FranknStein (25-11-18)
1991: Freddie Mercury dies, aged 45, just one day after he announced he was HIV positive.
Barney Rubble (24-11-18), FranknStein (25-11-18), TheNightShift (24-11-18), westcorklad (25-11-18)
November 25th 1984
The original Band Aid famine relief single "Do They Know It`s Christmas?" was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London.The record was released on 3 December 1984 and went straight to No. 1 in the UK singles chart, outselling all the other records in the chart put together. It became the fastest- selling single of all time in the UK, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at No. 1 for five weeks, selling over three million copies and becoming the then biggest-selling single of all time in the UK.
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The Truth is out there.
FranknStein (25-11-18)
On this day in 1967, the French President, Charles de Gaulle, vetoed Britain's application to join the Common Market for a second time.
Strange times we live in.
FranknStein (27-11-18)
December 1-an eventful date.
1135:King Henry1 of England dies of "a surfeit of lampreys".
1881:The Earp brothers are exonerated in court for their part in the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
1913:Henry Ford starts the world's first moving automotive assembly line.
1918:An American army of occupation enters Germany.
1919:Nancy Astor takes her seat as the first woman in the House of Commons(Countess Markiewicz as part of abstentionist Sinn Féin does not take her seat).
1952:New York Daily News reports on Christine Jorgensen ,the first notable receiver of gender reassignment surgery.
1953:Hugh Hefner publishes the first edition of Playboy.It has Marilyn Monroe on the cover.
1955:Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for reusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Thus begins the Montgomery bus boycott.
1972:Two car bombs explode in Dublin killing two and injuring 127.
1976:The Sex Pistols are labelled " rotten punks" for using profanity on television.
1981:AIDS virus is officially recognised.
1982:Michael Jackson album "Thriller" released.
1988:Bemazir Bhutto becomes the first female leader of a Muslim country when she becomes P.M of Pakistan.
1990:Chunnel breakthrough. A hole is drilled between the British and French tunnels linking them for the first time.
2001:Final flight of TWA(Trans World Airlines).
2017:Former Trump supremo Michael Flynn pleads guilty of lying to the F.B.I.
*BIRTHS*
1761:Madame Tussaud.
1935:Actor and director Woody Allen (born Allan Koenigsburg).
1939:Golfer Lee Trevino.
1940:Comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
1945:Actress,singer,comedienne Bette Midler.
1949:Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
1958:Candace Bushnell,author of "Sex and the City".
*DEATHS*
1973avid Ben Gurion ,Israeli leader who has an airport named after him.
2nd December.
1697:St.Paul's Cathedral,London(designed by Christopher Wren )is consecrated for use.It replaces an earlier Cathedral destroyed in the Great Fire of London 1666,and will go on to survive the WWII Blitz.
1804:Napoleon Bonaparte crowned in Paris as Emperor of France.
1805:Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians at the Battle of Austerlitz.
1823:US President James Monroe declares his "Monroe doctrine", basically that the Western Hemisphere including Latin America is a zone of American influence and that other foreign powers should keep out.(Monrovia ,the capital of Liberia is named after him).
1846:US President James K. Polk says the US should expand westwards across the American Continent"Manifest Destiny".
1851:French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic and crowns himself as Emperor.
1859:US abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his attack on Harper's Ferry.His body lies a moulderin' in the grave.
1899:US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them.The division persists to this day as Western Samoa and U.S.Samoa.
1927:Ford unveils the Model A-the successor to its highly successful Model T car.
1942:World's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs at the University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi.
1956:Fidel Castro lands on the coast of Cuba.
1958:Benelux Treaty signed by The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
1960:Louis Leakey announces discovery of ancient Homo Erectus fossils in the Olduvai Gorge,Tanzania.
1969:Ist public preview of the new Boeing 747 airliner.It flies from Seattle to NY with mostly journalists and photographers on board.
1971:Trucial States declare independence from Britain and form the United Arab Emirates.
1976:Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba.
1994:Heidi Fleiss found guilty of running a call girl ring.
1982:Ist permanent artificial heart implanted in a patient. He lives 112 days with the Jarvic-7 artificial heart.
1993:Born on December 1 ,Colombian drug lord dies on December 2 in a hail of bullets in Medellin.
1929:First skull of " Peking Man"-a type of Homo Erectus found(an earlier type of human than us).
1999:UK devolves power to N.I.
2001:Enron files for bankruptcy.
Births.
1859:Georges Seurat,Impressionist painter.
1923:Maria Callas ,Greek soprano opera singer.
1973:Monica Seles,tennis player.
1978:Nelly Furtado,Canadian singer.
1981:Britney Spears.
Deaths.
1547:Hernán Cortés,Conquistador.
1814:Marquis de Sade-sadist and writer.
1859:John Brown,US abolitionist.
1990:Aaron Copeland, American composer.
1993:Pablo Escobar.
Barney Rubble (02-12-18)