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May the 1st was a busy day but the 2nd is when Isaac Dorislaus was stabbed to death in The Hague by Royalists led by the son of the Bishop of Brechin, as retribution for his role as a legal advisor in prosecuting Charles I.
 
Bishop's sons have a bit of form it would seem...

G2: Danny Leigh meets Tim Westwood

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In 1936 Haile Selassie boarded a British ship in Djibouti on his way to exile in Bath, England, 400 years to the day that Anne Boleyn was arrested for adultery, incest, and high treason, and taken to the tower.
 
In 1695 on this day parliament passed An Act for preventing Charge and Expence in Elections of Members to serve in Parliament
 
Let's light this candle.

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From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Obviously Yuri Gagarin had flown an orbital flight six weeks before. Still brilliant though.
 
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Today in 1882 the US congress passed a law preventing Chinese immigrants from coming to the United States. Many Chinese already resident in the US were not naturalised citizens, thanks to previous racist legislation, so could not easily return home if they travelled to China to visit family.

As Mexico continued to welcome Chinese workers, the US began heavily policing its Mexican border to prevent Chinese from migrating North.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was not repealed until 1943 when the US alliance with China and war with Japan made it politically expedient to do so. Even after this Chinese immigration was still strictly limited and Chinese-Americans continued to face persecution from US authorities.
 
Tottenham won the Double on this day in 1961 beating Leicester 2-0 in the FA Cup Final, the first team to do the double since Aston Villa in 1897. They haven't won the league in the 56 years since, finishing runner-up in 1962-63 and maybe this year.

I don't like Tottenham just my parents got married on cup final day around then when Spurs were in the final and Jimmy Greaves' brother (or something) was their photographer and needed to rush off, and this thread reminded me about their anniversary and was checking if it was today but I think it must have been 55 years ago yesterday. :eek:
 
SqueakyBumTime said:
There are other posts re: football and theatre in this thread.
So take a hike
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Unless they relate to a news/politics/history story, they don't really belong either. So don't post any more meaningless shite, eh? There's a good chap.
 
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On this day in 1926 a delegation from the Trades Union Congress visited 10 Downing Street to call off the General Strike. Called by the TUC in support of striking miners.
 
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17 May 1974
The Dublin and Monaghan bombings took place.

Patrick Askin (44) Co. Monaghan
Josie Bradley (21) Co. Offaly
Marie Butler (21) Co. Waterford...
Anne Byrne (35) Dublin
Thomas Campbell (52) Co. Monaghan
Simone Chetrit (30) France
Thomas Croarkin (36) Co. Monaghan
John Dargle (80) Dublin
Concepta Dempsey (65) Co. Louth
Colette Doherty (20) and her unborn child, Dublin
Patrick Fay (47), Dublin & Co. Louth
Elizabeth Fitzgerald (59) Dublin
Breda Bernadette Grace (34) Dublin and Co. Kerry
Archie Harper (73) Co. Monaghan
Antonio Magliocco, (37) Italy
May McKenna (55) Co. Tyrone
Anne Marren (20) Co. Sligo
Anna Massey (21) Dublin
Dorothy Morris (57) Dublin
John (24), Anna (22), Jacqueline (17 months) & Anne-Marie (5 months) O'Brien, Dublin
Christina O'Loughlin (51), Dublin
Edward John O'Neill (39), Dublin
Marie Phelan (20), Co. Waterford
Siobhán Roice (19), Wexford Town
Maureen Shields (46), Dublin
Jack Travers (28), Monaghan Town
Breda Turner (21), Co. Tipperary
John Walsh (27), Dublin
Peggy White (44), Monaghan Town
George Williamson (72), Co. Monaghan

43 years on still no answers or justice.
 
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