On this day

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[rekil]

Battle Of Matewan 1920

West Virginia's mine wars, 1920-1921

 

[A380]

First Monkeys in space 28 May 1959. Not the first animals in space though.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

25 years ago on this bank holiday Sunday the Malvern Hills were filled with the joyous sound of ravers avin'it at Castlemorton

 

[brogdale]

 

[A380]

15 June 1215. Maybe not actually that important at the time. But it was a start.

 

[brogdale]

 

[brogdale]

2 serving MPs were first elected OT(hat)D; do you know who they are?

 

[brogdale]

14 years later...

 

[Supine]

War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain

Happy times!

 

[Lucy Fur]

1815, Battle of Waterloo........

 

[crossthebreeze]

2 serving MPs were first elected OT(hat)D; do you know who they are?

Must be Dennis Skinner and Kenneth Clarke?

 

[brogdale]

Must be Dennis Skinner and Kenneth Clarke?

Doh....in 1.

 

[A380]

War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain

Happy times!

It's why they had to paint the White House white.

 

[nuffsaid]

20/6/1837 Victoria, aged 18, crowned Queen of England. Let the Victorian era commence......build stuff, especially railways.

 

[DotCommunist]

Peterloo. 198 yrs old but not forgotten.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Peterloo. 198 yrs old but not forgotten.

I'm going to this later.

Campaign Events for The Peterloo Massacre Memorial Camapaign

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm going to this later.

Campaign Events for The Peterloo Massacre Memorial Camapaign

fair play. Its worth remembering.
I found this fairly interesting if a bit 'man fuck the ancien regime, these people are still here and still doing it'

I am grateful to Simon Szreter (Letters, 26 October) for pointing out the direct familial lineage of George Osborne to the baronets of Ballentaylor, and that such members of the landed wealth elite dominated the House of Lords and opposed progressive forms of taxation on the super-wealthy a century ago. Professor Szreter notes that the financial elite, a century later, still defends its own. Depressingly, I can go a century better. When workers had the temerity to assemble peacefully in Manchester to demand the vote in 1819, the magistrates called in the militia. The cavalry charged, 15 protesters were killed and up to 700 were injured. This was the Peterloo Massacre. The Tory government now passed the repressive Six Acts to gag newspapers, prevent public meetings, and restrict freedom of speech. Playing a key role in drafting these laws, as lord chancellor, was Lord Eldon. His fourth-great-grandson is Jeremy Hunt, the present secretary of state for health. Plus ça change!
Dr John Hull
Sheffield

 

[Pickman's model]

20/8/1898 fog in channel interrupted navigation and led to several collisions and groundings

 

[SpookyFrank]

2 serving MPs were first elected OT(hat)D; do you know who they are?

Ken Clarke and the Beast of Bolsover

E2a: only two months late. Ken Clarke holds the title 'father of the house' by virtue of having taken his oath before Skinner.

 

[A380]

 

[Sprocket.]

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara killed 50 years ago 9 October 1967.

 

[not-bono-ever]

^^^^^

Riding motorbikes with Che Guevara's son

and you can now go on a bike tour of Cuba on a Harley (narsty) starting at $4.3K with his son.

Should be on a minsk or a Cossack for proper authentic lolz

 

[Sprocket.]

'A body will try to make a shilling wherever and whenever a body can'.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara killed 50 years ago 9 October 1967.

Bought some of the commemorative stamps launched here......

 

[Mordi]

Bought some of the commemorative stamps launched here......

Jim Fitzpatrick must be very pleased, if at least because An Post will be one of the few to pay him image rights. I'll definitely pick some up for postcards when I'm next down south.

 

[Yossarian]

Oct 11, 1972 - 60 US sailors injured in unrest on the USS Kitty Hawk, which was off the coast of Vietnam. The military said it was a race riot, though the causes included attempts by the Marines to disrupt the activities of anti-Vietnam War sailors, which included the publishing of onboard anti-war newspaper "Kitty Litter."

 

[krtek a houby]

National Coming Out Day, apparently.

 

[Lucy Fur]

Born:

 

[A380]

October 14 1947. Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X1 rocket plane.