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Post by ARENA on Sept 8, 2014 15:09:01 GMT
1664 8 Sep The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam is surrendered to the British. It is renamed New York five years later.
Birthdays today were: Harry Secombe Peter Sellers
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Post by ARENA on Sept 9, 2014 9:19:56 GMT
9th Sept 1890 – Colonel Sanders (KFC) was born.
Hugh Grant is 54 today.
( additions welcome)
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Post by ARENA on Sept 10, 2014 7:45:35 GMT
10th Sept.
1926 – Beryl Cook, English painter born 1945 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist born
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Post by ARENA on Sept 11, 2014 7:58:04 GMT
11th September:
1994 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1917 – Jessica Mitford, English journalist and author (d. 1996)
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Post by ARENA on Sept 12, 2014 8:50:00 GMT
12th September: Sir Donald Sinden has just died (90)
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Post by ARENA on Sept 13, 2014 9:46:09 GMT
Singers day........
1918 Dick Haymes (b) 1922 Yma Sumac (b) 1925 Mel Torme (b)
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Post by scorp on Sept 13, 2014 20:12:17 GMT
Oh blimey yes, Yma Sumac (or was it Amy Camus?) and 'The Virgin of the Sun God'... with the 'Conjunto Folklorico de Moises Vivanco' - I always felt we were being sent up, but the performance was pretty spectacular!
Mel Tormé was pretty good too - immaculate pitching for one thing. Technically the best of all the crooners of the time.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 14, 2014 9:09:08 GMT
September 14th
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
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Post by ARENA on Sept 15, 2014 9:47:40 GMT
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) took place on 15 September 1830. Work on the L&M began in the 1820s, to connect the major port town of Liverpool with the burgeoning industrial town of Manchester, 35 miles (56 km) away. Although horse-drawn railways already existed elsewhere, and a few industrial sites already used primitive steam locomotives for bulk haulage, the L&M was the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, and the first to provide a scheduled passenger service. The opening day was a major public event. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, the Prime Minister, rode on one of the eight inaugural trains, as did many other dignitaries and notable figures of the day. Huge crowds lined the track at Liverpool to watch the trains depart for Manchester.
I expect the prophets of doom had a field-day!
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Post by scorp on Sept 15, 2014 11:59:11 GMT
And that was the first public railway fatality too... William Huskisson, a Liverpool MP. Although people were asked to stay in their wagons, when the train halted they milled about a bit, as crowds will... Huskisson went to talk to Wellington, as another train came down the parallel track - he hung on to the door of Wellington's wagon - but it wasn't latched, and swung open - depositing him on the track. Nasty... they loaded him onto a truck and took him to where he could be seen in a hospital, but despite the fact that it was the first high-speed emergency journey, he died.
The locomotives were supplied by Stephenson, whose Rocket had won the Rainhill trial earlier.
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Post by TJ on Sept 15, 2014 17:20:37 GMT
September 15th
Battle of Britain Day. An event far more worthy of mention I would have thought than all those 'celebrity' birthdays you put up, Arena.
TJ
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Post by Arena on Sept 15, 2014 17:34:52 GMT
Thanks for those words of appreciation.TJ.
I would, once again, point out this is a participation forum and not my blog!
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Post by ARENA on Sept 16, 2014 8:58:43 GMT
1620 – Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) set sail on the Mayflower.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 17, 2014 10:00:23 GMT
1999 – Frankie Vaughan died, English singer (b. 1928)
NB If anyone knows of anything historic that happened on this date, do add it.............
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Post by goldelox on Sept 17, 2014 11:03:34 GMT
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