On this day in history

[Brian S]

Shame it's not in service anymore, would often hear the boom as it went out over the Atlantic

22 Nov 1977
British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service

 

[Brian S]

Err what??

22 Nov 1977
1st three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what eventually becomes the Internet

 

[Brian S]

Lets hope our Cricket team follows suit this winter with The Ashes

22 Nov 2003
England's rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final in Sydney.

 

[Chas]

This day in 1991 Freddie Mercury admitted he had aids, the next day he died.

 

[Brian S]

23 Nov 1963
The BBC broadcast the first ever episode of Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell as the Doctor, and Ann Ford as his first female companion. It is the world's longest running science fiction drama.The producer, Sydney Newman, thought the Daleks, designed by Ray Cusick, were ‘bug-eyed monsters’ and totally wrong for the series. Roath Lock studios (see

picture) in the Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay is the home of Doctor Who and its spin-off, 'Class'.

 

[Brian S]

Well I never, didn't know he was Welsh, or English. Did some good stories
Every days a school day

23 Nov 1990
The death of the author Roald Dahl. He was born in Cardiff, (to Norwegian parents). Roald Dahl Plass (see

picture) is a public plaza in the heart of Cardiff Bay. His notable works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG (Big Friendly Giant

 

[Brian S]

Bring me Sunshine Liked these guys, in their time they were really funny, and still funny to watch now

23 Nov 1976
British comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Queen Elizabeth II. There is a statue of Eric Morecambe (see

picture) on the promenade at Morecambe, Lancashire.

 

[uHu]

Well I never, didn't know he was Welsh, or English.

Yeah, he's British, although up here, most people regard him as "a Norwegian, who happend to grow up in England"...
The story of his life is good reading, not to mention his father's story.

 

[Chas]

Gone but not forgotten.

Farrokh "Freddie" Mercury (born Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991)

 

[Brian S]

He was very talented and flamboyant one of life's characters, and created some very good songs.

 

[Brian S]

Didn't think Airline food was that bad

24 Nov 1971
During a thunderstorm over Washington, D. B. Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.

 

[Brian S]

Everybody gets the point of this
24 Nov 1874
American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire

 

[Brian S]

Now that's a family argument

24 Nov 1542
The English army defeated the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss. It started as a family dispute when Henry VIII of England broke from the Roman Catholic Church and asked James V of Scotland, his nephew, to do the same, but James ignored his uncle's request.

 

[Brian S]

24 Nov 1806
The birth of Reverend William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman and the alleged inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823. The William Webb Ellis Cup is presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup. See

picture of the statue of William Webb Ellis outside Rugby School.

 

[Brian S]

One very brave Maid

24 Nov1815
Birth of Grace Darling, an English lighthouse keeper’s daughter from the Longstone Lighthouse (see

picture) who rowed out to rescue survivors of the Forfarshire off the Farne Islands and became a national heroine. She died of consumption, aged 26. The Grace Darling memorial (see

picture) is within St. Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland.

 

[Brian S]

Bring it on this year, for I have got ..............A Toyota Landcruiser

24 Nov 2010
Weather forecasters predicted that the UK would be entering a prolonged cold spell which could bring one of the earliest significant snowfalls since 1993. A few days later more than a thousand schools were closed across the UK and snow caused travel chaos in Scotland and the north of England

 

[Chas]

Died 21 years ago today, and worth a mention for his remarkable life and service with the RAF.

Michael Bentine (Michael James Bentin) RAF(Rtd) CBE Peruvian Order of Merit
1922-1996

 

[Brian S]

Died 21 years ago today, and worth a mention for his remarkable life and service with the RAF.

Michael Bentine (Michael James Bentin) RAF(Rtd) CBE Peruvian Order of Merit
1922-1996

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It's Potty Time

 

[Brian S]

25 Nov 1984
Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

 

[Brian S]

25 Nov 1703
The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reached its intensity which it maintained through to 27th November. Winds gusted up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people died.