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See if you get this correct. The answer is in the Spoiler below. Post whether you got it correct not the actual answer ;)
Date: 30th August
On this day in 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented what?
the vacuum cleaner
<mod edit: Chris W> spoiler tags inserted :)
So thats 2 spoilers in one thread :rolleyes: :mad: well done mate :dozey:
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Name rang a bell but didn't have a clue Gareth :tu:
Oh well, looks like it's game over. Cheers, Damien :rolleyes:
Damien, just for info, this link explains about how Hoover fits into the story... http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvacuum.htm
hong kong was liberated from japan 30/08/1945
what was the question again :confused:
what happened on this day in 1997 that flooded the news ?
diana princess of wales died in a car crash in paris
Diana Princess of Wales died :(
Dave Stones
31-08-2005, 12:27
thomas edison patented something:
1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
You learn something new everyday.
Apparently one of my musical heroes was orn on this day too - Glenn Tilbrook, of Squeeze.
what happened on this day in 1997 that flooded the news ?
diana princess of wales died in a car crash in parisI knew this one as I was at a restaurant on the Champs Elysees the night it happened, and my son was born a couple of days later.
By the way, before you ask, I've already got my alibi sorted ;)
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erm, I mean an alibi about the car crash!
Some more people born today...
Van Morrison, singer/songwriter, 60
Todd Carty, actor, 43
Chris Tucker, actor, 33 (nope, no idea either :D )
Also, on This Day in History in 1900, what or who arrived in Britain for the very first time?
Coca Cola
Chris Tucker: http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0000676/
Chris Tucker: http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0000676/
Aaahhh, good old Chris Tucker - he managed to turn The Fifth Element from a top notch film to a vastly annoying film in just one scene :mad:
Better in Rush Hour though :)
OK, here's today's teaser...
More important than the birth of Keanu Reeves (1964), big-haired Valderrama (1961) and Lennox Lewis (1965), and even more important than the death of Ho Chi Minh (1969)... what historic event took place on this day in history in Tokyo Bay?
World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri
*note: read this (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/5/9261D82C-98F5-40AE-938A-EB14FA2CEA14.html) article for an interesting discussion on whether this is actually true.
i didnt get that one i thought it was
first transatlantic round trip air flight 1936
On this day in 1504 michelangelo's statue of david was erected :shrug:
8-9-00
2000: French fuel protests spread to UK
The fuel protests which have been crippling France for the past week have now reached Britain with a series of actions across the country.
The protesters - mainly road hauliers and farmers - are displaying their anger at Europe's highest fuel prices, which are due to rise another 2p per litre within the next few days.
This afternoon there was a 100 lorry "go-slow" protest on the A1 in Tyne and Wear and a convoy of 200-300 people set off to Wales to block the Texaco refinery near Pembroke.
The actions follow blockades at oil installations at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire and Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/09/17.gifhttps://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/09/17.gifhttps://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/09/17.gifhttps://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/09/18.gifWe're always on the sharp end
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/09/19.gifProtesting taxi driver
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/09/17.gifThe chairman of the Farmers for Action UK group said the demonstrations were only the beginning of a "winter of unrest".
A taxi driver taking part in the A1 protest said drivers were frustrated with their plight being ignored by the government.
"Everything's gone up and our money's gone down, so that's why we feel so strongly - we're losing out all the time, we're always on the sharp end," he said.
But the Transport Minister, Lord McDonald, said the government was in tune with motorists. He told the BBC that Chancellor Gordon Brown had reduced road taxes and stopped fuel duty escalating as it had done under the Conservatives.
He died on this day in 1970 aged 27
what a great guitar player
Who was he? please use spoilers
Full story in the link after your guess ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_3528000/3528692.stm
I know - because he was born on Nov 27th - same as me. :)
ScaredWebWarrior
18-09-2005, 15:36
Date: 30th August
On this day in 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented what?
If you check here http://www.vachunter.com/bellows.htm and scroll down to the 'Red Star' - I've got one of those lying around somewhere. lol.
1970 T-Rex headlines first Glastonbury rock music festival :Peaceman:
Peron Deposed In Argentina
Peron Deposed In Argentina...
...and Madonna spies an opportunity to make everybody forget Body of Evidence and Desperately Seeking Susan :p:
The QE2 is 38 today http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/20/newsid_3075000/3075555.stm
Can't believe it's a year since Cloughie died.
"I certainly wouldn't say I'm the best manager in the league, but I'm in the top one."
"Get in there - that's what I pay you for!" - to Derby County players at a training session.
"You got all those medals by cheating" - to the Leeds United players on his first day as manager.
"If a chairman sacks a manager that he initially appointed, then he should go as well."
"John Robertson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neilson_Robertson) was an very unattractive young man, if one day, I felt a bit off colour, I would sit next to him. I was bloody Errol Flynn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn) compared to him."
"If God had intended for us to play football in the clouds he would have put grass up there" - referring to the long ball game.
"If a player had said to Bill Shankly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shankly) 'I've got to speak to my agent', Bill would have hit him. And I would have held him while he hit him."
"It was like a morgue in the dressing room after the game, and it's still like a morgue now. If that's what defeat feels like, we don't want to go through it again - oh, it's rotten" - interview with ITV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV) after defeat for Forest in the 1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980) League Cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_Cup) final.
"Derby County were here a long time before Robert Maxwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell)" - on agreeing with a protest by Derby fans against Maxwell's ownership of the club.
"They thought I was going to change it lock, stock and barrel. They were shrewd because thats exactly what I would have done" - on why he was rejected by the FA for the England job.
"I'd ask him how he thinks it should be done, have a chat about it for twenty minutes and then decide I was right" - on dealing with players disagreeing with his methods.
"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead, send them to me now if you like me."
"I want no epitaphs of profound history or all that kind of thing. I contributed, I hope they would say that and I hope that somebody liked me."
:birthday: Microsoft 30 today
First british atomic bomb detonated 1952 :Peaceman:
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