On this Day

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28th May 1936

Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers

I wonder how we would manage without such technology today?

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9th June 1781

Only mentioned this in case any Scots still believe they invented everything. They damn near did though

The birth of George Stephenson, English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Stephenson was renowned as being the 'Father of Railways'. His rail gauge of 4 feet 8 1⁄2 inches (1,435 mm), sometimes called 'Stephenson gauge, is the world's standard gauge.

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18th June 1963

Henry Cooper knocked Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) to the floor in round four at Wembley Stadium, London, but by the sixth, with Cooper badly cut, the fight was stopped and Clay remained world heavyweight boxing champion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frn3rTj5DOY

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1st July Battle of the Somme begins

A sad day. It was the single heaviest day of casualties in British military history.

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11th July

International town crier day.

"Oyez" "Oyez"

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14th July 1858

Most know my views of woman & am happy we have another one to lead us but it started from here

The birth, in Moss Side Manchester, of Emmeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette who led the fight for women's suffrage in Britain

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July 27th 1949

On this day the world's first jet-propelled airliner, the British De Havilland Comet, makes its maiden test-flight in England

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July 30th 1966

Chris Farlowe was number 1 with Out of Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDjbul0WyE

There was a football event that day as well

[Memory man]

Sept. 2nd 1666

Great Fire of London begins.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... don-begins

[Jen]

3 Sep1939

France and Britain declared war on Germany

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The Scots do it once again. Were you in that game MM

12th Sep 1885

The Scottish football team of Arbroath beat Bon Accord (from Aberdeen) by 36 goals to nil in the first round of the Scottish Cup, making it a record breaking score for professional football. Thirteen goals were scored by centre-forward John Petrie.

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Johnny Cash died 13 years ago today.
Revisit 11 of his coolest cover songs http://rol.st/2cQTJ9S

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Love the song Hurt. It spells out this message to me. You are never too old

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I was born

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Is there no end to their talents

1928 The Scottish born pharmacologist Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

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Is there no end to their talents

Ode for McJagwheels

Wha’s Like Us – Damn Few And They’re A’ Deid

By Tom Anderson Cairns

The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national
costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.

En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn, Scotland.

At the train station he boards a train, the forerunner of which was a steam engine, invented by James Watt of Greenock, Scotland.

He then pours himself a cup of coffee from a thermos flask, the latter invented by James Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth.

At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by James Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries, Scotland.

He watches the news on his television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland,

And an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.

He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorised its translation.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the world.

He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.

If he escapes death, he might then find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, which was discovered by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland.

Or under anaesthetic, which was discovered by Sir James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.

Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.

Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask “Wha’s Like Us”.

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Well done MM & I think it deserves

Although it's my first name, the Scots even lay claim to that

The surname Norval was first found in Berwickshire an ancient county of Scotland

[Memory man]

October 9th 1940.

John Lennon was born.

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October 21st 1966

As most people will be aware, it's the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster today.

Aberfan - The untold story

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Good post Brian & such a sad story. Even sadder to me was some of the sick jokes that appeared shortly after

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Two for the price of one

1794 The birth of Robert Liston, Scottish physician who carried out Britain's first operation with the aid of an anaesthetic.

1831 English physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated the dynamo, founding the science of electro-magnetism

I'm sure the Welsh & Irish must have invented something ........................

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3 Nov 1948

Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer

With a name like that it shows the Scots have a sense of humour

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November 6th 1986

Alex Ferguson was appointed as manager of Manchester United.

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November 30th

St Andrew’s Day. Patron saint of Scotland, also of golfers and fishermen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJO7MoCpfdI

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8th December 1980

John Lennon was assassinated.
I can't believe it's 36 years gone.

Merry Christmas John.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Vfp48laS8