Today in History

[Daisy]

Computer systems can have a lot to answer for!

[Gemini]

1959

The first use of a car phone, with a call from Cheshire to London. A mere twenty five people had paid the astronomical sum of £200 each for one of the phones.

[Daisy]

And I bet they were huge. OH's first car phone, supplied by his employers, had to be wired into the car.

[Gemini]

2014

A pilot was killed and another injured as Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space tourism craft crashed in the California desert. Richard Branson said - "Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together."

[Daisy]

Gem - I remember thinking at the time I wonder what RB would have said if it had been his nearest and dearest who had loft their life.

[Gemini]

1896

The first motor insurance policies were issued in Britain, but they excluded damage caused by frightened horses.

[Daisy]

Gem - where we live horses and other livestock have absolute right of way. If one walks straight into your car, it's still your fault! Some things don't change.

[Gemini]

1998

Families of World War 1 soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in the first ceremony of its kind to pay tribute to the 306 servicemen who died. Those soldiers now have a memorial

[Gemini]

1913

Battersea elected the first black mayor in London, John Archer, born in Liverpool of Jamaican parents.
The honour of Britain's first black mayor goes to Allen Glaser Minns, who was elected Mayor of Thetford, Norfolk in 1904.

[Gemini]

100 YEARS

1918

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ended; a war that had lasted for 4 years and 97 days. Germany, bereft of manpower, supplies and food, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. The war left 9 million soldiers dead and more than 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria, Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, some 6 million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

[Nana]

So very sad.❤

[Qwerty]

Such a waste of life though isn’t it , Germany starting it but Germany having to admit defeat such a waste all for nothing in the end , I know we had to defend our country but what did Germany gain from it nothing just so many dead on both sides 😢

[Daisy]

I suppose the only way you can look at it is that it was the defeat of an evil regime, rather than the defeat of Germany. I can't imagine what Europe would be like like today if Hitler had won.

[Nana]

Sadly these greedy people in power never seem to learn though. 😢

[Gemini]

2011

Coronation Street become the first prime time television show in the UK to feature product placement, when a Nationwide Building Society cash machine was shown in the episode, after ITV signed a deal with the company. The law was changed in February after commercial broadcasters, hit by falling advertising revenues, lobbied the Government.