On This Day

[GillD46]

On this day my 86 year old mum, with severe Fibrosing Alveolitis and Insulin Dependent Diabetes, is having her first cataract removed. A pretty simple procedure normally, but lying flat and still for her is all but impossible due to her constant coughing

And our eldest daughter and her husband are moving, so we are on cleaning duty!

[gfwgfw]

25 July, 1949 Bread Ration ended

[qbman1]

On this day in 1978, the first test-tube baby in Britain was born Louise Joy Brown, at Oldham Hospital, Lancashire. It had taken 12 years of research by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Dr Robert Edwards to make the birth possible. Louise weighed 5lb 12 oz and was delivered by caesarean section.

Blimey, makes you feel old, doesn't it ?! Anyways, happy birthday Lou

[qbman1]

On this day 47 years ago Apollo 11 "splashed down" and my eldest son was born - a few days earlier than expected

On this day 47 years and nine months ago, our Blod was having a quiet night in !!

[Raybosailor]

[quote="qbman1"]On this day in 1978, the first test-tube baby in Britain was born Louise Joy Brown, at Oldham Hospital, Lancashire. It had taken 12 years of research by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Dr Robert Edwards to make the birth possible. Louise weighed 5lb 12 oz and was delivered by caesarean section.

She might have her own You Tube following Cubie.

[Raybosailor]

On this day 47 years ago Apollo 11 "splashed down" and my eldest son was born - a few days earlier than expected

On this day 47 years and nine months ago, our Blod was having a quiet night in !!

Or a noisey one

[Jan Rosser]

On this day 47 years ago Apollo 11 "splashed down" and my eldest son was born - a few days earlier than expected

On this day 47 years and nine months ago, our Blod was having a quiet night in !!

Or a noisey one

Can't remember Ray

[Raybosailor]

26th. July

1745 The first recorded women's cricket match was played near Guildford, Surrey, between teams from Hambledon and Bramley.

1814 Ryde Pier on the Isle of Wight opened on this day.

1890 Marconi made the first public transmission of wireless (radio) signals from the roof of the General Post Office in Aldersgate.

1945 Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were defeated by the Labour Party.

Birthdays
1791 Composer Franz Xaver Mozart was born, the son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was a composer in his own right.
1895 The birth in Birmingham, of Jane 'Jinny' Bunford, the tallest person in English medical history, who measured 7ft. 11in. at the time of her death, aged 26.
1943 Mick Jagger, lead singer with the Rolling Stones, was born.
1856 George Bernard Shaw.
1928 Stanley Kubrick, film director (Spartacus,2001 A Space Odyssey,Clockwork Orange) and many more.
1946 Helen Mirren.
1949 Roger Taylor (Queen) .
1959 Kevin Spacey.
1964 Sandra Bullock.

[qbman1]

On this day 47 years ago Apollo 11 "splashed down" and my eldest son was born - a few days earlier than expected

On this day 47 years and nine months ago, our Blod was having a quiet night in !!

Or a noisey one

Can't remember Ray

Is it only recently you've become noisy then, Blod ?!

[qbman1]

You can always rely on me to find the important stuff:

On this day in 1989, 56-year-old Leslie Merry was knocked off his feet, a rib broken and his spleen ruptured, by a turnip thrown from a passing car in east London. He finally died of respiratory failure brought on by the accident.

[Raybosailor]

You can always rely on me to find the important stuff:

On this day in 1989, 56-year-old Leslie Merry was knocked off his feet, a rib broken and his spleen ruptured, by a turnip thrown from a passing car in east London. He finally died of respiratory failure brought on by the accident.

That was a turnip for the book Cubie.

[Raybosailor]

27th. July

1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco to England, from Virginia.

1694 The Bank of England was founded.

1866 The Great Eastern arrived at Heart's Content in Newfoundland, having successfully laid the transatlantic telegraph cable.

1949 The British De Havilland Comet, the first jet-propelled airliner, made its maiden flight. It was a 40-passenger airliner.

