1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago leaves 100.000 homeless.
1895 - Queen Min, the last Empress of Korea, is assassignated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese.
1915 - WWI - The indecisive Battle of Loos ends with 430,000 participants killed.
1918 - WWI - US corporal Alvin York kills 25 Gerries and captures 132 more.
1952 - A 3-train railcrash in Harrow leaves 112 dead.
1965 - The Post Office Tower opens.
1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara is captured in Bolivia.
1967 - 1st motorist breathalysed.
1999 - A NFU survey says pop music increases egg production;
Eric Clapton's "Layla" favourite.
732 - Battle of Tours - Charles "The Hammer", leader of the Franks, defeats the Moors, and thus stops the Muslims from over-running Western Europe.
1780- The Great Hurricane kills 20-30,000 in the Caribbean.
1903 - Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst forms the Womens Social & Political Union to fight for womens emancipation.
1969 - "Court of the Crimson King", poss the 1st progressive rock album, is released.
1971 - London Bridge is sold to the Yanks - joke was, they thought they were buying Tower Bridge!
1975 - Liz Taylor marries for the 6th time when she re-marries Richard Burton. They divorce a year later.
1986 - 7.5 earthquake hits El Salvador, 1.500 die.
1988 - Mr Igor Judge, QC, is promoted to the High Court. He is now Judge Judge.
1999 - The Millennium Wheel becomes the latest landmark on the London skyline.
Born today:
Charles Dance; Chris Tarrant; Midge Ure; Amanda Burton; Kirsty MacColl; Martin Kemp; Sarah Lancashire.
Died today:
Ralph Richardson; Yul Brynner; Orson Welles; Christopher Reeves, Eleanor Rigby
told u we had to loose 5 hours at some point. I had to push all the posts back in time.
Posts should come up at the correct time now tho for future posts
11th
1823 - George MacIntosh starts selling raincoats (macs).
1899 - Start of 2nd Boer War, in the Transvaal, South Africa.
1937 - Bobby Charlton was born.
1948 - 1st Morris Minor produced.
1982 - The "Mary Rose" was raised from the seabed of the Solent, where it had lain since 1545.
1984 - Maggie Thatcher escapes an assassination attempt by the IRA, when a bomb explodes in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conservative Party Conference.
1986 - QEII is 1st British monarch to visit China.
1989 - The remains of the Globe theatre are found on London's Bankside.
1216 - King John loses the Crown Jewels in The Wash.
1821 - The 1st Oktoberfest, in Bavaria.
1870 - Robert E Lee, Confederate general, dies.
1915 - Nurse Edith Cavell is executed by German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers to escape from Belgium.
1935 - Luciano Paverotti, singer, was born.
1999 - It is estimated that the world's population has reached 6 billion.
2002 - Terrorists explode 2 bombs in Bali, killing 200 & wounding another 300.
October 12, 1492 Columbus arrives in Bahamas [real Columbus Day] October 12, 1833 Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires October 12, 1879 British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan October 12, 1940 Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion of England) October 12, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site October 12, 1984 IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
54 - Nero becomes Emperor of Rome, on the death of Claudius.
1307 - The Knights Templars (French chapter) are arrested for heresy.
1399 - 1st Tudor king, Henry IV, is crowned.
1884- Greenwich is chosen as the universal time meridian of longitude, from which standard times throughout the world are calculated.
1917 - The Miracle of the Sun occurs over Fatima, Portugal.
Thousands claim to have seen the Sun "dance".
1923 - Ankara replaces Isanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1925 - Maggie "The Iron Lady" Thatcher is born. She is Prime Minister 1979 - 1990.
1988 - The Queen sues the Sun newspaper for publishing a private photo.
1066 - At the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror defeats the Saxon army, and Harold cops an eyeful.
1322 - Robert the Bruce beats up Edward II at Byland, forcing him to accept Scotland's independence.
1806 - Napoleon crushes the Prussians at the Battle of Jena.
1881 - 189 fisherman drown when the Berwickshire fleet is caught in a hurricane.
1913 - The UK's worst pit disaster occurs at the Senghenydd Colliery in Glamorgan, when 439 miners die in an explosion.
1926 - Winnie-the-Pooh, by A A Milne, is published.
1929- The world's largest airship R101 has its maiden voyage.
1939 - German sub U47 sinks battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow - 800 sailors die. The war had started 1 month earlier.
1944 - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, "The Desert Fox", is forced to commit suicide, after being implicated in the assassignation attempt on Hitler.
1968 - Jim Hines (USA) 1st man to break 10sec for 100m at the Mexico Olympics - his time: 9.95secs.
1969 - 50p piece replaces the 10-bob note.
born today:
1927 - Roger Moore - Saint
1940 - Cliff Richard - Pop's Peter Pan
died today:
1959 - Errol Flynn - Swashbuckler
1977 - Bing Crosby - Crooner
1815 - Napoleon begins his exile on the island of St Helena.
1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the great Apache leaders.
1887 - Preston North End beat Hyde 26-0 in the FA Cup. The highest score ever by an English club in a major competition.
1917 - Mata Hari is executed by French firing squad as a spy.
1928 - The airship Graf Zeppelin makes its maiden flight.
1940 - Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" is released.
1945 - Former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is shot for treason.
