Gradually getting all my pooter stuff back on to my re-created HDD .... here are the 'events' for January 08 - just in case you were actually interested
1935 -
Elvis Presley, King of Rock 'n' Roll, is born.
1804 -
The first recorded cricket match takes place in the New South Wales colony.
1814 -
George Evans advocates building a road over the Blue Mountains, to follow in the tracks of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
1931 -
The largest Australian gold nugget of the twentieth century is found in Kalgoorlie.
1998 -
The Melbourne Herald Sun reports that a strange, unidentified creature has washed up on the Tasmanian coast.
1676 -
King Charles II of England is forced to withdraw his Proclamation Suppressing Coffee Houses, delivered only twelve days earlier.
Cheers - John
Gerty Dancer said
11:54 AM Jan 14, 2014
I like that last one!!!
Bunkerbob said
03:48 PM Jan 14, 2014
Thanks for this info but it is a shame that more then Elvis's birth was recorded on January 8.
Gday...
Gradually getting all my pooter stuff back on to my re-created HDD .... here are the 'events' for January 08 - just in case you were actually interested
1935 -
Elvis Presley, King of Rock 'n' Roll, is born.
1804 -
The first recorded cricket match takes place in the New South Wales colony.
1814 -
George Evans advocates building a road over the Blue Mountains, to follow in the tracks of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
1931 -
The largest Australian gold nugget of the twentieth century is found in Kalgoorlie.
1998 -
The Melbourne Herald Sun reports that a strange, unidentified creature has washed up on the Tasmanian coast.
1676 -
King Charles II of England is forced to withdraw his Proclamation Suppressing Coffee Houses, delivered only twelve days earlier.
Cheers - John
p.s. What was the strange object?????