@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1917 Private Norman F Edwards (36094) 1/4 Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Norman was 19.
Norman is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1917 Private Reginald E Blackham (26230) 2/7 Bn Manchester Regiment died and was buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery
Reginald is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialThe good 'ole' days of Radio 1
Simon Bate's Golden Hour - Our Tune
Steve Wright in the afternoon........
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialEna Sharples getting knicked on Coronation St.
The Copper on the left would later do some Porridge himself
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialThought of the Day
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1975
Mahogany, starring Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams, premiered.
Ross earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)."
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 2004
Friday Night Lights, starring Billy Bob Thornton, premiered.
The film was based on H.G. Bissinger's bestselling book about a high school football team in Odessa, Texas.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialThis ancient Egyptian sculpture is over 3,500 years old and just 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) tall.
It shows a mother nursing her baby while another woman styles her hair. Carved from limestone, it still retains traces of paint.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialMosaic of Christ trampling beasts
In the Cappella Arcivescovile (Archbishop's Chapel) from the cathedral of Ravenna, Turkey
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialMosaic of the Koimesis aka the falling asleep of the Virgin Mary at Chora/Kariye Camii - Turkey
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialHenry IV's tomb at Canterbury Cathedral
Next to him is his queen Joan of Navarre
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1981
President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1937
Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1936
Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1911
An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1834
The opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
