1966: Football glory for England
England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.
1974: Peace deal for Cyprus
Greek, Turkish and UK foreign ministers sign a peace agreement for Cyprus.
1986: Parents appeal for missing agent
The parents of missing London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh make an emotional appeal for her safe return.
1991: Pavarotti sings in the British rain
Italian tenor Pavorotti celebrates 30 years in opera with a huge, free concert in Hyde Park.
Controversial labor leader and former Teamster union president James (Jimmy) Hoffa famously disappeared on this day in 1975 and is presumed to have died at or about the same time. Recently freed form prison (where he had been sent through the efforts of his hated nemesis Robert F. Kennedy), he was struggling to reassert control of the Teamsters when he likely ran afoul of the Mafia. Hoffa is pictured speaking in the 1970s.
1971: 實施免費小學教育
1980: 英國國籍法 (British Nationality Law)白皮書公佈
1970: 墨西哥囚犯(前蘇菲利亞白爵)開畫展
Born:
Born on this day in 1863, Henry Ford was apprenticed to a Detroit machinist at the age of fifteen, then learned sufficient mechanical engineering to design his first gasoline-fueled motor car in 1893. Founding his own motor company in 1903, he later refined and profited immensely from his techniques for the mass production of the automobile. Ford is seen seated behind the wheel of his first model.
Born on this day in 1890, Casey Stengel played professional baseball for thirteen years (1912 to 1925), but it is for his colorful, effusive management of the New York Yankees that he is considered a legend in the game. From 1949 to 1960 he led the club to ten pennants and seven World Series (winning two) and was always a reliable source of folksy baseball anecdotes to the doting New York City press. Stengel is seen wearing his Yankees uniform on the bench.
Born in rural Austria on this day in 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger achieved fame first as a musclebound champion body-builder, then made the jump to film in the 1976 documentary Pumping Iron. Since then he has become perhaps the greatest box-office draw in the world for his laconic and sometimes self-deprecating roles in such action spectaculars as The Terminator and Total Recall. He is seen wearing black tie in a 1990s headshot.
Died: Prince Otto von Bismarck died on this day in 1898 after a forceful political career in which he almost single-handedly created a modern German nation out of previously disparate and quarrelsome entities. As Chancellor of the Prusso-German Empire from 1870 to 1890 he gave the French a humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and guided his countrys rapid and successful industrialization and militarization. He is seen wearing military uniform in a portrait.
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1981: Charles and Diana marry
Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day.
In perhaps the most publicized and photographed wedding of all time, Prince Charles and then Lady Diana Spencer were married on this day in 1981. Broadcast live around the world, the event made the Prince and Princess of Wales major media figures for the duration of their marriage. The couple are seen greeting the public from a palace balcony after the ceremony.
1993: Lawrence murder suspects freed
Charges are dropped against two youths accused of murdering black teenager Stephen Lawrence.
1968: Pope renews birth control ban
Pope Paul VI has confirmed a ban on the use of contraceptives by Roman Catholics in spite of a Church commission's recommendation for change.
1976: Fire engulfs Southend Pier
Fire has destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend on the UK's south-east coast.
On this day in 1907 then Lt. General Robert Baden-Powell recruited twelve boys to take on a camping trip to Brownsea Island. During the trip he developed the idea of the Boy Scouts, an organization which he would found and lead the following year and which would rapidly spread overseas from England to numerous other countries. Baden-Powell is seen outdoors in his Scouting uniform.
Born:
Born on this in 1883, Benito Mussolini was an obscure socialist magazine editor during the years before World War I, after which he organized a new anti-socialist Fascisti party which led him to power in 1922. A flamboyant figure, he shrewdly used modern media and propaganda techniques to foster a cult of personality about himself, then led Italy into disaster with his alliance with Hitler during World War II. He is seen in an authoritative portrait, emphasized by the low angle of the camera.
Born on this day in 1892, William Powell was a smooth, suave, debonair leading man in Hollywood for much of the 1930s and 1940s, but it is for his witty repartee with Myrna Loy in The Thin Man and its five sequels that he is chiefly remembered. Late in his career he also contributed a droll, knowing performance to Mister Roberts. He is seen in a 1930s portrait.
Born in Toronto, Canada on this day in 1938, Peter Jennings has enjoyed a successful career on American television as a polite, cool, and unflappable broadcast journalist. The anchor of ABCs 'World News Tonight' since 1983, he has proven himself to be a poised and sometimes condescending interviewer of politicians and world leaders. He is seen amidst a crowd at a 1992 news event.
Died:
On this day in 1983 filmmaker Luis Bunuel died in Mexico City, Mexico. Bunuel secured his place in film history with the ground-breaking Surrealist short Un Chien Andalou (in collaboration with Salvador Dali) and his later Los Olvidados and The Exterminating Angel. Consistent throughout his work were a Leftist intellectual foundation and an intolerance for church or state oppression of the individual. He is seen in a 1960s portrait.
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On this day in 1983 the suave, debonair, and impeccably British actor David Niven died after a long career in film which eventually took him to Hollywood and earned him an Oscar for his acting in Separate Tables. He used his clipped diction and archly amused manner to equally good effect in Around the World in 80 Days and Casino Royale among other films.
Vincent Van Gogh died on this day in 1890 following his attempted suicide two days earlier. He had been living at an asylum at St. Remy where he painted his intense Ravine and final Cornfields With Flight of Birds before shooting himself. His many vivid, tortured self-portraits bear evidence both to his genius and unhappiness, and helped wrest the use of color away from figurative purposes and towards more purely emotional effects. One of his self-portraits is pictured.
