Today in History

31st August

1422 King Henry V of England died of dysentery whilst in France.

1957 Malaya celebrated independence. The handover of power from Britain took place at midnight.

1959 British prime minister Harold Macmillan and American president Dwight Eisenhower gave an historic live television broadcast from Downing Street.

1962 Mountaineers Chris Bonington and Ian Clough become first Britons to conquer the north face of the Eiger

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, died after a car crash in Paris.
 

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September 1st1532 Lady Anne Boleyn was made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII. Less than 4 years later Henry had her investigated for high treason. She was found guilty of adultery and incest and was executed on 19th May 1536.



1865 Joseph Lister performed the first antiseptic surgery.



1886 The Severn Tunnel, (railway tunnel) between England and Wales, was opened for goods traffic.
I’ve been through it countless times.




1939 At dawn on 1st September, Germany made a massive invasion of Poland and bombed Warsaw at 6am, beginning World War II in Europe. The service to 2,000 televisions also ceased in Britain. There would be no more TV for seven years.
 

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1939 Operation Pied Piper was launched - Britain’s largest civilian evacuation in history. With war looming, over 1.5 million people, mostly children, were moved from cities to the relative safety of the countryside. The evacuation began just days before Britain declared war on Germany and would continue throughout the Blitz and beyond.

Though the operation saved countless lives, it came at a cost. Families were torn apart, children faced an unfamiliar world, and many evacuees later spoke of loneliness, fear and the long shadow the experience cast on their lives.

On a personal note, my grandparents took in two evacuees, a brother and sister from London. Thankfully, they were treated with kindness and both families became good friends although living at opposite ends of England and always kept in touch. I was about 16 months old when I was first taken down to London to see them. They also visited here a few times over the years. The last time I saw the eldest (and remaining) evacuee was when my eldest son was a baby. Sadly, evacuee died not long after that. I have very fond memories of all of them.

I don't usually post photographs in this history section but I hope this once is okay.

Me....aged 16 months, with mother of evacuees.

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1973 The rescue of former British Royal Navy officer Roger Mallinson and engineer Roger Chapman after their Vickers Oceanics small (6ft diameter) submersible Pisces III was trapped on the seabed at a depth of 1,575 ft (480 m), 150 miles off Ireland in the Celtic Sea. The rescue, by British, American and Canadian dive teams had taken 76 hours and resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history. It was later determined that there was just 12 minutes of oxygen left aboard.

1985 After 73 years the wreck of the liner 'Titanic' was found, by Dr. Robert Ballard.
 
2nd September 1922
One of Australia's best known writers - Henry Lawson - died

He became one of Australia’s best-known fiction writers of the colonial period. Most of his works dwelt on the Australian bush, accurately depicting the difficult conditions of life on dry, dusty outback stations and in bush towns.
Lawson gained a loyal following when the Bulletin started to publish his stories and poems in 1888.
However, he never really recovered from his childhood hardships and rejection from his peers, and in his later years became an alcoholic. He died at home alone.
He was given a state funeral which was attended by the Prime Minister, William Morris Hughes,
 
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2nd September1666 The Great Fire of London began in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, and rapidly spread throughout the city, destroying most of London's buildings and houses. Although 13,000 buildings were destroyed in the four-day blaze only six people died.


1685 The beheading of Lady Alice Lisle, the last woman to have been executed by a judicial sentence of beheading in England. She was tried by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester and was executed for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor.





1752 The Julian calendar was used in Britain and the Colonies 'officially' for the last time, almost two centuries after most of Western Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar. As in the rest of Europe, the following day in Britain became 14th September.








1969 The first episode of the popular British comedy series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” airs on television.




1980 John Arlott, cricket commentator, retired at Lord's after 35 years of broadcasting for the BBC.
 
Sept 2nd:
1789
Congress established U.S. Treasury
1931
singer, Bing Crosby makes his radio debut on CBS radio network with '15 Minutes with Bing Crosby' program. The show ended on Oct 31,1931
1945
V-J Day formal surrender of Japan was signed aboard USS Missouri which ended WWII
1963
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite is expanded from 15 min to 30 min
1987
Phillips introduces Compact Disc Video{CDV} discs which cost $10
2015
According to a Yale Study that was published in 'Nature',the earth has over 3 trillion trees
 
On This Day In History, September 3rd

1995 – Internet giant eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
The company owns ebay.com, an online marketplace and auction website.

1971 – Qatar independence
The Persian Gulf state gained its independence after 55 years of British rule.

1967 – Dagen H in Sweden
On this day, Swedish drivers switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.

1783 – Treaty of Paris is Signed between Great Britain and the United States of America
The treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.

1752 – Day skipped in the British Empire
The British Empire skipped 11 days starting September 3 when it adopted the Gregorian calendar.
 
Births on September 3rd 🎂

1965 – Charlie Sheen
American actor

1929 – Whitey Bulger
American mobster

1900 – Percy Chapman
English cricketer

1899 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1875 – Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian/German engineer, businessman, founded Porsche

Deaths on September 3rd 🪦

2005 – William Rehnquist
American lawyer, jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States

1991 – Frank Capra
Italian/American director, producer, screenwriter

1962 – E. E. Cummings
American poet

1658 – Oliver Cromwell
English general, politician

1634 – Edward Coke
English judge, politician
 
3ydd o Fedi 3rd September

1535 An outbreak of sweating sickness started


Contagious disease of humans that struck England and Europe between 1485 and 1551
Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. Other major outbreaks of the English sweating sickness occurred in 1508, 1517, and 1528, with the last outbreak in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. The onset of symptoms was sudden and death often occurred within hours

1783 Britain finally recognised the United States of America by signing the Treaty of Paris which officially ended the American War of Independence.




1878 Over 640 died when the crowded paddle steamer Princess Alice collided with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. It was the greatest loss of life in any Thames shipping disaster.



1969 – The Rolling Stones release “Angie,” which would go on to become one of their biggest ballads.



1971 – John Lennon leaves the UK for New York, never to return.
 
3rd September

1189 Following the death of his father Henry II, Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

1650 English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeated an army loyal to King Charles II of England at the Battle of Dunbar.

1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany. At 1115 BST the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired.

1943 British troops landed on the Italian mainland four years to the day after war was declared on Germany.

1954 The National Trust purchased Fair Isle in northern Scotland, famous for its bird sanctuary and knitted sweaters.
 

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