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No new posts   22 Mar - (1945) The Arab League is founded 

+ The river that fell from the sky

0Kitkat317View latest post Sun 22 Mar 2020, 11:21
by Kitkat
No new posts   Mar 21st - Napoleonic Code adopted in France 

+ What Did People Use for Wiping Before Toilet Paper?

0Kitkat341View latest post Sat 21 Mar 2020, 13:17
by Kitkat
No new posts   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

0Kitkat252View latest post Fri 20 Mar 2020, 11:54
by Kitkat
No new posts   19 Mar - (1982) Argentine flag hoisted on S. Georgia 

+ Acoustic Kitty

0Kitkat589View latest post Thu 19 Mar 2020, 01:03
by Kitkat
No new posts   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

0Kitkat247View latest post Wed 18 Mar 2020, 10:09
by Kitkat
No new posts   16 Mar - Caligula becomes Emperor of Rome 

+ Guilty as charged

0Kitkat250View latest post Mon 16 Mar 2020, 08:32
by Kitkat
No new posts   15 Mar - Egypt's Fuad I transitions from Sultan to King 

+ The Curious Case of the Tree That Owns Itself

0Kitkat531View latest post Sun 15 Mar 2020, 12:31
by Kitkat
No new posts   14 Mar - (1991) The Birmingham Six are released from prison 

+ Oh NO! There's no toilet paper ...

0Kitkat300View latest post Sat 14 Mar 2020, 13:01
by Kitkat
No new posts   13 Mar - Kapp Putsch briefly ousts Weimar Republic Governmen 

+ The Lizard People conspiracy theory

0Kitkat240View latest post Fri 13 Mar 2020, 10:25
by Kitkat
No new posts   12 Mar - First "Fireside Chat" by US Pesident Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

+ The man with the 12 feet 6 inches long beard

0Kitkat204View latest post Thu 12 Mar 2020, 11:25
by Kitkat
No new posts   11 Mar - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union 

+ The Great Escape

0Kitkat222View latest post Wed 11 Mar 2020, 14:19
by Kitkat
No new posts   10 Mar - French Foreign Legion Founded 

+ Who is the top-selling English-language author of all time?

0Kitkat214View latest post Tue 10 Mar 2020, 07:39
by Kitkat
No new posts   9 Mar - Edward R. Murrow's See it Now airs McCarthyism episode 

+ Yes, it IS illegal to ride a horse while intoxicated ...

0Kitkat553View latest post Mon 09 Mar 2020, 13:43
by Kitkat
No new posts   8 Mar - New York Stock Exchange is founded 0Kitkat197View latest post Sun 08 Mar 2020, 09:38
by Kitkat
No new posts   7 Mar - Alexander Graham Bell awarded US patent for Telephone 

+ How torpedo fish were used for medicinal purposes by the ancient Greeks & Romans

0Kitkat169View latest post Sat 07 Mar 2020, 12:33
by Kitkat
No new posts   6 March - Various 

+ That Surprisingly Recent Time British Husbands Sold Their Wives at Market

0Kitkat159View latest post Fri 06 Mar 2020, 12:02
by Kitkat
No new posts   5 Mar - George Westinghouse Patents the Automatic Air Brake 

+ Mind your Ps and Qs ... and don't forget the hyphen!

0Kitkat422View latest post Thu 05 Mar 2020, 17:01
by Kitkat
No new posts   4 Mar - Charlie Chaplin is Knighted 

+ Coffee v Tea ?

0Kitkat199View latest post Wed 04 Mar 2020, 12:09
by Kitkat
No new posts   3 Mar - George Bizet's Carmen Premieres in Paris 

+ The history of Shrove Tuesay

0Kitkat180View latest post Tue 03 Mar 2020, 11:54
by Kitkat
No new posts   2 Mar - Concorde makes its maiden flight 

+ The strange case of the Pizza Collar Bomber

0Kitkat229View latest post Mon 02 Mar 2020, 12:25
by Kitkat
No new posts   1st Mar - Yellowstone National Park Established 

+ Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself

0Kitkat175View latest post Sun 01 Mar 2020, 11:21
by Kitkat
No new posts   29 Feb - (1960) Huge earthquake devastates the southern Moroccan city of Agadir 

+ Crafty Columbus Plays a Leap Year Trick

0Kitkat229View latest post Sat 29 Feb 2020, 13:16
by Kitkat
No new posts   28 Feb - DuPont Scientist Wallace Carothers Invents Nylon 

+ Forgotten Heroes: The Hobby Scientist Who Discovered Global Warming and Its Cause

0Kitkat220View latest post Fri 28 Feb 2020, 11:47
by Kitkat
No new posts   27 Feb - The Reichstag Fire 

