ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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11 Mar - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union + The Great Escape | 0 | Kitkat | 224 | 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 | 217 | 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 | 563 | Mon 09 Mar 2020, 13:43 by Kitkat | ||
8 Mar - New York Stock Exchange is founded | 0 | Kitkat | 199 | 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 | 172 | Sat 07 Mar 2020, 12:33 by Kitkat | ||
6 March - Various + That Surprisingly Recent Time British Husbands Sold Their Wives at Market | 0 | Kitkat | 161 | 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 | 425 | Thu 05 Mar 2020, 17:01 by Kitkat | ||
4 Mar - Charlie Chaplin is Knighted + Coffee v Tea ? | 0 | Kitkat | 201 | Wed 04 Mar 2020, 12:09 by Kitkat | ||
3 Mar - George Bizet's Carmen Premieres in Paris + The history of Shrove Tuesay | 0 | Kitkat | 183 | 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 | 230 | Mon 02 Mar 2020, 12:25 by Kitkat | ||
1st Mar - Yellowstone National Park Established + Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself | 0 | Kitkat | 177 | 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 | 240 | 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 | 222 | Fri 28 Feb 2020, 11:47 by Kitkat | ||
27 Feb - The Reichstag Fire + Buy New Zealand for $3,000 | 0 | Kitkat | 551 | 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 | 168 | Wed 26 Feb 2020, 10:02 by Kitkat | ||
25 Feb - Samuel Colt issued patent for his revolving gun + Liberty Steaks | 0 | Kitkat | 175 | Tue 25 Feb 2020, 11:29 by Kitkat | ||
24 Feb - Nazi Party founded in Germany + The Depression Fashion Shows | 0 | Kitkat | 171 | 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 | 549 | 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 | 178 | 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 | 457 | 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 | 211 | 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 | 157 | 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 | 158 | Mon 17 Feb 2020, 12:51 by Kitkat | ||
16 Feb - Burning of the USS Philadelphia + The worst pope in history | 0 | Kitkat | 581 | Sun 16 Feb 2020, 10:48 by Kitkat | ||
15 Feb - Decimal Day (1971) + Murdering Thugs | 0 | Kitkat | 169 | Sat 15 Feb 2020, 12:45 by Kitkat | ||
13 Feb - Galileo faces charges of heresy + The Romans' fondness for eating dormice | 2 | Kitkat | 218 | Fri 14 Feb 2020, 12:52 by Kitkat | ||
14 Feb - Israeli Knesset convenes for the first time + Taj Mahal facts | 0 | Kitkat | 182 | 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 | 179 | 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 | 461 | 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 | 209 | 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 | 488 | 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 | 210 | 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 | 534 | 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 | 246 | Wed 05 Feb 2020, 14:01 by Kitkat | ||
4 Feb - FaceBook is launched + 15 trivia facts about Europe you may not know | 2 | Kitkat | 312 | Tue 04 Feb 2020, 20:12 by Whiskers | ||
3 Feb - Cavalese Cable Car Disaster + Who invented the Keyboard? | 0 | Kitkat | 306 | Mon 03 Feb 2020, 10:45 by Kitkat | ||
2 Feb - Sled dogs reach Nome, Alaska, with Diphtheria serum + Who invented the teabag? | 0 | Kitkat | 247 | Sun 02 Feb 2020, 12:12 by Kitkat | ||
1 Feb - First Volume of Oxford English Dictionary is published + The Green Book | 0 | Kitkat | 521 | Sat 01 Feb 2020, 11:53 by Kitkat | ||
31 Jan - United States launches Explorer 1 + Shakespeare trivia | 0 | Kitkat | 210 | Fri 31 Jan 2020, 16:31 by Kitkat | ||
30 Jan - "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland + What really happened to the "Mary Celeste" | 1 | Kitkat | 273 | Fri 31 Jan 2020, 00:11 by mac | ||
29 Jan - Liliuokalani becomes Hawaii's Last Monarch + John Glenn's Fireflies | 0 | Kitkat | 252 | Wed 29 Jan 2020, 14:47 by Kitkat | ||
28 Jan - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice first published + Who is buried under number 10 platform of King's Cross Station? | 0 | Kitkat | 283 | Tue 28 Jan 2020, 13:29 by Kitkat | ||
27 Jan - National Geographic Society Founded + First record of counting | 0 | Kitkat | 254 | Mon 27 Jan 2020, 12:22 by Kitkat | ||
26 Jan - Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres + Pringles | 0 | Kitkat | 235 | Sun 26 Jan 2020, 12:10 by Kitkat | ||
25 Jan - First Emmy Awards for Excellence in Television + Chemist's war of Prohibition | 0 | Kitkat | 320 | Sat 25 Jan 2020, 12:29 by Kitkat | ||
24 Jan - California Gold Rush begins + The Manhattan of Tuscany | 0 | Kitkat | 248 | Fri 24 Jan 2020, 12:54 by Kitkat | ||
23 Jan - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members | 3 | Kitkat | 215 | Thu 23 Jan 2020, 22:03 by Whiskers | ||
22 Jan - The January Uprising begins + A best seller was written by a 9-year old | 0 | Kitkat | 181 | Wed 22 Jan 2020, 11:10 by Kitkat |
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