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Postby chenrezig » 03 Mar 2016, 06:24

1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan (also known as the Statutes of Wales) was enacted on this day. It introduced the English common law system to Wales, allowing the King to appoint royal officials such as sheriffs, coroners and bailiffs to collect taxes and administer justice.

1847 The birth, in Edinburgh, of Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell. He was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

1857 The Second Opium War: Britain and France declared war on China, using the killing of a missionary as the pretext.

1869 Sir Henry Wood, English conductor, was born. He is best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms.

1894 Gladstone resigned as Prime Minister, aged 84, but continued to sit as an MP until the General Election.

1934 The largest ever English football crowd outside Wembley watched the match between Manchester United and Stoke City. Spectators numbered 84,569.

1943 World War II: 173 people were killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station, in London.

1955 A statement was made that London would become a smokeless zone at the beginning of October.

1966 The BBC announced that it would begin broadcasting television programmes in colour in 1967.

1974 A Turkish airliner en route to London crashed near Paris, killing all 345 people on board. Among the victims were 200 passengers, many of them British, who had been transferred from British Airways flights cancelled because of a strike by engineers at London airport.

1982 The Queen opened the new £153m Barbican Arts Centre

1985 NUM members (National Union of Mineworkers) returned to work after their costly year long strike, without a peace deal being won by their leader Arthur Scargill.

1991 The Queen needed three stitches in her hand after intervening in a corgi fight.

1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorced. She married Prince Charles on 9th April 2005.

1995 A bill which would ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales became the first such proposal to get a second reading in parliament.

1995 It was announced that British police were to be issued with stab proof vests in dangerous operations.

2000 Tens of thousands of football fans paid their last respects to Sir Stanley Matthews, regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, who died on 23rd February.

2015 Paul Coyle (aged 50), the former treasurer and head of tax at Morrisons supermarkets was jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to two counts of insider trading after buying Ocado Group shares. He was also handed a confiscation order for £203,234.
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