On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

[Captain WH Rollins]

10th April 1710 - the first law regulating copyright issued in Great Britain

10th April 1858 - Big Ben, recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

10th April 1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed

10th April 1878 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co started service

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[QF-Charles]

15th April 1452 - Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as Leonardo da Vinci, was born in Anchiano, Italy.

15th April 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

Two great men, I given, one taken...

 

[Olekander]

15th April 1912 Titanic Sank

15th April 1991 - I was born

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

16th April 1862 - slavery abolished in District of Columbia

16th April 1881 - Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle

16th April 1912 - Harriet Quimby became first woman pilot to fly across English Channel

16th April 1918 - the British House of Commons passed a new Military Service Bill, taking men up to 55 years old and extending to Ireland

16th April 1945 - Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, liberated by American troops

16th April 1951 - British submarine Affray sank in English Channel

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[Captain WH Rollins]

21st April 1689 - William III and Mary Stuart proclaimed King and Queen of England

21st April 1836 - Battle of San Jacinto, Texas won independence from Mexico

21st April 1918 - World War I German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron, shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill

21st April 1965 - New York World's Fair reopened for second and final season

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[Captain WH Rollins]

23rd April 1597 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance

23rd April 1861 - Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces, US Civil War

23rd April 1968 - the first decimal coins issued in Britain, 5 and 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two shilling pieces

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[Captain WH Rollins]

26th April 1980 - Great Britain performed nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

26th April 1986 - the world's worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded, 31 people died, the radioactive contamination reached much of Western Europe

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[Captain WH Rollins]

1st May 1707 - Acts of Union came into force, England and Scotland formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain

1st May 1866 - American Equal Rights Association formed

1st May 1884 - Proclamation of the demand for an eight-hour workday in the US

1st May 1915 - British liner Lusitania departed NY for Liverpool

1st May 1925 - Cyprus became a British Crown Colony

1st May 1931 - the Empire State Building opened, New York City

1st May 1984 - Great Britain performed nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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[Captain WH Rollins]

4th May 1814 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signed the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism

4th May 1818 - Netherlands and Britain signed treaty against illegal slave handling

4th May 1904 - construction began by the US on the Panama Canal

4th May 1904 - Charles Rolls met Frederick Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England

4th May 1927 - the first balloon flight over 40,000 feet, Scott Field, Illinois

4th May 1942 - Battle of Coral Sea began, first naval battle fought in the air, between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces

4th May 1979 - Margaret Thatcher became first woman to be elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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[Captain WH Rollins]

6th May 1840 - the world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, first used in Great Britain

6th May 1914 - British House of Lords rejected women's suffrage

6th May 1937 - German airship Hindenburg exploded in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey

6th May 1941 - Joseph Stalin became Premier of the Soviet Union

6th May 1954 - Roger Bannister became the first person to run a 4 minute mile, at Iffley Road, Oxford

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[Captain WH Rollins]

12th May 1789 - William Wilberforce made his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons

12th May 1940 - Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France began with the crossing of the Muese River

12th May 1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River

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[Captain WH Rollins]

Today is International Widows Day - introduced to address poverty and injustice faced by widows and their children, in many countries.

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5th July 1687 - Sir Isaac Newton's great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlined his laws of motion and universal gravitation

5th July 1852 - Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivered his What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester

5th July 1865 - Great Britain created world's first speed limit law

5th July 1865 - US Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department

5th July 1994 - Amazon founded in Bellevue, Washington

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17th July 1841 - the humorous and satirical magazine, Punch first published; finally closed in 2002

17th July 1856 - Great Train Wreck, between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killed over 60 people

17th July 1898 - Spanish American War, the Spanish surrendered to US forces at Santiago de Cuba

17th July 1955 - Arco, Idaho, became the first US city to be lit by nuclear power

17th July 1964 - Great Britain performed nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

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28th July 1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduced potatos to Europe on return to England

28th July 1794 - French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders guillotined in Paris

28th July 1914 - Austria-Hungary decided against mediation, declared war on Serbia, WWI

28th July 1959 - United Kingdom began using postal codes

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[Captain WH Rollins]

9th August 1898 - Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtained patent for his internal combustion engine

9th August 1902 - Edward VII of Great Britain crowned King

9th August 1914 - German U15 sunk by the British cruiser, HMS Birmingham

9th August 1915 - British attacked at Chanak Bair at Gallipoli during WWI

9th August 1945 - US droped second atomic bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki, Japan

9th August 1974 - Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States

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Today is World Vinyl Day - Wednesday 12th August 2020

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Today is International Lefthanders Day

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Today is Pakistan Independance Day - 14th August

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[Captain WH Rollins]

23rd August 1850 - the first US National Women's Rights Convention convened in Worcester, Massachusetts

23rd August 1942 - Battle of Stalingrad, 600 Luftwaffe planes bombed Stalingrad

23rd August 1939 - British driver John Cobb, 365.85mph at Bonneville Flats

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