On this day in history

[Chas]

On this day in 1812, the only Prime Minister to be murdered.
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[Chas]

On this day in 2000 Ford announces the end of car production at its Dagenham plant after more than 70 years – see how workers reacted.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1991 Winnie Mandela, wife of anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela, is handed a six-year jail sentence for her part in the kidnap of four youths.
She turned out to be as nasty as her husband was when he was a terrorist.

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day, 14 May 1938, the players of the England football team raised their arms to give the Nazi "Heil Hitler" salute before a match in Berlin. They had been instructed to do so directly by the British Foreign Office. Reportedly the players at first refused, until the British ambassador and Football Association secretary intervened and ordered them to do so. At the time the British government had signed an agreement with Hitler permitting his annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia, and much of the British ruling class supported the dictatorships of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco as bulwarks against communism. According to his biographer one of the players, Stan Cullis, would not perform the salute and was dropped from the team for that match as a result.

 

[goodoldboy]

For Palestinians this day marks the Nakba literally  'Memory of the Catastrophe' , the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the formation of the state of Israel .This resulted in 700 000 Palestinians becoming refugees as they fled and were forced out of their homes.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1991 The UK’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman, blasts into orbit.
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Did you know our first woman in space came from Mars? she was working for that company when she heard a request for astronauts (No experience necessary) she applied and the rest is history.

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1980, workers and students in Gwangju, South Korea, rose up against their brutal US-backed dictator, Chun Doo-hwan.
Peaceful protesters were fired upon, with many shot and others beaten and stabbed to death by paratroopers. This sparked an uprising across the city, as local residents raided local armouries and police stations, seized weapons and eventually succeeded in driving out government troops.
Workers and locals then took control of the city, running it collectively for several days, until paratroopers invaded once more and bloodily suppressed the rebellion, killing hundreds.
Though unsuccessful in meeting its immediate goals, the uprising contributed to the end of decades of dictatorship late in the 1980s.
For those of us that relate South Korea with Samsung , Kia , LG Hyundai etc.it's a shock to learn some of this history , with actions we might expect fro it's northern neighbour.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. Hear her account of the record-breaking achievement.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1701the pirate Captain Kidd was hanged at Wapping,
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[Grimbo]

Amelia and Amy are both people I hold in tremendous regard and who would no doubt have gone on to do far greater adventures , brave intelligent independent women .... I would love to have spent an evening in the company of either ....

 

[Chas]

24th May, today was Empire Day, I remember at school we had a days holiday.
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[goodoldboy]

24th May, today was Empire Day, I remember at school we had a days holiday.

A jolly day for all concerned i'm sure .Apart from those whose lands were invaded and occupied .

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1910 German shipyard worker August Landmesser was born. He is thought to be the worker defiantly refusing to perform a Nazi salute. He was later conscripted to a penal battalion then killed. His Jewish partner was sent to a concentration camp and killed.Brave and defiant , what was & is needed to resist fascism.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1904 George Formby OBE was born, he was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer
Born: 26 May 1904, Wigan
Died: 6 March 1961, Preston
Albums: Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock, That Ukulele Man, Count Your Blessings and Smile.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1868 the last public execution;
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[Shayne]

Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished in 1993. The Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency, but not part of the United Kingdom (which had effectively abolished capital punishment in 1965). The last person to be actually hanged on the Isle of Man was John Kewish, at Castletown in 1872.

The Isle of Man (a small island between Britain and Ireland with its own legal system as a British Crown dependency) caused a good deal of controversy by continuing to birch young offenders until 1976. ... It may now be the only country in the world still officially using the birch.

I know a couple of fella's who had it , one who point blank refused to take his shirt off when there was only the two of us on a boat with no land in sight sweating buckets on the hottest day in years . This must have been like 20 years after he was punished .

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1959 Two monkeys become the first living creatures to survive spaceflight. Watch archive footage, as scientists explain what they hoped to learn.

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1921 the Tulsa Massacre began when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood district in Tulsa Oklahoma .The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district – at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street" Estimates of casualties range from 35 to 300 dead with hundreds wounded , many of them seriously.The catalyst for this was the alleged assault on a white teenage woman by a black teenage man .As with many of theses allegations at the time a lynch mob formed but was resisted by a group of black men , some of them armed.Thousands of black residents were rounded up and detained without charge and an estimated 10 000 were made homeless. The events were erased from history until survivors held a memorial service in 1971.In 1996 a state commission was authorised to investigate the events & published it's final report in 2001.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London. You can read more about how the BBC covered the Coronation here

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1966 The US lands its first spacecraft on the Moon. See how Tomorrow's World responded to photographs sent back to Earth.