On this day in history.

[Andy_Ross]

1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

 

[Andy_Ross]

1896 Marconi applies in the UK, for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy

 

[Andy_Ross]

1989 Chinese soldiers are blocked by citizens in Tiananmen Square.

 

[PitPat]

1989 Chinese soldiers are blocked by citizens in Tiananmen Square.

I think there was a trivia question on this. The guy who stood in front of a tank, whom to this day I still believe is just called Tank Man.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I wonder if any of the competitors in that first TT would have thought that the lap record would rise to an average speed of 136 mph with over 200 mph across the mountain.

Probably not.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1916 World War I: British General Lord Kitchener drowned when HMS Hampshire hit a mine off the Orkney Islands during a storm and sank en route to Russia.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1944 Rome entered by Allied troops without a fight.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1963 Secretary of State for War, John Profumo resigned, admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with a call girl, Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1944 French town of Benouville was the first place to be liberated from German occupation when British paratroopers seized control of a vital canal bridge in advance of the main Allied D-Day landings.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe

 

[Andy_Ross]

1967 Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria

 

[Andy_Ross]

1981 AIDS epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles

 

[arthwollipot]

1944 Rome entered without a fight by Allied troops.

Entered what?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Entered what?

I changed it for you. Now, go boldly and look at it again.

 

[catsmate]

1916 World War I: British General Lord Kitchener drowned when HMS Hampshire hit a mine off the Orkney Islands during a storm and sank en route to Russia.

An uncle of mine was on board.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1944 D-Day

 

[Andy_Ross]

1844 The Factory Act in Britain restricted female workers to a 12-hour day; children between eight and 13 years were limited to six-and-a-half hours.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s prophetic novel of a world ruled by Big Brother, was published.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1962 The Beatles had an audition for EMI record producer George Martin

 

[Andy_Ross]

1716 French transport the first African slaves to Louisiana