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Terry Carey
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On This Day.

Well, since I seem to be almost qualifying for redundancy pay on here I’ll just say thanks for all the recent contributions - keep em coming lads.

Oh there is just one thing:-

On This Day in 1955 Carl Perkins recorded ’Blue Suede Shoes’ at the Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.

TeeCee.

Once a Lancer, always a Lancer!

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19/12/2007 16:21:36

Keith Baron
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On this day+...

1649 Theatres were banned by Oliver Cromwell,hangings were still allowed-they got better reviews.

1820 The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between the age of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 per year. Money well spent I’d say lads!

1973 Bobby Daring ’The Dream Lover’ popped his clogs. He was ’Alabamy Bound’ but he ended up in’Mississipi Mud’

Fortune favours the bold

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20/12/2007 10:41:56

Alan Anthony Yuill
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Quoting: Terry Carey

Tony,
On behalf of my wife Patricia and I, may I wish you both a very Happy Anniversary with many more to come.

Terry.

Thanks Terry to you and your wife Patricia for your Anniversary wishes

On this day: 1817 GOVERNOR LACHLAN MACQUARIE recommends the name Australia to replace New Holland.

On this day: 1988 A Pan-American airliner
is blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing 259 aboard and 11 on the ground.

Enjoy the simple things.

Smile and you will always be happy.

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21/12/2007 06:25:10

John (scouse) Hirons
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For ex grammer school boys it�s the slot were tempus cedo tergiversatio, for the rest of us it�s the time when time goes backward, so onward to yesteryear.

1192 - �King Richard I was captured by Duke Leopold of Austria on his return from the Crusade. Well he would go on cheap package tours. �

1804 - Saw the birth of Benjamin Disraeli, Mrs Disraeli was hacked off she was expecting a turkey to be delivered.

1932 - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie, Flying Down to Rio, premieres

1937 - Jane Fonda was born,

1945 - US General George Smith Patton Jr. GCB, KBE played tick with a wagon, he came second.

In the words of that famous Yank, Porky Pig, "That�s All Folks."

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21/12/2007 13:28:58

Terry Carey
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On This Day.

On This Day the Feast Day of St. Thomas the Apostle is celebrated. He is(was?) the patron saint of Portugal and of architects (?)

A lot of other things happened this day in history so I’ll save some for next year (hopefully), however, Robert Liston used anaesthetic (ether) for the first time in a British operation at University College, London, to perform an amputation of a leg. It doesn’t say whether it was his leg or not but presumably was that of a patient. (LOL)

In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers landed via the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. (That spelling never looks right to me even though it is correct.)

Terry.

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