Author: Margaret Roberts

7th – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal is first published on this day in 1665. In...

31st – Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tyre on this day in 1888. In...

24th – Born on this day in 1838 was Annie Eddson Taylor, stuntwoman and educator, who, on her 63rd...

17th – The first British Golf Open Championship was played at Prestwick in 1860. Eight men...

10th- In 1892 the entire Hong Kong National Cricket Team died in a shipwreck off Taiwan when the...