MikeyT Posted 6 March 2011 Posted 6 March 2011 Don't recall there being a thread like this, but if there has been then please delete. Basically a thread about days in history and what happened on them. So for example, today in history marks the 24 year anniversary of the Zubrugge Ferry disaster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm 1987: Hundreds trapped as car ferry capsizes Forty-nine people have been confirmed dead - and dozens are missing - after a car ferry capsized just outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Rescuers say more than 400 people have been brought out of the ship alive. Many have been taken to hospitals in Bruges and Blankenburg suffering from cuts and bruises, hypothermia and shock. Divers are still searching the upturned hull of the Herald of Free Enterprise for air pockets in which passengers may have survived. But hope is fading of finding anyone alive. The tragedy happened just before 1900 GMT as the Townsend Thoresen ferry left Zeebrugge bound for Dover with 650 passengers on board, many of them Sun readers who had taken advantage of the newspaper's offer on a cut-price day trip to the Continent. No time to send SOS It is not clear how the disaster happened. Survivors say the boat went over in seconds and began filling rapidly with water. There was no time to send an SOS. The only way out for many was to smash windows and clamber onto the side of the ship and wait to be lifted off. Rescue helicopters, including two RAF Sea Kings, were at the scene within minutes. Dutch and Belgian boats in the area were also diverted to help in the rescue operation. Maureen and Frank Bennett, from Crawley in Sussex, had been on a day trip to Belgium with their daughter and her boyfriend to celebrate their wedding anniversary. From her hospital bed, Mrs Bennett said: "It was so cold...all we wanted to do was just get out. It was so frightening, it really was." She was being filmed by a BBC camera crew when a member of the hospital staff brought her the news her daughter had been found and was safe and well. She burst into tears and said, "She's alive, she's alive. Thank God." Human bridge Another woman told how her husband had made himself into a human bridge so she and her daughter could climb across to safety - but when she called to him to follow he said there were others who needed help getting out. He has not been seen since. The Queen has sent a message of sympathy. The Duke and Duchess of York have gone to Belgium on her behalf. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has flown to Zeebrugge. She paid this tribute to the emergency services: "It has been a night of great courage and a night of great professionalism and of concern on the part of all the rescue services." Questions are already being asked about how the ferry tipped over so fast. It appears the water may have got in through the bow doors. Managing director of Townsend Thoresen Peter Ford said: "The doors on these ships are held by massive hydraulic rams... they don't just pop open."
Jackirius Posted 6 March 2011 Posted 6 March 2011 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 6 March 2011 Posted 6 March 2011 Don't recall there being a thread like this, but if there has been then please delete. Basically a thread about days in history and what happened on them. So for example, today in history marks the 24 year anniversary of the Zubrugge Ferry disaster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm 1987: Hundreds trapped as car ferry capsizes Forty-nine people have been confirmed dead - and dozens are missing - after a car ferry capsized just outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Rescuers say more than 400 people have been brought out of the ship alive. Many have been taken to hospitals in Bruges and Blankenburg suffering from cuts and bruises, hypothermia and shock. Divers are still searching the upturned hull of the Herald of Free Enterprise for air pockets in which passengers may have survived. But hope is fading of finding anyone alive. The tragedy happened just before 1900 GMT as the Townsend Thoresen ferry left Zeebrugge bound for Dover with 650 passengers on board, many of them Sun readers who had taken advantage of the newspaper's offer on a cut-price day trip to the Continent. No time to send SOS It is not clear how the disaster happened. Survivors say the boat went over in seconds and began filling rapidly with water. There was no time to send an SOS. The only way out for many was to smash windows and clamber onto the side of the ship and wait to be lifted off. Rescue helicopters, including two RAF Sea Kings, were at the scene within minutes. Dutch and Belgian boats in the area were also diverted to help in the rescue operation. Maureen and Frank Bennett, from Crawley in Sussex, had been on a day trip to Belgium with their daughter and her boyfriend to celebrate their wedding anniversary. From her hospital bed, Mrs Bennett said: "It was so cold...all we wanted to do was just get out. It was so frightening, it really was." She was being filmed by a BBC camera crew when a member of the hospital staff brought her the news her daughter had been found and was safe and well. She burst into tears and said, "She's alive, she's alive. Thank God." Human bridge Another woman told how her husband had made himself into a human bridge so she and her daughter could climb across to safety - but when she called to him to follow he said there were others who needed help getting out. He has not been seen since. The Queen has sent a message of sympathy. The Duke and Duchess of York have gone to Belgium on her behalf. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has flown to Zeebrugge. She paid this tribute to the emergency services: "It has been a night of great courage and a night of great professionalism and of concern on the part of all the rescue services." Questions are already being asked about how the ferry tipped over so fast. It appears the water may have got in through the bow doors. Managing director of Townsend Thoresen Peter Ford said: "The doors on these ships are held by massive hydraulic rams... they don't just pop open." remember it very well - very sad
Zingari Posted 6 March 2011 Posted 6 March 2011 george formby died 50 years ago today tempus fugit !!
