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2002: Queen Mother dies
The Queen Mother has died peacefully in her sleep aged 101, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The Queen was at her mother’s bedside when she passed away at 1515 GMT today at the Royal Lodge, Windsor.Wish they would all die to be honest. Useless parasites.
I think you’ll find all the Queen Mothers are dead
Aint it a cryin shame
31 March 1889 : The Eiffel Tower opens
On 31 March 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers…more
On 31 March 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.
In 1889, in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution, the French government planned an international exposition and announced a design competition for a monument to be built on the Champ-de-Mars in central Paris. Out of more than 100 designs submitted, the Centennial Committee chose Eiffel’s plan of an open-lattice wrought-iron tower that would reach almost 1,000 feet above Paris and be the world’s tallest man-made structure. Eiffel, a noted bridge builder, was a master of metal construction and designed the framework of the Statue of Liberty that had recently been erected in New York Harbour.
Very intereresting thread…thanks Pete :lol:
31st March 1990: Violence flares in poll tax demonstration
An anti-poll tax rally in central London has erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century.
Forty-five police officers are among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses.
A total of 340 people have been arrested in the heart of London’s West End, popular with musical and theatre goers, as cars have been overturned and set alight.
Four tube stations have been shut for safety reasons as police try to clear the streets, with much of central London now cordoned off.
Demonstrators have attacked police with bricks and cans.
Fire fighters attempting to extinguish the blazes have been hit with wood and stones.
Restaurants have been forced to close early by the violence which left shop windows smashed and many businesses with their contents looted.
Eyewitness reports describe a cloud of black smoke over Trafalgar Square.
Peaceful protests
The violence erupted just after 1600 BST following a peaceful march against the poll tax which saw up to 70,000 people take to the streets in protest at the new government levy.A group of protesters involved in a sit-in at Whitehall, close to the Downing Street entrance, refused to move after requests from police and stewards.
As police arrested offenders, placards and cans were thrown from the crowd and the trouble spread to Charing Cross Road, Pall Mall, Regent Street and Covent Garden.
David Meynell, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in charge of the operation, said a peaceful march had been “completely overshadowed by the actions of about 3,000 to 3,500 people in minority groups”.
He said they “without any doubt at all” had launched “a ferocious and sustained attack on the police”.
The Home Secretary David Waddington is expected to make a statement to the House of Commons on the rioting tomorrow.
Biggest load of pomp and shyte i ever did see….couldnt spare a shoe…a welly will do…duke of wellington….hehe
huh? :?
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