1985 Steve Cram set a new world record for the mile at 3 minutes 46.32 seconds in Oslo.

2003 The death of Bob Hope, the English-born American comedian and actor.

2012 The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.

Birthdays
1882 Geoffrey de Havilland the designer of the Mosquito and Comet aeroplanes born in High Wycombe.
1944 Bobbie Gentry singer.
1958 The birth of Christopher Dean in Calverton, Notts, British ice skater and Olympic gold and bronze medal winner.
1956 Garry Birtles Nottm. Forest and Man. United player born in Nottingham and went to the same school as my wife Cheryl.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Walter Raleigh has a lot to answer for.

BTW when did he make his first bike?

[towny44]

On the subject of tobacco, does anyone know why these vape machines produce such huge clouds of vapour? Much more than ciggies.

[Raybosailor]

Walter Raleigh has a lot to answer for.

BTW when did he make his first bike?

I don't know Merv but we had both John Player (tobacco) and Raliegh (cycles) factories in Nottingham employing thousands of people but both have disappeared now.

[Raybosailor]

On the subject of tobacco, does anyone know why these vape machines produce such huge clouds of vapour? Much more than ciggies.

Probably because it is a liquid vapour as opposed to smoke which expands when exposed to the air, all I do know is it stinks awful.

[qbman1]

...and don't they look classy, walking down the street with a plume of smoke surrounding their head ?!

[qbman1]

On this day in 1914 British troops invaded the streets of Dublin and began to disarm Irish rebels.

That went well then !!

[Raybosailor]

28th. July

1586 Thomas Harriot was credited with bringing the first potato to Britain, (from Colombia) ahead of Sir Walter Raleigh.

1865 100,000 watched the last public execution in Scotland when Dr. Edward Pritchard was hanged for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law.

1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie had been shot dead by a Bosnian Serb nationalist, the start of WW1.

1959 Postcodes were introduced in Britain.




Birthdays
1857 The birth of Ballington Booth, an Officer in The Salvation Army and a co-founder of Volunteers of America. He was born in Brighouse, Yorkshire and was the second child of William and Catherine Booth, founders of The Salvation Army.
1866 Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator was born in Kensington.
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier ) in Southampton, New York.

[qbman1]

On this day in 1988, Paddy Pantsdown becomes the first leader of the new Social and Liberal Democrat Party in the UK

What another great day that was !!

[qbman1]

28th. July

1586 Thomas Harriot was credited with bringing the first potato to Britain, (from Colombia) ahead of Sir Walter Raleigh.

1865 100,000 watched the last public execution in Scotland when Dr. Edward Pritchard was hanged for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law.

1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie had been shot dead by a Bosnian Serb nationalist, the start of WW1.

1959 Postcodes were introduced in Britain.




Birthdays
1857 The birth of Ballington Booth, an Officer in The Salvation Army and a co-founder of Volunteers of America. He was born in Brighouse, Yorkshire and was the second child of William and Catherine Booth, founders of The Salvation Army.
1866 Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator was born in Kensington.
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier ) in Southampton, New York.

I've been to Sarajevo and on a street corner there are two footprints in the concrete pavement where Archduke Ferdinand was standing when he was shot. I've always thought it was fortuitous that the cement was still wet at the time to preserve the scene for posterity !!

[Raybosailor]

29th. July

1833 The death of William Wilberforce, English campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.

1938 Dennis the Menace first appeared in the 'Beano' comic.

1976 Fire destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend.

1981 Charles the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at London's St Paul's Cathedral.

2014 Clifford Hartland, aged 101, a Second World War prisoner camp survivor and his wife Marjorie, aged 97, died within hours of each other on their 76th wedding anniversary.

Birthdays
1914 Marcel Bich Manufacturer and co-founder of the Bic. ballpoint pen.
1946 Diane Keen
1966 Sally Gunnel

[Silver_Shiney]

Thirty eight years, the lovely Lady C and I got married. Thirty two years ago our eldest daughter was born.

[Raybosailor]

Thirty eight years, the lovely Lady C and I got married. Thirty two years ago our eldest daughter was born.

Happy Anniversary Alan and Happy Birthday to your daughter too, our son was born on our 2nd Anniversary.

[Silver_Shiney]

Thank you, kind sir