On This Day

[BinkieBaumont]

10th December 1937 the Abdication of Edward VIII, in order to Marry Mrs Simpson

[video=youtube;S3qh3OEtTmI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3qh3OEtTmI[/video]

 

[SGT Rocket]

Didn't he get a post in the carabean in WW2? Also, didn't he try to get "back in" (for lack of a better term) to the royal family, and also didn't he die kind of poor?

 

[Michaelson]

On this day, the 10th of December, 1980, my first daughter was born. (grins) HIGH regards !Michaelson

 

[Tomasso]

didn't he die kind of poor?

Poor? Well, at auction the jewels from the estate brought around $50 million in 1987. If that's poor, that's my kind of poor.......

 

[GHT]

On this day in 1773, in what became known as The Boston Tea Party, American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbour to protest about a tax on tea.

 

[GHT]

On this day, 17th December, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, made the first successful sustained flights in an airplane.

The very next day, Wilbur and his fiancée founded: "The Yard High Club."

The House of Representatives passed a modified version of the resolution on December 17th. The proposed amendment would ban the sale, manufacture, distribution, and transportation of alcohol across the country. The Beginning of Prohibition.