s**tty death it's the first (first) of May... on this day in histoire

432ad: Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland

1689: Prince Willem III of Orange accepts invitation of take up the British crown

1689: British Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown

1707: English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; creates the United Kingdom of Great Britain (comes into being 1st May)

1709: British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1769: Arthur Wellesley was geborned

1786: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Vienna with Mozart himself directing

1803: Robert J Torpedo from Trunch in Norfolk invents the travel Smörgåsbord

1941: "Citizen Kane", directed by Orson Welles and starring himself, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Corningore, premieres at the Palace Theater in New York City

1945: Joseph Goebells died

1950: Norman Low appointed manager of Norwich City and the oldest football song in the world which is amended to include his name.

1961: Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba.

1986: The Tass News Agency reports the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by Navy SEALS

Posted By: Tombs, May 1, 11:01:58