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On this day in history.

1623
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British Forces made a treaty with the 'Potomac River tribes' proposing a toast to perpetual friendship. The Indian chief and 200 men then dropped dead from poisoned wine.
 
1981
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Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
 
1915
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The worst rail disaster in Britain took place at Quintinshill in Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246. The accident involved a special troop train carrying a Royal Scots battalion, two goods trains, a local train and an express from London Euston. The cause of the accident was poor working practices on the part of the two signalmen involved, which resulted in their imprisonment for culpable homicide.
 
1840
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Britain ended the practice of sending convicts to the penal colony of Australia.
 
334 BC Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus
 
1939 Hitler and Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel" formalizing the 1936 alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
 
arthwollipot said:
Why would I have just one jumbuck unless I'm an itinerant sheep-thief?
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Over the years, I've met a few who only had one, as a pet, and to keep the lawns down.

Probably much less common these days I suppose.

That reminds me, there was a household with a red kangaroo not far from here, I wonder if he's still hopping around.

(You have to see a big red to believe it, bloody thing was taller than me, but ambled up to the gate for scritchies when I walked past.)

Clearly a story there, but I've never met the owners, so don't know what it is.

(As far as I know, the only way someone can 'keep' a kangaroo, is if it was covered by a 'rescue permit' or in some kind of sanctuary or zoo.)

I wouldn't be brave enough to keep an adult male red kangaroo.
 
Andy_Ross said:
1980 We came under direct air attack for the first time. Four Skyhawks popped over the hills and down on to San Carlos water. Two came for us and dropped bombs which fell short. One was hit by AA as it made for the horizon and went down. It was the only time we were ever directly targeted. The pilots just had seconds to pick a target as they came over the hills and until the RAF got their Rapier Missile batteries onto the hills there was just a few seconds for our AA to have a go at them.

Argentinian Skyhawk pilots were ridiculously brave and skilled. Flying low and fast through brutal weather in to SAMs, and Sea Harriers to attack our anchored ships with unguided 'iron' bombs. It was up-close and personal and they sank four ships and ten damaged.
We got two dozen of them. Once the Rapiers were in place the attacks subsided.
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878 The Saxon King Alfred defeated the Danes at Edington, Wiltshire. As part of the peace agreement, the Danish King, Guthrum, accepted Christianity and was baptized as a Christian.
 
1701 At London's Execution Dock, British privateer Captain Kidd was hanged for piracy and murder. Commissioned by the British crown in 1695 to apprehend pirates in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean he turned to piracy himself.
 
1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, committed suicide by means of a potassium cyanide capsule after being apprehended by a British patrol while trying to escape in disguise.
 
1430 Burgundian troops captured Joan of Arc and delivered her to the English.
 
1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes
 
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