Alias: Professor Quartermass, Zebulon Mysterioso and many other fine, North Irish names. No doubt you will be making many resolutions on this fine day....after a few pints of Guinness of course!
For your birthday Chris, I've dug up some famous events that have happened on your special day.....
On this day in 1719 - The Aurora Borealis was first recorded.
On this day in 1804 - Spain declared war on Britain.
On this day in 1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter famous for The Scream was born.
On this day in 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of wireless communication in London. On the same day in 1901 he made the first transatlantic radio transmission from Cornwall to Newfoundland.
On this day in 1911 - My adopted mother, Marie Opal Sharp, was born.
On this day in 1913 - The painting Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence, in a Florence hotel bedroom, after having been stolen from the Louvre two years earlier.
On this day in 1928 - The House of Lords approved a bill to make driving tests compulsory.
On this day in 1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declared war on Japan.
On this day in 1941 - the song, "Two In Love" by Tommy Dorsey is released.
On this day in 1964 - the song, "She's A Woman" by The Beatles is released.
On this day in 1966 - Pink Floyd played their first gig, an Oxfam benefit concert, at the Royal Albert Hall.
On this day in 1984 - The group known as Band Aid -- 38 of Britain’s top rock musicians -- recorded Do They Know This is Christmas? for Ethiopian famine victims.
On this day in 1999 - Pub-goers were to be able to drink round the clock under Government plans to shake up the licensing laws.
On this day in 2001 - Irish police and Customs officers today seized up to 80 million cigarettes from a ship in the borderside port of Dundalk, valued at IR£13 million.
Lá Breithe Shona Chris
Sláinte agus saol agat!
Your friend,
Jeeem
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