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The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year. James Owen
Читать онлайн.Название The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year
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isbn 9780008317416
Автор произведения James Owen
Издательство HarperCollins
1632 Thomas Osborne (1st Duke of Leeds), statesman and leader of the Tories who was imprisoned twice on charges of bribery, was born.
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1811 Austria declared itself bankrupt because of the cost of fighting Napoleon.
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1816 the opening night of Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville was a fiasco, with one performer singing an aria with a bleeding nose after tripping on a trapdoor, and a cat attacking another during the finale to the first act.
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1947 Viscount Mountbatten of Burma was appointed last viceroy of India.
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1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
1741 Jethro Tull, inventor of the more efficient horse-drawn seed-drill, died at Hungerford, Berks.
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1862 Nathaniel Gordon became the only American to be executed for slave trading, their shipping being illegal under the 1820 Piracy Act.
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1916 the ten-month-long Battle of Verdun began with nine hours of the heaviest artillery bombardment ever witnessed.
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1964 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper were flown to America.
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1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York aged 39 by three members of the Nation of Islam.
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1972 President Nixon began his historic visit of rapprochement to China.
1878 Frank Woolworth opened his first store in Utica, New York.
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1897 Blondin (Jean-François Gravelet), acrobat and tightrope walker known for his crossing of Niagara Falls, died at Ealing, London, aged 72.
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1907 taxi cabs with meters were introduced in London.
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1928 Bert Hinkler completed the first solo flight from England to Australia, landing in Darwin having taken off from Croydon 15 days earlier.
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1946 Dr Selman Abraham Waksman announced his discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin.
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2006 £53 million was discovered to have been stolen from a Securitas depot in Kent, in Britain’s biggest robbery.
1633 Samuel Pepys, diarist, was born in London.
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1820 the Cato Street Conspiracy, a plot to assassinate the entire British cabinet, was uncovered.
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1821 John Keats, poet, died in Rome of tuberculosis aged 25.
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1874 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented his new game of lawn tennis.
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1889 Victor Fleming, director whose films included Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939), was born in California.
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1905 the world’s first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago.
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1997 it was announced that Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep, had been born.
1582 Pope Gregory XIII published a papal bull that established a new-style (Gregorian) calendar, but it took England almost 200 years to follow suit.
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1848 the last king of France, Louis-Philippe, who had reigned since 1830, was forced to abdicate by revolutionaries who then proclaimed the Second Republic.
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1920 US-born MP Nancy Astor became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons.
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1923 the Flying Scotsman entered service with the London and North Eastern Railway.
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2001 Claude Shannon, mathematician whose work on modern information theory laid the basis for the information age, died.
1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.
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1836 Samuel Colt was granted a patent for his revolver.
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1862 a paper currency known as Greenbacks was introduced in the US by order of President Abraham Lincoln.
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1868 Andrew Johnson, 17th American president, was impeached, to be acquitted the following May by a single vote.
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1952 the Windscale plutonium plant at Sellafield began operation.
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1964 floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) won the world heavyweight boxing championship when Sonny Liston failed to come out for the seventh round.
1797 the Bank of England issued £1 banknotes for the first time.
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1815 Napoleon escaped from exile in Elba.
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1848 The Communist Manifesto was published, having been printed in London.
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1924 Adolf Hitler appeared in court, charged with treason for leading the failed coup d’état known as the beer-hall putsch.
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1935 a Heyford bomber flying in the main beam of a BBC short-wave transmitter gave back reflected signals to the ground, winning Robert Watson-Watt government approval to develop radar technology.
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1936 Hitler opened the first factory to manufacture the Volkswagen, the people’s car.
c. 272 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor 306–337, was born in modern Nis, Serbia.
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1814 Beethoven’s 8th Symphony received its premiere in Vienna.
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1879 at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Constantin Fahlberg and Ira Remsen