 - Krakatoa blows it top
1896 - Shortest war ever. Between UK and Zanzibar. It lasts for 45mins!
1979 - Louis Mountbatten murdered by IRA
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