Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on January 11, 2007, 14:57:37 PM
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April the Nineth - a Date in History. Scunner moves to Calis and.....
GENERAL
1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0
1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta
1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders
1928 Turkey passes separation of church and state
1914 "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st colour film, shown in London
1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York
1838 National Galley opens in London
1770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1483 Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
BIRTHDAYS
1957 Severiano Ballesteros, born in Spain, golfer, British Open 1979, 84, 88
1946 Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper, 1967-81
1941 Hannah Gordon, actress, Oh Alfie
1926 Hugh Hefner, born in Chicagp, magazine publisher, Playboy
1926 Lord Fitt, MP, Belfast Ireland
1919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor, 1st electronic computer-ENIAC
1835 Leopold II, King of Belgians, 1865-1909
1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
1649 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, horrible person son of English king Charles II
1634 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau
DEATHS
1991 Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89
1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
1747 Lord Lovat, English jacobiet, dies
1747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
1483 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38
1024 Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies
715 Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
PS If any of the above facts are not 100 % correct, take it up with someone else :)