On this day in history.

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1954

The European Convention on Human Rights came into force.

 

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1882

The official opening of the Eddystone Lighthouse

 

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1804 Napoléon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate

 

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1982 We we shot down our only air target a Skyhawk. A combination of 4.5 inch fire and a Seacat missile.

 

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1982 We we shot down our only air target a Skyhawk. A combination of 4.5 inch fire and a Seacat missile.

Heheheheheh...

First duty for a new sailor?

"Head ashore and find a bucket of milk for seacat matey!"

 

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Yesterdays were a bit late, I didn't notice it was after midnight.

 

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1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens

 

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1974 India detonated a nuclear weapon in the Rajasthan desert.

 

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1756

The Seven Years' War began when Britain declared war on France.

 

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1940

Churchill made his first broadcast as Prime Minister and called Nazism "the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny that has ever darkened and stained the pages of history."

 

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1662

The Act of Uniformity gave consent to the revised English Prayer Book and denied the right to take up arms against the king. Presbyterianism in the Church was destroyed and many ministers who did not confirm were ejected. A Licensing Act forbade imports of literature contrary to Christian faith.

 

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1568

Queen Elizabeth I ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots

 

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1536

Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII's second wife, was beheaded in London

 

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1649 England is declared a Commonwealth by an act of the Rump Parliament, making England a republic for the next 11 years

 

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1191

English King Richard I 'the Lion Heart' conquered Cyprus on his way to join the Crusaders in north west Israel.

 

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1913

The first Chelsea Flower Show was held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital

 

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1609 William Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London

 

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1927 At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris

 

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1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs from space

 

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1455 Richard of York and the Nevilles attacked the court at St Albans, capturing Henry VI and killing Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.