On This Day

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

20th August 1992

Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and Texas businessman John Bryan were published in the Daily Mirror .

Dirty woman

[Richard1978]

Re: On This Day - August

20 years ago today The Marchioness sank in the Thames

BBC NEWS | England | London | Marchioness boat disaster marked

I was in France at the time, but we could get Radio 4 on Long Wave.

[kazboot]

Re: On This Day - August

20th August 1992

Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and Texas businessman John Bryan were published in the Daily Mirror .

Dirty woman

Still makes me feel sick thinking of them!

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

I know what you mean, wasn't a pleasant picture

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

22nd August 1979

Led Zeppelin released their last album together, "In Through The Out Door."

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

26th August 1985

Zola Budd smashed the women's 5k record with a time of 14:48. She is of course best known for making Mary Decker Slaney cry at the LA Olympics in 1984 after they feet became entangled.

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

27th August 1979

The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is killed by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland.

[kazboot]

Re: On This Day - August

27th August 1979

The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is killed by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland.

This was a real shock at the time. Absolutely tragic.

[Richard1978]

Re: On This Day - August

I was too young to remember it, but my parents always remember it was the day we visited Foxton Locks.

In a similar way I remember first hearing about the Oklahoma city bomb whle coming back from visting Jodrell Bank.

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

30th August 1980

Polish workers led by Lech Walesa won the right to form independent trade unions following a summer of strikes

[HG]

Re: On This Day - August

31st August 1997

Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris.

Thread here discussing it

[HG]

On This Day - September

1st September 1985

The wreck of the Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition.

1st September 1998

The film Titanic was released starring Kate Winslet amongst others

[Richard1978]

Re: On This Day - September

The film of Titanic was released in 1997.

[HG]

Re: On This Day - September

Sorry went on general sale in the USA

[HG]

Re: On This Day - September

2nd September 1994

Trumpitist, entertainer and tv presenter Roy Castle died of cancer aged 62.