ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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22 Mar - (1945) The Arab League is founded + The river that fell from the sky | 0 | Kitkat | 317 | Sun 22 Mar 2020, 11:21 by Kitkat | ||
Mar 21st - Napoleonic Code adopted in France + What Did People Use for Wiping Before Toilet Paper? | 0 | Kitkat | 341 | Sat 21 Mar 2020, 13:17 by Kitkat | ||
20 Mar - (1974) Ian Ball attempts to kidnap Princess Anne + The Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II a full 29 years after the Japanese surrendered, because he didn’t know the war was over | 0 | Kitkat | 252 | Fri 20 Mar 2020, 11:54 by Kitkat | ||
19 Mar - (1982) Argentine flag hoisted on S. Georgia + Acoustic Kitty | 0 | Kitkat | 589 | Thu 19 Mar 2020, 01:03 by Kitkat | ||
18 Mar - Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union + Oasis star Noel Gallagher once took cocaine in a toilet reserved for the Queen in Downing Street | 0 | Kitkat | 247 | Wed 18 Mar 2020, 10:09 by Kitkat | ||
16 Mar - Caligula becomes Emperor of Rome + Guilty as charged | 0 | Kitkat | 250 | Mon 16 Mar 2020, 08:32 by Kitkat | ||
15 Mar - Egypt's Fuad I transitions from Sultan to King + The Curious Case of the Tree That Owns Itself | 0 | Kitkat | 531 | Sun 15 Mar 2020, 12:31 by Kitkat | ||
14 Mar - (1991) The Birmingham Six are released from prison + Oh NO! There's no toilet paper ... | 0 | Kitkat | 300 | Sat 14 Mar 2020, 13:01 by Kitkat | ||
13 Mar - Kapp Putsch briefly ousts Weimar Republic Governmen + The Lizard People conspiracy theory | 0 | Kitkat | 240 | Fri 13 Mar 2020, 10:25 by Kitkat | ||
12 Mar - First "Fireside Chat" by US Pesident Franklin Delano Roosevelt + The man with the 12 feet 6 inches long beard | 0 | Kitkat | 204 | Thu 12 Mar 2020, 11:25 by Kitkat | ||
11 Mar - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union + The Great Escape | 0 | Kitkat | 222 | Wed 11 Mar 2020, 14:19 by Kitkat | ||
10 Mar - French Foreign Legion Founded + Who is the top-selling English-language author of all time? | 0 | Kitkat | 214 | Tue 10 Mar 2020, 07:39 by Kitkat | ||
9 Mar - Edward R. Murrow's See it Now airs McCarthyism episode + Yes, it IS illegal to ride a horse while intoxicated ... | 0 | Kitkat | 553 | Mon 09 Mar 2020, 13:43 by Kitkat | ||
8 Mar - New York Stock Exchange is founded | 0 | Kitkat | 197 | Sun 08 Mar 2020, 09:38 by Kitkat | ||
7 Mar - Alexander Graham Bell awarded US patent for Telephone + How torpedo fish were used for medicinal purposes by the ancient Greeks & Romans | 0 | Kitkat | 169 | Sat 07 Mar 2020, 12:33 by Kitkat | ||
6 March - Various + That Surprisingly Recent Time British Husbands Sold Their Wives at Market | 0 | Kitkat | 159 | Fri 06 Mar 2020, 12:02 by Kitkat | ||
5 Mar - George Westinghouse Patents the Automatic Air Brake + Mind your Ps and Qs ... and don't forget the hyphen! | 0 | Kitkat | 422 | Thu 05 Mar 2020, 17:01 by Kitkat | ||
4 Mar - Charlie Chaplin is Knighted + Coffee v Tea ? | 0 | Kitkat | 199 | Wed 04 Mar 2020, 12:09 by Kitkat | ||
3 Mar - George Bizet's Carmen Premieres in Paris + The history of Shrove Tuesay | 0 | Kitkat | 180 | Tue 03 Mar 2020, 11:54 by Kitkat | ||
2 Mar - Concorde makes its maiden flight + The strange case of the Pizza Collar Bomber | 0 | Kitkat | 229 | Mon 02 Mar 2020, 12:25 by Kitkat | ||
1st Mar - Yellowstone National Park Established + Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself | 0 | Kitkat | 175 | Sun 01 Mar 2020, 11:21 by Kitkat | ||
29 Feb - (1960) Huge earthquake devastates the southern Moroccan city of Agadir + Crafty Columbus Plays a Leap Year Trick | 0 | Kitkat | 229 | Sat 29 Feb 2020, 13:16 by Kitkat | ||
28 Feb - DuPont Scientist Wallace Carothers Invents Nylon + Forgotten Heroes: The Hobby Scientist Who Discovered Global Warming and Its Cause | 0 | Kitkat | 220 | Fri 28 Feb 2020, 11:47 by Kitkat | ||
27 Feb - The Reichstag Fire + Buy New Zealand for $3,000 | 0 | Kitkat | 549 | Thu 27 Feb 2020, 11:30 by Kitkat | ||
26 Feb - The world's first web browser is presented to the public The mystery of Walt Disney's remains | 0 | Kitkat | 165 | Wed 26 Feb 2020, 10:02 by Kitkat | ||
