10th October
1999, one of the Millenium Projects is put into Position The Millenium wheel or London Eye as it became known in 2011 took 7 years to make at a cost of £75 million pounds.
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9th October
1959, The UK Conservative Party win a third general election in a row. This was, The first time in UK political history that a party had won 3 elections in a row. Harold Macmillan won with a 100 seat majority 1959 Conservative Slogan Life is better with the Conservatives 1959 Labour Party Manifesto Britain Belongs to …
7th October
2000 The last goal was scored at the old Wembley Stadium This last match was between England v Germany. 0-1 German Dietmar Hamann scored the last goal in the last international match at the old stadium. 1969 BBC released Mary Mungo Midge “The Crane” Children’s program
6th September
1968 Eric Clapton records his guitar solo for the Beatles song ,“While my guitar gently weeps.” Princess Diana had a passion for dance. This song video version perhaps expresses mourning, emotion with a motion of a dancer. The Song appeared on the Beatles White album. The Beatles voices gave a mysterious nostalgic timestamp …
4th September
1985 Titanic located 73 years after it sank A recent Exhibition earlier in 2018 at the V&A exhibited a piece from the Titanic. A wooden oak panel from the over doorway interior of the first class lounge. From around 1911. It was on loan from Maritime Museum of Atlantic Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Split marks …
27 May
Euston Station is opened 1849 opening of the Great Hall.
26th May
Vauxhall Bridge opened 1906 by the Prince of Wales.
15 May
1954 Royal Family return from a 6-month tour of the Commonwealth London crowds turned out to welcome them home 2001 Courts ruled that in the UK supermarkets could cut the costs of counter medications, prior to this the drug industry’s price-fixing policy had caused high prices.
14 May 1998 George Michael Pleads no contest and brings the world ‘Outside’
In the summer of 1998, in a Beverly Hills California courtroom, George Michael pleaded no contest to the charges put forward to him. Then the world was given ‘Outside” Out of the smoke of ‘the incident,’ George Michael responded in a way only an artist could and he wrote the dance track “Outside” followed by the release of …
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