On this day in history.

[Andy_Ross]

2005 Labour, under Tony Blair, won a historic third term in Government

 

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1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire

 

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1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers

 

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1982 Two Sea Harriers of No.801 NAS flying from HMS Invincible go missing in atrocious weather, presumably lost due to collision in poor visibility.

 

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1536 Henry VIII ordered that English language Bibles be placed in every church.

 

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1954 Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes

 

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1966 'Moors murderers' Ian Brady and Myra Hindley found guilty at Chester Crown Court.

 

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1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods

 

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1889 Eiffel Tower opens to the public.

 

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1941 Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov

 

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1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and one on the ground

 

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1915 The Cunard liner Lusitania, bound for Liverpool, was torpedoed by a German submarine

 

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1945 General Jodl, German Army Chief of Staff, signed his name on documents that formally ended the war in Europe

 

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1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, first of three patents he receives for the explosive

 

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1952 The concept of the integrated circuit is first published by Geoffrey Dummer

 

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this is a fun one!

Stock market tumble on May 5, 1893, triggers Panic of 1893, sending K

On May 5, 1893, the New York stock market tumbles, setting off a panic that sweeps across the United States and crashes onto the Pacific Northwest. King County and the Puget Sound region plunge into

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Stock market tumble on May 5, 1893, triggers Panic of 1893, sending King County and the Puget Sound region into a four-year depression.​

Which resulted in the preservation of many vintage buildings here in Port Townsend, giving it the look that made it the tourist mecca it is today!

 

[Ryan O'Dine]

1952 The concept of the integrated circuit is first published by Geoffrey Dummer

His parents didn't name him right at all.

 

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2015

20 year old Mhairi Black became Westminster’s youngest MP since 1667 when she won the Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat for the Scottish National Party in the General Election.

 

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1968

Gangster twins Reginald and Ronnie Kray and their brother Charlie were arrested after dawn raids by police in London.

 

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1896

The highest county cricket championship innings score, 887, was achieved by Yorkshire against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.