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1904 Olympic Marathon
The strangest ever, complete with wild dogs, rotten apples, poison, and even some cheating.
This event just cries for a movie to be made about it.
Calcutta--Angry passengers turned the tables on six armed train robbers in eastern India, beating them to death with sticks and umbrellas, police said.
The robbers struck as the train approached a small station, Mayur Halt, about 90 km north of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal State, said Chayan Mukherjee, the inspector-general of police.
Passengers who were robbed alerted others on the train. as the train came to a halt, the robbers tried to flee but were chased and beaten with sticks, stones and umbrellas, Mukherjee said.
" The robbers were dead when police arrived," he said.
Train robberies are common in eastern India.
The Barber's Pole
During medieval times, barbers performed surgery on customers, as well as tooth extractions. The original pole had a brass wash basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom representing the basin that received the blood).
The pole itself represents the staff that the patient gripped during the procedure to encourage blood flow.
Modern chewing gum was first developed in the 1860s when chicle was brought from Mexico by former president , General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, to New York, where he gave it to Thomas Adams for use as a rubber substitute. It didn't work for rubber, so it was cut into strips and marketed as Adam's New York Chewing Gum in 1871. Some of the first chewing gums were, Black Jack, Chiclets, and Wrigley Spearmint.
The earliest recorded tornado in Europe struck Rosdalla, near Kilbaggan, Ireland on April 30, 1054. The earliest-known British tornado hit central London on December 23, 1091, which was possibly an f4 and killed two people and destroyed the wooden London Bridge.
The earliest known tornado in the Americas was on August 21, 1521, in Mexico City, two days before the Aztec capital's fall to Cortes.
James Mackenzie 1820- ?
Famous New Zealand outlaw/folk hero
On October 19, 1902, Booker T Washington came to the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to address the National Convention of Negro Baptists. The church was packed with over 3000 people when two men began to fight over an unoccupied seat. Someone shouted "Fight" which the crowd mistook for "Fire" and a stampede ensued. 115 people were crushed to death or suffocated.
Watching Richard Boone pass out this card all the time on his TV series got me wondering about the history of business cards. They go back further than I thought.
On the morning of November 14, 1927, workmen began repairing a leak on the world's largest gas tank with their acetylene blowtorches. The explosion was felt in 4 different states. 28 were killed.
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