Interesting Facts

14th June 1381 – Richard II met leaders of the Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. 1381 - The Tower of London was stormed by rebels who entered without resistance. 1645 – Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces were beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers. 1648 – Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft. 1777 – The Stars and Stripes was adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. 1789 – Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reached Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat. 1789 – Whisky distilled from corn was first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. He called it Bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 1822 – Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables". 1839 – The village of Henley, on the River...

28th April 1789 – Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift and the rebel crew returned to Tahiti briefly and then set sail for Pitcairn Island. The incident became known as the Mutiny on the Bounty. 1920 – Azerbaijan was added to the Soviet Union. (I collect stamps and coins, not countries). 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever was announced for use on humans. 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, was assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 other people were also killed. 1952 – The United States occupation of Japan ended. 1965 – United States troops landed in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. 1970 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally au...

21st April 753 B.C - Legend says Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, founded Rome. 1509 - Henry VIII became King of England. 1782 - Friedrich Froebel German educator and founder of the kindergarten, was born. 1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States. 1816 - Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane Eyre, was born. 1838 - John Muir, the father of the environmental movement, died. 1910 - The author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died. 1918 - The German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down. 1926 - Queen Elizabeth II was born. 1945 - The Red Army entered the outskirts of Berlin. 1959 - Robert Smith, musician from The Cure, was born. 1960 - Brazilia became the capital of Brazil, taking over from Rio de Janeiro.

4th February 1789 - George Washington was elected the first president of the United States. (He was from Virginia, and was the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was elected by all 69 presidential electors who cast their votes.) 1913 - Rosa Parks was born. 1959 Barbie was created, by Ruth Handler, who was one of the founders of the Mattel Company. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter. Later on, when the Ken doll was made, it was named after Ruth’s son.