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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 14h

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A woman posting letter in London during the Blitz for a photo shoot for Vogue magazine (1940). 📷 Cecil Beaton

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 14h

PERSON OF THE DAY. 8 October 1967, Clement Attlee died (aged 84). As Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951 his governments introduced a range of social and economic reforms that transformed Britain. With Churchill concentrating on military matters Attlee had led domestic policy since 1940.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 14h

FACT OF THE DAY. 8 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.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 1d

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A baked potato seller in London (1890). 📷 Edgar Scamell

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 1d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 7 October 1959. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) died (aged 38). The cause of his death was a sudden pulmonary embolism. At the time of his death Lanza was the most popular tenor in the world. His wife Betty was totally devastated and died 5 months later of a drug overdose.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 1d

FACT OF THE DAY. 7 October 1919. Netherlands airline company Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) was founded. It’s the oldest airline company in the world and is still operating under its original name.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 2d

PHOTO OF THE DAY. PHOTO OF THE DAY. A crowded London bus (1928). 📷 google images

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 2d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 6 October 1985. PC Keith Blakelock (aged 40) was murdered during a riot on the Broadwater Farm estate in London. He was only the 3rd police officer to be killed in a riot in the London area since 1833 when PC Robert Culley was stabbed to death in Clerkenwell.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 2d

FACT OF THE DAY. 6 October 1978. Hannah Dadds became the London Underground’s 1st woman Tube driver after completing a 7-week training course to qualify as a train driver. She was a driver on the District line. She died in 2011.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 3d

PHOTO OF THE DAY: "Bond girl" Ursula Andress emerges from the sea in Dr No, the 1st James Bond film which was released #OTD in 1962. 📷 Bunny Yeager.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 3d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 5 October 1922. Celtic and Scotland manager Jock Stein was born in Burnbank, Scotland. He was the 1st British manager to win the European Cup in 1967 with Celtic. Stein also led Celtic to 9 successive Scottish League championships between 1966 and 1974.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 3d

FACT OF THE DAY. 5 October 1962. Love Me Do, the 1st single by The Beatles was released in the UK. The B-side was PS I Love You. It reached No 17 in the UK charts. In 1964, it was a US No 1 and when reissued in the UK in 1982 it reached No 4.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 4d

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Albert Einstein walking in Berlin (1920). 📷 Getty images

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 4d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 4 October 1970. Janis Joplin (aged 27) was found dead in Room 105 of the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. The Los Angeles Times described her as “the biggest female star in the history of rock ‘n’ roll”.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 4d

FACT OF THE DAY. 4 October 1957. Space Age began when the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. It was a 58 centremetre-wide polished metal sphere, with 4 external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 5d

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 5d

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Human-size chess game in 1924 with actual soldiers in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).📷 google images

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 5d

FACT OF THE DAY. 3 October 1990. Communist East German Democratic Republic was abolished and became part of the Federal Republic of Germany thus reuniting Germany for the first time since 1945. People in Berlin celebrated. This day is now celebrated as German Unity Day.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 5d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 3 October 1929. Gustav Stresemann died (aged 51). He served as German chancellor in 1923, but as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929 he became the most influential German politician of the Weimar era. He signed the Locarno treaties and took Germany into the League of Nations.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 6d

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Women street cleaners in Liverpool during WW1 (1916).📷 google images

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 6d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 2 October 1869. Mohandas K Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. He was the key advocate of non-violent resistance to British rule in India. His method of non-violent protest inspired other movements for peace, civil rights and freedom across the world.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 6d

FACT OF THE DAY. 2 October 1925. John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed the 1st test of a working TV system in his London lab where he successfully transmitted the 1st TV picture which was a greyscale image of the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 7d

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The head of Statue of Liberty displayed in Paris (1878). 📷 google images

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 7d

PERSON OF THE DAY. 1 October 1935. Julie Andrews was born in Walton-on-Thames. She made her feature film debut in Mary Poppins winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also starred as Maria von Trapp in the hugely popular Sound of Music. She was married to film director Blake Edwards.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 7d

FACT OF THE DAY. 1 October 1971. The world’s 1st brain-scan using Computed Tomography (CT) was performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital, Wimbledon, London. It was carried out by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and Dr Jamie Ambrose. Sir Godfrey was subsequently awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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