Busy

Taking time away from certain commitments isn't easy!

My apologies to those few who visit my blog as I will not be posting on events spanning 06.September - 01.October.

I will, however, continue to post from 02.October.2005.

ciao,
D.

Teachers' Day!

05.09.1888

(India's second president, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is born in Tiruttani, forty miles to the north-east of Chennai in South India. --His birthday is celebrated as Teachers' Day all across India.)

The Magic Begins

04.09.1962

(The Beatles have their first recording session at EMI's 'Abbey Road Studios'.)

The Red Planet

03.09.1976

(The American spacecraft, Viking II, sends its first pictures of the martian surface, back to earth.)

A New Beginning

03.09.1783

(Britain finally recognizes American Independence, with the signing of the 'Treaty Of Paris' and bringing the American Revolution to a halt.)

You Will Be Remembered

02.09.1937

(Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic games, dies.)

Lost And Gone

01.09.1985

(The wreck of Titanic found by a US-French expedition 700km off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Seventy-three years after it went down.)

WW II

01.09.1939

(Fifty-six German army divisions cross the Polish border, destroying a checkpost, initiating World War Two in Europe.)