On this day

On this day in 1986...

In order to settle a long standing antitrust challenge by the Office of Fair Trading the Thatcher led UK government deregulated the financial markets. It was the outcome of an agreement with the London stock exchange which was initiated a few years earlier.

The effect on the financial markets was termed the “Big Bang” and it resulted in London becoming the most important financial centre in the world with the resultant boom driving huge investment in London such as the development of the Isle of Dogs and the Canary Wharf area.

@handyandy said
The National Rifle Association was founded in 1871.

Was Charlton Heston at the helm?🤔

@great-big-stees said
Was Charlton Heston at the helm?🤔

I think it was Wild Bill Hickok.

@handyandy said
I think it was Wild Bill Hickok.

Dude, who's the chick in your avatar?

@mudfinger said
Dude, who's the chick in your avatar?

Wipe the mud out of your eyes.

@handyandy said
Wipe the mud out of your eyes.

Mother Theresa has not aged gracefully...

@mudfinger said
Mother Theresa has not aged gracefully...

Pretty sure she’s been dead a while.😮😇

@mudfinger said
Dude, who's the chick in your avatar?

I'm sorry you're confused about my gender. I could provide proof if we ever met in person, but I usually try to avoid associating with dickheads.

@handyandy said
I'm sorry you're confused about my gender. I could provide proof if we ever met in person, but I usually try to avoid associating with dickheads.

Only usually? 🤔 😲

On this day in 1618...

Sir Walter Raleigh, English seafarer, courtier, writer and once a favourite of Queen Elizabeth 1st** was beheaded at Whitehall.

**Apparently he named the US state of Virginia after her.

Sir Walter was a fellow of Dumnonia

@divegeester said
Sir Walter Raleigh, English seafarer, courtier, writer and once a favourite of Queen Elizabeth 1st

Famous for
- not writing any of Shakespeare's plays
- not discovering North America
- not introducing potatoes to England
- not discovering tobacco

Uranus is in the Bible. It is translated as "Firmament".

On this day in 1929...

Black Tuesday; the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices.

By mid-November that year $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out. That’s quite a lump for 1926.

@athousandyoung said
Uranus is in the Bible. It is translated as "Firmament".

On this day you thought about Uranus?

I hope you are not suggesting that biblical writers knew of the planet Uranus!
"Uranus" or similar is Ancient Greek for sky/heaven or "firmament".