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Post by TJ on Sept 27, 2014 8:11:39 GMT
It's all been slightly down-hill since West Side... and not so slightly in the case of Lloyd Webber! And so say all of us...!
TJ
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Post by ARENA on Sept 27, 2014 8:25:36 GMT
27/9/1066 – Guillaume le Conquérant and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 28, 2014 8:44:56 GMT
28/9/1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
Born 6 August 1881 Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Post by ARENA on Sept 29, 2014 13:44:39 GMT
29/9/1899 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman born, founded Butlins (d. 1980)
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Post by ARENA on Sept 30, 2014 8:15:46 GMT
30/9/1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria
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Post by ARENA on Oct 1, 2014 10:52:42 GMT
1/10/1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 2, 2014 11:04:16 GMT
2/10/1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 3, 2014 8:38:05 GMT
William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
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Post by goldelox on Oct 3, 2014 9:27:48 GMT
A favourite of mine.
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Post by scorp on Oct 3, 2014 16:30:47 GMT
'Earth has not anything to show more fair...' -- he wouldn't think that now...
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Post by ARENA on Oct 4, 2014 8:39:57 GMT
4/10/1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 5, 2014 8:41:28 GMT
5/10/1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
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Post by scorp on Oct 5, 2014 17:00:42 GMT
Arbuckle didn't even want to be there... afterwards, Keaton gave him work when nobody else would - he directed under the name Will B. Goodrich.
Despite his being not only acquitted, but the jury having issued a message to the world to say that he was innocent and had suffered as a result of the scandal -- the public treated him as a symbol of Hollywood depravity, and the movies were never the same again!
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Post by ARENA on Oct 6, 2014 9:05:28 GMT
6/10/1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America
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Post by ARENA on Oct 7, 2014 10:59:34 GMT
7/10/1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season
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