31 thoughts on “On This Day – 29th April”

  1. Number one: Joan of Frog, I mean, Arc defeated the English in 1429.

    Number six: the allies liberate the portions of Italy that were occupied by Germany in 1945.

  2. 3. Nice pic of the Radcliffe Camera library and All Souls (‘?) College, Oxford but what, I wonder?

  3. Morning, Boadicea. Good to have a quiz again. 🙂

    No 8 is Frogmore, and I’m assuming that it is connected with Wallis Simpson’s funeral.

  4. #5 Was this the day Percy Shaw patented cats eyes, or they were first installed?

  5. No 7 reminded me of a young Margaret Hilda Roberts, but it is Eva Braun who married Hitler on this day in 1945.

  6. Araminta – I’ve been rather remiss of late! A quiz usually gets some attention! You are right on 8, 7 and 9.

    Sorry Sipu – Araminta got there first.

    Quite right FEEG !

  7. #3 I know the Bodielian and Radcliffe were especially opened to the public on the Royal Wedding Day. Is it that simple?

    BTW, Great to see the quiz again, Thanks Boadicea 🙂

  8. Ah, I think I may have solved No.2.

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – Frederick Delius, played at the Royal Wedding.

  9. 4 Lloyd George, 1909 budget, tax increases for various spurious crap such as pensions. extended the remit of collecting down the social scale from the rich only. Taxes onland ownership. (God rot him!)

  10. No FEEG and Araminta – Forget the Royal Wedding!

    Quite Right Christina. 🙂

  11. Bo you should have lived in my house! My father used to endlessly carry on about Lloyd George and his bloody taxes even in the 60s! I guess he was about old enough to remember the original happening.
    It was very bad news indeed to mention Lloyd George in our house!!! He’d rave about it for days.

  12. Oops! Aramainta and Janus – wrong photo! It was supposed to be Thomas Beecham born 1879. 😳

    Clue for Oxford: On this day Oxford opened its doors to…

  13. I suppose I should take Christina’s comment – although she has given me three options. 🙂

  14. Janus – despite my best attempts no one ever gives the year. 🙂

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