1692 - Last peeps to be hung in the (now) USA - at the Salem witch trials. 6 women, 1 man dangled.
1910 - The Duke of York opened, and is Britain's oldest continually operating cinema.
1934 - An explosion at the Gresford colliery in Wales kills 266.
1941 - On Jewish New Year Day, the SS murder 6,000 Ukranian Jews, to add to the 24,000 killed a few days earlier.
1955 - ITV goes live; 1st advert is for toothpaste.
1989 - IRA bomb the Royal Marines School of Music, killing 11.
Born today:
1499 - Switzerland!
480BC - The Battle of Salamis - the Greeks destroy the Persian fleet.
1459 - The 1st major battle of the War of the Roses was fought at Blore Heath, in Staffs. York 1 Lancaster 0
1803 - Wellington's 1st victory was at the Battle of Assaye, in India.
1845 - The Knickerbockers Baseball Club was founded in New York.
1912 - The 1st Keystone Cops comedy was released.
1932 - Hejaz & Nejd renamed Saudi Arabia.
1943 - Bruce Springsteen, "The Boss", born.
1986 - Geoff Boycott sacked from Yorkshire Cricket Club, after 24yrs service.
2000 Steve Redgrave gets his 5th gold medal at the Sydney Games.
768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks, died. He was toasted with cries of "Mine's a pint-sized", an "I'll hav a short".
1435 - Death of Isabeau, Queen of the French, wife of Charles VI. She bore him 6 sons, but also shagged his brother and cousin, plus the entire Palace Guard. Norty girl.
1664 - The Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to GB; renamed New York.
1725 - Sir Arthur Guiness, Irish brewer, born.
1776 - The St Ledger horse race run for 1st time, at Doncaster.
1852 - 1st airship unveiled (some veil!)
1877 - The Imperial Japanese Army quells the Satsuma Rebellion (dawn, oranges at 30 paces?).
1948 - Honda Motor Co founded.
1988 - Olympics: Ben Johnson beats Carl Lewis and Linford Christie in 100m in record 9.79secs. He is later disqualified for taking drugs.
1066- King Harold defeats the Norwegian invaders at Stamford Bridge. Later cops an eyeful at Hastings.
1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bazezid "The Thunderbolt" defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis. The Bulgarians did not shake off the Islamic Turkish yolk until 1878.
1929 - Comedian Ronnie Barker born.
1977 - Sir Freddie Laker takes on the commercial airlines with his "Skytrain" service between London and NewYork.
1983 - 38 prisoners escape from the Maze high security prison in NI. It is the largest prison escape since WWII, and in British history.
1997 - Andy Green becomes the 1st man to break the speed of sound on land, in a jetcar, at 714mph.
1513 - Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balbao discovers the Pacific.
1580- Sir Francis Drake sails around the world in the Golden Hind.
1934 - Queen Mary launched by Queen Mary.
1944 - Arnhem is overrun, and Operation Market Garden ends in failure.
1954 - Japanese ferry Toya Muru sinks during typhoon, killing 1,172. (why sail?)
1955 - Frozen Birdseye fishfingers 1st went on sale in UK.
1956 - Man U beat Anderlecht 10-1 in European Cup.
1973 - Concorde makes its 1st non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, halving the previous record time, at an average speed of 954mph.
2002 - Overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes, killing 1,000 +
Born today:
1181 - St Francis of Assisi, monk
1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, admiral
1881 - Hiram Wesley Evans, Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard
1887 - Sir Barnes Wallis, inventor
1898 - George Gershwin, composer
1907 - Anthony Blunt, spy
1939 - Ricky Tomlinson, actor
1944 - Anne Robinson, TV host
1945 - Bryan Ferry, singer
1948 - Olivia Neutron Bomb, greaser
1977 - Kaylynn, porn star (so TM tells me)
Sept 27th
1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after becoming Pope, the shortest Papacy ever.
1822 - The Rosetta Stone is deciphered.
1825 - 1st public rail service starts twixt Stockton - Darlington. George Stevenson's Loco 1 does the honours.
1905 - Albert Einstein introduces E = mc squared.
1964 - The Warren Commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing John F Kennedy.