1946 - Luftwaffe Commander Hermann Goring poisons himself the night before his execution.
1956 - The last RAF Lancaster bomber retires from service.
1961 - Amnesty International established in London.
1973 - Ending of the Cod War between Britain and Iceland.
1987 - The Great Storm hits southern England. Hurricane-force winds of up to 100mph leave 20 dead, and 3 whales are blown on to land.
1997 - 1st supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC, at 763mph. (0.04mpg).
Oct 16th
1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, guillotined.
1813 - Napoleon loses the Battle of Leipzig.
1923 - Walt & Ray found the Disney Company.
1946 - 10 Nazis are hanged, following the Nuremburg Trials.
1962 - Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1991 - George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 30, in Luby's cafe.
1996 - 84 football fans crushed to death, and 180 injured, as 47,000 try to cram into a 36,000 capacity stadium in Guatamala.
Born today:
1854 - Oscar Wilde
1922 - Max Bygraves
1925 - Angela Lansbury
1936 - Peter Bowles
1967 - Davina McCall
1483 - Pope Sixtus IV establishes the Spanish Inquisition.
1660 - Nine men who signed the death warrant of Charles I are hung, drawn and quartered.
1662 - Charles II sells Dunkirk to the French for £40,000.
1931 - Al Capone convicted of Income Tax evasion.
1938 - Evel Knieval born.
1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006 - The population of the USA reaches 300 million.
1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons at Ashingdon.
1081 - The Normans defeat the Byzantines at Dyrrhachium.
1356 - An earthquke destroys Basel, Switzerland.
1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. Of his half million strong Grande Armee, only 20,000 return home.
1867 - The USA purchases Alaska from the Ruskies for $7.2m.
1922 - The BBC is founded.
1926 - Chuck Berry is born.
1954 - Texas Instruments make the 1st transistor radio.
1995 - Red Rum, winner of 3 Grand Nationals, dies.
2007 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan, after 8 years in exile.
Suicide bombers attack the convoy, killing 100.
1216 - Death of King John.
1453 - End of the Hundred Years War (after 116 years).
1781 - Brits surrender to George Washington's forces,at Yorktown, effectively ending the American War of Independence.
1872 - The largest gold nugget is mined in Australia weighing 630lbs.
1914 - 1st Battle of Ypres.
1987 - Black Monday on the Stock Exchange.
1989 - The Guildford Four are exonerated after 15 years in prison.
1991 - A 7.0 earthquake hits Northern Italy leaving 2,000 dead.
1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria, beginning the War of the Austrian Succession.
1818 - Britain & USA agree on the 49th parallel as the border between Canada and the USA.
1822 -1st edition of the Sunday Times.
1935 - End of the Long March: the longest infantry march; 100,000 Red Army soldiers under Mao Tse-tung walked 6,000 miles in China to escape. It took them 369 days - only 8,000 made it.
1941 - Thousands of civilians in Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
1944 - US General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Plilippines.
1946 - Muffin the Mule makes its TV debut.
1960 - Penguin Books are charged with publishing obscene material ie. "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Found not guilty.
1968 - Jacky Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
1973 - QEII opens the Sydney Opera House.
1991 - A firestorm in Oakland Hills, California, kills 25, destroys 3,500 homes, and causes $2billion damage.
born today:
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, architect
1971 - Dannii Minogue, singer
died today:
1842 - Grace Darling, heroine
Actors - Pete Dudley(1983); Anthony Quayle(1989); Burt Lancaster(1994); Jack Elam(2003).
1977 - A plane carrying rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed killing Ronnie Van Zant, Steve & Cassie Gaines, the manager, pilot & co-pilot.
1520 - Potuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Strait of Magellan (coincidence, or wot!).
1805 - At the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson + 27 ships defeat a French/Spanish fleet of 33 ships, sinking or capturing 19 of them without loss. Nelson was killed onboard his flagship HMS Victory.
1805 - Austrian General Mack surrenders his army of 30,000 to Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm.
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize, is born.
1854 - Florence Nightingale + 38 nurses are sent to the Crimea.
1918 - THe Great Flu Epidemic starts - 30m die worldwide.
1944 - HMAS Australia is hit by the 1st Jap kamikaze attack, at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 - Argentine politician Juan Peron marries actress Evita.
1966 - A coaltip slide buries a school in Aberfan, Wales. 144 die, 116 are schoolchildren.
1797 - 1st parachute jump - 3200' above Paris, from a hotair balloon.
1877 - The Blantyre disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. The mine owners evict their widows.
1944 - Aachen becomes the 1st German city to fall to the Allies.
1957 - 1st US casualty in Vietnam.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1966 - The spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs.
1972 - Gordon Banks, England's goalie, damages his eyes in a car crash.
1642 - 1st major battle of the English Civil War is foughr at Edgehill. Royalists 1 Roundheads 0.
1935 - Gangsters, incl Dutch Schultz, are shot dead in the Chophouse Massacre.
1940 - Birth of Pele.
1941 - 30,000 Jews are burnt alive at Dalnik, Odessa.
1942 - Monty's Desert Rats kick Rommel's ar*e at El Alamein.
1983 - US Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a bomb truck; 241 die. French barracks also hit, killing 58.
1987 - Lester Piggott is jailed for 3 years for tax evasion.
2001 - Provo IRA agree to disarm.
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