2013.jpg (5965 bytes) Some Headlines & Anniversaries...

This month must have been..... strangely uneventful - just more of the usual: wars, extreme weather, disasters….

50th Anniversary

of the Beatles making their first LP, Please Please Me (11th February 1963), recorded in only 585 minutes.

BeatlesMix

March

2nd Anniversary of Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Disaster...

That was quite a day!

Look

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10th Anniversary of illegal US/ UK invasion of Iraq

(19th March 2003)

See here

April

THATCHER DEAD!

Hurray!

(8th April 2013)

Merry month - no news to speak of...

June

Man crosses Grand Canyon on tightrope

(24th June 2013)

But see another death-defying stunt here

July

100th Anniversary

of Tour de France

29th June - 21st July 2013

"but cycling is prohibited..."

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So-called "Royal" baby, by George!

(22nd July 2013)

ANOTHER HAPPY EVENT

ANTI-monarchy

August

50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech

(28th August 1963)

Dream

MLK's Birthday

Assassinated

Sept

FAR OUT:

Voyager 1 leaves Solar System...

(12th September 2013)

Universe

See, also, 30th Anniversary

Oct

Professor Higgs Wins Nobel for Boson

(8th October 2013)

Celebrate with some QUANTUM DANCING!

AS EASY AS ABC

Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station to be built.

(Don't mention decommissioning costs for A & B)

Have we not learned the lesson of Fukushima?

(21st Oct. 2013)

NUCLEAR

Nov

World Beard and Moustache Championships in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, on November 2, 2013.

see Long White Beard

for more facial hair....

Dec

Nelson Mandela (Madiba) dies aged 95 on

5th December 2013

"All this has led me to feel that in my search for a political formula, I should be absolutely impartial and objective. I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than that of socialism."

Future Unwritten