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Offline Bilthehut

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On This Day
« 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.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: On This Day
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2010, 06:45:45 PM »
It was my late father's birthday too.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: On This Day
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: On This Day
« Reply #3 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.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: On This Day
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: On This Day
« Reply #5 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?
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: On This Day
« Reply #6 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.
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