THAT Amanda and Gus McLeod, assisted by volunteer students, have spent considerable time repairing the School Shade house. Timbers have been replaced and new heavy duty plastic installed.
THAT the first International Rugby match was between England and Scotland in 1871. And that number of players in a rugby team were reduced from 20 to 15 in 1877. And that the IRB was formed in 1899 with board members all coming from the ‘English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish Unions’
THAT last year, at 12 billion dollars, oil was New Zealand’s fourth biggest export. Unfortunately only tax and drilling rights fees accrued to the country
THAT America’s Executive Mansion was renamed the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt on Oct 12th 1901
THAT Physicist Arthur Eddington has pointed out that the chance of the second law of thermodynamics being breached is considerably less that an army of monkeys accidentally typing all the books in the British Museum..
THAT Princess Elizabeth made her first radio broadcast , as a 14 year old, on 13th Oct 1940.
THAT is entitled to their own opinion – but their own facts.
THAT on Oct 15th 1964 Harold Wilson won the British election with a majority of just four to become the youngest British Prime Minister of the 20th Century.
THAT police were called to the Day Centre where a three year old was resisting a rest.
THAT Britain’s first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, was opened by the Queen on 17th Oct 1956.
THAT coal mining is a very dangerous occupation. In the USA an average 35 miners die each year. In China it is mush worse. A very bad year was 2000 with a total of 6,000 deaths.
THAT on the 18th Oct.1966 the Queen granted a pardon to Timothy Evans who had been convicted of the murder of his wife and child. Not that this helped Timothy much – he had been hanged sixteen years earlier.
THAT the fastest object ever made by humans is the Helios 2 solar-mission satellite which reached a speed of 68.75 kilometres per second.
THAT Geoffrey Chaucer –courtier, diplomat, writer and poet died at his home on Oct 25th 1400
THAT the world’s first railway time table was published in Manchester on 25th April1839
THAT due to gravitational time dilation the surface of Mars is three years older that that of earth
THAT John Cleese was born on Oct 27th 1939
THAT researchers at Queensland University claim that text messaging is addictive as smoking
THAT on Oct 30th 1988 the Rev Sun Myung Moon married 6516 Moonie couples, dressed alike, in a ceremony at Yongin, South Korea. The matched coupled had not previously met.
THAT the biggest pipe organ in the world is the Wanamaker Grand Court organ in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It has28,482 pipes and weighs 287 tonnes
THAT the first internal heart pacemaker was inserted by Dr Ake Senning in Stockholm on Oct 31 1958
