Edward Teach, the English pirate who sailed under the name of Blackbeard, was killed in battle off the coast of North Carolina, with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
@hells-caretakersaid 1434: The River Thames froze over and, exactly 281 years later, it froze again - hard enough for a Frost Fair to be held on the ice.
1713: Laurence Sterne, clergymen, novelist and humorist, was born in Tipperary.
1963: Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with killing president Kennedy, was shot dead by club owner Jack Ruby at Dallas Police Headquarters.
1884: Evaporated milk was patented by John Meyenburg, of St Louis, USA.
1984: Britain's top rock stars, responding to a call by Bob Geldof, gathered together under the name Band Aid to record Do They Know It's Christmas in aid of the Ethiopian famine ( and look at it now!).
2010: Bernard Mathews died aged 80, Buwttifuulll😉[giddit] 🚬
1607: John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, was born in London.
1778: British explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).
1914: Battleship HMS Bulwark exploded at Sheerness Harbour killing 788 people.
1983: Gold bars worth £25 million were stolen from the Brinks Matt security warehouse at Heathrow Airport.
2020: America elects cob web......🚬
1701: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer who created the centigrade temperature scale, was born in [edit] Uppsala.
1919: A massive meteor landed in Lake Michigan.
1967: President de Gaulle (the undesirable who spent WW2 in comfort without dodging live rounds in the U.K.) vetoed Britain's entry into the common market - Brexit v Irony🤦♂️
2019: A naval engineer who was honoured at Buckingham Palace made sure the day of the ceremony was extra special by proposing to his partner - Not Andrew then😒
2020: Cobweb gets bigger🚬
1552: Death of Spanish missionary Francis Xavier, who helped Ignatius Loyola found the Jesuits.
1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and other works, died of a stroke at his villa in Samoa.
1967: The first heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Bernard and a team of surgeons in South Africa.
1984: More than 3000 people died in a chemical factory spillage at Bhopal, central India.
2020: Cobweb is finger prodded by a right hand.🚬
1154: Nicholas Breakspear became the only English Pope of Adrian IV.
1534: Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupied Baghdad - funny, and yet not.
1829: Britain outlawed "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husbands funeral pyre) - hang on a minute🤔😒
1935: The game of Monopoly was born - the brainchild of unemploed engineer Charles Darrow.
1952: Killer fogs began London and the term "Smog" was coined.
2020: British MP continues to be mauled over Scotch Egg.....
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