Today in History

October 10th


October 10th, 1831Angry at the defeat of the Second Reform Bill a crowd burnt down Nottingham Castle, England, home of the Duke of Newcastle, who had opposed the bill in parliament.




1881 The Savoy Theatre, the first public building to be lit by electricity, opened with a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Patience'.



October 10th, 1903Emmeline Pankhurst
founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.


And on this day in 1957 Paul Anka was still at Number One with Diana.
You can work out why I looked that up!
 

10th October

1969 The British Government accepted the recommendations of the Hunt committee on policing in Northern Ireland which include the abolition of the Ulster Special Constabulary, know as the 'B Specials'. The Home Secretary, Jim Callaghan, ordered a commission, headed by Lord Hunt, in response to the summer's violence in the Bogside area of Londonderry.

1957 A major radiation leak was detected at the Windscale (now known as Sellafield) nuclear plant in Cumbria after an accident three days earlier. Milk from about 500 square km. of nearby countryside was diluted and destroyed for about a month. Windscale Piles: Cockcroft's Follies avoided nuclear disaster

1970 Canadian minister seized by gunmen. Quebec's Labour and Immigration Minister, Pierre Laporte, was kidnapped. He was seized from his home in Montreal by two men armed with machine guns.

1980 The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made a defiant speech to Conservatives at the party conference in Brighton. Responding to recent expectations of an about-turn on counter-inflationary policies, Mrs Thatcher declared to widespread cheers: "To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!"
 
October 11th
1216 King John lost his crown and jewels whilst crossing 'The Wash', on the north-west margin of East Anglia.




1983: The Tudor ship Mary Rose is raised from the Solent near the Isle of Wight after 438 years on the seabed. She famously sank on 19th July 1545 in full view of King Henry VIII after making a sharp manoeuvre while leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet.






1988 Women began to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge for the first time. To mark the occasion male students wore black armbands and the porter flew a black flag.


11 Oct 1969
One Hit Wonders Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Je t'aime... Moi non plus.' Banned by many radio stations for its sexual content and sounds and for first time in the history of the show, the BBC’s Top of the Pops producers refused to air the No. 1 song.

11 Oct 1968
During a Beatles recording session at Abbey Road six saxophonists recorded parts for 'Savoy Truffle' for the forthcoming White Album . George Harrison. distorted the saxophones to get the desired sound.
 

1881
U.S. inventor David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1950
U.S. FCC{ Federal Communications Commission} issues 1st license to broadcast television in color to CBS
1975
Saturday Night live{SNL} comedy sketch show created by TV producer, Lorne Michaels debuts live at 11:30 pm with comedian George Carlin as host
1978
Columbia Records releases Billy JOel's 6th studio album' 52nd Street' featuring hit singles, 'My Life, Honesty, Big Shot,Until the Night
2017
Trip Advisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire as the world's best restaurant. Its still open owned& operated by the Banks family
2024
archaeologists announce the discovery of one of the oldest churches in the world from 4th century AD,during excavations in Artaxata, Armenia
 
12th October 1955
The Chrysler Corporation introduces high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars.
The unit measured about four inches high and less than a foot wide and mounted under the instrument panel.
The seven-inch discs spun at 16⅔ rpm and required almost three times the number of grooves per inch as an LP.
The players would be discontinued in 1961.
 
12th October 1912
The Mount Lyell Mining Disaster at Queenstown, Tasmania occurred, resulting in the deaths of 42 miners.
The disaster was caused by a buildup of gas within the mine, leading to a catastrophic explosion that trapped workers underground and left families devastated.
(My hometown, I worked 10 years in that underground Copper mine.)

1918
Australian children's classic "The Magic Pudding" authored by Norman Lindsay is first published.

2002
Eighty-eight Australians are killed in the Bali bombings.
 
October 12th

1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland began selling raincoats, now better known as - Macs. He was first employed as a clerk but before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. The essence of his patent for waterproof fabrics was the cementing together of two pieces of natural India-rubber, the rubber being made soluble by the action of naphtha, a byproduct of tar. For his various chemical discoveries he was, in 1823, elected a fellow of the Royal Society.




1969: WKNR radio in Cleveland, Ohio receives an anonymous phone call saying that if you play The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" backwards, you'll hear John Lennon saying "I buried Paul." This helped kickstart the conspiracy rumour that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by a look-alike.




1979 The publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy.
by the English writer and dramatist Douglas Adams.
And without which we would never have enjoyed Vogon poetry.





Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me, (with big yawning)
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,

On a lurgid bee,

That mordiously hath blurted out,

Its earted jurtles, grumbling

Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.
[drowned out by moaning and screaming]

Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,

Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,

And living glupules frart and stipulate,

Like jowling meated liverslime,

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,

And hooptiously drangle me,

With crinkly bindlewurdles.

Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
 
October 13th54AD: Ageing Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances, possibly by his final wife Agrippina mother of Claudius' 17-year-old stepson Nero who would succeed him to the Roman throne.

1773 – Charles Messier Discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy On October 13, 1773, French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the first spiral galaxy.
He named it the "Whirlpool Galaxy".
Centuries later, scientists confirmed the spiral shape of our own Milky Way.
Today, the Whirlpool Galaxy is one of the most studied galaxies in the universe.



1884: The International Meridian Conference, held in Washington DC selects the Greenwich Meridian in London as the international standard for zero degrees longitude.




1963 The term Beatlemania was coined after The Beatles appeared at the Palladium. They made their debut as the top of the bill on ITV's 'Sunday Night at The London Palladium.'
 

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