+ Buy New Zealand for $3,000

0Kitkat549View latest post Thu 27 Feb 2020, 11:30
by Kitkat
No new posts   26 Feb - The world's first web browser is presented to the public 

The mystery of Walt Disney's remains

0Kitkat165View latest post Wed 26 Feb 2020, 10:02
by Kitkat
No new posts   25 Feb - Samuel Colt issued patent for his revolving gun 

+ Liberty Steaks

0Kitkat170View latest post Tue 25 Feb 2020, 11:29
by Kitkat
No new posts   24 Feb - Nazi Party founded in Germany 

+ The Depression Fashion Shows

0Kitkat167View latest post Mon 24 Feb 2020, 11:21
by Kitkat
No new posts   23 Feb - Battle of the Alamo begins 

+ When folk were put to death for suggesting that matter is made of atoms

0Kitkat546View latest post Sun 23 Feb 2020, 12:53
by Kitkat
No new posts   22 Feb - Adams-Onis Treaty: Spain sells Florida to the US 

+ The origin of the word 'Dunce'

0Kitkat166View latest post Sat 22 Feb 2020, 13:36
by Kitkat
No new posts   21 Feb - The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales 

+ When suicide was a capital offence

0Kitkat175View latest post Fri 21 Feb 2020, 11:22
by Kitkat
No new posts   20 Feb - (1985) Ireland allows sale of contraceptives 

+ The hanged woman who had to re-marry her widowed husband

0Kitkat455View latest post Thu 20 Feb 2020, 10:30
by Kitkat
No new posts   19 Feb - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - the first machine able to reproduce recorded sound 

+ The importance of the comma!

0Kitkat210View latest post Wed 19 Feb 2020, 07:24
by Kitkat
No new posts   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 ...?

0Kitkat153View latest post Wed 19 Feb 2020, 07:22
by Kitkat
No new posts   17 Feb - (1972) British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market 

+ Jack Daniel's ill-fated bad temper

0Kitkat157View latest post Mon 17 Feb 2020, 12:51
by Kitkat
No new posts   16 Feb - Burning of the USS Philadelphia 

+ The worst pope in history

0Kitkat577View latest post Sun 16 Feb 2020, 10:48
by Kitkat
No new posts   15 Feb - Decimal Day (1971) 

+ Murdering Thugs

0Kitkat168View latest post Sat 15 Feb 2020, 12:45
by Kitkat
No new posts   13 Feb - Galileo faces charges of heresy 

+ The Romans' fondness for eating dormice

2Kitkat216View latest post Fri 14 Feb 2020, 12:52
by Kitkat
No new posts   14 Feb - Israeli Knesset convenes for the first time 

+ Taj Mahal facts

0Kitkat180View latest post Fri 14 Feb 2020, 12:22
by Kitkat
No new posts   12 Feb - Santiago, Chile, is founded 

+ The woman who fell 33,330 feet from a plane (without a parachute) and survived

0Kitkat176View latest post Wed 12 Feb 2020, 10:32
by Kitkat
No new posts   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

0Kitkat459View latest post Tue 11 Feb 2020, 17:38
by Kitkat
No new posts   10 Feb - Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, found murdered 

+ The founding of Liberia

0Kitkat205View latest post Mon 10 Feb 2020, 14:20
by Kitkat
No new posts   9 Feb - 1996 The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London 

+ The Red Flag Act

0Kitkat486View latest post Sun 09 Feb 2020, 15:20
by Kitkat
No new posts   8 Feb - Irish racehorse 'Shergar' is stolen 

+ The burning of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

0Kitkat208View latest post Sat 08 Feb 2020, 09:10
by Kitkat
No new posts   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

0Kitkat531View latest post Fri 07 Feb 2020, 12:45
by Kitkat
No new posts   6 Feb - King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes queen 

+ The Angels of Mons

0Kitkat222View latest post Thu 06 Feb 2020, 14:48
by Kitkat
No new posts   5 Feb - United Artists Film Studio is founded 

+ The origins of the Internet

0Kitkat245View latest post Wed 05 Feb 2020, 14:01
by Kitkat
No new posts   4 Feb - FaceBook is launched 

+ 15 trivia facts about Europe you may not know

2Kitkat311View latest post Tue 04 Feb 2020, 20:12
by Whiskers
No new posts   3 Feb - Cavalese Cable Car Disaster 

+ Who invented the Keyboard?

0Kitkat304View latest post Mon 03 Feb 2020, 10:45
by Kitkat
No new posts   2 Feb - Sled dogs reach Nome, Alaska, with Diphtheria serum 

+ Who invented the teabag?

0Kitkat246View latest post Sun 02 Feb 2020, 12:12
by Kitkat
No new posts   1 Feb - First Volume of Oxford English Dictionary is published 

+ The Green Book

0Kitkat520View latest post Sat 01 Feb 2020, 11:53
by Kitkat
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