On this day...

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Top Cat (Boss Cat US) was based on Phil Silvers......... (enough Ed).........
 
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..thirty years ago, Mount St. Helens erupted.

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Harry Randall Truman, David A Johnston, Reid Blackburn all died.............. in the above...........
 
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.. in 1919, Mustafa Kemal set about re-establishing Turkey from the territories occupied by the Western Allies, after the First World War, resulting in the founding of the modern secular state. On the way he changed the alphabet, the calendar and everybody's name, but nobody seemed to mind much..

As he wasn't sure what his birthday really was, he thought that it might as well be May 19th.
 
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..in 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris after the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight.

There seems to have been no problem with volcanic ash at the time..
 
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..in 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest - unless, of course, Mallory and Irving had got there first some years before..
 
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..in 1575, Queen Elizabeth called at the Pie and Ale House to take wine - history does not recall which pie she had - swan, presumably..
 
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Gramaisc said:
..in 1575, Queen Elizabeth called at the Pie and Ale House to take wine - history does not recall which pie she had - swan, presumably..
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didn't her dad did have some chick from t' aragon?.....
 
John Marwood

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Apparently she was given her own pint mug to have a swilly, commenting on how shabby the town looked she was told 'It were that ruddy new Tescos maam,no planning permission niether, and if we could have the assizes back thatad elp a bit, lark'

Later she headed over the Broad Eye bridge up the castle..
 
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... presumably for supper with Edward, Lord Stafford (d.1603), described as a 'wasteful man'.
 
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John Marwood said:
and if we could have the assizes back thatad elp a bit,.
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Tad gorn to Wolverhampton but has been back ever since, gawd bless the Queen.

Have also read that the Cappers Act of 1571 was reissued as a result of the Cappers of Stafford moaning most effectively but am unable to verify with online sources.

The Fellowship and Company of Cappers had successfully brought about the Act of 1571 on the basis that 8,000 people in London alone, and many more in 26 named towns of which Stafford was one, were employed in the manufacture of woollen caps.

If that isn't a good enough reason to make it a legal requirement for everyone over the age of six to wear a woollen cap made of English wool on every Sunday and holy day throughout the land, then frankly i don't know what is.
 
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