This Day In History Thread
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As per thread title... Notable daily events thread. (Multiples on any one given day is acceptable)
Today marks 22 years since the Air France Concorde crashed in France with the loss of 109 lives..
One regret I have was never going supersonic on Concorde, or indeed flying on one at all......!
Today marks 22 years since the Air France Concorde crashed in France with the loss of 109 lives..
One regret I have was never going supersonic on Concorde, or indeed flying on one at all......!
Good idea, can't believe Concorde was 22 years. Still vividly remember that footage with the huge tongue of fire streaking behind her.
Never flew on one, but I've been on the prototype at Fleet Air Arm museum in Somerset, worth a visit https://www.fleetairarm.com/ Amazing how narrow the thing is.
1978
www.beautifulbritain.co.uk
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby in Britain, was born at Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester. It had taken 12 years of research by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Dr Robert Edwards to make the birth possible. Louise weighed 5lb 12 oz and was delivered by caesarean section.
Never flew on one, but I've been on the prototype at Fleet Air Arm museum in Somerset, worth a visit https://www.fleetairarm.com/ Amazing how narrow the thing is.
1978
www.beautifulbritain.co.uk
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby in Britain, was born at Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester. It had taken 12 years of research by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Dr Robert Edwards to make the birth possible. Louise weighed 5lb 12 oz and was delivered by caesarean section.
R56Cooper said:
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby in Britain, was born at Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester. It had taken 12 years of research by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Dr Robert Edwards to make the birth possible. Louise weighed 5lb 12 oz and was delivered by caesarean section.
Not the first 'aided' conception baby though, a mistake many people make.26th July
2005 - first Space Shuttle flight after the Columbia disaster launches
1896 - "Bentley Boy" Tim Birkin born
1942 - Belgian racing driver Teddy Pilette (former Spa 24hr winner) born
1946 - Spanish racing driver Emilio de Villota (former British F1 champion) born
It's "Esperanto Day"
Wikipedia is brilliant for this stuff and can be a real rabbit hole!
2005 - first Space Shuttle flight after the Columbia disaster launches
1896 - "Bentley Boy" Tim Birkin born
1942 - Belgian racing driver Teddy Pilette (former Spa 24hr winner) born
1946 - Spanish racing driver Emilio de Villota (former British F1 champion) born
It's "Esperanto Day"
Wikipedia is brilliant for this stuff and can be a real rabbit hole!
Great idea for a thread
Yesterday, On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown the first test tube baby was born
Today,
in 1945 the Declaration of Potsdam where US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
in 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal and started the Suez crisis
and in 1803 The Surrey Iron Railway,the world's first public railway, opened in south London. It was the world's first railway to be publicly subscribed by Act of Parliament as a railway throughout. The 9 mile track was a horse-drawn plateway of approximately standard gauge that linked the former Surrey towns of Wandsworth and Croydon via Mitcham.
Oh and it's Mick Jaggers birthday - born 1943
Yesterday, On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown the first test tube baby was born
Today,
in 1945 the Declaration of Potsdam where US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
in 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal and started the Suez crisis
and in 1803 The Surrey Iron Railway,the world's first public railway, opened in south London. It was the world's first railway to be publicly subscribed by Act of Parliament as a railway throughout. The 9 mile track was a horse-drawn plateway of approximately standard gauge that linked the former Surrey towns of Wandsworth and Croydon via Mitcham.
Oh and it's Mick Jaggers birthday - born 1943
rjfp1962 said:
As per thread title... Notable daily events thread. (Multiples on any one given day is acceptable)
Today marks 22 years since the Air France Concorde crashed in France with the loss of 109 lives..
One regret I have was never going supersonic on Concorde, or indeed flying on one at all......!
Every year my school did a trip to Paris and the two years I went on it we stayed in the hotel where it came down. I didn’t go the year it happened but people from lower school had got back a few days prior.Today marks 22 years since the Air France Concorde crashed in France with the loss of 109 lives..
One regret I have was never going supersonic on Concorde, or indeed flying on one at all......!
I have a Perpetual Disappointments Diary on my work desk so should be able to bring down the mood on a few days at least. Nothing for today but on 25/7 1834 poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge died.
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