1137 - Richard I (the Lionheart) born to King Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1888 - Annie Chapman becomes 2nd victim of Jack the Ripper.
1900 - A hurricane in Galveston, Texas, kills 8,000.
1921 - Goon Harry Seacombe born.
1925 - Goon Peter Sellers born.
1944 - 1st V2 rocket falls on London, killing 3.
1966 - HM QEII opens the Severn Bridge, making it a damn sight easier to get from S.Wales to Weston.
2008 - SP sends "thank you" letter to Queen.
1087 - Death of William the Conqueror
1513 - James IV of Scotland killed at Flodden Field.
1543 - Mary Stuart, 9mths, crowned Queen of Scots, in Stirling.
1754 - Wiliiam Bligh, of Mutiny on the Bounty fame, born.
2007 - Last time Tangoman had a shag.
("not had a f..k in years, well, this year anyway")
1224 - The Franciscans arrive in England. Known as the Grey Friars, cos of their dirty habits.
1897 - George Smith, a London cabbie, is 1st person to be convicted of drunk driving - fined £1.
1967 - Gibraltar votes to remain British, rather than Spanish.
1977 - Last execution by guillotine in France.
1297 - William Wallace (Braveheart) defeats the English at Stirling Bridge.
1879 - 260 miners die in explosion at colliery in Abercare.
1895 - FA Cup stolen - 68yrs later thief confesses - melted it down to make counterfeit coins.
1950 - Barry Sheene born.
2001 - The twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York are destroyed by terrorists flying hijacked planes into them.
490BC - Athens defeats the Persians at the Battle of Marathon; origin of the long distance race.
1440 - Eton College founded.
1683 - Battle of Vienna - resulting in the invention of cuppachino and croissants.
1878 - Cleopatra's Needle erected (no comedians, plse)
1943 - Mussolini rescued from house arrest by German commandoes.
1960 - MOT's introduced.
1970 - Concorde lands at Heathrow for 1st time - locals make a lotta noise about a lotta noise.
1979 - 8.1 earthquake hits Indonesia.
2007 - 8.4 " " "
2005 - Disneyland Hong Kong opens.
122 - Hadrian's Wall started.
1759 - General Wolfe dies on the Heights of Abraham, whilst taking Quebec.
1970 - On route to the World Cup finals in Mexico, Bobby Moore is accused of nicking a diamond bracelet.
1989 - Britain's biggest ever bank computer error gave an extra £2 billion to customers. 99.3 per cent was recovered (still, £14m not).
1752 - Yesterday was Sept 2nd (work that one out - answers on a postcard...)
1812 - Napoleon enters Moscow, and the Russians torch it.
1852 - Death of the Duke of Wellington, 83.
1901 - President McKinley dies, following an assassignation attempt on Sept 6; succeeded by Teddy Roosevelt.
1959 - Soviet probe Luna2 crashes into the Moon - the parachute didn't work.
1975 - The 1st American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonised by Pope Paul VI. All charges later dropped.
1984 - 1st solo trans-Atlantic hot air balloon flight.
1988 - The meter on a London taxi to New Delhi said £13,200.
I wonder what the tip was?
1814 - Congress of Vienna - politicians party for 6 months while deciding how best to carve up Europe following defeat of Napoleon.
1830 - George Stephenson's Manchester and Liverpool railway opened. During the ceremony, William Huskisson, MP, became the first person to be killed by a train when he crossed the track to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington. Pillock.
1916 - Tanks used for 1st time in battle at the Somme.
1940 - Climax of the Battle of Britain. RAF trounces the Luftwaffe.
1960 - Introduction of traffic wardens (boo,hiss).
1387 - Henry V is born, in Monmouth Castle.
1485 - The Yeoman of the Guard aka the Beefeaters, formed.
1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, died. He burned 2,000 + "heretics", tortured another 25,000, while 160,000 made a run for it.
1968 - The Post Office introduces a two-tier system. 1st class might get delivered, 2nd class no chance.
1978 - Earthquake hits Tabas, Iran - 25,000 die.
1787 - US Constitution signed- where? - at the bottom of course! *badoom-tish*
1862 - ACW - Battle of Antietam Creek - the bloodiest day in American history.
