Author: Margaret Roberts

9th English-American fencer Arthur Fox was born on this day in 1878 in Cowes on the Isle of Wight....

2nd Lily Poulett-Harris, who formed one of the first women’s teams in Australia and was...

26th The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Serbia, was achieved in 1778,...

 19th The Weisshorn was first climbed today in 1861 by the Irish physicist John Tyndall,...

12th Today in 1928 the IX Summer Olympic Games closed in Amsterdam On this day at the 1936 Games,...