On this day
9:23am Wednesday 22nd September 2010 in News
1735: Sir Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister to move into 10 Downing Street.
1780: Capt William Lynch’s name was immortalised when he issued a proclamation in Virginia, saying that if citizens believed the official course of justice was not strong enough, they should take the law into their own hands.
While horse-whipping was the general punishment, hanging did take place — hence the word “lynching”.
1827: Joseph Smith, son of an impoverished New England farmer, announced he had received golden plates from an angel. From this he translated the Book of Mormon which led to the founding of the Mormons.
1955: With the start of commercial television in Britain, the first advert transmitted was for Gibbs SR toothpaste.
1972: Idi Amin gave Uganda’s 8,000 Asians 48 hours to leave the country.
1990: The Natural History Museum solved the Piltdown Man hoax. The mastermind behind it was anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith.
LAST YEAR: Several people were killed after a bus came off a road and slid down an embankment into a river east of Dusseldorf, Germany.
