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  1. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    With yesterday's 50th anniversary it's noticeable that hardly a day goes by now without some anniversary of something being somewhere online. So I thought perhaps having a separate thread for all these anniversaries would reprise events of the past.

    This doesn't have to be QPR or football related, anything of interest may be worth posting. But here's a QPR one to start with from this day in 1986...

     
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    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    And this one is on this day in 1983, a thumping 6-1 win against Middlesbrough with a Clive Allen hat-trick. Ironically the managers were Terry Venables v Malcolm Allison...

     
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    Was my very first supporters club train trip. My lingering memory was the train getting stoned by "good looser" scouse fans on way home
     
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    On this day in 1963, the Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula-Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone.
     
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    1956: US court victory for black students

    The United States Supreme Court has upheld a ban on racial segregation in state schools, colleges and universities.
    The University of North Carolina was appealing against an earlier ruling, in 1954, which ordered college officials to admit three black students to what was previously an all-white institution.

    Until recently, black and white students have been educated in separate schools under the principle of "separate but equal" but the Supreme Court has now ruled this doctrine "has no place in the field of public education".

    The BBC's Panorama programme has been to the southern US state of Virginia, where racial segregation in schools is still rigidly enforced. In other states, schools and colleges have begun to accept black and white pupils.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/5/newsid_2515000/2515243.stm
     
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    Why ironically, Soops?
     
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    The Herald of Free Enterprise.

    On the evening of 6th March 1987, the Herald of Free Enterprise sailed from Zeebrugge bound for Dover. Barely eight minutes into her crossing and just before 1930 she capsized. One hundred and ninety-three passengers and crew perished on that bitterly cold night and this post is to remember them.

    It was a tragedy that so cruelly took each and every one of those lives. It was a tragedy that was felt around the world, but most of all, it was a tragedy felt most deeply, here in Dover. Those left bereaved by the devastatingly swift turn of events of twenty-nine years ago still feel the anguish to this day. Families, friends, fellow crew, anyone in fact connected to the industry. Many of us remember where we were, what we were doing and also the first emotions of disbelief on hearing the news.

    And remembering is what this post is about. Wherever you are today, please pause, reflect and fall silent for a brief moment to remember all those who lost their lives twenty-nine years ago.

    God bless them all and may they never be forgotten.
     

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  8. Sooperhoop

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    It was the 'master' getting thrashed by his 'apprentice'. They first worked together at Palace in the seventies...
     
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    1982, back in the days when we liked a cup-run. I was at this one and seem to remember police horses on the pitch as it turned ugly at the final whistle...

     
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    6th of March.

    On this day in 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co.

    Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19thcentury, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach.

    In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffman found a way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffman’s work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun, whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.) After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl, “spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix “in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the number-one drug worldwide.

    Aspirin was made available in tablet form and without a prescription in 1915. Two years later, when Bayer’s patent expired during the First World War, the company lost the trademark rights to aspirin in various countries. After the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, the Alien Property Custodian, a government agency that administers foreign property, seized Bayer’s U.S. assets. Two years later, the Bayer company name and trademarks for the United States and Canada were auctioned off and purchased by Sterling Products Company, later Sterling Winthrop, for $5.3 million.

    Bayer became part of IG Farben, the conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed the financial heart of the Nazi regime. After World War II, the Allies split apart IG Farben, and Bayer again emerged as an individual company. Its purchase of Miles Laboratories in 1978 gave it a product line including Alka-Seltzer and Flintstones and One-A-Day Vitamins. In 1994, Bayer bought Sterling Winthrop’s over-the-counter business, gaining back rights to the Bayer name and logo and allowing the company once again to profit from American sales of its most famous product.

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
     
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    I think this is a great idea for a thread Sooperhoop and it's not been done before on this website, top stuff Sir<applause>:emoticon-0148-yes:<cheers>
     
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    On this day (well yesterday, but I was busy) 21 years ago my son was born. I feel ancient and have cursed him with a love of QPR. Poor ****er.
     
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    1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
     
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    1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
    1646 - Born in London, Joseph Jenckes arrived in Lynn Massachusetts around 1643. Three years later he was awarded the first patent in North America by the General Court of Massachusetts, for the scythe, an agricultural tool used for clearing grass and reaping crops. The basic scythe design remained in use for over 300 years before being overtaken by modern machinery to do the same tasks.
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    Edgar Allen Poe, thrown out of West Point
    1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy. West Point's library publication recounts Poe's tenure from July 1830 to February 1831 as "short, yet tumultuous." "His emotional instability coupled with deep personal problems, such as his constant need for funds and a lack of time to devote to poetry more than his deficiency in military aptitude, cut short his cadetship," the library publication said.
    1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
    1886 - First US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
    1896 - First auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
    1921 - Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania issue an edict requiring women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
    1930 - Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
    1940 - First US telecast from an airplane, NYC, of course
    1950 - Silly Putty invented
    1981 - Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
    1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict,Bush (39) told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
    1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery and is recovered a week later.
    2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
    Birthdays1475 - Michelangelo, Italian painter (d. 1564)
    1923 - Ed McMahon, Detroit Mich, Johnny Carson's sidekick
    1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
    1947 - Rob Reiner, Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
    Divorces
    1964 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's 4th divorce from entertainer Eddie Fisher
    Deaths1836 - Davy Crockett, killed in battle at 49
    1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
    1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
    1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, designed first motorcycle, dies at 65
    1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
    1986 - Georgia O'Keefe, US painter, wife of Alfred Steiglitz, dies at 98
    1985 - Eric Sloane, US artist, dies at 80
     
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    I was at that one too, it all came back seeing that. Great day!
     
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    25 years ago today, a result which if it were today would be a major shock...

     
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    I do a weekly historical cocktail list (short history lesson and 4 cocktails) at my bar. And this is today's 'lesson'!
     
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    This is a remarkable photo from this day in 1932, Victoria Coach Station in an almost traffic-free shot...

     
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    I remember buckets for collections being passed overheads in the lower loft after that disaster, must've been the following Saturday. I remember we beat forest, as I was pleased because they still had a handy team then under Clough. Can't believe it was 30 years ago
     
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