Happy Yorkshire Day!
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davywavyMight I wish you all a Happy Yorkshire Day, and offer commiserations to all those of you who had the misfortune to be born in any of the less good parts of the world.*
August 1st holds a special place in Yorkshire's history for, on this day in 1759, soldiers from Yorkshire regiments who had fought in the battle of Minden, in Germany, picked white roses from bushes near to the battlefields as a tribute to their fallen comrades.
There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day (like the Scots, Irish and Welsh do), and I don't think we could do better than make Yorkshire Day a national holiday. After all, it does celebrate the very best thing about this country.
*i.e. all of them.
August 1st holds a special place in Yorkshire's history for, on this day in 1759, soldiers from Yorkshire regiments who had fought in the battle of Minden, in Germany, picked white roses from bushes near to the battlefields as a tribute to their fallen comrades.
There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day (like the Scots, Irish and Welsh do), and I don't think we could do better than make Yorkshire Day a national holiday. After all, it does celebrate the very best thing about this country.
*i.e. all of them.
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Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 01:44 pm (UTC)22/8/1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead.
Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 01:55 pm (UTC)Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:00 pm (UTC)Are you about this weekend, btw?
*offer subject to availability
Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:02 pm (UTC)HINT-Its the second one down
565 - St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland
1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy
1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion
1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion
1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia
1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered
1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1938 - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on the cover of Life Magazine
1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad
1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis
1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed
1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails
1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles)
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America
1969 - Elvis Presley begins performing live again in Las Vegas
1970 - Neil Young released his album, "After The Gold Rush."
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as secretary of state.
1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua
1979 - Led Zeppelin released their album, "In Through The Out Door."
1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2004 - The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:05 pm (UTC)There's a party the weekend after this - if you're interested I can probably wangle you an invitation.
565 - St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland
1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy
1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion
1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion
1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia
1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered
1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1938 - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on the cover of Life Magazine
1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad
1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis
1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed
1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails
1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles)
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America
1969 - Elvis Presley begins performing live again in Las Vegas
1970 - Neil Young released his album, "After The Gold Rush."
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as secretary of state.
1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua
1979 - Led Zeppelin released their album, "In Through The Out Door."
1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2004 - The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:21 pm (UTC)Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: As an alternative
Date: 2006-08-01 02:28 pm (UTC)But...me! Late! So speaks Mr. "Oh, the Northern line was delayed" himself! Alastair 'unreliable' Montgomery! The man who redefined the meaning of the word 'tardy'! Telling me not to be late! I'm outraged!