27th January

[chenrezig]

1606 The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began.

1757 The birth, in Richmond, of Henry Greathead, the pioneering lifeboat builder from South Shields. By 1802 Greathead's work was "deemed a fit subject for national munificence.

1832 The birth, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (‘Lewis Carroll’), the English mathematician and keen photographer who wrote Alice in Wonderland.

1868 E.D. Young reported to the Royal Geographical Society that Dr. Livingstone, the British explorer and missionary in Africa, was still alive.

1926 John Logie Baird gave a special public demonstration of television to members of the Royal Institution in London. Baird's invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses.

1945 The Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland was liberated. The millions killed during the Holocaust are remembered each year in services across the UK, as part of Holocaust Memorial Day.

1989 Thomas Sopwith, British aircraft designer, died aged 101. Remembered for his Sopwith Camel and Sopwith Pup planes he also won a £4,000 prize for the longest flight from England to the Continent in a British built aeroplane, flying 169 miles in 3 hours 40 minutes.

1995 Manchester United's Eric Cantona was fined £20,000 and a football ban over his kung fu-style attack on a fan.

2001 The first Holocaust Memorial Day was held in Britain, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. The Holocaust resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime.

2003 Tony Blair and George Bush held talks at Camp David (the country retreat of the President of the United States), and vowed to hound Saddam Hussein for 'as long as it takes' to drive him from power.

[annie]

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[wendy]

We owe such a great deal to Henry Greathead.

[Rosalind]

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