1968 - The stage musical "Hair" opened at the Shaftesbury theatre in London. They raised the roof once too often tho, cos it collapsed in July '73.
1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim the World Middleweight Boxing Championship.
1991 - 1st Scrabble world tournament, held in London.
1992 - Liz Taylor makes her comeback; she is the voice of baby Maggie in the Simpsons - she speaks one word: "daddy".
1998 - Launch of Google.
Born today:
1942 - Alvin Stardust
1947 - Meatloaf
1947 - Barbara Dickson
1958 - Simon Le Bon
1066 - William the Conqueror lands at Pevensey, Sussex. He has a bone to pick wiv some bloke name of Harold.
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte graduates from military school. he comes 42nd in a class of 51.
1894 - Simon Marks and Tom Spencer open their penny bazaar in Manchester.
1928 -UK outlaws cannabis.
1971 - UK bans the medicinal use of cannabis.
Born today:
551BC - Confucius, thinker
1215 - Mongol Kublai Khan, emperor
1573 - Michelangelo, painter
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, sex goddess
Died today:
48BC - Pompey, Roman general
935 - Good King Wenceslas, actually only a duke
1836 - Thomas Crapper, bog maker
1895 - Louis Pasteur, milkman
1965 - Harpo Marx, slapstick artist
1273 - Rudolf becomes the 1st Habsburg to become Holy Roman Emperor. They hold office almost continually until 1804, when forced to resign by Napoleon, thus bringing an end to the Holy Roman Empire.
1829 - The Metropolitan Police (the Met) are founded.
1885 - Britain's 1st electric tramway is opened in Blackpool.
1916 - John D Rockefeller becomes 1st billionaire.
1941 - Holocaust - The Germans kill over 34,000 Jews from Kiev at the Babi Yar massacre.
1977 - Muhammed Ali beats Ernie Shavers to claim the world heavyweight boxing crown.
1979 - John Paul II is the 1st Pope to set foot on Irish soil.
1983 - Lady Donaldson becomes 1st female Lord Mayor of London.
Born today:
1758 - Horatio Nelson, sailor
1899 - Billy Butlin, redcoat
1913 - Trevor Howard, actor
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, musician
1941 - Fred West, serial killer
1942 - Ian McShane, actor
1956 - Seb Coe, athlete
Died today:
1971 - Bill Shankly, football manager
1996 - Leslie Crowther, comedian
1399 - Unpopular Richard II forced to abdicate by Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who became Henry IV.
1888 -Jack the Ripper kills his 3rd & 4th victims.
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1936 - Pinewood Film Studios opens nr Iver, Bucks.
1946 - At the Nuremburg Trials, 22 top Nazi leaders are found guilty of war crimes.
1947 - Marc Bolan born.
1955 - James Dean, 24, died in a car accident.
1967 - Radio 1 launched, hosted by Tony Blackburn.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11 year run on American TV.
1993 - A 6.4 earthquake hits southern India, killing 10,000.
331BC - Alexander the Great, outnumbered 4 to 1 , defeats the Persians under Darius, on the Plains of Gaugamela, Iraq.
959 - On the death of Edwy, Edgar the Peaceable becomes King of all England.
1189 - Gerald de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is killed during the Seige of Acre, in the Holy Land.
1869 -Austria issues the worlds 1st postcards.
1906- 1st hot air balloon race is held at Whitley, Yorkshire.
1908 - Ford market the Model T car at $825.
1918 - WWI - Lawrence of Arabia & friends capture Damascas.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Forida.
1974 - 1st UK McDonalds opens in London.
1975 - The Thrilla in Manila - Muhammad Ali beats Smokin Joe Frazier.
1993 - An RAC patrolman is called out to jumpstart a minesweeper. He just used a 50' lead from his van - no probs!
2006 - Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in UK - almost impossible to prove, as another excuse is used.
Born 1910 - Bonnie Parker, US bankrobber and outlaw.
Died 2000 - Reggie Kray, UK gangster and badguy.
1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 yrs of Crusader rule.
1909 - 1st rugby match played - Harlequins v Richmond.
1950 - "Peanuts", by Charles M Schulz 1st published.
