On this day ......

[Pickwick]

September 17th 1939 – World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.

 

[BillyT]

September 17th 1939 – World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.

Welcome back. I have not seen your user name in a while.


September 19, 1948 – John Ritter, American actor and producer is born.

 

[Pickwick]

Welcome back. I have not seen your user name in a while. View attachment 1345810

Hehe I’ve been... busy

Aren’t we supposed to poste about a the date we’re on ?

September 18, 1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.

 

[BillyT]

Your correct. I typed the wrong date as it should say the 17th.

September 18, 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist was born.

 

[Pickwick]

September 19th 1356 – Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II. One of the majors English victories of the Hundred Years’ War.

 

[BillyT]

September 19, 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter was born.

 

[unloadonme]

20 September 1486 - Birth of Arthur, Prince of Wales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales

 

[BillyT]

September 20, 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.

 

[PalacePaul]

September 21, 1038. Dedication of our local cathedral (Girona, Spain)
http://www.bisbatgirona.cat/bisbat.php?idm=1&subpagina=2

 

[BillyT]

September 21, 1950 – Bill Murray, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter was born.

 

[unloadonme]

21 September 1866 - Birth of H G Wells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells

 

[BillyT]

September 22, 1999 – George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer died.

 

[Pickwick]

September 26, 2019 - former prime minister and president of the French Republic Jacques Chirac died.

 

[BillyT]

September 26, 1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.

 

[PalacePaul]

October 1st is International Music Day
http://www.imc-cim.org/programme/international-music-day.html

 

[BillyT]

October 7, 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland, at age 40.

 

[unloadonme]

9 October 1757 - Birth of King Charles X of France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_of_France

 

[BillyT]

October 9, 1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

 

[unloadonme]

12 October 1537 - Birth of King Edward VI of England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England

 

[BillyT]

October 12, 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England.