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Post by scorp on May 21, 2015 5:20:01 GMT
Now that is art!
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Post by ARENA on May 21, 2015 8:01:30 GMT
21/5/1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 13:29:34 GMT
Agreed. I had the Post on order from the newsagent every week for several years as a young man.
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Post by ARENA on May 22, 2015 8:18:16 GMT
22/5/1964 – The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
Pity he didn't say when...........
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Post by ARENA on May 23, 2015 8:46:18 GMT
23/5/1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English trumpet player and composer (d. 2008)
The one and only Humph.............
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Post by ARENA on May 24, 2015 8:12:07 GMT
24/5/2015.. Ireland took it's first step into the 21st Century
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Post by ARENA on May 25, 2015 8:25:49 GMT
........a bit earlier....
25/5/1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
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Post by ARENA on May 26, 2015 8:25:24 GMT
26/5/1904 – George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor born (d. 1961)
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Post by ARENA on May 27, 2015 8:14:49 GMT
27/5/1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and still going strong! (93)
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Post by ARENA on May 28, 2015 7:52:49 GMT
28/5/1900 – Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris. In 1986,it became the wonderful Musee d'Orsay.
Do visit it.....
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Post by ARENA on May 29, 2015 8:17:12 GMT
29/5/1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal. A cure for hangovers...
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Post by ARENA on May 30, 2015 8:41:23 GMT
30/5/1431 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
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Post by ARENA on May 31, 2015 9:37:33 GMT
31/5/1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich in England to Frobisher Bay in Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London. So now you know...........
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Post by ARENA on Jun 1, 2015 7:59:49 GMT
1/6/1967 – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles is released.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 2, 2015 8:04:37 GMT
2/6/1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials* in Salem, Massachusetts. Found
guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
* An early conspiracy theory.
I once acted on the jury, in a mock-up of the trials, in Salem, Mass.
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