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Title: On This Day
Post by: Bilthehut on April 14, 2010, 06:26:36 PM
April 14
1543 - Bartoleme Ferrelo returned to Spain after discovering San Francisco Bay in the New World. Pity the Panama Canal wasn't open.

1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.

1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.
Title: Re: On This Day
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 14, 2010, 06:45:45 PM
It was my late father's birthday too.
Title: Re: On This Day
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 14, 2010, 07:19:00 PM
and 20 years ago today I was standing up as maid-of-honour for my husband's sister in an ugly green lacy dress.
Title: Re: On This Day
Post by: Tom on April 14, 2010, 07:40:17 PM
Quite a few years before that, in 193 in fact, Lucius Septimus Severus was crowned emperor of Rome.
Title: Re: On This Day
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 14, 2010, 07:53:23 PM
Quote from: Tom on April 14, 2010, 07:40:17 PM
Quite a few years before that, in 193 in fact, Lucius Septimus Severus was crowned emperor of Rome.

It was the first time a toga was later converted into a lacy green dress.
Title: Re: On This Day
Post by: Malc on April 14, 2010, 09:37:56 PM
...although I'm confused now. Was it Diane or her husband's sister in the ugly green dress?
Title: Re: On This Day
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on April 14, 2010, 11:49:07 PM
I've just come back from visiting my kid brother in Cleckheaton - he was born on this day, fifty years ago.