Sorry, not sure what happened to yesterday..... thought I'd posted it, but it doesn't look like it!!! Back to today......


In 30 B.C., Cleopatra committed suicide by holding an Asp to her chest.


In 1991, having won 66 Long Jump events in a row, Carl Lewis was finally beaten - by Mike Powell's world record leap of 8.95 metres.


The first street trams to run in Britain appeared on Birkenhead Street Railway in 1960.


In 1901, Hubert Booth of Glasgow reversed the action of a dust-blowing machine to invent the vacuum cleaner.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind