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Skylace wrote:

Bat wrote:

Skylace wrote:And November 27 1926 Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg Begins

Who is Colonel Williamsburg

I reckon this site should be halved into a U.S. section and a U.K. section.

Not Colonel, Colonial as in from the Colonial times.
[web]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Williamsburg[/web]

Yes, I knew it was colonial!!!!!!!

1959 - Charlie Burchill, guitarist with Simple Minds born. Not a lot of people know this.

Bat wrote:

Skylace wrote:

Bat wrote:

Skylace wrote:And November 27 1926 Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg Begins

Who is Colonel Williamsburg

I reckon this site should be halved into a U.S. section and a U.K. section.

Not Colonel, Colonial as in from the Colonial times.
[web]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Williamsburg[/web]

Yes, I knew it was colonial!!!!!!!

Then why did you ask "Who is Colonel Williamsburg"

Er, I was pulling your leg.

Anyway here's another gem. 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

Bat wrote:Er, I was pulling your leg.

Weak pull

Another bit of history I just learned about today: 1985 The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.

November 28, 1919 First Serving Female British MP Elected (Nancy Witcher Astor)

she was a tory though!

28th November

1628 John Bunyan, author of 'The Pilgrims Progress', was born.

1660 The Royal Society, an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in science, was founded.

1905 The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded by Arthur Griffith in Dublin.

1919 Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP, holding a safe Plymouth seat for the Conservative Party in a by-election caused by her husband's elevation to the peerage.

1935 The Miles quadruplets (Ann, Ernest, Michael and Paul) were born in Cambridgeshire and were the first British quads to survive infancy.

1968 Enid Blyton, English children's book author, died.

1967 All horse racing in Britain was suspended indefinitely to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

1971 An English farmer uncovered a major immigrant smuggling operation when he rammed a plane which had landed at a disused airfield on his farm in Kimbolton, 10 miles from Huntingdon. The pilot escaped but police officers arrived soon after the incident and detained the five occupants of the plane.

1990 Margaret Thatcher made her last speech outside 10 Downing Street following her resignation as Prime Minister.

1993 The Northern Ireland peace process and Prime Minister John Major's credibility were dealt a blow when secret government contacts with the IRA were publicly disclosed.

1997 A large majority of MPs in the House of Commons approved a Private Member's Bill, introduced by Labour MP Michael Foster, to ban fox hunting.

1999 Eleven people were injured when a nude swordsman attacked churchgoers at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in south London.

funny the fox hunting one - i think that only finally passed last year - 9 years, not bad ...

luke wrote:she was a tory though!

And an American as well!

November 29, 1889 Japan's Meiji Constitution Goes into Effect

oh man, not the Meiji Consitution! I really wish people would stop going on about it... haha

Skylace wrote:November 29, 1889 Japan's Meiji Constitution Goes into Effect

I thought it was the 27th of November actually

Skylace wrote:And an American as well!

i didn't know that. i've got no worries with her being female or american, she could be any colour or religion, even a scientologist! she could come from mars ( or is it venus women come from?! ) - but a tory?! theres no excuse for that

29th November

1530 Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London.

1849 Sir John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, was born. His inventions included the Fleming Valve and many related devices that led to the development of modern electronics.

1898 C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles, was born.

1907 British nurse Florence Nightingale, aged 87, was presented with the Order of Merit by Edward VII for her work tending the wounded during the Crimean War.

1934 In Britain, the first live radio broadcast of a royal wedding - the marriage of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina at Westminster Abbey in London.

1947 The UN approved Britain's plan for a partition of Palestine.

1956 Panic-buying broke out at garages across the country as the government gave details of its petrol rationing plans. Petrol had been in short supply since the President of Egypt, Gamal Abdul Nasser, took over the running of the Suez Canal four months previously.

1962 Britain and France announced a joint agreement to design and build Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner.

1963 The Beatles record I Want To Hold Your Hand was released, with advance orders of one million in the UK alone.

1965 Housewife Mary Whitehouse began her Clean Up TV Campaign by setting up the National Viewers and Listeners' Association to tackle 'bad taste and irresponsibility'.

1975 British racing driver Graham Hill was killed in an aircraft crash at Arkley, Hertfordshire.

1995 On his historic visit to Britain, US President Bill Clinton praised British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton for their joint efforts to bring peace in Northern Ireland.

2001 George Harrison, former member of the Beatles died, aged 58.

1974-The bones of "Lucy" are found in Ethiopia

30th November

St Andrew’s Day. He is the patron saint of Scotland, also of golfers and fishermen.

1872 The first football match between England and Scotland took place in Glasgow. It ended in a 0-0 draw.

1874 Birth of Sir Winston Leonard Churchill, British statesman, journalist, historian and Nobel prize-winner for literature. He was a descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough, and was born born in Blenheim Palace. The great wartime Prime Minister, with his highly quotable speeches, was considered by many as ‘the greatest living Englishman’.

1913 Charlie Chaplin made his film debut without the moustache and cane in 'Making a Living'.

1936 The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire. The spectacular blaze was seen miles away. Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, it was originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851.

1944 HMS Vanguard, Britain’s largest, and last ever battleship, was launched at Clydebank.

1955 Floodlights were used for the first time at Wembley Stadium, during an international game with Spain.

1960 Gary Lineker, footballer, and former England captain, was born. Despite his long career, Lineker was never cautioned by a referee for foul play, a feat equalled only by Billy Wright, John Charles and Sir Stanley Matthews.

1968 The Trade Descriptions Act came into force making it a crime for a trader to knowingly sell an item with a misleading label or description.

1982 A letter bomb exploded inside No. 10, Downing Street, injuring a member of staff. The package was sent by animal rights activists. Margaret Thatcher was at home when the device exploded but she was not hurt in the blast.

1983 Seaweed contaminated by heavy radioactivity was discovered in Cumbria, near the Sellafield nuclear plant.

1987 At Christie's auctioneers in London, a painting by Edgar Degas, 'The Laundry Maids', was sold for £7.48 million.

happy saint andrews day to the scots

1872 The first football match between England and Scotland took place in Glasgow. It ended in a 0-0 draw.

They should say that it was the first international match between any two countries - and it happened just down the road from me here. Here's a pic of the pitch, where they now play international cricket.