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1927 – BBC radio broadcast the first live commentary of a rugby match. Captain Teddy Wakelam narrated the match at Twickenham, between Wales and England. The following Saturday Wakelam provided the first football commentary from Highbury, where Arsenal was playing Sheffield United.
1962 – The centigrade, or Celsius, scale was used in the British Meteorological Office weather forecasts for the first time, more than 200 years after the death of the Swedish scientist who invented it.
1982 – The prime minister’s son, Mark Thatcher, is found safe and well after going missing in the Sahara for six days while taking part in the Paris-Dakar rally.
1987 – A police officer who mistakenly shot and paralysed Cherry Groce, the innocent mother of the man they were looking for in Brixton is cleared of all criminal charges.
1991 – Elizabeth II signed letters allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth country to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award.
1997 – Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, angered government ministers after calling for an international ban on landmines.
2009 – Pilot Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport in New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
2011 – The death of Nathaniel (Nat) Lofthouse, OBE, English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career. He was capped 33 times for the England national football team between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals and having one of the greatest goals per game ratios of any player to represent England at the highest level.
2014 – The death, aged 69, of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, who played Trigger in Only Fools And Horses. He appeared in dozens of TV shows and films, including Dr Who, The Vicar Of Dibley, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.
2015 – The death of Ethel Lang, aged 114. At the time of her death she was the oldest person in Britain and the last living British person to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria. She lived to see six UK monarchs and 22 prime ministers.
2018 – Singer-songwriter Dolores O’Riordan from The Cranberries dies unexpectedly while in London for a recording session. On the same day, fashion photographers Mario Testino and Bruce Weber are suspended from magazines including Vogue after allegations of sexual harassment.
2019 – Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by parliament 432 votes to 202, the largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era.
Considering how there’s no traces of humans in the film, the Lion King could be set in any era. It could be the bronze age, 21st century or a cyborg future where humanity has gone extinct.
Whenever Aladdin lies, you’ll notice the feather on his turban falls in his face.
Buddy Holly – Real Name: Charles Hardin
A group of Larks is called a Exaltation or Ascension.
You know that your game of monopoly starts to escalate when someone asks for the game instructions.
Joe Francis, founder and CEO of Girls Gone Wild, filed bankruptcy and fled the US to Mexico in order to avoid paying an outstanding gambling debt to Steve Wynn and the subsequent arrest warrant for failure to pay.
TV Quotes… “Yada, yada, yada” (various) on “Seinfeld”
Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues #10 – Cleanliness.
We had a quiet dinner, except for the celery of course.
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” – Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett – (Ali MacGraw) #moviequotes
In the year 4567 AD we will have the 12/3/4567 day.
“The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’” – Ricky Gervais
The first 11 digits of pi’s decimal places are the international phone number of someone in San Francisco.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbours. – Molière
In any country when you throw something in somebody’s face, it’s disrespectful. – Pitbull
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. – Edward Teller
I don’t like to cry in public, unless I’m getting paid for it. – Andrea Martin
Don’t be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself. – Pitbull
2018 – Xi’an, China, introduced a pedestrian lane for people who walk while looking at their phones.
1993 – The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, fell into the sea following a landslide, making news around the world.
1805 – The first Trooping of the Colour took place on Horse Guards Parade. It was Edward VII who moved Trooping the Colour to its June date, because of the vagaries of British weather.