1991 - Ron Chassidy, jailed for not paying his poll tax, was released after a whip-round down t'pub, so he could take part in a dominoes match.
2001 - Tony Blair tells the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden, or face military action. "OMG!" they say, and immediately comply.
(A close call that, they think, wiping the sweat from their brow).
Born today:
1485 - Dick the Turd, King
1890 - Groucho Marx, Loon
1951 - Sting, Musicman
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Welsh Prince of Gwynedd, 1st person 2 b hung, drawn & quartered.
1838 - Black Hawk dies - Chief of the Sauk Indian tribe.
1993 - Black Hawk down - The Battle of Mogadishu - 18 US soldiers (& up to 1,000 Somali's) die attempting to kidnap warlords.
1906 - SOS became the international distress signal.
1916 - James Herriot, of "All Creatures Great & Small" fame, born.
His surgery was at Thirsk, N Yorks.
1959 - Introduction of postcodes in UK.
2005 - Ronnie Barker, comic genius, died.
1795 - Napoleon bonaparte suppresses counter-revolutionary rioters with a "whiff of grapeshot".
1853 - Start of the uselss Crimean War - still, we got the balaclava & cardigan out of it.
1883 - 1st run of the Orient Express.
1911 - Britain's 1st escalators introduced at Earl's Court underground station.
1957 - The 1st satellite , Sputnik I, is sent into orbit.
1965 - Pope Paul VI is 1st Pope to visit the USA.
1970 - Death of Janis Joplin, singer.
1973 - 500th edition of Top of the Pops.
1997 - $17m in cash was nicked from the office of Loomis, Fargo & Co, in America.
1864 - Calcutta destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1889 - The Moulin Rouge opens in Paris.
1930- British airship R101 crashes on its maiden voyage, killing 48 out of 54 on board. This included the British Air Minister, Lord Thompson, who's luggage weighed the equivalent of 24 people.
The likely cause of the crash was overloading.
1936 - The Jarrow March sets off for London; 200 protest about lack of jobs.
1951 - Bob Geldof born.
1958 - Cliff Richard & The Shadows play their 1st gig together, at the Victoria Hall, Hanley.
1962 - The Beatles release their 1st hit record "Love Me Do".
1974 - The Guildford pub bombings by the IRA leave 5 dead, 65 injured.
1984 - Police & Customs in Essex seized Britains biggest ever haul of cannabis in a single raid (4.3 tons), with a street value of £11m.
1984 - "Rigsby", actor Leonard Rossiter, dies, aged 57.
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in London kills 31, injures 160.
105BC -At Arausio, the German Cimbri & Teutoni tribes, inflict the heaviest defeat on a Roman army, killing 80,000.
1769 - Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, discovers New Zealand.
1889 - Thomas Edison shows the 1st motion picture.
1895 - Conductor Sir Henry Wood instituted "The Proms".
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the 1st talking movie.
1973 - 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal at the start of the Yom Kippur War.
1997 - Michael Foale is Britain's 1st astronaut.
Died today:
1536 - William Tyndale, religious fanatic,and translator of the New Testament; strangled,then burned at the stake, for heresy.
1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate.
1951 - W K Kellogg, cornflaker.
1981 - Nobel Prize winner, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, assassinated.
1985 - PC Keith Blacklock hacked to death during the Broadwater Farm riots.
1989 - Bette Davis, screen legend, (her with the eyes).
1571 - At the Battle of Lapanto, the Holy League destroys the Turkish fleet, ending the myth of Turkish invincibility created during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
1714 - Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, Holland.
1737 - 40' waves sink 20,000 small craft & drown 300,000 in Bengal.
1799 - The ship's bell is salvaged from the wreck of the "Lutine".
Now, Lloyds of London ring The Lutine Bell to mark a maritime disaster.
1931 - 1st infrared photograph (just 4 TM)
1946 - 1st episode of "Dick Barton, Special Agent" broadcast.
1950 - China annexes Tibet.
2003 - The Terminater elected Governor of California.
Born today:
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nasty Nazi.
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop.
1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian polititian, famous for small role in Harry Potter film.
1957 - Jayne Torville, ice-skater and Bolero dancer.
1959 - Simon Cowell, X-factorist.
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