8 October 1997
Yahoo! Mail launched.
The service helped usher in the era of free web-based email and became one of the most widely used email services of the early internet
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1997
Yahoo! Mail launched.
The service helped usher in the era of free web-based email and became one of the most widely used email services of the early internet
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialCarlsberg to close Marston’s Brewery
Anyone with an interesting in British Beer saw this coming along time ago
@nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.socialCivilan & his wife were buried in 1530.
These are rubbings of the brasses from their tomb at Binham Priory. The wife brass was stolen June 1989.
#theft #brassrubbings #Church #priory
#Historymatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1965
London’s Post Office Tower was opened. It was designed by the architects Eric Bedford and GR Yeats. At 189 metres high the Post Office Tower loomed over every other building in London when it opened
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1980
British Leyland launched the Austin Mini Metro. It was intended to complement and eventually replace the iconic Mini.
The Metro was named by What Car? as Car of The Year in 1983.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1982
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats opened on Broadway in New York City. It’s based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by TS Eliot.
It is the 5th longest-running Broadway show and 8th longest-running London West End show.
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@kateduvall.bsky.socialThe Autobiography of Mark Twain!
#vintagegift #Paperback #book #MarkTwain #Autobiography #Memoir #nonfiction #AuthorsOfX #AuthorSpotlight #writer #novelist #TomSawyer #HuckleberryFinn #HistoryMatters #classic #freeshipping @2Fun4Words
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1908
Classic children’s book The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame was published in the UK.
It focuses on 4 animals: Mole, Rat, Mr Toad and Badger who live in a fictional version of Edwardian England anchored around the River Thames and the Wild Wood.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1959
Margaret Thatcher became the Conservative MP for the Finchley constituency in north London.
She was a former research chemist and newly trained barrister before she entered the House of Commons.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1918 - Battle of Cambrai.
Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. Near Premont.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1917 Private William Wilkinson (268224) 13 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
William is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1916 Private Joe Brightmore (52888) 13 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Joe was 21.
Joe is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1918 Private Leslie Coburn (30010) 1 Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry died and was buried in Ramicourt British Cemetery. Leslie was 19.
Leslie is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1918 Private Samuel Barber (91823) 15 Bn Durham Light Infantry died and was buried in Bois-des-Angles British Cemetery. Samuel was 19.
Samuel is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1917 Sapper Walter Brookes (395) Australian Engineers died and was buried in Poperinghe New Military Cemetery.
Walter is also remembered on the Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1917 Private David Conlon (49008) 1 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
David is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social8 October 1918 Rifleman Richard P Edwards (227112) 1 Bn Monmouthshire Regiment died and was buried in Sequehart British Cemetery No. 1.
Richard is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialPalacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas, Valencia
The entrance of the Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas was created around 1745 by sculptor Ignacio Vergara from a design by Hipólito Rovira.
