on this day in nineteen eighty five
i awoke astonished i was still alive
the southside of chicago
ain't no mar-a-lago
and i left much quicker than i arrived
@rookie54said on this day in nineteen eighty five
i awoke astonished i was still alive
the southside of chicago
ain't no mar-a-lago
and i left much quicker than i arrived
The worst hurricane to hit Britain since records began devastated southern England and caused at least 19 deaths and tens of millions of £ in damage.
The television weather presenter Michael Fish had the night before infamously told the nation ”Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!".
In reaction to the controversy, the term "the Michael Fish effect" has been coined, whereby British weathermen are now inclined to predict "a worst-case scenario” in order to avoid being caught out.
175 ago the first Train run in Wuerttemberg as the Station Bad Cannstadt was opened (it run to Untertürkheim (where the Daimler Benz works are located today)
Families of World War 1 soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in the first ceremony of its kind to pay tribute to the 306 servicemen who died.
Those soldiers now have a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
1581: Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich died after being attacked by his father Ivan the Terrible three days earlier.
1863: Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg address, with his freedom cry: "Government of the people shall not perish from the earth."
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