>>July 28, 2003 at 6:02:22 PM GMT+8
2003 年 7 月 28 日 星期一 【晴】
1976: 凌晨 理應好夢正甜 可是一場有先兆 或者有得預防(盡量減低傷亡數字)o既地震發生了 ~ 奪去至少/近三十萬人o既性命 ...
1972: 北京當局公佈 去年九月林彪o既死訊
同日: 奧運聖火重燃 (此話怎解)
2003: 政府宣佈 交通工具費用之「可加可減」制
董生同多個界別人士「會面」,包括民主派人士 董生:會談有建設性 (此話怎解) 民主派:佢同七一前冇分別 此乃「與時並進」是也!!
縱橫影壇逾七十年,更多次(二次世界大戰、越戰、韓戰、第一次波斯灣戰爭)勞軍表演,亦是尼克遜、列根等前美國總統好友的電影從業員 Bob Hope 享年一百歲 (兩個月前一百大壽) 殊仔:He was a good man! 廢話 佢唔係唔通你係!
再有兩名美軍重傷 (重傷?!) 利比利亞內戰持續
今日阿媽好犀利,行o左四個鐘頭呀 ..... 好勁呀!!
>>July 28, 2003 at 5:50:56 PM GMT+8
2003 年 7 月 27 日 星期日 【晴】
On This Day:
2000: Last batch of prisoners leave the Maze
Nearly 80 men imprisoned for terrorist offences are freed from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
1965: US orders 50,000 troops to Vietnam
President Johnson commits a further 50,000 US troops to the conflict in Vietnam.
1972: National dock strike begins
Thousands of British dockers begin an official strike to safeguard jobs.
1988: Paddy Ashdown to lead third party in Britain
The MP for Yeovil, Paddy Ashdown, is elected the first leader of the new Social and Liberal Democrat Party.
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Austria/Hungary declared war on Serbia on this day in 1914, an act of reprisal for the June assassination of Archduke Frances Ferdinand in Sarajevo. World War I quickly grew out of the minor Balkan conflict through a series of ill-considered, overlapping and conflicting alliances between the two lesser states and the great powers of Europe, leading to widespread mobilization by August. Soldiers are seen shooting from the trenches during the battle.
Born:
1929: Born on this day in 1929, Jacqueline Bouvier charmed the world as wife and First Lady to President John F. Kennedy, then surprised many by ending her subsequent widowhood with her 1968 marriage to shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Jackie O
1982: Cews ~ may be a brilliant star in the near future.
Died:
The French Revolutionary leader Robespierre was executed on this day in 1794, falling victim to the same paranoid, vengeful climate of The Terror which he had been responsible for initiating in 1789. Eloquent, charismatic and sanctimonious, he briefly led the new Republic of France in 1793 and 1794 accusing countless counterrevolutionaries who were then put under the same guillotine that ultimately claimed his life. He is seen in a portrait. 02:29:29 02:35:20
>>July 27, 2003 at 6:38:57 PM GMT+8
2003 年 7 月 26 日 星期六 【晴】
On This Day:
1965: Heath is new Tory leader
Shadow Chancellor Edward Heath beats off his rivals in the Conservative leadership contest.
1982: Seychelles coup leader guilty of hijack
Mercenary leader Colonel 'Mad Mike' Hoare is found guilty of hijacking a plane to escape from a failed coup in the Seychelles.
2000: Labour publishes plans to revolutionise NHS
The Labour Government announces the most radical re-organisation of the NHS since it was founded in 1948.
1978: Transatlantic balloonists in trouble
Two British balloonists battling to be the first to cross the Atlantic are in difficulties half way across the ocean.
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The pioneering aviation figure Orville Wright set yet another flying record on this day in 1903, this time remaining aloft with a passenger for an unprecedented one hour, one minute and forty seconds. Only five years after the Wright brotherss initial motor-powered flights, the airplane was proving itself to be a practical means of transportation with the promise of ever-longer trips and ever-larger passenger loads. Wright is seen flying aboard a plane.
The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon on this day in 1974, the culmination of the Watergate crisis which had begun with the famous botched break-in in June of 1972. Three days later the Supreme Court ruled against Nixons claims of executive privilege, leaving the embattled President no choice but face a full Congressional impeachment vote or resign趴hich he did on August 8. He is seen standing before a flag in an official 1969 portrait.
1953: 歷時三年,超過五百萬人死亡o既韓戰結束 停火線依然是三八線 (北緯三十度) 前後兩公里 ~ 是次戰事還令不少韓國人南北分隔
1980:伊朗廢王巴列維病逝開羅
1991: 警員在新界圍剿匪徒
2003:除o左 利物浦廿年後重臨香江,大勝六俾零之外 //
本地還撿獲價值九百萬o既大麻 菲律賓兵變總算在當地時間晚上七時結束 (但這有可能只是序幕) 總統 Gloria Arroyo 可以咁淡定 ~ 犀利!!
Born: No born information exists for this day?!
Died: Gertrude Stein died on this day in 1946 more than two decades after she famously named the young writers and artists who flocked to her Paris salon the lost generation. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Picasso were among her many acquaintances in the 1920s, helping to form a literary circle over which she presided with prickly authority. She is seen seated in her home.
人病了 電腦壊了 ...
病o左 胃炎 只食藥 白粥 飲白開水 (皆無味)
七月廿四至卅日
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哨牙大粒墨癦袁佩婷