This day in history
nice one - anything good? Or is it just the fact you won anything at all!eefanincan wrote:Dec. 21, 2007 - eefanincan wins a Christmas prize at work. Momentous occasion as she NEVER wins anything.
Thinking back, this makes me think of something a pal said when I told him I was going self-employed 'the work's christmas party is gonna be rubbish!'
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It was some footspa bath thing that you plug in and it massages, bubbles,etc. etc. A nice idea, but I can't STAND anything done to my feet --- but I was well pleased just at having won something. But my mother-in-law loved it so I sent it home with her --- I figured my dog would have just thought it was a "bubbling water dish" anywayfaceless wrote:nice one - anything good? Or is it just the fact you won anything at all!eefanincan wrote:Dec. 21, 2007 - eefanincan wins a Christmas prize at work. Momentous occasion as she NEVER wins anything.
Thinking back, this makes me think of something a pal said when I told him I was going self-employed 'the work's christmas party is gonna be rubbish!'
There are international ones. Just on the first it was the publication of Frankenstein, we've had Darwin and plenty of others.Bat wrote:Who? Can we make this international things from now on so that we can all at least know who we're talking about? Yes,no?Skylace wrote:In 1957 the late, great Jackie Robinson retired from baseball.
If you don't know who you can also look it up. That's the great thing about history, we learn it and don't know it all. I know I have to do that with some other things as well. I had never heard of Thomas Graham before.
Jackie Robinson is an important figure in sports history and black history as he was the first black to play on a major league baseball team.
Jackie Robinson maybe an important figure for some in US sports history but for the rest of us the name means absolutely nothing - not a thing. If I mentioned some UK sporting "legend" in football for example it would mean nothing to the majority of US people on this site. This is an international site so all I'm saying is let's try and keep it international - me too. 
Jackie Robinson was an important figure in Civil Rights history as well and if a UK sports legend was posted it here it doesn't matter. If anything that would allow other people outside of a certain nation to learn more.Bat wrote:Jackie Robinson maybe an important figure for some in US sports history but for the rest of us the name means absolutely nothing - not a thing. If I mentioned some UK sporting "legend" in football for exand mple it would mean nothing to the majority of US people on this site. This is an international site so all I'm saying is let's try and keep it international - me too.
I hadn't heard of Emily Wilding Davison until I read something ages ago about her on the first couch. She had nothing to do with American history. I had also never heard of Sir John Barbirolli until I read about him here in this section or knew that he Professional Footballer’s Association was formed in 1907.
This isn't supposed to just be an international history section, it's a history section. And if posts are made that may be something that is more important in one area than another, that doesn't matter. It allows us then to learn more about the history and culture of each other countries or even cities and regions.
7th January
1536 Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I, died.
1558 English forces were ousted from the French port of Calais, led by the Duke of Guise. The town's burghers had surrendered to an invading English army in 1346.
1618 Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England. Later that year he was accused of taking a bribe, and fined £40,000, a huge sum of money for those times.
1805 The famous pugilist Tom Cribb had his first public fight. It was against Tom Maddox at Wood Green. Cribb was declared the winner after an incredible 76 rounds.
1889 Birth of Arthur Clifford Hartley, the English inventor of World War II’s PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) and FIDO (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation).
1904 The CQD distress signal was introduced. CQ stood for ‘seek you’, and the D for ‘danger’. It lasted just two years before being replaced with SOS.
1927 A telephone service began operating between London and New York. A three-minute call cost £15. Nevertheless 31 different people made a call on the first day.
1965 Identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray were in custody, charged in connection with running a protection racket. When they died, their funerals were like those of royals, but they were simply notorious criminals with a history of violence and murder in London’s East End.
1976 The Ministry of Defence claimed that a British naval frigate, HMS Andromeda, had been deliberately rammed into by an Icelandic gunboat in the Atlantic. The ‘attack’ was one of several incidents between Britain and Iceland with regard to disputed fishing territory.
1988 The death of the actor Trevor Howard.
1994 After a wait of 800 years, girls were invited to join the Cathedral Choir at Wells in Somerset. Click here for a picture of Wells Cathedral (file size 152K)
2000 Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was released from jail after serving less than half of his 18-month sentence. He had been imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after his libel case against the Guardian Newspaper and Granada Television collapsed.
1536 Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I, died.
1558 English forces were ousted from the French port of Calais, led by the Duke of Guise. The town's burghers had surrendered to an invading English army in 1346.
1618 Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England. Later that year he was accused of taking a bribe, and fined £40,000, a huge sum of money for those times.
1805 The famous pugilist Tom Cribb had his first public fight. It was against Tom Maddox at Wood Green. Cribb was declared the winner after an incredible 76 rounds.
1889 Birth of Arthur Clifford Hartley, the English inventor of World War II’s PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) and FIDO (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation).
1904 The CQD distress signal was introduced. CQ stood for ‘seek you’, and the D for ‘danger’. It lasted just two years before being replaced with SOS.
1927 A telephone service began operating between London and New York. A three-minute call cost £15. Nevertheless 31 different people made a call on the first day.
1965 Identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray were in custody, charged in connection with running a protection racket. When they died, their funerals were like those of royals, but they were simply notorious criminals with a history of violence and murder in London’s East End.
1976 The Ministry of Defence claimed that a British naval frigate, HMS Andromeda, had been deliberately rammed into by an Icelandic gunboat in the Atlantic. The ‘attack’ was one of several incidents between Britain and Iceland with regard to disputed fishing territory.
1988 The death of the actor Trevor Howard.
1994 After a wait of 800 years, girls were invited to join the Cathedral Choir at Wells in Somerset. Click here for a picture of Wells Cathedral (file size 152K)
2000 Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was released from jail after serving less than half of his 18-month sentence. He had been imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after his libel case against the Guardian Newspaper and Granada Television collapsed.