Today in History

[Nana]

I wonder what the piece of music sounded like?😉

[Daisy]

Nana - a word did spring to my mind, but it's a bit rude!

[Nana]

Ha. Great minds think alike.😂

[Gemini]

1972

The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic and Denmark joined the Common Market.

[Gemini]

1849

English-born Elizabeth Blackwell, who was constantly ostracized and harassed by the male students, graduated from a New York medical school to become the first woman doctor.

[Daisy]

Gem - we should remember our trailblazers from time gone by. She must have been very brave and utterly determined.

[Gemini]

1965

Death of Sir Winston Churchill, aged 90, world famous soldier, politician, historian and Prime Minister of Britain. He was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of the battle of Dogger Bank. He had correctly predicted that he would die on the same date as his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, who had died exactly 70 years previously.

Although I was only 10 I remember this well, as my parents were both staunch Churchill supporters.

[Daisy]

I remember it too, and the very grand and solemn State funeral.

[Gemini]

1945

The Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland was liberated. The millions killed during the Holocaust are remembered each year in services across the UK, as part of Holocaust Memorial Day.

[Daisy]

Gem, even after all this time, that name still sends a shiver down people's spines. But we should remember because if we don't who knows what might happen.

[Gemini]

1994

The first women only boxing tournament was held at the Marine Halls, Fleetwood. Diane Berry became the first British super-flyweight women’s champion.

[Gemini]

1989

The artificial leg that had belonged to Sir Douglas Bader was catalogued for sale. His widow was selling memorabilia to raise money to buy her own house, instead of renting.

[Nana]

I know I shouldn't but that made me smile. That's my sense of humour for you😉

[Gemini]

1988

A microlight aircraft landed near Sydney, Australia, to create a record time of 55 days since leaving London

[Daisy]

That must have been a scary journey, with lots of take-offs and landings and planning routes to account for the weather and size of the fuel tank.