Quoting: Terry Carey I think we’ve got a Gremlin or two on here. I posted a reply yesterday and it hasn’t shown up yet.
Ah well -
Born - On This Day in 1700 James Thompson, Scottish poet. He wrote Rule Britannia (Hmmm!!!) Wonder what the ’Home Rule’ Scots think of him now???? In 1885 David Herbert Lawrence who wrote ’Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ which became famous for the obscenity trial about it. In 1917 Herbert Lom - who was actually named Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru. Imagine that on Cinema Bills. Today - don’t know what year Sheila’s older brother was born so all the best to him Sheila. Incidentally in 1930 I arrived and if you look at the attachment you’ll see what I got for my birthday today.
On This Day in 1971 Nikita Kruschev former Soviet Premier died in obscurity.
In 1895 the FA Cup was stolen from football outfitters William Shillcock in Birmingham. 68 years later (1963) an 83 year old man confess that he had melted it down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.
T.C. On 11th September, 1930 my PEDANTIC older brother was born. For you sceptics. Terry; My Son Mark; My Brother David are all Virgos. My son has just moved house, Terry has just moved house and my brother is just about to move house. All have down sized. Makes ye think don’t it !!!!
So T.C. A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many more to come. Sheila.
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First of all many thanks to you my friends for your good wishes including the ones sent privately. Loved the funny card Mike - don’t know how you got the photograph for it though!!!!!
On This Day in 1853 Herbert Asquith was born. He introduced old age pensions. Cheers Herbert!!!!! Also arriving at Platform 12 were Maurice Chevalier, entertainer, in 1888 and he was preceded by Richard Jordan Gatling US inventor of the famous Gatling gun.
Among those who popped their clogs on this day were William Boyd aka Hopalong Cassidy in 1972 and well before that in 1869 Dr Peter Mark Roget who complied his famed ’Thesaurus’.
In the miscellaneous section Fred Perry became wimbledon Champion in 1936, MOT testing introduced in 1960 and in 1974 Emperor Haille Selassie of Ethiopia aka The Lion of Judah was deposed by a military coup.
Still looking for other contributions as per Sheila’s ’makes ye think don’t it?’ snippet.
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Sorry for the hiatus in replying John but yesterday was full of wonderful things I had to do. Like filling in lots of forms because we’ve moved house, chasing up a refund on the Insurance premium on our previous house and other delightful goodies.
Let’s see now - William Boyd aka Hopalong Cassidy popping his clog (singular)? Makes a kind of sense I suppose - I’ll let you off that one.
On This Day in 1910 Jack Hawkins actor was born as was Jan Masaryk in 1886 who became Czech Foreign Minister. In 1851 James Fennimore Cooper who wrote the book ’The Last of the Mohicans’ died. A year later off went the Duke of Wellington whose state funeral was the largest until that of Winston Churchill.
In 1752 the Gregorian Calender superseded the Julian one (Named after Julius Caesar) and September the 3rd became September the 14th. At school we were told that many of the people demonstrated in the belief that their lives were being shortened by 11 days crying out ’Give us back our eleven days.’ In 1814 the US National Anthem was written by Francis Scott Key following the shelling by the British of Fort McHenry on the 13th. It was set to an English drinking song called ’To Anacreon in Heaven’ and was adopted as the National Anthem in 1931. (Don’t know about you folks but that gave me a good laugh and I’ll bet there aren’t many Yanks who would appreciate the fact that their beloved anthem is to the tune of a p*ss-artists song!!!!) Terry.
Still looking for personal anecdotes for this thread.
Quoting: Terry Carey Sorry for the hiatus in replying John but yesterday was full of wonderful things I had to do. Like filling in lots of forms because we’ve moved house, chasing up a refund on the Insurance premium on our previous house and other delightful goodies.
Let’s see now - William Boyd aka Hopalong Cassidy popping his clog (singular)? Makes a kind of sense I suppose - I’ll let you off that one.
On This Day in 1910 Jack Hawkins actor was born as was Jan Masaryk in 1886 who became Czech Foreign Minister. In 1851 James Fennimore Cooper who wrote the book ’The Last of the Mohicans’ died. A year later off went the Duke of Wellington whose state funeral was the largest until that of Winston Churchill.
In 1752 the Gregorian Calender superseded the Julian one (Named after Julius Caesar) and September the 3rd became September the 14th. At school we were told that many of the people demonstrated in the belief that their lives were being shortened by 11 days crying out ’Give us back our eleven days.’ In 1814 the US National Anthem was written by Francis Scott Key following the shelling by the British of Fort McHenry on the 13th. It was set to an English drinking song called ’To Anacreon in Heaven’ and was adopted as the National Anthem in 1931. (Don’t know about you folks but that gave me a good laugh and I’ll bet there aren’t many Yanks who would appreciate the fact that their beloved anthem is to the tune of a p*ss-artists song!!!!) Terry.
Still looking for personal anecdotes for this thread.
T.C. Not a personal anecdote, but am wondering if the bloke along the road who displays a different National flag each day, has the same book as you. Today he has the French flag flying....any info on that. Sheila O.McK.
P.S. Antipodes..People whose feet are directly opposite to ours....Well of course.
