The Gunpowder Plot: The narrative of Oswald Tesimond alias Greenway
Fact of the Day
One of the English ships sent on the disastrous attack on Cadiz in 1625 had sails that had been used during the Armada, almost 40 years earlier.
Quote of the Day
"When the sarcophagus is full, we don't put another corpse in
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~ Medieval Proverb
On This Day
330 Constantinople - formerly Byzantium - officially became the new capital of the Roman Empire.
973 Ælfthryth, wife of King Edgar of England, was crowned Queen consort.
1812 The only British PM to be assassinated whilst in office, Spencer Perceval, was shot by John Bellingham.
1960 Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, was captured.
1985 A small fire that started in litter under wooden stands at Bradford City football stadium rapidly got out of control. Fifty-six people were killed, either trapped in their seats or at locked turnstiles.