25 Feb - Samuel Colt issued patent for his revolving gun + Liberty Steaks | 0 | Kitkat | 170 | Tue 25 Feb 2020, 11:29 by Kitkat | ||
24 Feb - Nazi Party founded in Germany + The Depression Fashion Shows | 0 | Kitkat | 167 | Mon 24 Feb 2020, 11:21 by Kitkat | ||
23 Feb - Battle of the Alamo begins + When folk were put to death for suggesting that matter is made of atoms | 0 | Kitkat | 546 | Sun 23 Feb 2020, 12:53 by Kitkat | ||
22 Feb - Adams-Onis Treaty: Spain sells Florida to the US + The origin of the word 'Dunce' | 0 | Kitkat | 166 | Sat 22 Feb 2020, 13:36 by Kitkat | ||
21 Feb - The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales + When suicide was a capital offence | 0 | Kitkat | 175 | Fri 21 Feb 2020, 11:22 by Kitkat | ||
20 Feb - (1985) Ireland allows sale of contraceptives + The hanged woman who had to re-marry her widowed husband | 0 | Kitkat | 455 | Thu 20 Feb 2020, 10:30 by Kitkat | ||
19 Feb - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - the first machine able to reproduce recorded sound + The importance of the comma! | 0 | Kitkat | 210 | Wed 19 Feb 2020, 07:24 by Kitkat | ||
18 Feb - Race Car Driver Dale Earnhardt dies in Daytona 500 crash + F.D. Roosevelt puts his theory to the test - Does anyone really listen ...? | 0 | Kitkat | 153 | Wed 19 Feb 2020, 07:22 by Kitkat | ||
17 Feb - (1972) British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market + Jack Daniel's ill-fated bad temper | 0 | Kitkat | 157 | Mon 17 Feb 2020, 12:51 by Kitkat | ||
16 Feb - Burning of the USS Philadelphia + The worst pope in history | 0 | Kitkat | 577 | Sun 16 Feb 2020, 10:48 by Kitkat | ||
15 Feb - Decimal Day (1971) + Murdering Thugs | 0 | Kitkat | 168 | Sat 15 Feb 2020, 12:45 by Kitkat | ||
13 Feb - Galileo faces charges of heresy + The Romans' fondness for eating dormice | 2 | Kitkat | 216 | Fri 14 Feb 2020, 12:52 by Kitkat | ||
14 Feb - Israeli Knesset convenes for the first time + Taj Mahal facts | 0 | Kitkat | 180 | Fri 14 Feb 2020, 12:22 by Kitkat | ||
12 Feb - Santiago, Chile, is founded + The woman who fell 33,330 feet from a plane (without a parachute) and survived | 0 | Kitkat | 176 | Wed 12 Feb 2020, 10:32 by Kitkat | ||
11 Feb - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female leader of the British Conservative Party + How Ben Jonson, English dramatist & poet, literally got away with murder | 0 | Kitkat | 459 | Tue 11 Feb 2020, 17:38 by Kitkat | ||
10 Feb - Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, found murdered + The founding of Liberia | 0 | Kitkat | 205 | Mon 10 Feb 2020, 14:20 by Kitkat | ||
9 Feb - 1996 The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London + The Red Flag Act | 0 | Kitkat | 486 | Sun 09 Feb 2020, 15:20 by Kitkat | ||
8 Feb - Irish racehorse 'Shergar' is stolen + The burning of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus | 0 | Kitkat | 208 | Sat 08 Feb 2020, 09:10 by Kitkat | ||
7 Feb - The European Union is established and the Maastricht Treaty is signed + Heroin was originally widely prescribed for common ailments; everything from coughs to headaches | 0 | Kitkat | 531 | Fri 07 Feb 2020, 12:45 by Kitkat | ||
6 Feb - King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes queen + The Angels of Mons | 0 | Kitkat | 222 | Thu 06 Feb 2020, 14:48 by Kitkat | ||
5 Feb - United Artists Film Studio is founded + The origins of the Internet | 0 | Kitkat | 245 | Wed 05 Feb 2020, 14:01 by Kitkat | ||
4 Feb - FaceBook is launched + 15 trivia facts about Europe you may not know | 2 | Kitkat | 311 | Tue 04 Feb 2020, 20:12 by Whiskers | ||
3 Feb - Cavalese Cable Car Disaster + Who invented the Keyboard? | 0 | Kitkat | 304 | Mon 03 Feb 2020, 10:45 by Kitkat | ||
2 Feb - Sled dogs reach Nome, Alaska, with Diphtheria serum + Who invented the teabag? | 0 | Kitkat | 246 | Sun 02 Feb 2020, 12:12 by Kitkat | ||
1 Feb - First Volume of Oxford English Dictionary is published + The Green Book | 0 | Kitkat | 520 | Sat 01 Feb 2020, 11:53 by Kitkat |
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