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I went on a history tour of the UK as I thought I should brush up on our proud heritage. It started at Runnymede where the barons made King John sign the Magna Carta. I asked the guide when all this happened and he said 1215. I couldn’t believe I only missed it by 15 minutes.
List of most watched television broadcasts In 2005, the British Film Institute compiled a list of programmes with the biggest audience since 1955. The top 10 are: 1. 1966 World Cup Final 32.30 million 30 July 1966 BBC/ITV 2. Funeral of Princess Diana 32.10 million 6 Sept 1997 BBC1/ITV 3. British Royal Family documentary 30.69 million 1969 BBC1/ITV 4. EastEnders Den divorces Angie 30.15 million 25 Dec 1986 BBC1 5. Apollo 13 splashdown 28.60 million 17 April 1970 BBC1/ITV 6. FA Cup replay: Chelsea vs. Leeds 28.49 million 29 April 1970 BBC1/ITV 7. Royal Wedding of Charles & Diana 28.40 million 29 July 1981 BBC1/ITV 8. Wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips 27.60 million 14 November 1973 BBC1 9. Coronation Street Alan Bradley killed by tram 26.93 million 8 December 1989 ITV 10. Coronation Street Hilda Ogden leaves 26.00+ million 25 December 1987 ITV
A Yorkshire grand mother is watching her grandchild playing on the beach when a huge wave washes over him, pulling him out to sea. Falling on her knees in the sand the grandma begins to pray: “ Please God, save my only grandson ! He is my life and the future of our family! With all my years of faith, please return him safely !”
beach, bringing the lad back onto the sand as good as new. The Grandma looks to the sky and shouts… “He had a hat.”
It Happened in September. It’s a History thing. 1 Sept. 1159 The death of the only English Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspeare) 2 Sept. 1666 The Great Fire of London begins in Pudding Lane and rages for 5 days, but killing only 9 people. 3 Sept. 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany 4 Sept. 1962 The Beatles start their first recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London 5 Sept. 1638 Birth of Louis XIV, 'The Sun King', of France 6 Sept. 1620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England carrying the Pilgrim Fathers to America. 7 Sept. 1533 Birth of Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. 8 Sept. 1944 The first V2 flying bombs kill 3 people in London 9 Sept. 1513 James IV of Scotland killed at battle of Flodden 10 Sept. 1771 Birth of Mungo Park, Scottish explorer who published his 'Travels in the Interior of Africa' in 1799 11 Sept. 1915 Britain's first Women’s Institute opens in Wales 12 Sept. 1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier 13 Sept. 1902 Harry Jackson becomes the first person in Britain to be convicted on fingerprint evidence 14 Sept. 1752 The first day of Gregorian calendar in Britain 15 Sept. 1830 MP William Huskisson becomes the first rail fatality at the opening of the Liverpool/ Manchester Railway. 16 Sept. 1400 Owain Glyndwr proclaimed Prince of Wales 17 Sept. 1701 King James II of England died in exile in France 18 Sept. 1709 Birth of Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first English dictionary 19 Sept. 1356 The Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III, leads English to victory over the French at the battle of Poitiers 20 Sept. 1258 Consecration of Salisbury Cathedral. 21 Sept. 1327 Death of Edward II, murdered with a red hot poker by his jailers. 22 Sept. 1735 Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole moves in to 10 Downing Street 23 Sept. 1848 Chewing gum is produced commercially for the first time. 24 Sept. 1776 The first St. Leger horserace is run at Doncaster, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1818 First transfusion
of human
blood is performed at Guy's Hospital, London ( A pint-that’s nearly an armful. Tony Hancock.) 26 Sept.
1580 The
Golden Hind arrives in Plymouth harbour having sailed round the world under the captaincy of Sir Francis Drake.
Just then a huge wave rolls back onto the Drake plundered a
few Spanish ships en-route to keep morale high! 27 Sept. 1888 First use of the name, 'Jack the Ripper' in an anonymous letter to the central news agency 28 Sept.
1745 'God Save the King' is sung for the first time
at London's Drury Lane Theatre 29 Sept. 1758 Birth of Horatio Nelson 30 Sept. 1938 Misguided British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says, after meeting Hitler in Munich, 'I believe it is peace for our time'.
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In the wake of our English Cricket team whitewashing the Indians and moving up to be the best test side in the world, we couldn’t help but find a cricket joke to mark the occasion. An expectant father rings the hospital to see how his wife is getting on. By mistake he’s connected to Lord’s cricket ground. ‘How’s it going?’ he asks. ‘Fine,’ comes the answer, ‘we’ve got three out and hope to have the rest out before lunch. The last one was a duck.'
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