BoneDog Posted 7 March 2011 Posted 7 March 2011 On this day in 1943 : London : The latest National Savings campaign "Wings for Victory", was launched this weekend with a target of £150 million for building bombers. By last night £30 million had already been collected. A Stirling bomber stands in front of St Paul's and a Lancaster in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Huge crowds have been attracted; they are urged to buy savings stamps to stick on to 500-pound bombs. The Lord Mayor of London launched 1,300 pigeons to carry messages to savings groups everywhere. Destroyer HMCS Assiniboine arrived at Liverpool for refit. USSR : Josif Stalin becomes a Marshal of the Soviet Union. This event marks Stalin's growing confidence on the ability of the Red Army to beat Germany, and he obviously wants to identify with the glory the Army is winning. From this day on Stalin, who previously has not used any uniforms, is often seen in public in the Marshal's uniform. North Africa : General George Patton takes command of the US II Corps.
Zingari Posted 7 March 2011 Posted 7 March 2011 7 March 1969: Israel elects first female leader Golda Meir, the "grand old woman of Israeli politics", is to become the first female prime minister of Israel. 1988: IRA gang shot dead in Gibraltar The IRA has confirmed the three people shot dead by security forces in Gibraltar yesterday were members of an active service unit. They are reported to have planted a 500lb car bomb near the British Governor's residence. 322 BC Greek philosopher Aristotle ( bugger for the bottle ) died
davieG Posted 7 March 2011 Posted 7 March 2011 1972 Leicester City sign goalkeeper Mark Wallington from Walsall for £30,000. Spotted by Leicester manager Jimmy Bloomfield, who was looking for cover for Peter Shilton, Mark recalls: ‘I came into the professional game late, didn't do an apprenticeship at 16, and thought I could learn an awful lot there. “Peter (Shilton) was a tremendous coach, very generous with his time, and I couldn't have gone to a better place to learn my trade." When Shilton moved on to Stoke City, Mark made the number one shirt his own at Filbert Street, establishing a club record of 331 consecutive appearances. <br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"You have to put it down an awful lot of luck and to the people in front of me," he said. "There were many times I came close to missing out, but I didn't want to give my place up, fearing I might not get it back." He went on to play 460 times in all competitions for the Foxes before joining Derby County in 1985 when he helped the Rams to successive promotions from the Third and Second Divisions. Now a PE teacher at St George's Academy, in Sleaford, Mark still looks back on his City days with affection. He played with some ‘great players"’but didn't want to single anyone out. "There were far too many, it would be grossly unfair to pick just one.
MikeyT Posted 7 March 2011 Author Posted 7 March 2011 1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago. At 1115 BST the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired. He said the British ambassador to Berlin had handed a final note to the German government this morning saying unless it announced plans to withdraw from Poland by 1100, a state of war would exist between the two countries. Mr Chamberlain continued: "I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and consequently this country is at war with Germany." Similarly the French issued an ultimatum, which was presented in Berlin at 1230, saying France would be at war unless a 1700 deadline for the troops' withdrawal was adhered to. I heard this voice saying we were now at war with Germany and at that moment the air raid sirens went People's War memories » King George has called upon "my people at home and my peoples across the seas". He continued: "I ask them to stand calm, firm and united in this time of trial. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield. But we can only do the right as we see the right and reverently commit our cause to God." A War Cabinet of nine members has been set up with two new ministers, including Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he held at the outbreak of World War I. Lord Hankey becomes Minister without Portfolio. Anthony Eden will take over as Dominions Secretary with special access to the War Cabinet. Mr Eden resigned from the post of Secretary of Foreign Affairs last year because he disagreed with the policy of appeasement. The National Service (Armed Forces) Act has been passed making all men between 18 and 41 liable for conscription. The armed forces have already been mobilized for war and in July the first Territorial Army conscripts were called up. Latest reports from Poland say the Germans have bombed a number of towns and cities, some with little or no strategic importance. About 1,500 are reported to have been killed or injured in the attacks on Friday and Saturday. In his broadcast to the nation, Mr Chamberlain spoke of his sadness that "the long struggle to win peace" had failed. He continued: "I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and that would have been more successful." Yesterday there was anger in the House of Commons over the Government's apparent delay in taking action against Germany. Labour's deputy leader Arthur Greenwood had accused the Prime Minister of vacillating when "Britain and all that Britain stands for are in peril". Today's declaration of war was received with rousing cheers. As Mr Chamberlain informed the House Britain could not take part in a five-power conference proposed by Italy while Poland was being invaded. It has also been received with great enthusiasm in the Polish capital, Warsaw, where crowds took to the streets outside the British and French embassies cheering and singing.
