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1991; Mandela,s wife jailed for kidnaps.
Winnie Mandela, the wife of anti-apartheid campaigner
Nelson Mandela is given a 6 year jail term for her part
in the kidnap of 4 youths ..1957: Britain drops its first H-bomb
Britain has exploded its first hydrogen bomb as part of a series of tests in the Pacific, the Ministry of Supply has announced.
Details of the bomb, described only as a “nuclear device”, are sketchy. The term “device” indicates that it was an experimental explosive rather than a fully developed weapon.It was almost certainly part of the thermo-nuclear weapons programme which was started in December 1954 to develop the megaton hydrogen bomb, which is as powerful as one million tons of TNT.
1991: Sharman becomes first Briton in space
Britain’s first astronaut, 27-year-old Helen Sharman from Sheffield, has blasted into orbit.
The Soviet Soyuz TM-12 space capsule made a textbook launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan at 1350 BST carrying Miss Sharman and fellow cosmonauts Anatoly Artebartsky and Sergei Krikalyov.1964 Mods and Rockers jailed after seaside riots .
Scores of youths are given prison sentences following
violent clashes between gangs of mods and rockers, at
a number of resorts on the south coast of England .The 1964 Whitsun weekend violence in Brighton was
famously dramatised in the film Quadrophenia ( 1979 ) .In 1980 Nine dead after Mount St Helens eruption
Nine people die following the massive eruption
of Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state, USA .1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
RICHARD WAGNER born in 1813.
The composer favoured by Adolph Hitler
Perhaps the most powerful pieces ever written..
DAS RHEINGOLD – Entrance Of The Gods Into Valhalla
DIE WALKURE – Wotan’s Farewell
And this is certainly the most passionate..
On this day in 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana.
1738 – Methodist Church forms
1979: Price of milk shoots up
The price of milk is to go up by more than 10% to 15p a pint from the beginning of next month.
The rise is far higher than expected, and means that milk is now three times the price it was five years ago.Making the announcement, the Agriculture Minister Peter Walker said pre-election delays by his Labour predecessor, John Silkin, were to blame for the size of the increase.
“It’s a rise that should have taken place in April,” he said. “I inherited a dairy industry whose costs had risen, and producers whose costs had risen also.”
David Cameron ignored the traditional niceties of the Queen’s Speech debate today to tear into Labour’s record in office and complain that Gordon Brown’s Government had left the country in an “appalling mess”.
nothing changes eh
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