Today in History

[Gemini]

2012

Two snap bags of the class A drug cocaine were identified by the police officer father of children who had been trick-or-treating in the Royton area of Oldham. Magistrates heard that Donald Junior Green, 23, was mortified by his 'terrible mistake'.He was given a 12-month community order and 130 hours community work.

[Gemini]

2003

An acoustic guitar on which the late Beatle George Harrison learned to play, fetched £276,000 at a London auction.

[Daisy]

Wow! ...

[Gemini]

1971

Five teenagers, all from Ainslie Park School in Edinburgh, and their female instructor died in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.

[Oma]

How sad Gem , I can’t remember hearing about that but I must have as it does ring a bell somewhere in my mind .

[Gemini]

Very tragic

[Daisy]

I do remember that, and wondering how it could happen. Such a dreadful tragedy.

[Gemini]

1987

Free eye tests were abolished by the Conservative government.

[Gemini]

1867

Mrs. Lily Maxwell of Manchester became the first ever woman to vote in a British election, due to a mistake in the electoral register. She had to be escorted to the polling station by a bodyguard to protect her from those opposed to women’s suffrage.

[Daisy]

That was quite a long time before the suffragettes' movement was founded - she was well ahead of her time. I wonder if she got bullied or ostracised as a result of voting.

[Gemini]

2014

A new treatment for bladder cancer was shown to completely cure some people, in the first significant breakthrough in the disease for 30 years. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London discovered that an antibody allowed cancer cells to be picked up by the immune system and eradicated before they could spread.



Let's hope we soon have an effective safe cure for all cancers.

[Daisy]

Sadly there are so many cancers where treatment is still uncertain.

[Gemini]

1999

Eleven people were injured when a nude swordsman attacked churchgoers at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in London.

[Daisy]

Gem, if I'd read that elsewhere I don't think I would have believed it.

[Gemini]

Gem, if I'd read that elsewhere I don't think I would have believed it.

I imagine he was high on drugs Daisy, mentally unstable, or both.