Unit Posted 7 March 2011 Posted 7 March 2011 I'll get tomorrow going now, 21 years before, I was born! whey.
BoneDog Posted 8 March 2011 Posted 8 March 2011 Happy Birthday marra. This day in 1983 : Ronald Reagan gives his famous “evil empire” speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. The speech is designed to dissuade Christian evangelicals from supporting a freeze on the production and deployment of nuclear weapons, as the Conference of Catholic Bishops had already done. 1921 : Eduardo Dato, Spanish Prime Minister, is assassinated. 1951 : The Lonely Hearts killers were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing prison. Fried the bastards.
MikeyT Posted 8 March 2011 Author Posted 8 March 2011 Mikey - Britain declared war on 3rd September. That website is wrong then!!
Zingari Posted 8 March 2011 Posted 8 March 2011 March 8th Shrove Tuesday 1817 New York stock exchange founded 1920 Arab Kingdom of Syria , the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established. 1974 Paris CDG Airport opens 1979 Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time 2003 Adam Faith died 2007 John ( i'm free) Inman died
ozleicester Posted 8 March 2011 Posted 8 March 2011 March 8th Shrove Tuesday 1817 New York stock exchange founded 1920 Arab Kingdom of Syria , the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established. 1974 Paris CDG Airport opens 1979 Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time 2003 Adam Faith died 2007 John ( i'm free) Inman died Finally, something important. Oh, and from down under... Thursday, March 8, 1973. : 15 people are killed in a firebomb attack on the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane, Australia. The Whiskey Au Go-Go nightclub was located in the inner Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley. On 8 March 1973, two drums of petrol were ignited in the foyer of the nightclub, causing a fireball and the release of deadly gases. Grease was smeared on the door handles to prevent patrons from escaping. Fifteen people were killed in what was Australia's worst mass murder at that time. James Finch and John Stuart were gunmen in the underworld that was trying to control prostitution and gambling in Brisbane at the time. The two men were arrested but staunchly protested their innocence, blaming corrupt police for framing them. Both men were convicted; ultimately, Stuart died on New Years Day 1979, while Finch was paroled fifteen years later, in 1988, and deported back to England, his country of birth. Once safely in England, Finch then declared he was indeed guilty of the murders.
Zingari Posted 8 March 2011 Posted 8 March 2011 2003 Adam Faith died One day chirpy as as a Budgie Next day , fallen off his perch
Zingari Posted 9 March 2011 Posted 9 March 2011 March 9th 1556 David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1946 Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds amongst the injured 1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. 1967 Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26. 1970 Martin Johnson, English and Leicester rugby player born 1976 Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date. 1977 The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage. 2006 John Profumo, British cabinet minister died (b. 1915) One day he's over Keeler Next day he's Keeling over
Zingari Posted 10 March 2011 Posted 10 March 2011 march 10th 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. 1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France. 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation. 1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. 1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex born 2003 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer died (b. 1950) 2005 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian died (b. 1936)
Zingari Posted 11 March 2011 Posted 11 March 2011 March 11th 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. 1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader. 1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. . 2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. 2009 – Winnenden school shooting – 17 people are killed at a school in Germany. 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom born (d. 1995) 1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer born 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia died (b. 1941) 2011 Tsunami in japan 2011 Zingari belatedly realises no fooker gives a toss what happens on this day in history
Trav Le Bleu Posted 11 March 2011 Posted 11 March 2011 2011 Zingari get's tarred, feathered and ran out of town.
Zingari Posted 12 March 2011 Posted 12 March 2011 March 12th 1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins. 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years. 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt. 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "fireside chats". 1993 – Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. 1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests. 1963 – Ian Holloway, English football manager born 2011 Trav Le Bleu paints flowers on his 1968 VW Camper van and sets off on the hippy trail with his followers, after the symbolic "Bonfire of the Census Forms " sparks civil unrest . Craig Adams takes over the Sunday radio show .( listening figures double to twelve ) : 1984 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor died (b. 1896) one day he's writing " Ghost Train " next day he's "Training to be a Ghost"
Webbo Posted 12 March 2011 Posted 12 March 2011 March 12th 2011 Trav Le Bleu paints flowers on his 1968 VW Camper van and sets off on the hippy trail with his followers, after the symbolic "Bonfire of the Census Forms " sparks civil unrest . Craig Adams takes over the Sunday radio show .( listening figures double to twelve ) :
ozleicester Posted 12 March 2011 Posted 12 March 2011 March 11th 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. 1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader. 1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. . 2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. 2009 – Winnenden school shooting – 17 people are killed at a school in Germany. 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom born (d. 1995) 1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer born 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia died (b. 1941) 2011 Tsunami in japan 2011 Zingari belatedly realises no fooker gives a toss what happens on this day in history One day your telling history the next, you realise your history
Zingari Posted 12 March 2011 Posted 12 March 2011 One day your telling history the next, you realise your history +1 for chutzpah
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