Interesting Facts

23rd March 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England died. 1895 - The first official match played by women took place at Crouch End in London. (Nettie Honeyball had placed an advert in the press and persuaded about 30 young women to join the British Ladies Football Club. It wasn't a resounding success, but during the First World War it became more popular. Unfortunately women's football in England and Scotland suffered a blow in 1921 when the Football Association, in England, banned women from playing the game on Association members' pitches.) 1975 - The beaver became the official symbol of Canada.

Sir Hugh Beaver, the MD of the Guinness Brewery, commissioned the first edition of the Guiness book of records in 1955. (Seemingly he was unable to settle an argument about the fastest species of game bird and realised that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. After all there is no limit to man's appetite for trivia.)