What happened to the amphitheatre? Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:52 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] HAPPENINGS 27 JANUARY 27 JANUARY 1756: Birth in Salzburg of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a prodigy and one of the greatest composers in history. 1757: Birth of Henry Greathead, English inventor of the first purpose-built lifeboat. 1822: Greece won her independence after a war against Turkey. 1826: Liverpool 's Ampitheatre opened with a Gala 1832: Birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (‘Lewis Carroll’), the English mathematician who wrote Alice in Wonderland. 1859: Birth of Kaiser Wilhelm II, third German emperor, eldest son of Prince Frederick (Frederick III) and Victoria, daughter of the British Queen Victoria. He was forced to abdicate after the First World War, and fled to Holland. 1868: E D Young reported to the Royal Geographical Society that Dr Livingstone, the British explorer and missionary in Africa, was still alive. 1868: 2,000 bodies removed from St Peter's Chrchyard, Church Street, Liverpool 1885: Birth of Jerome Kern, US songwriter. 1901: Birth of Arthur Joseph Rooney, Snr, a spectacularly successful gambler. He bought an American football club on his winnings from a single bet. His subsequent winnings enabled the Pittsburgh Steelers to win the Super Bowl for the fourth time in 1972. 1913: It was ruled that US athlete Jim Thompson was a professional, having been paid £25 a week to play baseball, and he was stripped of his Olympic decathlon and pentathlon gold medals. 1926: John Logie Baird gave a special public demonstration of television to members of the Royal Institution in London. 1943: The US made their first bombing raid on Germany. 1945: Birth of Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, joint Nobel Peace Prize winner. She was co-founder of the Northern Ireland ‘Women for Peace’ movement, which sought to unite both factions. 1952: 17 people died when the famous Shepheard Hotel in Cairo was burnt down during an anti-British riot. 1967: Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee died just 218 feet above the ground on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy. An electrical fault ignited pure oxygen in the Apollo I during a ground test, burning all three astronauts to death. 1967: Francis Chichester, the round-the-world yachtsman, was knighted on the quay at Greenwich. The sword used was the one which belonged to another seaman, Sir Francis Drake. 1969: Many died and several thousand people were left homeless after serious flooding in California. 1973: Vietnam Peace agreement signed. End of US action in Vietnam. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.309 / Virus Database: 170 - Release Date: 17-Dec-01