VILLAMARV Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1951 - the peak district became the UK's first national park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 1906 - The San Francisco earthquake Quote 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. As a result, up to 3,000 people died. Over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high on the lists of American disasters. Quote Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 3 years to the day that NV started this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Quote The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London, England for an audience of 72,000............ broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion. The concert was a tribute to Queen's lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS on 24 November 1991. The show marked bassist John Deacon's final full-length concert with Queen (save a short live appearance with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Elton John in 1997). The profits from the concert were used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust, an AIDS charity organisation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freddie_Mercury_Tribute_Concert 28 years ago since Daltrey's version of I want it all made me laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted April 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2020 5:1 Last minute ticket in a late release of seats, Doug Ellis Upper. Yeah, it was an ok day. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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theboyangel Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 3 hours ago, VILLAMARV said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freddie_Mercury_Tribute_Concert 28 years ago since Daltrey's version of I want it all made me laugh I was there, having just turned 18. Daltrey wasn’t the worst performer IMO - that accolade went to Elton John for murdering The Show Must Go On and Liza Minnelli looking off her face and staggering around the stage. best performers (as in capable of pulling off a decent cover) were Extreme (self confessed Queen fans) and George Michael who had a great vocal range. Have to say it was a great day of music, if tinged with sadness but accept there were some ropey moments! was great seeing Tony Iommi playing alongside Brian May throughout the Queen set as well as many other decent acts of the day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 hours ago, chrisp65 said: 5:1 Last minute ticket in a late release of seats, Doug Ellis Upper. Yeah, it was an ok day. We drove all the way from Aberystwyth for this game. A Leeds supporting mate came along too for the giggles. Proper pissed in the Lamp Tavern afterwards. I can still remember all the goals as if they were yesterday and singing 'we'll meet again'. Lovely stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, AVFC_Hitz said: We drove all the way from Aberystwyth for this game. A Leeds supporting mate came along too for the giggles. Proper pissed in the Lamp Tavern afterwards. I can still remember all the goals as if they were yesterday and singing 'we'll meet again'. Lovely stuff. 6 of us hired a people carrier and originally I was nominated driver. We got as far as Pontypridd and one of the guys announced he was on meds and couldn’t drink. From that point on the day just got better and better. We were literally in a slither of seats they must have originally been keeping as an empty buffer, then Released for sales at the last minute. I was about 5 seats from the Birmingham fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 It was two days before my 21st In 2017, when Gabby got that winner against them at Villa Park, that was the day after my 30th. What I'm trying to say it's my birthday on Wednesday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 38 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I was about 5 seats from the Birmingham fan. Typical Blouses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 3 years ago today, RIP Ugo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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VILLAMARV Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 1993 - 27 years ago Stephen Lawrence was murdered Quote Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a black British teenager from Plumstead, Southeast London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham on the evening of 22 April 1993. The case became a cause célèbre; its fallout included cultural changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice. It also led to the partial revocation of the rule against double jeopardy. Two of the perpetrators were convicted of murder in 2012. Wiki 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) 38 years ago... Home computing in glorious colour. The zx spectrum was launched. Edited April 23, 2020 by VILLAMARV Numberwang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Quote STS-31 was the 35th mission of the American Space Shuttle program, which launched the Hubble Space Telescope astronomical observatory into Earth orbit. The mission used the Space Shuttle Discovery (the tenth for this orbiter), which lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on 24 April 1990 from Kennedy Space Center https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-31 Quote The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope but it is one of the largest and most versatile, well known both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope ..... Hubble features a 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) mirror, and its four main instruments observe in the ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to capture extremely high-resolution images with substantially lower background light than ground-based telescopes. It has recorded some of the most detailed visible light images, allowing a deep view into space. Many Hubble observations have led to breakthroughs in astrophysics, such as determining the rate of expansion of the universe. The Hubble telescope was built by the United States space agency NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) selects Hubble's targets and processes the resulting data, while the Goddard Space Flight Center controls the spacecraft.[7] Space telescopes were proposed as early as 1923. Hubble was funded in the 1970s with a proposed launch in 1983, but the project was beset by technical delays, budget problems, and the 1986 Challenger disaster. It was finally launched by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, but its main mirror had been ground incorrectly, resulting in spherical aberration that compromised the telescope's capabilities. The optics were corrected to their intended quality by a servicing mission in 1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope More there. 30 years ago today. And without it who knows if we'd have got pictures like these. (Or indeed pearl jam album covers) Hourglass nebula Cosmic dust and gas in the carina nebula Cone nebula in monoceros. Pics from here. More on link. Yay, space n that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52106420 Quote Hubble telescope delivers stunning 30th birthday picture By Jonathan Amos. Science correspondent 2 hours ago It's 30 years ago to the day that the Hubble telescope was launched - and to celebrate its birthday, the veteran observatory has produced another astonishing image of the cosmos Quote This one is of a star-forming region close to our Milky Way Galaxy, about 163,000 light-years from Earth. The larger object is the nebula NGC 2014; its companion is called NGC 2020. But astronomers have nicknamed the scene the "Cosmic Reef" because it resembles an undersea world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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VILLAMARV Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 28 years ago the L.A. riots kicked off after the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King trial. Quote The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County in April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for usage of excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King, which had been videotaped and widely viewed in TV broadcasts. Wiki 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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