On This Day Posts
March 22nd, 1895, Paris, France - The curtain parts and forty-four spectators at the Rue de Rennes sit in silent anticipation. 46 seconds later, the curtains close. Our view of the world will never be the same again.
Idus Martiae, Romae, DCCX ab urbe condita – The culmination of a conspiracy of sixty high ranking members of the Roman Republic. Gaius Julius Caesar, the man who was thrice offered the crown of the Eternal City and thrice rejected...
March 8th 1957 – After a short but bloody conflict followed by fractious international negotiations, the government of Gamal Adbel Nasser reopened the Suez Canal for the first time in five months.
Completed in 186...
February 13th, 1982 - Now, this column is usually reserved for a light-hearted backward glance through the vista of years at events and people that have shaped the world.
February 1st, 2013 - At 12am Central European Time this morning, the Euro Football Transfer window slammed shut.
January 25, 1759 - Another year, another oil related banner. Slâinte Mhath & Happy Burns Night to one and all!
254 years to the day that the Bard of Ayrshire was born, those of Scottish...
December 14th, 1546 – A castle in Denmark. It’s snowing (because it is December in Denmark). Twins are born. One will die before his first birthday. The other will become one of the greatest scientists of the renaissance. Luc...
December 7th, 1926 – a great day for….kitchenware. And by extension modern civilisation.
You may scoff, as kitchenware and the progress of humanity would not seem to be mutually inclusive but this da...
November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri – The sixth child of Jane and John Marshall Clemens is born as Halley’s comet streaks through the night sky.
Samuel Langhorne...
November 16th 1973 : US President Richard Nixon puts pen to paper on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorisation Act.
After a series of anti-Communist revolutions beginning in Poland in 1989, 1,380 kilometres of concrete wall, erected in 1961 to separate the citizens of East and West Germany fell under hammer blows.
October 12th, 1492 - Guanahani ring any bells? Lucayan Archipelago anybody? 1492 maybe?
Today would have been the 183rd birthday of one of the USA’s "forgotten Presidents", one Chester Alan Arthur.
One of the reasons the Vermonter has been somewhat erased from the public memory is that he was never v...
Pevensey Bay, Sussex, England, 1066 – An invasion fleet of 7,000 assorted nobles and mercenaries from mainland Europe disembark on the shores of southern England under the aegis of Duke William II of Normandy.
Baghdad, September 10th 1960: Juan Pablo Pêrez Alfonzo, Energy and Mines minister for Venezuelan and Abdullah al-Tariki , his Saudi counterpart, convened a meeting with representatives from Iraq, Iran and Kuwait to discuss ways to increa...
