by
lyndlj
@ 2007-03-20 - 07:07:20
Today is the 20th March, nothing really significant about that but just for your information on this day in
1602...The Dutch East India Company is established
1760... The great fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1815... Napolean enters Paris after escaping from Elba and begins his one hundred day rule
1806..The Foundation stone of Dartmoor Prison was laid. This was Britains first high security prison
1819...The opening of Burlington Arcade the famous and exclusive shopping precint in London
1852... Harriet Beecher Stowes anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Toms cabin' was first published. It sold more than a million copies in its first year.
1899... - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair.
1914...In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place
1916... Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity
1922...The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier
1933...Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1942...In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.
Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, on Friday, German SS murder 3000 Jews, including 600 Jewish children, annihalating 70 % of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto. The entire action took one day, from early morning to five o'clock in the evening. All the dead were buried in a mass grave behind the railroad station in Rohatyn.
1964...British Group The Beatles release 'Cant buy me Love' which goes straight to the top of the british charts
1974...Princess Anne survives a kidnap attempt when shots are fired at her car while driving along the Mall in London.
1980... A sad day for music when the radio ship Caroline sinks and so ends sixteen years of broadcasting.
At one point the only two radio stations worth listening to were Caroline and Luxemburg 208, music without all the chatter. Never talked over songs and always played the latest with a mix of oldies thrown in. Rockin DJ's a few of whom went on to be top Radio one DJ's, and then sadly became just like all the rest, guess thats what fame does to you.
And today well it was a lovely sunrise, that chased the stars away, but very cold here. No snow on the ground, it gave up trying I think. But as it is really cold I guess it will try again.
I used to like Radio Caroline
I have only done to 1980, for now. 
Off to get ready for the world, and work of course.
Have a good day, catch you all later.