Funnily enough on the eleventh I was busy not burying "the dead" but burying someone that had died.Originally Posted by Barney Rubble
So now the eleventh of November has three meanings for me ,one of which is the ending of WW1.
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Funnily enough on the eleventh I was busy not burying "the dead" but burying someone that had died.
So now the eleventh of November has three meanings for me ,one of which is the ending of WW1.
FranknStein (25-11-18)
1991: Freddie Mercury dies, aged 45, just one day after he announced he was HIV positive.
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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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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)
November 30,George H.W.Bush ,Bush 41-father of Bush43 (read my lips-no new taxes)and who oversaw the First Gulf War dies.Like the ancient Chinese saying...
"May you live in interesting times"
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*
1973
Lampreys are a type of primitive fish ,he supposedly died after eating too many of them.It's often stated in that kind of archaic language-surfeit means too much.
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.
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Fair play, a lot of research there!!
Busy day apparently!!!
Hello darkness my old friend.....
Lightweight.Respect to you guys.....
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