Upon this day... Some time ago!

30th September 2011

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Mic Porter

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Events1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.1791 – Mozart’s opera “Magic Flute” receives its premiere at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna.1860 – Britain's first tram (horse drawn) service begins in Birkenhead running from the Mersey ferry terminal to Birkenhead Park. The line was promoted by George Francis Train (1829 – 1904). "Citizen Train“ was an American eccentric who sought to establish several tramways but all had the rails, problematically, above the road surface.

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Events1882 – The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant begins operation (Fox River, Appleton, Wisconsin).1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.1935 – The Hoover

[Boulder] Dam, crossing the Arizona and Nevada border is dedicated. (Image: Ansel Adams 1941)

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Events1938 – “ Peace in our time” - Chamberlin1951 – Festival of Britain closes.1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched and the first complete record played (ie excluding jingles) by Tony Blackburn is “Flowers in the Rain (The Move). Legal action folowing from a publicity post-card showing a naked PM & Secretary results in all royalties going to charity ... And they still do!1968 – The first Boeing 747 is rolled out of Everett Factory and shown to the public.

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Events1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and DEC.2004 – The first images of a live giant squid (aka Kraken) in its natural habitat are taken. The species is still little understood and many of those described were found dead or damaged during their capture. 2009 – An earthquake in Sumatra kills more than 1,115 people.

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Ins…1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., the American industrialist who created and mass produced chewing gum (d. 1932).1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)1917 – Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987)1947 – Marc Bolan, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1977 when the car in which he was travelling drove into a tree!)

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Outs…1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)1955 – Film star James Dean dies at 24 when his Porsche 550 Spyder is hit, head on, at an intersection. His last words to his passenger are recorded as: "That guy's gotta stop... He'll see us.“ (b.1931)1969 - Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett, psychologist best known for his studies of memory (memories are not direct recollections but rather mental reconstructions coloured by cultural attitudes and personal habits). Also (1948) a founding member of the Ergonomics Research Society (now the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors). (b. 1886)

This Leviathan is in the middle of Ireland and over 160 years old. What is it? What is the link

with an object old nearly 32M long in Newcastle’s Discovery Museum.

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