22nd January

[chenrezig]

1788 The birth, in London, of the poet George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron.

1901 Queen Victoria died, aged 81, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Her reign, the longest in British history, spanned 63 years and saw the growth of 'an empire on which the sun never set'.

1902 Marconi carried out his first radio transmission experiments, transmitting from the Lizard, Cornwall, across the water to St. Catherine’s on the Isle of Wight.

1920 The birth of Sir Alf Ramsey, football manager of England when they won the 1966 World Cup. He was knighted in 1967 in recognition of England's World Cup win the previous year.

1927 The first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United, at Highbury.

1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops captured Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.

1955 Joe Davis recorded the first official maximum snooker break of 147 in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall

1959 Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion died, aged 29, in a road accident on the A3 bypass near Guildford driving his British Racing Green Jaguar 3.4-litre car.

1972 The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic and Denmark joined the Common Market.

1992 Rebecca Ridgway became the first woman to row around Cape Horn in a canoe. The expedition began on 8th January in Chile & the 200 mile expedition, through the Beagle Channel to Cape Horn Island, was directed by her father, ex -transatlantic rower John Ridgway.

[wendy]

must have been a very sad day when Queen Victoria died

[annie]

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