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Date: 23 July 2008 12:40:41
History Today:
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie lands at Eriskay to lay claim to the English throne. Obviously he was unltimately defeated. Everyone knows that successful invasions are always made from Thanet...
1888: The birth of Raymond Chandler - finest exponent of Crime Noir.
1892: Haile Selassie is born - Emperor of Ethiopia and hero of the Rastarfarians.
1914: Following the assassination of their Ostrich the Austro-Hungarian Empire delivers at ultimatum to Serbia. A few weeks later and the First World War starts.
1940: The Local Defence Volunteers are renamed the Home Guard after Winston Churchill coins the name. Altogether now: "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler".
1973: Eddie Rickenbacker dies - Anyone know what he was famous for?
1994: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to Moscow after 20 years of exile in Siberia. I highly recommend his One Day in The Life of Alexander Denisovich.
1998: Scientists announce that they have cloned 3 generations of mice. Why can't they clone something more useful, like Meg Ryan?
2005: The wedding of the century takes place. I remember this because I found a banana with my lunch that said "Top banana! It's 3 years today."