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May 3rd is Garden Meditation Day and Two Different Coloured Shoes Day.
1934 – Science fiction writer H.G.Wells predicted there would be a world war before 1940.
1934 – The birth of boxer Henry Cooper. He was known for the effectiveness of his left hook, “Enry’s ‘Ammer”, and his knockdown of the young Muhammad Ali. Cooper, who died on 1st May 2011, held the British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles several times throughout his career and is the only boxer to have been awarded a knighthood.
1951 – King George VI opened the Festival of Britain. It was built on an old bomb site near Waterloo Station in London.
1952 – Newcastle United became the first team since 1891 to win two FA Cups in succession by beating Arsenal 1-0.
1956 – Granada TV broadcast for the first time at 7.30 p.m. With the ending of the BBC’s monopoly on broadcasting, viewers saw their first television advertising and four days later Granada did the first sports outside broadcast.
1968 – The first heart transplant in Britain was carried out at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London. It was undertaken on an unnamed 45-year-old man.
1999 – The body of missing English climber George Mallory was found near the summit of Mount Everest. He had gone missing more than 60 years earlier.
2000 – The London Stock Exchange and Germany’s Deutsche Boerse merged, creating the world’s second largest stock market.
2000 – Two Libyan men pleaded not guilty to charges that they were involved in the Lockerbie bombing of PanAm flight 103 in 1988.
2007 – Three year old Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment at the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, Portugal. To date, she has not been found.
2008 – Boris Johnson won the race to become Mayor of London – ending Ken Livingstone’s eight year reign at City Hall.
2012 – Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell narrowly avoid a potential deadly helicopter crash when their pilot becomes disoriented during a flight to their estate in Surrey in bad weather and misses some trees by just two feet.
2014 – An ornate golden crown that went onto the coffin of Richard III when he was re-buried in Leicester Cathedral (26th March 2015) was displayed at Tewkesbury Abbey. The crown ‘gold with sapphires, diamonds, garnets, studded with jewels’ was commissioned and paid for by the historian Dr John Ashdown-Hill who helped identify the king’s remains.
Did you know that on this day in 1978, the first ever “spam” email was sent out? The message, advertising a new computer, was sent to 393 email addresses.
George Lucas came up with R2-D2’s name while making American Graffiti. When asking for Real 2 Dialog Track 2, a sound editor abbreviated it to “R2-D2.”
When I was a kid, I thought getting a yearly bonus to buy a pool was going to be a major life event.
Toto is the real hero in The Wizard of Oz. If he hadn’t have run and pulled the curtain to expose the Wizard as a man Dorothy could still be stuck in Oz.
The Capital of Syria is Damascus
“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.” – Otis B. Driftwood #moviequotes
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Spike Lee – Real Name: Shelton Lee
‘If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands’ could be considered a very philosophical song. Heavy stuff for preschoolers. #preschoolersrock
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The popular “Keep Calm and Carry On” slogan was originally created by the British government as a form of propaganda to motivate citizens to stay strong during World War II.
“Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” – Arnold Drummond (Diff’rent Strokes ) #TVQuotes
TV Quotes… “That’s hot!” (Paris Hilton) on “The Simple Life”
Adding an exclamation point to the end of every sentence can make even the most boring text sound more exciting!
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.
2012 – The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant took place on the Tideway of the River Thames, as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.