On this day
10:07am Monday 20th September 2010 in News
1387: The future Henry V of England was born in Monmouth Castle in Wales. “Bluff” Prince Hal became a ruthless king who fought two bloody campaigns which came to a climax at Agincourt. In 1422 he died unheroically of dysentery.
1620: The 101 Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, captained by Myles Standish.
1847: The United Shakespeare Company bought the house in which Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire for £3,000.
1861: The Post Office Savings Bank was instituted.
1908: The American car firms Buick and Oldsmobile merged to form General Motors.
1946: Have A Go began on the Light Programme, with Wilfred Pickles and his wife as Mabel at the Table. Pickles started each programme by saying, “How do, ‘Ow are yer?” The show ran for more than 20 years.
1968: The “two-tier” postal system was introduced in Britain - First and Second class.
1989: Classic horse race, the St Leger at Doncaster, was abandoned when officials declared the course unsafe.
