King Harold gets an arrow in his eye at the Battle f Hastings in 1066, and Brits all start learning French!!


Today in 1947, pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, in the Bell X-1 rocket plane 'Glamorous Glennis', over what is now Edwards Air Force base in California. (What I wanna know is, did they take it out of his pay-check?)


A total of 127 babies were presented for judging at the world's first baby show, which took place at Springfield, Illinois, in 1854


A parliament convened by King Henry VII in 1495 passed a statute regulating the content of bed-stuffing, requiring that it be good, clean feathers, NOT dirty old horse-hair!

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind