On This Day: Birthdays and Events.

Births: David Schwimmer (Ross,Firends) and KD LanG (Singer and feminist)

Deaths: George Bernard Shaw and Eva Cassidy.

Events: 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started in 1974(Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of 142 mostly teenagers in fire at a nightclub in France in 1970!!!)

South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup (1963)

Nothing happened on the 3rd and 4th?

Also, on this day, my deep fat fryer got hotter and hotter then started to explode all over my kitchen! frightened the life out of me so it did!

Lexi wrote:Also, on this day, my deep fat fryer got hotter and hotter then started to explode all over my kitchen! frightened the life out of me so it did!

whoaa!!!! i'll have that wiki'd and immortalised in history in no time teeny!

poor gel.

I'm chucking it in the bin! it's quite new as well! but obviously the thermo's broken. Really scared me! hot fat going everywhere!

ON THIS DAY:



1909: The first Woolworths store opened in liverpool.

1991: The daily Mirror boss Robert Maxwell was found dead in the sea, in mysterious circumsatnces, after disappearing off his yatch.

Birthday: Brian Adams is 50 today

Lexi wrote:I'm chucking it in the bin! it's quite new as well! but obviously the thermo's broken. Really scared me! hot fat going everywhere!

what???? you'll do no such thing young lady!

take it back to the shop silly, make up a story! tell 'em you've a good mind to sue them for the 3rd degree burns.

CannyX wrote:ON THIS DAY:



1909: The first Woolworths store opened in liverpool.

1991: The daily Mirror boss Robert Maxwell was found dead in the sea, in mysterious circumstances, after disappearing off his yatch.

Birthday: Brian Adams is 50 today

He looks about 100.

CannyX wrote:ON THIS DAY:



1909: The first Woolworths store opened in liverpool.

1991: The Daily Mirror boss Robert Maxwell was found dead in the sea, in mysterious circumstances, after disappearing off his yatch.

robert maxwell had a plie of debts when he died, and he had siphoned away the private pensions of many press employees.........

On this day someone decided to take matters into their own hands over MP's expenses claims ...after hearing that one of the bastards had claimed forty groats to have his arse licked ...so he tried to blow the lot of them up today ...nov the fifth.

Rollup wrote:On this day someone decided to take matters into their own hands over MP's expenses claims ...after hearing that one of the bastards had claimed forty groats to have his arse licked ...so he tried to blow the lot of them up today ...nov the fifth.

remember remember the 5th of november.......







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On this day 9th nov 1881: flogging was abolished in the british army.


(bet the officers missed it more than the humble foot soldiers!)