Today in History

[Gemini]

2014

Dr. Michael Ramscar and a team of scientists suggested that the brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive. “The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”


Well there you are then!

[Daisy]

Exactly what we always suspected, Gem!

I was humming a tune in my head this morning, but couldn't think of who sang it. About an hour later the name "Elton John" popped up. My hard drive must be super-full of information with recall that slow!

[Gemini]

1807

Streets in London were first illuminated by gaslight when Pall Mall was lit up.

[Daisy]

It's hard to imagine a time before street lighting was invented, and only candles or oil lamps for lighting indoors.

[Gemini]

1901

Queen Victoria died, aged 81, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. At the time, her reign was the longest in British history, spanned 63 years and saw the growth of 'an empire on which the sun never set'

[Daisy]

Queen Victoria saw lots of changes in her long reign, and I've always thought Victorian ways of thinking were still current when I was a child. I remember a lot of people moralising about other people - what they should and shouldn't be doing. There never seemed to be much tolerance.

[Gemini]

1858

Mendelssohn's Wedding March was first played .... at the wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria and Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia.

[Gemini]

1995

Manchester United's Eric Cantona was fined £20,000 and a football ban over his kung fu-style attack on a fan. Cantona was nicknamed 'King Eric' by Manchester United fans, and he was voted the club's greatest ever player by the Inside United magazine.

[Daisy]

1995 - thirty years ago! I think it must be old age (on my part) that only seems like yesterday!

[Gemini]

I agree Daisy! The 80's seems quite recent to me!

[Oma]

I get shocked when I realised how long ago it is , I think of these dates as just a few years ago 🤣🤣

[Gemini]

2015

Photographers took to Twitter to complain that their pictures of Arlington Row, in the Cotswold village of Bibury were being 'blighted and photo-bombed' by the bright yellow Vauxhall Corsa that belonged to one of the residents

[Daisy]

Gem, I remember this so well. I had taken photos of Arlington Row, with the yellow car in the picture. It "lived" right at the top of the Row and over to the right. I spent quite a while photoshopping the car out and replacing it with the bushes and other greenery around it. So when it hit the photography community headlines I actually had both versions!

[Gemini]

Very interesting Daisy!

[Gemini]

1963

A French veto stopped Britain joining the European Common Market.