On this Day in History: 11th August

[Anarcho-Socialist]

On this Day in History: 11th August

1996: (Soccer, Sarajevo) Bosnian Croats/Muslims XI beat Bosnian Serbs XI 4-2 on penalties after a 0-0 draw. The match was designated by the Dayton Peace Accords to decide who should win the Bosnian war.

1988: (Law & order, Britain) A U.K. law that punishes naked country rambling by flogging (brought in by the Conservative government in 1986) is struck down by the European Court.

1981: (Politics, U.S.A.) Ronald Reagan while giving a speech in Sacramento, California to local businessmen forgets the name of the country he is president of.

1976: (Winter sports, Innsbruck, Austria) Snow alpine volleyball is introduced into the Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport.

1970: (Politics, U.S.A.) President Richard M Nixon makes his famous “of course we won’t secretly bomb Laos and Cambodia” speech to rapturous applause.

1948: (Economics, Britain) Britain’s cottage cheese industry is nationalised by Clem Atlee’s Labour government.

1916: (Parliamentary scandal, Britain) Prime Minister David Lloyd George is forced to answer questions in the Commons about allegations about using HMS Dreadnought as a holiday yacht.

1170: (Ecclesiastics, England) Willie the English sheepdog is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by the Ecclesiastical Chapter. He succeeded Thomas Becket and became the first dog to achieve high temporal office.

899: (Technology, France) Francois Crois’bowe of Lyon, France invents the crossbow.

415: (War & pillage, Italy) Alcryth the Visigoth sacks Rome

412: (War & pillage, Italy) Thayrh the Ostrogoth sacks Rome

[Spinzonner]

1. Say what you will

Those goths could sure throw a good scaking

[non sociopath skin]

2. I've often wondered whether Clem Attlee was wise to nationalise ...

... the Cottage Cheese Industry.

It gave the Tories - especially the thinner ones - some valuable ammunition.

The Skin

[moggie]

4. I'm still bitter about the re-privatisation of cheese

But I suppose it was inevitable that Thatcher would do that to break the power of the National Union of Cheesewrights and their formidable leader, Red Lester.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "How can you govern a country that produces 246 different cheeses?"

General de Gaulle. Never underestimate the effect of cheese on world affairs.

[non sociopath skin]

7. That literary gorgon, Zola, would have agreed, Muriel.

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

3. Now I know why the fundie-Tories think that the UK is decadent!

We're no longer allowed to flog people for going on naked country rambles? Now, now, that really is the end of Civilization as We Know It!

[D-Notice]

6. 1988: (Law & order, Britain)

A U.K. law that punishes naked country rambling by flogging (brought in by the Conservative government in 1986) is struck down by the European Court.

Damn those activist judges! ;-)

What will Michael Howard say?