Anniversaries.

[FranknStein]

6 February, 1918.
Having been debated in and passing both Houses of Parliament, and receiving Royal Assent;The Representation of the People Bill becomes law.
For the first time,some women, in the United Kingdom of Brie-in and Oirland ,will be extended the vote.
Women over 30,who are on the Local Government Register or who are property owners ,will get the franchise.
The franchise will also be extended to most males over 21.
A proposal for some proportional representation in the bill was turned down in the House of Commons.

[FranknStein]

Feb.6,1958.
60 years since the Munich Air Disaster where 8 Manchester United players(including 22 year old Liam Whelan ,from Dublin)lost their lives ,returning from a European match in Belgrade.In all 20 of 44 people on board died and others were seriously injured including the manager Matt Busby.Two surviving players never played football again.Due to its limited range the aircraft had landed at Munich to refuel and on its third attempt at take off ,skidded on slush on the runway and crashed.

[inconnu]

Good Friday Agreement signed 20 years ago today.

[Magicman]

4th August 1944

Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp.

[FranknStein]

September 21,1937-First publication of J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Hobbit" ,by George Allen and Unwin in London.

September 21,1942-First flight of the Boeing B29 Superfortress bomber.(Both atomic bombs dropped on Japan were carried by this model of aircraft).

September 21,1961-First flight of Boeing Chinook heavy helicopter.

September 21,1964-Malta achieves independence from Britain.

September 21,1993-Yeltsin attempts to suspend Russian Parliament, precipitating the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

[FranknStein]

September 22.

1692: Last people hanged for witchcraft in what is now the US,during Salem witch trials.

1735:Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" aka First Lord of the Treasury,to live at No.Ten ,Downing Street.

1792:First French Republic formed stripping king of his powers.

1888:First issue of National Geographic Magazine published.

1896:Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather George III as longest reigning British monarch.

1955: ITV goes live.

1980:Iraq invades Iran.

1994:Friends sitcom debuts on NBC.

[FranknStein]

September 23.

63 BC:Augustus Caesar born.

1215:Kublai Khan born.

1869:"Typhoid Mary" Mallon born in Tyrone.

1889:Nintendo was founded as a playing card
company called Nintendo Koppai.

1909:Phantom of the Opera makes its appearance as a serialisation in a French newspaper.

1930:Ray Charles born.

1932:Kingdom of Saudia Arabia founded.

1939:Sigmund Freud dies.

1942:Manhattan Project begins-it will eventually deliver the atomic bomb.

1949:Bruce Springsteen born.

1957:"That'll be the Day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches number one in America.

1962:The Jetsons first broadcast on ABC.

[DeletedMuser]

Happy birthday Loujain Al Hathloul.

[Pan808]

Happy ten year anniversary Steve.