22nd October

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Events1665 – Samuel Pepys in his diary (an early “blogging”) “... he

tells me the Dutch Embassador (sic) at Oxford is clapped up, but since I hear it is not true.... I and Mr. Salomon to Mr. Glanville’s, and there we found Cocke and sat and supped, and was mighty merry with only Madam Penington, who is a fine, witty lady. Here we spent the evening late with great mirth, and so home and to bed.”

1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster (William Dixons pit) where a firedamp explosion kills 207 miners.

 

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Events 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes

place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.

1910 – Dr. Crippen convicted of poisoning his wife Acknowledged as probably the first arrest assisted by wireless telegraphy. “Recognised” by the Captain of the Montrose who telegraphed Scotland Yard “Have strong suspicions that Crippen London cellar murderer and accomplice are among saloon passengers. Moustache taken off growing beard. Accomplice dressed as boy. Manner and build undoubtedly a girl.” Police travel by the faster SS Laurentica & arrive in Quebec ahead of Crippen.

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Events1957 – First US casualties in the Vietnam War (1/11/55

– 15/5/75): in Vietnam.

1962 – President Kennedyannounces that “spy”planes have discoveredSoviet nuclear weaponson Cuba. He orders anaval "quarantine“, (blockade); the CubanMissile Crisis “happens”and the world holds its breath”.

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Events1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes,

in a “super/deep stall” in UK with the loss of all on board. Causation was put down to a phenomenon that became known as deep stall or superstall. To warn pilots of such impending catastrophic loss of lift “stick shakers” and “stick pushers” are designed and added to the One-Eleven's control system.

1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre turns down the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1981 – The first French "train à grande vitesse" (TGV) begins running from Paris to Lyon (320kph/200mph).

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Ins…. [Births]

 1734 – Daniel Boone, American pioneer (d. 1820)

1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist/composer (d. 1886).

1870 – Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”) sometime lover & partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945).

 1919 – Doris Lessing (née Taylor), writer and Nobel Prize laureate (2007). 

1968 – Orville Richard Burrell (“Shaggy”) Jamaican musician.

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Outs… [Deaths]1906 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)

1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)

1989 – Ewan MacColl (b. 1915). In Russell Square the plaque the inscription includes: "Presented by his communist friends 25.1.1990 ... Folk Laureate - Singer - Dramatist - Marxist ... in recognition of strength and singleness of purpose of this fighter for Peace and Socialism". Creator of Radio (with Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger) of the Radio Ballard format and father of Kirsty (1959 – 2000) singer with the Pogues of a "Fairytale of New York“.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUZuVZWHkk&feature=related

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• Where does this go, what does it do (and when)? How does it link with the Peppercorn A1?

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