1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes the 1st airplane fatality.
1916 - Manfred von Richthoven, aka the Red Baron, wins his 1st aerial combat.
1944 - Start of Operation Market Garden (A Bridge Too Far).
Despite warnings about major German units in the area, Monty presses ahead with his plan to win the war by Xmas. It is a complete shambles, leaving 17,000 allied troops either killed, wounded or captured.
1901 - Sir Francis Chichester, yachtsman, born.
1929 - Stirling Moss, racing driver, born.
1879 - Blackpool illuminations 1st lit.
1894 - Blackpool Tower opens.
1906 - A typhoon & tsunami hits Hong Kong, killing 10,000.
1939 - William Joyce, aka Lord Haw-Haw, gives 1st Nazi propaganda broadcast.
1995 - A Carlisle motorist is fined £140 for throwing a doughtnut at a traffic warden. The tw ducked, and lucky for him, it missed. (Was he a jammy dodger?).
2001In America, the first letter containing the poison anthrax is posted. Several letters are subsequently sent media offices and U.S. Senators. Nobody has ever been brought to justice for this.
1987The United States and the USSR announce their intention to sign a treaty to reduce their arsenal of nuclear weapons.
1981France abolishes execution by guillotine, used for more than 200 years to behead those sentenced to death.
1976In China, the funeral of Mao Zedong takes place in Tiananmen Square.
1975The first Asian’s who have been expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin, arrive in Britain.
1972The first Asian’s who have been expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin, arrive in Britain.
1964The Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese begin their infiltration of the South.
1960In America, Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1931A section of a railroad in southern Manchuria is blown up by junior Japanese Army offices. The attack, known as the Manchurian Incident, is used as a pretext by the Japanese to invade Manchuria.
1851The New York Times newspaper is published for the first time.
1809In England, a rebuilt Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London.
1739The Treaty of Belgrade is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy to end the Austro-Turkish War of 1737-39.
1634Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
324Constantine the Great defeats Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis to etablsih himself as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire.
1356 - The French knights, not having learnt their lesson, again charge the Black Prince's bowmen, at the Battle of Poitiers. Same result - lotta dead Frogs.
1900 - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid pull their 1st robbery together.
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw sentenced to hang for treason.
1970 - 1st Glastonbury Festival.
1975 - Fawlty Towers 1st shown on TV.
1991 - Otzi the Iceman discovered by German tourists, hiding under their towel on a poolside lounger.
If anyone watched a True Story called STUART, A LIFE BACKWARDS..... well its would have been Stuarts 40th today.
If you have never seen it or read the book, you must. Its funny, sad, disturbing and really does leave a mark on ya.
Happy Birthday Stu - May you Rest Peacefuly
451 - Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun, at the Battle of Chalons.
1519 - Magellan sets sail with 5 ships / 280 men to sail round the world.
1633 - Galileo tried for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1854 - British & French defeat the Russians at the Battle of Alma, in the Crimea.
1946 - 1st Cannes Film Festival.
1973 - Billie Jean King beats sexist Bobby Riggs in a tennis match in Houston.
1967 - QE2 lauched by QEII
1997 - Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 97" re:Princess Diana, hits No 1 in UK charts. It goes on to become the best-selling single of all time.
2004 - Death of football legend Brian Clough.
1327 - In order to ensure the quick succession of her son, Edward II is murdered on his wife's orders, by way of a red hot poker up his jacksy.
1745 - The Battle of Prestonpans: Bonnie Prince Charlie defeats the Hanovarian Army in 10mins.
1866 - H G Wells, writer, born.
1915 - Stonehenge is bought by C H Chubb for £6,600, as a present for his wife. She is not best pleased. Ungrateful bitch.
1937 - Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is published.
1942 - Maiden flight of the B-29 Superfortress bomber.
1964 - " " " " XB-70 Mach 3 bomber.
1965 - BP find oil in the North Sea (also, a shed load of placcy bottles, several condoms, and the odd canoe).
1976 - Prince Charles admits to talking to plants (I say, Daffny, splendid weather, what. Warmest day this year, dontcha know).
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