What happened today in history?
It would seem that my internet research has proved faulty: My research found a picture of Dirk Hartog from this site whereas FEEG has found that my picture refers to William Dampier.
Thanks to everyone for participating!
Boadicea's Chariot 
Howzit Boa, got one 🙂
2) Agincourt, 1415
Oops, must be something wrong, I’ve got another 😉
6) Charge of the Light Brigade 1854
Don’t be surprised Soutie – you’re quite right!
Ha ha, rarely do I get your challenges without resorting to a bit of research, 3 out of 10 is pretty good for me, (I’ll leave the 3rd for another member)
😉
Soutie – I thought there was another one you would get. 🙂
The Petrograd Soviet captured the Winter Palace in 1917.
Can I ask,. Is 10 Whispering Bob Harris?
Sorry, forgot to add number, 7.
Surely 9 is Nelson Mandela. Was this the day he began serving his long prison sentence?
No 9 – Mandela sentenced to 5 years in prison, 1962.
Mandela received an award: The Freedom of Heidelberg.
Whoops. I was confusing two faces. Visual dyslexia. Number 10 is the disc jockey John Peel OBE who died today six years ago.
Sheona – right on no 7. PG pipped you to the post on Mandela.
PG
No it’s not whispering Bob Harris – but your #9 is right!
PG and you’re right – it is John Peel!
4: George III becomes king?
OZ
No 1 – death of Geoffrey Chaucer on 25th October 1400.
5. First railway service (Stockton to Darlinigton)?
Mornin’ Boadicea, by the way. Most remiss of me to omit that from my #15.
OZ
No. 8
When the world held its breath as the US went up against the USSR over Cuba and the missile crisis.
OZ – no.4 – it is, even if the picture is of George II who died on this day… Not the first railway service.
Sheona – right!
OMG – Correct!
No.5 Bit of a long shot here, is it the first railway timetable published using the new intergrated time structure, ie, the time was the same all over the country instead of the previous system which had regional variations.
OMG – your ‘long-shot’ was pretty good and right!
I couldn’t find a picture of the first time table – hence my comment that it wasn’t a picture of the very first one.
Boadicea
Blimey! Stand by what I say here, I never ‘google’ this things because either you think you know it or you don’t but I do remember listening to a play on BBC Radio 4 about the trouble caused in parts of the country that thought the Government had ‘stolen’ some of their time, it all got a bit nasty down Cornwall way. As my luck seems to be in I think I’ll go and stick a few quid on a nag, any tips?
#3 I think that is William Dampier, sometime naval officer, naturalist and pirate who also took part in a voyage of discovery to New Holland as Oz was then known. A bit of Googling suggests he might have got married on this day.
Good Quiz, Boadicea
KNOWN, bugrit!! 😦
OMG – I’ve just told Bearsy about a sort of documentary play that I heard years ago about the problems that the railways caused because of the standardisation of time throughout the UK! It was really fascinating! Although I thought it was Wales where it got a ‘bit nasty’. 🙂
FEEG – you’re on the right track, but wrong man, wrong and right country and wrong event! And if that sounds confusing it isn’t really!
Boa; Just done a bit of extra Googling and came up with this.
Shows you cannot always rely on the internet
http://www.thepirateking.com/bios/dampier_william.htm
Ding ding! Seconds out! Round 1.
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OZ
Too right FEEG! The picture that I thought I’d put up was of Dirk Hartog who was Dutch and in 1616 made the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
The pictures are exactly the same.
Ooooh! (Sharp intake of breath) Looks like Google is about to crash.
OZ
Australia Post issued a stamp that Google says is “Dirk Hartog”. But in the stamp the name “Dampier” can be clearly seen, so I guess FEEG has it!!
The picture is Dampier, I believe.
But read this about Dirk Hartog Island. 🙂
Sorry to be a bother, Boa! I thought I had seen that picture or a copy of it in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich or somewhere similar. Still you cannot always rely on the provenance of such portraits, although after yet more Googling , I have found that picture on several sites described as Dampier. Even Wikipedia, although you cannot always rely on the veracity of that site! 🙂
Not a bother at all, FEEG!
I do the best I can with my searches – but if I get it wrong, I’m not going to throw a wobbly! 🙂
No. 2. The day the English invented the ‘V’ sign 😀
Bravo
That’s the story. And whether it’s true or not – it sounds good!
I’ve just read a really interesting book about 1415, and it shows how Henry V raised the money for his campaign. It would seem that he even pawned his surplus kitchen equipment to raise funds!