And the next date in the calendar is....

[unloadonme]

22 January 1970 - The Boeing 747 enters commercial service for launch customer Pan Am with its maiden flight from New York to London Heathrow.

 

[DaddyBadger]

January 23rd, 2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10

 

[unloadonme]

24 January 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

 

[ChickenGuy]

I'm bored again, so I'm resurrecting this thread for another try.


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January 25


Burns Night!

(a Scottish celebration that takes place on the anniversary of the birthday of poet Robert Burns)


Including...

The Entrance of the Haggis!

Followed by....

The Address to the Haggis!

You must speak to the haggis. (No, I'm NOT joking - actor Ewan McGregor is giving the Address below)

Fair fa' yer honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.


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P.S.....

I never eat the stuff, it would make me sick. I can't stand haggis.

 

[unloadonme]

26 January is Australia Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day

 

[unloadonme]

27 January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Remembrance_Day

 

[unloadonme]

28 January is Data Privacy Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Privacy_Day

 

[Limenade]

Mozart's opera Idomeneo was premiered on January 29, 1781.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idomeneo

 

[unloadonme]

^ What?

30 January is the feast day of King Charles the Martyr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England

 

[bankside]

January 31

Guy Fawkes is brought to justice at the gallows.

 

[unloadonme]

1 February is the start of LGBT History Month in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month

 

[Limenade]

American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer Gene Kelly died on February 2, 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kelly

 

[unloadonme]

Buddy Holly died in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly

 

[Limenade]

American playwright Thornton Wilder's signature work, Our Town, premiered on Broadway, New York City, on February 4, 1938.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town

 

[bankside]

Hockey's infamous Don Cherry, born on February 5, 1934.

 

[unloadonme]

On 6 February 1952 King George VI died and his elder daughter became Queen Elizabeth II.

 

[bankside]

7 Feb 2009 - Australian bush fires kill 173 people.

 

[unloadonme]

8 February 1998 - death of Enoch Powell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell

 

[Limenade]

Actress Mia Farrow was born on February 9, 1945.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Farrow

 

[unloadonme]

10 February 1840 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.